The extent to which the Biden administration has been interfering in the business of Israel has become a provocation. An enemy is an enemy, but a fickle friend is dangerously unpredictable. Such is the Biden administration in its harassment of Israel at a time when Israel is embroiled in an existential war.
This is the first time ever that America has imposed sanctions on an Israeli military unit. It’s “absurd” and a “moral low,” as Netanyahu rightly states.
The sanctions follow “a special State Department panel that investigated alleged violations of human rights based on the Leahy law recommended months ago that Blinken disqualify multiple Israeli military and police units that operate in the West Bank from receiving U.S. aid.” Who are the members of this panel, and why now? They are clearly anti-Israel and biased.
Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant has stated:
“The commanders and troops of the Netzach Yehuda battalion operate on the frontline – since the outbreak of the war, they have been working to push Hezbollah forces from the northern border, to thwart terrorism in Judea and Samaria, and most recently, they are operating to dismantle Hamas brigades in Gaza. They are risking their lives and fighting terrorism. The battalion’s activities are carried out in accordance with the values of the IDF and in accordance with international law. Any event that deviates from the aforementioned standards is addressed accordingly.
Any attempt to criticize an entire unit casts a heavy shadow on the actions of the IDF, which operates to protect the citizens of Israel. Damage to one battalion, affects the entire defense establishment – this is not the right path for partners and friends.
Our friends and our enemies are closely watching the ties between Israel and the United States, now more than ever. I call on the U.S. Administration to withdraw its intention to impose sanctions on the Netzach Yehuda battalion.” (Courtesy: Israel Government Press Office).
The Biden administration is demonstrating its weakness and fickleness as Iran watches. Israel is faced with the consequences, while America will also pay an unknown price, but one that it will not evade paying. Iran regards Israel as “Little Satan” and America as the “Great Satan.” Iran will not stop its aggression against Israel. U.S. sanctions on an IDF unit only aid Iran.
“Netanyahu: Absurd for US to sanction IDF soldiers as they fight terror,” by Tovah Lazaroff, Jerusalem Post, April 21, 2024:
“At a time when our soldiers are fighting terrorist monsters, the intention to sanction a unit in the IDF is the height of absurdity and a moral low,” Netanyahu wrote in a post on X.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashed out at the United States for its plans to issue its first-ever sanctions against IDF units over alleged human rights violations, starting with the Netzah Yehuda Battalion, which in the past has been accused of mistreating Palestinians.
Among the more high-profile incidents was the death of Palestinian American Omar As’ad, 80, of a heart attack in January 2022 after he had been detained, blindfolded, gagged, and handcuffed by that battalion in the West Bank.
Netanyahu calls for the government to act against move “I will fight this with all my powers,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Israeli public on Sunday in a video address.
Minister Benny Gantz, who is a former defense minister and IDF chief of staff, spoke with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday and asked him to rescind the decision, which, he warned, “will harm Israel’s international legitimacy during the time of war.”…
Kevin says
This is not a war! There is no military for Palestinians. This is a huge genocide, pure and simple. And this whole matter was planned like this by Netanyahu and staff, All criminals.
Sean says
Get your head out of Glen Greenwald’s ass and breathe genuine oxygen.
John Smith says
What a load of rubbish, but I know it would only be a waste of my time trying to explain to you what’s really going on in this world.
James Lincoln says
Kevin,
Your post suggests that you are either:
1. A very devout muslim.
or
2. A brainwashed hard-core Leftist.
somehistory says
James< could he possibly be both? Like that communist mozlum we read about here a few days ago?
James Lincoln says
Possible, somehistory.
But is likely to produce an ongoing “cognitive dissonance” regarding LGBT issues, islamic “approved” female dress, etc.
John Smith says
Exactly James
OLD GUY says
What have you been smoking?
gravenimage says
“Kevin” here is a regular Jihad apologist. And the idea that responding to an attack of rape and murder is unacceptable–preseumably because they are Jews–is just grotesque. But Kevin has said similar things before.
Taffy says
Let’s go Brandon! Let’s go Blinken!
Mark Conley says
The State Department is deeply infected with leftists and falls into line behind any leftist pressure. This will not be fixed until the State Department cleans out the traitors.
James Lincoln says
Mark,
The current US State Department will not clean out its traitors.
After all, Secretary of State Antony Blinkin reached out to a former CIA operative to collect signatures from senior American intelligence figures to discredit the Hunter Biden laptop story…
Ray Jarman says
Having worked at DoS for over twenty-five years, I watched the hiring of these anti-American and anti-Semitics being brought abord. This fecal matter did not just appear. At the Near Eastern Affairs office at Foggy Bottom, there has been a plague anti-Semitics for a long time.
James Lincoln says
Thanks for the informative input, Ray.
Walter Sieruk says
That disingenuous double-speaking hypocritical lar ,Joe Biden had this week said that “America’s support for Israel is iron clad.” Then Biden attempts in impose sanctions against the Israel Defense Force, all the while he strives to have sanctions lifted from that Hostile Islamic regime of Iran which even viciously launch deadly missiles and drones into Israel starting on April 14. 2024.
Before those most recent attacks by Iran, that brutal cruel and murderous jihad entity , Hamas, which is funded and supplied with weapons by Iran had invaded the State of Israel on October 7.2023.
At this current time, that villain, Biden, wants sanctions against the much needed IDF. Therefore, it’s no wonder that Benjamin Franklin Netanyahu declared those US sanctions against the IDF an “absurdity” and a “moral low.”
Furthermore, the IDF is very much needed and necessary. Prime Minister Benjamin was not only right, for he also spoke the sensible thing to do when he declared, “No force in the world will stop us from elimination Hamas.”
For Hamas is a dangerous and deadly plague for all Jewish people and the State of Israel and as some people don’t seem to realize that vicious and vile jihad entity also dangerous to America and all the other Western countries.
Furthermore, Hamas hates the Jewish people with a spiteful passion, which also carries over to the same detestable and deadly malice for Christians. As is the saying in the Middle East among jihad-minded Muslims, it’s “First comes Saturday then comes Sunday” Meaning “First kill all the Jews and then kill all the Christians.”
To think about it , the many Muslims propagandists who live in the United States keep telling the Americans as well as other Westerner that “Islam respects Jews and Christians as “People of the Book. “ Those words ,of course, mean the Bible.
In reality ,many Muslims in the Middle East and elsewhere engage in severs persecution Christians and Jews Therefore , those words spoken by the Muslim apologists for Islam are disingenuous and empty words.
The persecution of who aren’t officially “People of the book” would be horrendously cruel and murderous. towards Hindus and Buddhists as well as people of other religions who Muslim view a “pagan.”
Walter Sieruk says
That fiendish villain Joe Biden, had ,indeed, totally abandoned Israel , likewise he betrayed her. Biden even has the diabolical gall to attempt to impose sanctions on the Israel Defense Force all the while he’s providing that aggressive Israel and America hating hostile Islamic regime of Iran, which supports Hamas, with billions of dollars and then he wants to send Iran even more money Before this betrayal of the State of Israel and the United States ,Biden allowed that Islamic tyranny that to obtain billons of dollars . How terribly wicked of Biden .For that belligerent ”mullah regime” of Iran calls Israel “The little Satan and the US “The great Satan.”
We may be sure that either in a direct way or an indirect way will use that money to advance its nuclear weapons program and further its stooge terror/murder jihad organizations which are Hamas, Hezbollah , Islamic Jihad.
Some Westerners might find in a bit interesting that Ayatollah Khamenei as well as the other ayatollahs and mullahs who have so much terrible power in Iran , don’t ever engage in any shootings and bombings , they just have their useful idiots who are the Muslim terrorists those three horrendous jihad entities to the dirty work of murdering of people for them as their tools.
Some of that vast amount of money Biden those in power in Iran to obtain will , without doubt , also be given in support to further found Hamas and also Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad.
Truly, Joe Biden is a treacherous scoundrel.
somehistory says
Why not “sanction” hamas? why not iran?
One incident is cited as the reason for sanctions against the ‘unit.’ If true, it’s bad. However:
There are many deaths caused by hamas.
Many deaths caused by iran …and still they get billions of dollars from biden opening wide the coffers of the irs’s taxpayers’ funds.
And biden agreed that it would be hunky-dory for iran to attack Israel….not knowing that most of the fireworks would be killed in mid-air…which could have resulted in many deaths in Israel.
biden has shown everyone just how evil he and his gang truly are.
Ezekiel 38-39
gravenimage says
Netanyahu calls US sanctions against IDF unit ‘the height of absurdity’ and a ‘moral low’
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He is not wrong…