Did you ever wish that someone was wrong…because the fact that they were dead right showed how bad things were?
That was my reaction in reading Michael Goodwin’s just-published commentary for the New York Post, titled “Joe Biden only cares about his re-election chances, not helping Gaza”.
Here is how it starts:
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 president’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 impossible promise to keep if only because of construction logistics.
And what if Hamas attacks our troops, or an errant rocket from Israel or the terrorists hits Americans?
The risks are necessary, 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 heartbreaking,” he 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 security 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 just the obvious 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 and 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 Biden’s first concern.
That distinction belongs to his re-election campaign and merely by promising action he served his leftist critics an appetizer.
Then, further on:
What’s next — is a desperate White House going to join the ignorant “genocide” chorus against Israel?
Never mind that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields to get America and Europe to put pressure on Israel.
The more civilian suffering, the greater 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 off 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 adding to the distance between America and our top Mideast ally.
And there is more. Much more. Please, please do not stop at these excerpts. Please, please use the link I’ve provided (here it is again) and read every word Mr. Goodwin has to say, so you can understand what is going on here.
And please, please tell your friends. Don’t allow our get-Trump-at-all-costs” media to ignore or gloss over Biden’s turncoat performance on Israel.
And if they tell you that Biden is more supportive of Israel than Trump? Remind them of who moved our embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
