Brendan O’Neill has been of the few British journalists not to have joined in the widespread Israel-bashing that characterize the reports on the Gaza War by such major media outlets in the UK as the BBC and The Guardian. He takes a whack at Biden, and the President’s desire to prevent an Israel-Hezbollah war, in order to ensure his re-election, here: “The lethal narcissism of Joe Biden,” by Brendan O’Neill, Spiked, June 21, 2024:
What is more important: Joe Biden winning the votes of America’s entitled coastal elites, or Israel protecting itself from an army called the Party of God that has sworn itself to the eradication of the ‘cancerous’ Jews from the Middle East? This would have been a no-brainer a few years ago. Most people – aside from Israelophobic hotheads on the far right and hard left – would have agreed that defending the Jewish State from fanatics who view Jews as ‘evil’ and ‘blasphemous’ is of greater moral import than a president’s longing to get back in the good books of woke voters. And yet today, such simple moral clarity is in alarmingly short supply.
Right now, nothing fills the Biden set with greater dread than the prospect of war between Israel and Hezbollah. And it’s not because they’re peaceniks. Biden voted in favour of the catastrophic invasion of Iraq in 2003. He was vice-president to the drone-happy Barack Obama, who dropped 26,171 bombs in 2016 alone. In Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan. If Biden is now of an anti-war bent, it’s been a recent conversion. No, it is self-preservation, not anti-militarism, that underpins Biden’s fear of an Israel-Hezbollah war. It’s the potential death of his presidency, not potential death in the Middle East, that keeps him up at night.
Back to Brendan O’Neill:
Tensions have exploded between Israel and Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based terror group whose name means Party of God. Unsurprisingly, the West’s ‘anti-war’ activist class has had little to say about Hezbollah’s blitz on northern Israel. Hezbollah, which is allied with Hamas, has been firing rockets into Israel almost every day since Hamas’s pogrom of 7 October, with the aim of ‘pulling Israeli forces’ away from Gaza. That is, with the aim of aiding the anti-Semites of Hamas in their holy war against the Jewish nation. Entire ‘swathes of northern Israel’ have been engulfed by fire as a result of Hezbollah’s rockets. Tens of thousands have been evacuated….
In northern Israel, Hezbollah’s near-daily barrage of rockets has forced 80,000 Israelis to leave their homes. After eight months, these people still cannot return home, but are displaced persons within their own country. This intolerable state of affairs cannot be allowed to continue, for it shrinks Israel’s habitable area. This is why the IDF is preparing for war with Hezbollah, a war many Israelis now believe is not a question of “if,” but of “when.”
If Biden were not laser-focused on his re-election, he would take a clear position in support of the beleaguered Jewish state, no matter how the anti-Israel youth and “woke” voters would react. He would announce the lifting of the one delivery of weapons he had previously halted in a failed attempt to prevent the IDF from entering Rafah, and order the Pentagon to “speed up as quickly as possible” all of the weapons deliveries that previously had been slowed down as a way to pressure Israel. In addition, Biden would announce that several more aircraft carriers, and battleships with anti-missile defense systems, are now being moved into the eastern Mediterranean, just off the Lebanese coast, thereby semaphoring to Hezbollah that American forces are now in position both to attack Hezbollah weapons depots and to supplement Israel’s anti-missile defenses, given that Israel’s supplies of Iron Dome batteries at this point are running low, and could be overwhelmed by the huge number of rockets and missiles Hezbollah has available to launch at the Jewish state. That’s what Biden should do. But he won’t. At most, he will move one more ship into position off the Lebanese coast, and hope that he can keep the peace on Israel’s northern front until after the election.
SC says
Every democrat needs to lose Jewish Support. They have proved beyond doubt they cannot be trusted. They havecactively encouraged millions of illegal Moslems into the USA many of whom are likely anti semitic and Terrorists.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
More importantly, every Jew needs to abandon the Democrats, and if they can’t vote for Trump b’cos they’re otherwise socialists, they should either sit it out, or vote for someone like RFK
Or else, they could just recite the shehada and convert to islam
KoshsShadow says
The US should also tell Iran that if they launch ANY attack on Israel, the US will use its biggest bunker busters on the Iranian nuclear program, bomb IRCG bases, and send a very special missile into the well at Qom – no explosives, but pork offal.
The country that NEEDS freedom is Iran. Let the Iranians have their country back.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Precisely! That’s what I have been saying for months, and that’s what quite a few observers have noticed as well. I have also called for Israel to peak their anti-Jihadist activity in October, b’cos that’s when it’ll have the greatest effect on the Dems: they’ll either retain their Jewish vote or their muslim vote, but not both
However, one downside of this: I have noticed some Republicans, notably Scott Presler, start doing outreach to muslims to woo them away for the Dems, under the assumption that the muslims want peace there. That’s an asinine move to make: all it will do is dissuade any Jews who’re considering voting GOP to just sit it out. The only reason muslims are mad at Biden is that he’s unable to stop a war that they started, and that the only reason they want “peace” is that their side Hamas is getting pummeled, After all, they did have peace before October 7th, but they had nothing to say against Hamas when that was broken: instead, they celebrated
If the GOP insists on trying to woo muslims, they deserve to lose again, and those of us who oppose the Jihad should look for another party, or start our own (like the Loyalist party last decade). Thankfully, President Trump has a good record on that, and hopefully, these pro-islamic voices like Presler, as well as Fuentes and Candace can be silenced
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Also, if the muslim vote abandons Biden and simply sits it out, or votes for Cornel West, then it’s not just the battleground states he will lose: he will also lose some pretty blue states, like Virginia and Minnesota, where muslims make up a sizable number
OLD GUY says
I hope he loses the support of the HATE Israel groups. Islam is horrible for mankind, and especially for Women and children.