Joe Biden’s Thursday night speech on Israel and Ukraine was hard to watch. Biden, hardly looking presidential, squinted into the teleprompter, struggled to form his words, often slurred his speech, and didn’t appear confident about what he was trying to sell not only the American public, but also the rest of the world. There is not an evil genius in the world—Russian Dictator Vladimir Putin to Iran’s Ayatollah to Turkey’s Erdogan to China’s communist leaders—who could miss the weak state of the American presidency. Biden’s speech was full of contradictions and flawed logic, an unfortunate state of affairs sending mixed signals to both allies and enemies. Biden’s foreign and domestic policy are disastrous.
Biden spent 25 words on the devastation by Hamas on innocent Israeli citizens, saying, “More than 1,300 people slaughtered in Israel, including at least 32 American citizens. Scores of innocents–from infants to elderly grandparents, Israelis, Americans–taken hostage.” He then spent 92 words on how bad the terrorist attack by Hamas must have affected the innocent “Palestinians,” saying, “I also spoke with President Abbas of the Palestinian Authority and reiterated that the United States remains committed to the Palestinian people’s right to dignity and to self-determination. The actions of Hamas terrorists don’t take that right away. Like so many others, I am heartbroken by the tragic loss of Palestinian life, including the explosion at a hospital in Gaza–which was not done by the Israelis. We mourn every innocent life lost. We can’t ignore the humanity of innocent Palestinians who only want to live in peace and have an opportunity.”
Biden said, “Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people. Hamas uses Palestinian civilians as human shields, and innocent Palestinian families are suffering greatly because of them.” But Hamas does represent the “Palestinian” people—they elected Hamas to rule Gaza. Biden said, “We cannot give up on a two-state solution” because Israel and Palestinians deserve to live in safety, dignity and peace. Biden apparently is ignoring the very fact that Gaza was the template for a two-state solution and it has been attacking Israel and raining missiles on Israeli civilians since it was given to the “Palestinians.”
Biden went on a diatribe about how American Jews feel threatened by antisemitism, and Muslims by Islamophobia. But let’s be clear, Islam is the aggressor. Islam attacks in the name of allah. We rarely see representatives of Islam denouncing attacks on Israel or on Jews. Then Biden wants to send billions of your and my money to Ukraine to fund its war with Russia. And we have to wonder: how much of that money will go into the Biden family coffers? We have a mess on our hands with this Administration. As is written in Proverbs 29:2, “When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.” Ashes and sackcloth—we clearly have a president of contradictions. Sources:
