Today’s quote – and it is a lengthy one – comes to us from Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX). It concerns what is happening in Israel and how it is connected to the Biden administration’s “policy” toward Iran:
“I’ll tell you what is infuriating about this. This was paid for by Joe Biden and the Democrats
“This attack this massacre, this horrific assault on Israel, was funded by Iran. Hamas and Hezbollah are Iranian proxies. They work for Iran. They work under the direction of Iran. They are funded by Iran. The Wall Street Journal reported this weekend that these attacks were planned, were signed off on by the Iranian government.”
“And in the last two and a half years, Joe Biden and this White House are responsible for $50 billion flowing to Iran. And let me break that down. Because the corporate media does not want to cover that.
“Everyone acknowledges the $6 billion. The $6 billion is the ransom money that Joe Biden paid to get five Americans out of Iranian custody. At $6 billion, that’s $1.2 billion per American. That set a bounty on Americans of over a billion dollars.
“That means Americans in the future will be taken hostage but, the $6 billion is just a fraction of the cash that Joe Biden has flooded into Iran. Because a few weeks before the $6 billion, the Biden administration allowed $10 billion from Iraq to flow into Iran. That brings it up to $16 billion in cash that directly flowed into Iran.
“But that doesn’t cover it all. Because for two years, the Biden administration has refused to enforce American oil sanctions.
“The single most powerful economic weapon we have against this theocratic genocidal regime in Iran is sanctions that were shutting down their oil sales that under the Trump administration that had brought the Iranian economy to its knees and crippled it.”
“Well, Joe Biden of the Democrats came in into office and what did they do? They stopped enforcing the Iran oil sanction. And right now, do you know how much Iran is selling in oil right now?…2 million barrels of oil a day.
“Over the last two and a half years, the Biden Administration is responsible for roughly $50 billion.
“So when you are watching Israelis murdered, when you’re watching infants murdered when you are watching women and girls raped, when you’re watching hundreds of Israelis taken hostage, know that Joe Biden and this White House funded it. They funded it for idiotic political reasons. And now they’re desperately trying to backtrack, saying, ‘No, no, no, we didn’t pay for these atrocities.’ They absolutely did.“
“…the Biden administration also directly funded Hamas.
“So as soon as the Biden administration came into office, they immediately began flooding money into the Gaza Strip. At the time, the Biden administration knew for a fact that it would fund terrorism and in fact, one internal document, a Biden official wrote that there was a high risk that Hamas would potentially derive benefit from the money that they were sending, but they wanted to do it anyway. And so what did they do? They actually exempted themselves from American laws against funding terrorism.
“(the document read in part) ‘due to its overall strength, and level of control over Gaza, we assess there is a high risk that Hamas could potentially derive indirect, unintentional benefit from US assistance to Gaza.’
“(the Biden administration) waived U.S. laws that ban funding terrorists because they are so opposed to Israel. …they are so in favor of Palestinian terrorists that they wanted to send money to Gaza even though they knew it would fund Hamas.”
“Those rockets that are flying into Israel, you can thank Joe Biden for them.”
But I award Ted Cruz Quote Of The Day honors because, although I disagree that the Biden administration is overtly in favor of palestinian terrorists, just about everything else he said rings true to me.
Do you agree? Do you think his claims have merit? Make sense? Your call.
