{"id":16512,"date":"2024-03-06T12:46:25","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T12:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/06\/biden-under-fire-for-middle-east-policy-critics-charge-hes-preventing-israel-from-winning\/"},"modified":"2024-03-06T12:46:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T12:46:25","slug":"biden-under-fire-for-middle-east-policy-critics-charge-hes-preventing-israel-from-winning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/06\/biden-under-fire-for-middle-east-policy-critics-charge-hes-preventing-israel-from-winning\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden under fire for Middle East policy; critics charge he\u2019s preventing \u2018Israel from winning\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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JERUSALEM \u2014 President Biden was noncommittal Tuesday when asked about his relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying it\u2019s \u2018like it\u2019s always been.\u2019 Yet many, including former President Trump, claim Biden is deserting Israel.<\/p>\n

Asked earlier in the day by \u2018Fox and Friends\u2019 anchor Brian Kilmeade if he believes Biden is \u2018in the process of abandoning Israel,\u2019 Trump said, I \u2018do believe that.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have seemingly ramped up pressure on Israel over the last few weeks to accept an\u00a0immediate six-week cease-fire with Hamas in exchange for the release of the over 130 hostages held in Gaza.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Biden has been advancing a policy that prevents Israel from winning \u2014 and so guarantees Israel is defeated \u2014 almost since the outset of the war,\u2019 Caroline Glick, an Israeli-American expert on the Middle East told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n

The, \u2018Two steps he took at the very early stages placed enormous obstacles before Israel. First, he blocked Israel from taking the most effective action, laying siege to Gaza. Had Israel blocked all food, water, fuel and medicines from entering Gaza, the people of Gaza would have turned on Hamas within a few short weeks.\u2019<\/p>\n

Hamas terrorists\u00a0invaded Israel Oct. 7 and slaughtered 1,200 people, including over 30 Americans. The jihadi terrorist movement kidnapped more than 240 people and transported them to the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n

Many Israeli military experts see a six-week cease-fire as dangerous because it could be part of a slippery slope toward a permanent stoppage of Israel\u2019s war campaign and leave Hamas in power. Netanyahu has told the Israeli public his aim is \u2018total victory\u2019 over Hamas.<\/p>\n

\u2018The hostage deal is in the hands of Hamas right now because there\u2019s been an offer, a rational offer,\u2019 Biden said Tuesday of a cease-fire. \u2018The Israelis have agreed to it.\u2019 He added that the Israelis are cooperating, and he is pushing to \u2018get more aid in Gaza.\u2019 Biden\u2019s goal is reportedly to secure a cease-fire before Ramadan begins next week.<\/p>\n

When asked about Harris\u2019 strongly worded speech Sunday calling for an immediate cease-fire, Robert Satloff, executive director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, told Fox News Digital, \u2018The vice president\u2019s comments were only marginally different than what the president himself has been saying about the urgency of reaching a hostage-for-prisoners \u2018temporary cease-fire.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018More importantly, I don\u2019t see the administration turning anti-Israel, even as the chorus of concern about the close U.S. support for Israeli war operations continues to get louder in American politics.\u2019<\/p>\n

Satloff noted that the campaign in Michigan to win over Muslim Arabs to vote undecided in the primary was hyped beyond the reality of the numbers who voted \u2018uncommitted\u2019 to\u00a0send Biden a message about his support for Israel.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018A dispassionate look at Michigan shows that the \u2018uncommitted\u2019 campaign was not nearly as successful as its advocates wanted and that was for an easy primary vote, not a November election vote that will have real significance for the future of the country.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Could the administration adopt a tougher approach on Israel, especially as regards the prospect of a Rafah campaign, as spring comes and summer approaches? It\u2019s certainly possible, but my view is that the five months of stalwart support \u2014 far longer than Ronald Reagan gave Menachem Begin in 1982 or George W. Bush gave Ehud Olmert in 2006 \u2014 earns him the benefit of the doubt,\u2019 Satloff said.<\/p>\n

The reported clash between Biden and\u00a0Netanyahu over Israel\u2019s desire to defeat Hamas is heating up but it is unclear if there will be a similar showdown between Biden and Netanyahu along the lines of\u00a0former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, who chastised the then U.S. senator for threatening to stop aid to Israel in 1982.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The quote attributed to Begin states, in part, \u2018Don\u2019t threaten us with cutting off your aid. It will not work. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history.\u2019<\/p>\n

Glick continued her criticism of the Biden administration, noting that it refused to \u2018oppose Egypt\u2019s policy of preventing Gazans from fleeing Gaza through the border with Egypt. Had the Gazans been allowed to flee, there would have been no humanitarian crisis in Gaza, and the war would have ended months ago with a total Israeli victory.\u2019<\/p>\n

Egypt said Tuesday the cease-fire\u00a0talks have largely collapsed. Hamas has refused to provide a list of the hostages and rejected the proposed cease-fire package.<\/p>\n

\u2018Biden has been advancing these policies, which are effectively pro-Hamas and hostile to Israel, primarily because his administration\u2019s policies are crafted by officials who hate Israel and have a history of support for Hamas,\u2019 Glick claimed.<\/p>\n

Adding to the friction between Biden and Netanyahu, Israel\u2019s main opposition leader and war cabinet member, Benny Gantz, met with Secretary of State Blinken on Tuesday in Washington, where according to a State Department readout, the two discussed the hostages, humanitarian aid and the implementation of a humanitarian plan by Israel before any IDF operation into Rafah should occur. Israeli media reported that Netanyahu had not approved Gantz\u2019s trip to Washington and was said to be infuriated by it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

During Tuesday\u2019s State Department briefing, spokesman Matthew Miller reiterated the administration\u2019s support for \u2018Israel\u2019s objective of defeating Hamas militarily.\u2019 He also underlined the Biden administration\u2019s support for a two-state solution, noting that, \u2018We believe the ultimate way to resolve the longstanding conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people is the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with real security guarantees for Israel, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re working to try to achieve.\u2019<\/p>\n

David Wurmser, a former senior adviser for nonproliferation and Middle East strategy for former Vice President Dick Cheney, told Fox News Digital that \u2018deep down, Biden still has some residual liberal views of Israel that are generally favorable.\u2019<\/p>\n

Wurmser, a keen observer of the personnel factor within the Biden administration\u2019s Mideast policy, said, \u2018Biden is swayed by people around him\u2019 and that he is\u00a0a \u2018pliable\u2019 person. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018The real issue is everybody else,\u2019 he warned. \u2018Staffers who are not pro-Israel and would sell out Israel.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wurmser noted that progressive control of the Democratic Party\u2019s structure \u2018is convincing the political leadership of the Democratic Party to abandon Israel or at least distance itself from Israel. The administration is moving toward throwing Israel under the bus.\u2019<\/p>\n

The State Department did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital questions by publication time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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