Joe Biden only cares about his re-election chances, not helping Gaza

With so much shouting and partisan rancor during Joe Biden’s State of the Union rant,🔯 it was easy to miss the most important news.

That would be the pres♊ident’s plan to have the American military build a floating dock off the coast of Gaza. 

In the middle of a war.

No boots on the ground, he insists, but that could be an impo❀ssible promise to keep if only because of construction logistics.

And what if Hamas attacks our tr🐭oops, or an errant rocke﷽t from Israel or the terrorists hits Americans? 

The risks are neces♑sary, Biden suggests, because of the humanitarian crisis. 

“Nearly 2 million more Palestinians under bombardment or displaced, homes destroyed, neighborhoods in rubble, cities in ruin, families without food, water, medicine. It’s heart🧜breaking,” ܫhe said Thursday.

He added that the dock in the Mediterranean would unload large ships filled with food, water, medicine and shelters.🎃 

And then what?

Who provides s🌊ecurity and how do the goods get distributed to the truly needy, as opposed to Hamas gunmen, up and down the Gaza Strip (inset)?

Who pays? 

Those are justꦫ the obvi🐻ous questions, but nobody seems to know more than the outline Biden cited. 

In truth, the facility he described likely couldn’t be built for at least several months, which seems an awfully long time when the United Nations andᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry claim on a near-daily basis that civilians face imminent famine and starvation. 

Then again, suffering Gazans are not actually B🍎ide💃n’s first concern.

That dist👍inction belong🌸s to his re-election campaign and merely by promising action he served his leftist critics an appetizer. 

The port idea marks Biden’s latest effort to calm Democrats u😼pset about💝 his aid to Israel.

Many of them are Jew-hating college students and Muslim Americans in swing states, especially Michigan, and the president is trying to win them back with a two step approach: massive aid to Gaza’s civilians and frequent beat-downs of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. 

‘Obstruction’ 

As the Guardian put it, “The White House made clear tha🦹t the decision to open a sea route for aid into Gaza had come with frustration of what is seen in Washington as Israeli obstruction of road deliveries on a substantial scale.” 

Right, Israel is guilty of “obstruction” because it will not risk its soldiers’ lives to feed and protect Palestinian civilians, insisting instead on eliminating the Hamas terrorists who savagely attacked Jewish civilians on Oct. 7. 

What’s next — is a desperate White House 🐟going to join the igno🍌rant “genocide” chorus against Israel? 

Never mind that Hamas us✨es Gaza’s civilians as human shields to get America and Europe to put press🧜ure on Israel.

The more civilian suffering, the grea♛ter the pressure and the better the odds the terrorists will get to live to kill another day. 

Biden surely knows 🐭all that but his fear of defeat in November is bending him like a twig in a storm.

He’s gone so far ofඣf track that he’s turning Israel into a punching bag while treating Hamas like the victim. 

It’s a pattern I’ve noted before but the president keeps addin♒g to the distance between America and our top Mideast ally.

And he’s doing it by siding with those who demand that Israel abandon the war and immediately accept a Pal🍃estinian state teeming with jihadists. 

Biden hasꦕn’t crossed all those lines yet, an🌄d is still providing Israel with critical military help.

But his const൲ant criticism undercuts 𝓡Israel’s standing and gives its global haters cover for their pro-Hamas sympathies. 

The president’s Thursday quip about deman🐻ding a “come to Jesus” meeting with Netanyahu captures his arrogance.ꦺ 

The back-stabbing speech and complaints about Israeli “obstruction” marked𒅌 the second time in days that Biden sabotaged Israel’s elected leader.

Earlier, the White House took the highly unusual💯 step of inviting to Washington Benny Gantz, a political rival of Netanyahu’s who only joined the go🥃vernment coalition after Oct. 7. 

The mo🃏ve was a blatant att🌳empt to meddle in Israeli politics by showing Biden favors Gantz.

According to Israeli media, Netanyahu d൲idn’t know about the invitation until Gantz told him and furiously demanded that Gantz not go﷽, saying Israel has “only one prime minister at a time.” 

Friends like foes 

But Gantz went, had a series of meetings with administration officials, including a pointless meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris (aren’t all meetings with her pointless?). 

The American description of the meeting used the obligato꧋ry line about Israel’s “right to defend itself,” but the emphasis was on humanitarian aid and the push for an end to hostilities in conjunction with a hostage deal. 

Gantz heard the same pitch on the next stop of hܫis anti-Netanyahu tour, in London, where he met with British Foreign Secretary David Cameron, who went a nasty step further than Washington.

Cameron suggested the UK might join🍰 with𓂃 others at the UN and accuse the Jewish state of violating international humanitarian laws. 

And these are Israel’s friends? 

Even though most western governments are demanding both a permanent cease-fire and a hostage swap, Israel is determined to finish the destruction of terrorist networks, and will agree only to a temporary truce in exchange for hostaꦯges. 

Hamas, meanwhile, won’t settle for a temporary truce that in🔜volves the release of all hostages because 🌠they are its only defense.

The tꩲerrorists know that once the hostages are freed, Israel will launch a full ground invasion of Rafah, the last major Ham꧋as holdout. 

Iran’s role 

The stalemate obscures how the US and Europe are ignoring Iran’s malign🍸ant role.

Its financing and training of Hamas, Hezbollah a💞nd the Houthis remain unaddressed, as if the mullahs’ quest to eliminate Israel and dominate the region are sep💧arate from what’s happening in Gaza.

And don’t forget the chaos in northern Israel, where tens of thousands have been eva▨cuated because of Hezbollah rockets. 

Although Iran’s ag♔gression is the key to everything, including Oct. 7, Biden and other leaders seem to believe they can sweet-talk it into adoptin♛g a policy of peaceful coexistence. 

The same wishful thinking is leading them to pressure Israel into ♔prematurely ending its Gaza mission and accepting a P🀅alestinian state. 

Those are dangerous fantasies that would merely set theꩵ table for the next war.

And sooner or later, a war thaꦍt starts in the Mideast won’t stay ♎there.

‘Choices matter’

Joanne Skibicki is no fan of those who say they won’t vote for either Donald Trump or Joe Biden.

She writes: 

“It is shameful and immature that American𓆉s would choose to abdicate their vital democratic right to vote. Life is full of making decisions which may not be optimal but choice and outcomes matter.”

GOP losing the political game

My point that congressional Republicans are consistently outplayed by united, ruthless Democrats spurred creative compar♔isons. 

John Jaffe put it this way: “Have thought for quite a while now that the Dems are playing chess, while the GOP is still playing checkers!”💧 

Matthew Esposito believes, “Republican🍷s are the Washington Generals to the Dems’ Harlem Globe💯trotters, and the fix is always in.”