US President Joe Biden said in an interview on Saturday with MSNBC that invading Rafah would be a red line but he’ll never leave Israel.
Biden was responding to the question: “What is your red line with Prime Minister Netanyahu? Do you have a red line? For instance, would the invasion of Rafah, which you have urged him not to do, be a red line?”
“It is a red line but I’m never going to leave Israel,” Biden asserted. “The defense of Israel is still critical. There’s no red line. I’m not going to cut off all weapons so they don’t have the Iron Dome to protect them. But there are red lines that if he crosses them… you cannot have 30,000 more Palestinians [according to Hamas figures] dead as a consequence of going after… there are other ways to deal, to get to deal with the trauma caused by Hamas.”
“The first time, I went over, I sat with him, I sat with the war cabinet and I said: “Look, don’t make the mistake America made. America made a mistake. We went after Bin Laden until we got him. But we shouldn’t have gone into Ukraine. I mean we shouldn’t have gone into the whole thing in Iraq and Afghanistan – it wasn’t necessary, it just caused more problems.”
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(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Mr Biden, have a come to Yoshke or Mohamed or the devil himself meeting with the Arab leaders. Tell them in no uncertain terms that if they genuinely care about Gazan lives, they should open their doors and welcome their brothers, fresh from their flesh, into safety. In Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. But no, Biden threatens Israel who is bending over backwards to provide humanitarian aid and safety to the civilians, at a painful price to its soldiers.
“Look, don’t make the mistake America made. America made a mistake. We went after Bin Laden until we got him. But we shouldn’t have gone into Ukraine. I mean we shouldn’t have gone into the whole thing in Iraq and Afghanistan – it wasn’t necessary, it just caused more problems.”
This from the guy who voted for the war & was against the Bin Laden raid, good luck Mr. Malarkey!
Biden has been contradicting himself for 50 years. This is a reflection of his character, not his age. He wants to be all things to all people, with little attention to ideology or principles. He has been like that throughout his career (i.e. this is evidence that he is NOT suffering from failing mental abilities, since he was always like that).
In this case he wants to appeal to the mainstream (at least in the past) of Democrats who are pro-Israel, and favor a strong foreign and defense policy that opposes blood thirsty tyrants (cf: John Kennedy, Harry Truman), and he also wants to appeal to the party’s “Progressive” (WOKE) wing which may be the new majority, that actively supports anti-Semitism, has endorsed genocide of Jews, and in general is anti-military, anti-war and opposes an activist US foreign policy