{"id":16670,"date":"2024-03-08T12:55:37","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T12:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/08\/bidens-food-drop-in-gaza-masks-a-radical-pro-palestinian-agenda\/"},"modified":"2024-03-08T12:55:37","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T12:55:37","slug":"bidens-food-drop-in-gaza-masks-a-radical-pro-palestinian-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/08\/bidens-food-drop-in-gaza-masks-a-radical-pro-palestinian-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s food drop in\u00a0Gaza\u00a0masks a radical pro-Palestinian agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Biden\u2019s decision to drop food aid directly into the\u00a0Gaza\u00a0Strip may seem at first like a benign effort to help suffering civilians during war. But it\u2019s actually a symptom of a broader agenda to establish an independent bilateral relationship with the Palestinians separate and distinct from the U.S. alliance with Israel.<\/p>\n

Previously, American provisions of aid to\u00a0Gaza\u00a0and\/or West Bank have been coordinated with the Israeli authorities, as are similar donations from countries such as Egypt, Qatar and UAE.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But now President Biden is taking things into his own hands and radically shifting the dynamics of the U.S.-Israel relationship by not\u00a0only dropping food but also considering the pre-emptive American recognition of a Palestinian state.<\/p>\n

Such an action would not\u00a0only justify the Oct. 7\u00a0Hamas terrorist attacks\u00a0on\u00a0Israel as a legitimate path to statehood \u2013 it would have potentially disastrous consequences that\u00a0only Congress may be able to stop.<\/p>\n

The wisdom of rewarding Hamas with dumps of the humanitarian aid from which they have cut their own people while they are still holding Americans hostage can be debated, but this issue is much broader.\u00a0<\/p>\n

From the earliest days of the Biden administration, re-starting the flows of U.S. taxpayer money to the Palestinians and the various organizations that support them frozen under President Trump has been a top priority, with assistance to date at well over a billion dollars.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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In addition, President Biden has requested another $9 billion in his emergency supplemental for general humanitarian purposes. Some \u2013 if not all \u2013 would go the Palestinians in an unprecedented grant, presumably for the rebuilding of\u00a0Gaza, giving America a massive ownership stake in the future of the strip.<\/p>\n

While Biden\u2019s ambassador the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, did veto an Algerian-authored U.N. Security Council resolution last month condemning Israel and calling for a cease-fire, the administration made clear it was an issue of wording, not substance.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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In an extraordinary move, the U.S. has circulated its own draft resolution\u00a0on\u00a0the topic, which included\u00a0\u2018support for a temporary cease-fire in\u00a0Gaza\u00a0as soon as practicable, based\u00a0on\u00a0the formula of all hostages being released, and calls for lifting all barriers to the provision of humanitarian assistance at scale\u2026\u2019 and declared that \u2018that under current circumstances a major ground offensive into Rafah would result in further harm to civilians and their further displacement including potentially into neighboring countries.\u2019<\/p>\n

While the U.S. draft has not yet gotten a vote in the Security Council, there is no reason to think that it has been tabled, especially given Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 overt calls for a cease-fire\u00a0on\u00a0Sunday.<\/p>\n

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But the food drop and the U.N. resolution, as bad as they are, are\u00a0only a prelude to an official and unilateral U.S. recognition of a Palestinian state without an agreement with Israel in the wake of the Oct. 7\u00a0attacks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Such a step would be an astonishing declaration of equivalence between Israel and the Palestinians in American policy \u2013 most shockingly because the policy is being driven by Biden\u2019s electoral prospects in December, not any legitimate aspirations of the Palestinians.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Senior Democrat lawmakers such as Rep. Ro Khanna, of California, are now publicly calling for the \u2018something bold\u2019 the Biden administration anonymously floated last month explicitly for domestic political reasons, which is hardly a valid reason to upend decades of U.S. policy in the Middle East, not to mention reward a horrific terrorist attack\u00a0on\u00a0Israelis and Americans alike.<\/p>\n

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The administration\u2019s food dump into\u00a0Gaza\u00a0must not be mistaken for disinterested charity but be recognized for the stalking horse for the much more significant policy shift that it is. If Biden presses ahead with the plan to recognize a Palestinian state, Congress will have to act to preserve the U.S.-Israel alliance at this critical time.<\/p>\n

Any requests for additional aid for the Palestinians should be expressly prohibited in the upcoming funding vehicles. And Congress should clarify that without the administration submitting any recognition of a Palestinian state to the Senate for passage as a formal treaty, it will be nothing more than an executive action that Biden\u2019s successor can and should reverse with the stroke of a pen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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