President Joe Biden’s handling of the war between Israel and Hamas doesn’t make him “look weak.” His deference to anti-Israel, pro-terrorist voters and activists makes him, and America’s voice, actually weak.
Jon Favreau, a former speechwriter for former President Barack Obama who now works in liberal media, said that Biden’s supposed private outrage at an Israeli airstrike that killed aid workers “only makes him look weak.” Biden “still refuses to use leverage to stop the IDF from killing and starving innocent people,” according to Favreau, meaning he sees Biden’s outrage as performative more than anything.
That would happen to be the one thing Favreau gets right. Biden’s outrage is performative because he is pandering to terrorist-sympathizing activists and voters by shaming Israel (as Favreau is) for daring to fight a defensive war against a terrorist group that is dedicated to erasing Israel off of the map. That terrorist group massacred 1,200 civilians, took several more hostage (and continues to hold them hostage), and is singularly focused on slaughtering innocent people.
Biden administration officials have made it clear they want Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to take into account Biden’s domestic political worries in Israel’s war against terrorists who want to destroy it because Biden cares more about votes from antisemitic voters in Dearborn, Michigan, than he does about a U.S. ally fighting for its safety and survival against terrorists. His performative outrage targeted at both Netanyahu and Israel itself, including through the antisemitic United Nations, shows that Biden is weak.
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That is even more clear when you consider the context behind Biden’s latest condemnation of Israel. Israel accidentally struck and killed aid workers in an active war for its survival and safety against an enemy that purposely hides among civilians and aid groups in order to create this kind of scenario. Biden, meanwhile, had no condemnations or even firings for his own administration when he killed an aid worker and seven children in a drone strike in Afghanistan in retaliation for a terrorist attack that killed 13 U.S. servicemembers that was brought on by Biden’s incompetence.
Biden keeps putting Israel on a similar moral plane to the Hamas terrorists who started this war, hold Americans hostage, and make the deaths of civilians their goal and chief defense tactic. He has done it all because Democratic activists and some politicians warn he will lose his reelection without some terrorist-sympathizing voters in Michigan and now is highlighting his hypocrisy and lack of accountability on killing aid workers in misidentified military strikes. That doesn’t make Biden “look” weak. It just makes him weak.