Months ago, House Republicans began an impeachment investigation of President Biden which continues pointlessly. Now there’s a big foofaraw about impeaching Biden for his action in delaying or stopping arms shipments to Israel. Biden said he’s also reviewing other arms deals in an effort to forestall Israel’s action against the final refuges of the Hamas terrorists.
Biden evidently wants Hamas to survive and to regain control of the Gaza Strip which it was “elected” to govern in 2006.
The House Republicans managed to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Majorkas for his conduct in keeping the borders open for all sorts of people — terrorists, Chinese military and such. But that impeachment was dismissed without the Constitutionally-required trial by Senate Majority Leader Chuckie Schumer. Any impeachment of Biden will suffer the same ignominious fate. (READ MORE from Jed Babbin: Biden Wants Hamas ‘Refugees’)
Moreover, Biden’s impeachment is very unlikely given House Republicans’ joy at shooting each other rather than getting anything done. Some remember Biden’s 2019 Tweet in which he condemned former president Trump for threatening to stop aid to Ukraine.
In that Tweet Biden said, “President Trump withheld Congressionally appropriated aid to Ukraine unless they granted him a political favor … It’s the definition of quid pro quo. This is no joke — Trump continues to put his own personal, political interests ahead of the national interest. He must be impeached.” Biden, as usual, was entirely wrong then.
We aren’t accustomed to getting our exercise by jumping to conclusions, so let’s see what we can make out of Biden’s delay.
The first fact we need to consider is that a president needn’t spend the money congress appropriates immediately. This, despite congress’ long months of delay and Biden’s insistence that the aid to Ukraine should be provided quickly.
Simply put, as I wrote at the time of the Trump impeachments, there are some things for which a president can and should be impeached. But, like Trump’s threat to withhold aid to Ukraine unless it investigated Biden’s evident corruption, a delay in spending money and providing aid isn’t one of “high crimes and misdemeanors” mentioned in the Constitution.
Biden sent Ukraine munitions almost immediately after the aid bill passed. It’s only Israel that he wants to punish for its intent to conduct a final sweep of the city of Rafah. Israel needs to do this to send the remaining Hamas members and leaders to hell as it vowed to do after the October 7 Hamas attack that killed about 1,200 Israelis, 32 Americans and took about 240 hostages.
About a dozen Americans were taken hostage on October 7. Five are believed to still be alive and Biden’s first priority in that war should be getting them back alive. It isn’t even among his priorities.
The five American hostages should be at the front of what’s left of Biden’s mind, but they are not: Keith Siegel, 65, Sagui Dekel-Chen, 35, Omer Neutra, 22, Edan Alexander, 20, and Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23. Goldberg-Polin was the focus of a Hamas video aired last week. They have been held, so far, for 219 days but Biden doesn’t care.
Biden remains scared of the Muslim voters in our country who listen to people like Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and the others who condemn Israel for religious and ideological reasons. He’s scared of all the anti-Israel pro-Hamas demonstrators on college campuses because most of them can vote.
Biden wants a cease-fire deal that might or might not result in the release of hostages, including the five Americans. Hamas, of courses, won’t release the hostages and insists on a final end to Israel’s counterattacks against them.
Biden sides with Hamas over Israel, our only real ally in the Middle East, despite Hamas’s vows to repeat the October 7 attacks again and again until Israel is no more. Israel is in mortal danger, and Biden has abandoned them.
The second fact we need to think about is that the delayed shipment comprises bombs of varying weights fitted to carry the Joint Direct Attack Munition guidance system. They are “precision-guided munitions” — PGMs — which have an accuracy of about 10 feet. A pilot is lucky to land a regular dumb bomb within 50 to 100 feet of his target.
What that means is that Biden is depriving the Israelis of exactly the kind of munition they rely on to reduce civilian casualties. Israel doesn’t attack indiscriminately or target non-combatants intentionally. That’s Hamas’s modus operandi. (READ MORE: Congress Blows It on FISA)
To add to the confusion is a new State Department report on Israel’s use of American munitions in its war on Hamas.
In a report to Congress, the Staties wrote, “The nature of the conflict in Gaza makes it difficult to assess or reach conclusive findings on individual incidents … Nevertheless, given Israel’s significant reliance on U.S.-made defense articles, it is reasonable to assess that defense articles … have been used by Israeli security forces since October 7 in instances inconsistent with its IHL [international humanitarian law] obligations or with established best practices for mitigating civilian harm.”
What that gobbledegook says is that while there is no direct evidence of Israel violating international humanitarian law, our State Department concludes that they did because it’s in Biden’s political interest for it to do so.
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, reacting to Biden’s temporary halt of the PGM delivery said that Israel will fight alone if it has to and “fight with its fingernails” despite Biden’s action. His comment is reminiscent of Churchill’s 1940 “never surrender” speech in which he vowed that Britain would fight on alone and for years if it had to.
Netanyahu is no Churchill but he has a very good point. Israel has to scour Rafah where Hamas’s leaders are known to be holed up surrounded by hostages in order to do what is necessary in its vital national security interests.
Biden evidently wants Hamas to survive and to regain control of the Gaza Strip which it was “elected” to govern in 2006. It is Israel’s choice to allow Hamas to survive and suffer its future attacks or to kill the remnants of Hamas in Rafah and rescue the hostages who remain alive.
House Republicans should waste no more time in their impeachment investigation of Biden or on this matter of Biden’s delay of arms shipments to Israel. They need to get their act together and find a way to compel Biden to give Israel what it needs to comprehensively defeat Hamas.
The biggest reason to impeach Biden is his open border policy which, as noted above, is bringing all sorts of terrorists and saboteurs into the country. There has reportedly been an 8,000 percent increase in Chinese illegal aliens coming in since 2021. You can count on the fact that most or all are members of the People’s Republican Army or agents of China’s Ministry of State Security.
But the House Republicans probably can’t — and shouldn’t — pull the trigger on a Biden impeachment. What they should be doing is devising a way to compel Biden to focus his pressure on Hamas where it belongs. They should demand that Biden use every weapon at his — and Israel’s — disposal to get the American hostages and all the others released. Biden won’t because he thinks it will be politically damaging for him to do so.