Netanyahu to Biden: Go crap in your pants again, Grandpa Funnyfingers.
In an interview with CNN's Erin Burnett on Wednesday, President Joe Biden finally made explicit what has long been implicit in his administration's Israel policy. Responding to reports that the United States had paused an arms shipment to Israel, the president said:
I've made it clear to Bibi and the war cabinet that they're not going to get our support if in fact they go into these population centers. We're not walking away from Israel's security, we're walking away from Israel's ability to wage war in those areas.
To add insult to injury, Burnett asked Biden if he "heard the message" of campus protesters upset by reports from Gaza of "mass graves and summary executions, that there's been evidence of." Rather than point out that these reports are crude lies for which there is absolutely zero evidence, other than the say-so of the same Hamas sources that brought the world the fake IDF massacres at the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital and the aid convoy in February, the president merely said, "I hear the message." Shivving an ally and laundering a blood libel--two outrages for the price of one!
But in truth, no one should be surprised. That the White House would ultimately attempt to use its leverage to preserve Hamas in Gaza was baked into the American response to Oct. 7 from Day 1. Indeed, it was the entire purpose of the administration's messaging campaign to exonerate Iran and to forbid the Israelis from acting against Iran's prize proxy in the region, Hezbollah, in the immediate aftermath of the attack. By framing the war as the latest skirmish in the "Israeli-Palestinian conflict," and not as a hot front in the Iranian terror empire's cold war against the U.S.-led regional order, the White House effectively set a trap for Israel.
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On Thursday, IDF spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said that "the IDF has armaments for the missions it is planning, including the missions in Rafah. We have what we need."
In his first official response to Biden's warning, meanwhile, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that if "Israel has to stand alone, we'll stand alone." We'll see in the coming weeks and months if Bibi is willing to call Biden's bluff.
That guy makes a good point: Barack Obama tweeted that we should stand back and support Israel as it dismantles Hamas.
That may sound supportive, he says -- but Obama's real message was, "attack Hamas and not Hamas' patron and funder, Iran."
We must have investigations into the Democrats' secret deals with America-hating Iran.
Israeli politicians aren't happy with President Poopypants:
US President Joe Biden's threat to withhold arms in the event of a full-on Rafah incursion has sparked harsh domestic criticism of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with critics panning both his handling of relations with the United States and his far-right allies' "insulting" denunciations of Jerusalem's closest ally.
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"I've made it clear to Bibi and the war cabinet: They're not going to get our support if they go [into] these population centers," Biden said, using Netanyahu's nickname.
The CNN interview marked Biden's toughest public comments yet on the matter, as concern has grown in the administration that Israel is not planning to heed US warnings against a major offensive that the White House feels wouldn't take into account the million-plus Palestinians sheltering in Gaza's southernmost city.
Responding to Biden's announcement, several members of Netanyahu's hard-right government slammed Biden, accusing him of weakness and alleging that his actions were good for Hamas.
Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu, from the hardline Otzma Yehudit party, accused Biden of following the path of former British prime minister Neville Chamberlain, who attempted to appease Nazi German dictator Adolf Hitler in 1938. Otzma Yehudit leader and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir simply tweeted "Hamas (loves) Biden."
The rest of the article is about the Israeli left opportunistically attacking Netanyahu for not being nice enough to Biden.
Eh, maybe we should let Biden cut them off. I'm kind of sick of the Israeli left.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. If you don't have the strength to stand up for yourself, why should the rest of us care?
Student sues Rutgers University for antisemtism, claiming the school allowed antisemitic thugs to intimidate her.
A Jewish student from Bergen County sued Rutgers University Thursday, alleging that she was harassed in her dorm after she attended a pro-Israel event.
Rebecca "Rivka" Schafer, 19, said she suffered other instances of antisemitism as well at Rutgers' New Brunswick campus, where students set up an encampment in recent weeks to protest the military campaign in Gaza and the university's ties to Israel.
The suit, filed in state Superior Court, seeks unspecified monetary damages from Rutgers, which Schafer accused of discrimination and allowing a hostile environment to fester against Jewish students.
"For years, Rutgers' Jewish students have reported incidents and concerns to Rutgers; yet Rutgers continues to tolerate faculty members, guest speakers, groups, student and student organizations that legitimize or endorse antisemitic expression and actions," the lawsuit says.
According to the suit, Rivka was targeted by fellow students after she went to an event intended to rally support for Israel this spring. That came amid a non-binding student referendum on whether Rutgers should divest its endowment from companies with ties to "the government of Israel's human rights violations."
Two days later, on March 28, Rivka found fliers with her photo posted throughout her dormitory, the lawsuit said. The picture was accompanied by the messages "Free Palestine" and "Free Gaza" and urged students to vote in favor of Rutgers Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Student Referendum vote.
"The message to Rivka and her peers was clear," according to the suit."Don't support Israel, we know where you sleep."
The goal was to "harass, intimidate and bully Jewish students, to create a hostile school environment for Jewish students and to suppress the vote of Jewish students, including Schafer," the complaint said.
The suit faults Rutgers President Jonathan Holloway for allowing the divestment vote to go forward. Holloway was warned by Jewish students that it would stoke antisemitism, the lawsuit said. The suit cites another incident that allegedly occurred a week after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, in which 1,200 people were killed and another 250 taken hostage. At a meeting in the dorm, another student "expressed appreciation that there was a large death toll in Israel." The comment earned appreciative snaps from other participants, who were "extremely aggressive" in their commentary about Israel, according to lawsuit.
"As a result of this conduct by her fellow dorm residents, Schafer left the meeting scared and shaking," it said.
I mean, there's some snowflaking going on here, obviously, but I do approve of suing these people.
Trust the experts:
You know, how the Constitution says that defendants and the government have the right to a speedy trial, right?
It's like David French explaining to us that the Constitution protects the government's right to free speech, too, and if that free speech takes the form of censorship, that's all constitutional!
I have to say, I tried this and got the correct information, but maybe they've fixed it since this was recorded:
Tim Cook admits what Big Tech's mission is: Destroying all forms of communication and recreation that Big Tech can't take a piece of.