{"id":19049,"date":"2024-05-13T13:46:49","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T13:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/13\/republican-says-biden-has-strengthened-hamas-by-withholding-aid-from-israel-completely-incompetent\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T13:46:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T13:46:49","slug":"republican-says-biden-has-strengthened-hamas-by-withholding-aid-from-israel-completely-incompetent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/13\/republican-says-biden-has-strengthened-hamas-by-withholding-aid-from-israel-completely-incompetent\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican says Biden has \u2018strengthened\u2019 Hamas by withholding aid from Israel: \u2018Completely incompetent\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable\">A Republican senator hammered President Biden on Sunday for withholding weapons from Israel, which he claimed has inadvertently \u2018strengthened\u2019 the Hamas terror group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-NE, said the Biden administration\u2019s decision to withhold high payload bombs from Israel \u2018just demonstrates their incompetence.\u2019 He also compared the current conflict with Hamas to how Biden handled Afghanistan, saying he was \u2018absolutely mismanaging this.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I mean, the administration said they had an ironclad friendship with Israel, and now they\u2019re demonstrating that it doesn\u2019t mean too much,\u2019 said Ricketts, also a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, during a segment of FOX Report with Jon Scott. \u2018Secretary [Antony] Blinken was talking about how we\u2019ve got to offer them a better way. A better way, like Afghanistan. How well did that work out? He\u2019s looking for a credible plan for protecting civilians, that they wouldn\u2019t know a credible plan if it came up and bit them on the behind. These people are completely incompetent and they\u2019re absolutely mismanaging this.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The Republican also said the president\u2019s tactic was playing into the hands of terrorists: \u2018Hamas was negotiating to come up with a cease fire to return the hostages. And then Biden announces he\u2019s going to withhold weapons. And Hamas is like, well, my hand has just been strengthened. Why would I negotiate now?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Ricketts\u2019 comment came after Biden urged Israel\u2019s government not to carry out a ground invasion of Gaza\u2019s southern city of Rafah, which is currently home to more than a million Palestinians who fled other parts of the Gaza Strip during Israel\u2019s war with Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>On Israel\u2019s Rafah offensive, the Nebraska Republican claimed the Jewish country was being cautious about avoiding civilian deaths.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-media fn-video\">\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"m video-player\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2018There\u2019s 4 or 5 [Hamas] battalions left in Rafah. They all have to be destroyed,\u2019 Ricketts said. \u2018The leadership needs to be killed. And frankly, Israel is doing more than any nation I can think of as far as trying to avoid civilian casualties.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s own threats to withhold offensive aid from Israel has prompted wide criticism, including from the House Oversight Committee, which is launching an investigation to see if the president has violated the law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote-text\">\u2014 Then-presidential candidate Joe Biden in a 2019 PBS interview<\/p>\n<p>Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., questioned both the decision-making process and the timing of the announcement itself in a letter to President Biden\u2019s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan.<\/p>\n<p>He also requested a congressional briefing from the White House National Security Council in addition to communications and other documents related to discussions about pausing any kind of aid to Israel, with a deadline of May 24.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The Committee is alarmed by the Biden administration\u2019s willingness to play political games with U.S. taxpayer-funded assistance going to Israel,\u2019 Comer wrote in a letter signed by Republicans on the Oversight Committee. \u2018On May 9, 2024, President Biden made public that he would not supply offensive weapons that Israel could use in its offensive on Rafah \u2014 the last major Hamas stronghold in Gaza.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Further reporting indicates that the National Security Council actively chose to withhold this information from the public eye for days, in part so that news of the decision would not be known when President Biden delivered a speech touting support for Israel on Holocaust Remembrance Day. The Committee seeks a briefing, as well as documents and information related to this decision, including any legal justification for withholding essential supplies from Israel in its fight against Hamas terrorists who still have Israeli and American hostages.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Former President Trump and several of his supporters in Congress have accused Biden of initiating a quid pro quo with Israel \u2014 conditioning or withholding aid to Israel in order to change its foreign policy. Trump was impeached for threatening to withhold money from Ukraine, although the funding was ultimately not withheld.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fox News\u2019 Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report.<\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Republican senator hammered President Biden on Sunday for withholding weapons from Israel, which he claimed has inadvertently \u2018strengthened\u2019 the Hamas terror group. Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-NE, said the Biden administration\u2019s decision to withhold high payload bombs from Israel \u2018just demonstrates their incompetence.\u2019 He also compared the current conflict with Hamas to how Biden handled <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}