History will not look kindly on Biden's treatment of Israel

 The president's pause in shipment of a new round of munitions for Israel betrays one of the United States's closest allies and ups the imperiling of the West to a new level.

As is often the case when someone is trying to morally justify an untenable position, in his interview with CNN's Erin Burnett, he pretty much acknowledged -whether he meant to or not - that he knows the bombs in question will achieve the very aim Israel is pursuing:

“Civilians have been killed in Gaza as a consequence of those bombs and other ways in which they go after population centers,” Biden told CNN’s Erin Burnett in an exclusive interview on “Erin Burnett OutFront,” referring to 2,000-pound bombs that Biden paused shipments of last week.

“I made it clear that if they go into Rafah – they haven’t gone in Rafah yet – if they go into Rafah, I’m not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with Rafah, to deal with the cities – that deal with that problem,” Biden said.

The president’s announcement that he was prepared to condition American weaponry on Israel’s actions amounts to a turning point in the seven-month conflict between Israel and Hamas. And his acknowledgement that American bombs had been used to kill civilians in Gaza was a stark recognition of the United States’ role in the war.

Biden - and the peaceniks and antinomians with a morbid fascination with jihad with whom he's trying to curry favor - act like the IDF gives no attention to the effectiveness of its strikes, that it gives no thought to collateral damage.

Actually, the held-up munitions are the most advance way to achieve the aim with minimal impact on civilian life:

Last week, the administration’s line was that it needed to see a plausible evacuation plan from Rafah—a statement indicating that it still supported the overall aim of eliminating Hamas and that the problem going forward was primarily logistical. So that might simply have been a lie. It’s no secret Biden doesn’t want Israel to conduct a full-scale war operation in Rafah, but the administration made it sound as though that was entirely on humanitarian grounds.

But if his primary aim is to limit civilian casualties, his methods of doing so are insane. The munitions he is holding back would in part allow Israel to hit sites and areas in Rafah with great precision. That is how you limit casualties. Which leads me to believe that Joe Biden is literally trying to freeze the conflict in place permanently—for his own reasons. Those reasons are bad, and stupid, and feckless, and self-defeating. For Israel cannot stop the war. It can’t. If it does, Hamas wins—at which point Israel will begin a new period of mortal peril perhaps more threatening to its future than any period in its past. The Israeli public will not stand for it. Because of what Biden is doing, the war will be bloodier and more costly for both sides, and will take much longer. How on earth will that help him?

Think about what kind of cackling and rubbing together of hands is going on in the inner governmental chambers of Iran, Russia, China and North Korea. The debacle at the Kabul airport in August 2021gave our foes a strong signal that Biden had no consistent foreign policy vision. This seals the deal.

And the shipment of bombs and ammunition had already been approved by Congress. How is this different from Trump holding up aid to Ukraine in an attempt to motivate Zelensky to dig up dirt on Biden (a move the got him impeached)?

A fine state of affairs. A US president mishandles a crucial moment when a ringing victory for the West is at hand.

This is why, since 2016, I have not bought the binary-choice argument.

The Very Stable Genius, who we now know likes to be spanked by his casual sex partners, is an obvious thumbs-down.

But this current guy? He's forever stained himself with a shame that will impact us all.