Joe Biden’s handling of the Middle East crisis is just downright dangerous

With new signs each day pointing toward a broadཧer war in the Middle East, it’s important to recall the string of events that got u𝔉s here. 

It began Oct. 7 with the Hamas terrorist invasion of Israel, leadinꦜg it to respond with aerial and ground attacks in Gaza.

Almost immediately, Hezbollah💟 terrorists in Lebanon began firing rockets to force Israel♏ to divert troops and weapons to its northern border. 

The next round of attacks — more than 100 — c𝐆ame from groups in Iraq and Syria and were aimed at♑ American military bases.

More 🌞recently, the Houthis in Yemen beg💫an striking cargo ships in the Red Sea. 

If you think something big is brewing🔯, it’s not your imagination.

But the seemingly random development🎐s are confusing unless you connect the dots and see the big picture.♔ 

Then everything is cryst🏅al clear — all roa𒈔ds lead to Iran. 

Quick, somebody tell President Biden. 

The commander♑ in chief either hasn’t connected the dots or is refusing to see 👍the links to Iran.

How else to explaꦰin his determination to focus on the symptoms and ignore the cause of a potential global conflict? 

Coalition of the Hesitant 

All the t﷽error groups are Tehran’s proxies, and the sequential activation of them is coordinated by the mullahs.

They aim to destroy 🍬Israel, and ꩵare making moves to see how far they can go before the United States stops them. 

Or, more♔ accurately, whether this president will stop them. 

The first part of the White House answer came Thursday and Friday when the American-led Coalition ꦐof the Very Hesitant belatedly delivere꧋d on weeks of threats to the Houthis.

The repeated assaults on cargo ships in the Red Sea were playing havoc with global trading routes, so the White𓂃 House, Great Britain and others took out a few launching sites and a radar station in Yemen. 

The response made noise and got attention, but was not designed to achieve a military objective🌳.

The too-limited assault c⛄ame gift-wrapped with assurances the US is 💃not looking for a wider war. 

Oꦡn Saturday, Biden told reporters a message was delivered “privately” to Iran, though it wasn’t clear whether the private message is different from the public one. 

It better be because the public plea for ൩restraint will likely embolden the well-armed Houthis, according to regional analystsꦦ. 

As one told USA Today, the ꦿimpact of the response is “peanuts in the wider context of Houthi weapon and military capabilities — especially their maritime weapons. They are sav💎vier, more prepared, and more equipped than anyone is really acknowledging.” 

More important, it’s a n🏅ear-certainty that Iran welcomes the attack on its Yemen pawns as an excuse to ramp up its regional mayhem. 

Unﷺ෴less Biden responds in ways that actually deter Iran, he will be forced deeper into a hole of his own making.

Unfortunately for Israel and our allies everywhere, his go-to ⛦reaction is dominated b🍸y an instinct for appeasement. 

That ins🗹tinct was on full display during his chaotic bug-out of Afghanistan, proving he was willing to pay a steep price to end American involvement.

Our troops and allies, especially Israel, have been paying a price of their own ever si⛄nce. 

His d🐲ithering, deep aversion to risk also hampered support for Ukraine, with a stalemate increasingly likely to be the final result of Russia’s invasion. 

ඣOn Iran, the president continues to embrace the misguided kid-gloves treatment that started during the Obama-Biden administrat🎃ion.

His lifting of oil and tradi꧑ng sanctions and payment of $6 billion for the return of hostages were aimed at wooing the mullahs back into another flawed nuclear agreement. 

Funding both sides 

As they did the first time, when Obama wa﷽s president, they again took the concessions and used the new wealth to finance and arm their terror proxies. 

Because we also help Israel financially, the♑ US is𓂃 funding both sides of the conflict.

How’s that for stupid? 

Biden compounded those miꦇstakes by lifting the Trum📖p-era designation of the Houthis as a terrorist organization. 

His rel♛uctance to act like the leader of the free world is off the charts now that he’s running for re-election in a party where major elements are turning against the Jewish state.

In addition to the Democrats’ antisemitic caucus led by Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, the young and woke who demand that Israe🍒l get out 🏅of Gaza didn’t like Biden to begin with, and his support for Israel has further alienated them. 

He reads the polls, which is why he has mixed his basic support for Israel with growing criꦬticism over civilian casualties in Gaza. 

Worse, his repeated demand that Israel accept a Palestinian state after the war is undercutting the war effor🐼t and serves only to reward the terrorists.

The message is that aggression pays. 

As such, Biden’s reaction reveals he doesn’t realiℱze o𓆉r care what animates Iran and its proxies. 

The Islamists’ conflict with Israel isn’t abouꩵt border𒐪s or whether Palestinians get a state of their own. It’s Jew hatred and the goal is the elimination of Israel. 

That’s what Hamas is proving, andꦗ it doesn’t careꦫ how many Palestinian civilians die as long as the mad cause survives.

Its leaders say publicly that they aim to repeat the horrors of ꧟Oct. 7 as often as possible.&nbs🍌p;

That means Biden’s efforts at placating🐻 Iran, the Arab “street” and his domestic critics are not just doomed to f🙈ail.

They are also direcꦚtly contributing to the risk of a larger war, one where America gets sucked in by Biden’s refusal to be clear and consistent about enforcing his red lines. 

Sway of the world 

His mixed messages about Israel🍨 illu💃strate another problem, too.

Namely, how quickly he c💯aves into pressure from The New York Times and other leftist media.&nꩲbsp;

Alt🍌hough his initial response to the Hamas invasion🧸 was to show total support for Israel, he started going wobbly even before the ground invasion response began. 

When the Times and other anti-Israel media called the aerial bombardment too harsh and joined growing calls for a cease-fire, Biden started♛ hedging his bets.

When he didn’t express concern about Gazan civilians himself, press aides were quick to announce he had scolded♑ Israeli🌼 leaders in private conversations. 

Secretary of State Tony Blinken, instead of demanding the Red Cross visit Israeli hostages and that United Nations relief workers in Gaza stop front🏅ing for Hamas, kept the pressure on Israel by attending its war Cabinet meetings.

There he urged mili♐tary restraint and insisted Israel admit more civilian aid trucks — many of which were openly hijacked by Hamas. 

Yet even now, as growing numbers of Israeli soldiers die, there♑ are no reliable reports of Gazan civilian casualt꧅ies.

That hasn’t stopped the media from repeating numbers distributed by the Gazan Health Ministry✱, which is controlled b꧟y Hamas. 

Its supposed death statistics never distinguish between civilians and terrorists, yet the Times a♏nd others repeat them as if they are trustworthy. 

Regrettably, the gullibl🦂e gang includes a weak and unsteady American president.