Democrats Turn Against Israel
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that “no international pressure will stop us from realizing all of the goals of the war: Eliminating Hamas, freeing all of our hostages and ensuring that Gaza never again constitutes a threat to Israel." That this is interpreted as a challenge to President Biden speaks volumes about the shift in U.S. policy toward Israel. The joke around Jerusalem is that while Mr.
Biden once worked to help Israel after Oct. 7, he’s now working on the “two-state solution": Michigan and Nevada. Israelis notice that the President rarely speaks of defeating Hamas anymore.
Instead, he bashes Israel under the cover of bashing its Prime Minister. This dance is Mr. Biden’s way of catering to the anti-Israel left without alienating the bulk of U.S.
voters who would find it unconscionable to turn on the Israeli people in wartime. What Henry Kissinger once said about Israel having no foreign policy, only domestic politics, Israelis are now saying about America. How else to explain Mr.
Biden’s “red line" on Rafah, Hamas’s final stronghold? Mr. Netanyahu says, “You cannot say you support Israel’s goal of destroying Hamas and then oppose Israel when it takes the actions necessary to achieve that goal." To leave Hamas in power in Rafah is to lose the war, and to replace Hamas with Fatah is to lose the peace. That’s an Israeli consensus, not “Bibi." Israeli officials say the U.S.
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