Yesterday, in a statement made in the State Dining Room at the White House, President Biden pretty much gave the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu a green light to escalate the scorched-earth war in Gaza. “If the United States experienced what Israel is experiencing, our response would be swift, decisive, and overwhelming,” Biden read from his teleprompter.
Biden also extended his “democracies vs. autocracies” meme to “good vs. evil,” that is the good Israel vs. the evil Hamas. It was as if 75 years of Israeli brutality towards the Palestinians never happened. “You know, there are moments in this life—and I mean this literally—when the pure, unadulterated evil is unleashed on this world,” Biden said. “The people of Israel lived through one such moment this weekend. The bloody hands of the terrorist organization Hamas—a group whose stated purpose for being is to kill Jews. This was an act of sheer evil.” Later, he added: “The brutality of Hamas—this bloodthirstiness—brings to mind the worst—the worst rampages of ISIS.”
Biden went on: “Hamas does not stand for the Palestinian people’s right to dignity and self-determination. Its stated purpose is the annihilation of the State of Israel and the murder of Jewish people. They use Palestinian civilians as human shields. Hamas offers nothing but terror and bloodshed with no regard to who pays the price.”
