By John F. Di Leo, Opinion Contributor
In recent weeks, it has become clear that the Biden-Harris regime is applying pressure to the Israeli government, in support of the Hamas-led terrorist cause in the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli government knows that it needs to continue to hammer Gaza without letup, as they continue to discover even more weapons caches, even more terrorist tunnels, even more evidence of military sites in civilian areas, virtually every day.
If Israel pulls out before the job is done, then all these months will have been for naught.
There are ten million Israeli citizens – Jewish, Muslim, Christian and more – all of whose lives and property are threatened every single day by Hamas and its allies. This is the real, fundamental obligation of the government of Israel: to protect those ten million Israelis from external (and internal) hostile forces.
The terrorist organizations of the Gaza Strip – both the officially “active” Hamas members and thousands more sleeper cells that have not yet been activated but are fully radicalized and ready for action – are not merely “theoretical” threats. They are proven threats, as demonstrated by decades of rocket attacks, suicide bombings in shops and buses, concrete assaults on pedestrians, and of course, the massive attacks on October 7, 2023.
By October 9, when the world began to understand the severity of Hamas’ vicious assault on innocent families, concert-goers, and other harmless civilians of all ages, everyone on earth understood the righteousness of Israel’s mission to eradicate this homicidal movement.
Sadly, human nature is such that the righteous horror of the day fades with time, and people forget how crystal clear – how black-and-white – the difference between the two sides was when the dust cleared.
Well-known anti-semites like the United Nations, certain political groups, and members of the press that have long sided with the Islamofascists, have worked every day since October 7 to muddy these waters, to try to soften up public opinion for the terrorists.
They have portrayed the belligerents – the bomb-makers, the cell organizers, the tunnel designers, the artillerymen who situate their rocket launchers in hospitals and nurseries – as suffering refugees, starving and hungry, equally deserving of our care and charity as those innocent victims in Israel.
And the Biden-Harris regime – far from being the ally that Israel has a right to expect an American administration to be – has been quietly agitating against Israel for months.
If anything proved the naivete of the “Palestinian State” idea, it was October 7. But still the Biden-Harris administration calls for rewarding the homicidal maniacs of Hamas with their own country in the world family of nations.
The Biden-Harris regime has in fact made its continued half-hearted support for Israel, such as it is, conditional upon Israel’s acceptance of an eventual “Palestinian State.”
The regime has demanded Israel to commit to never use any of the current Gaza Strip for residential expansion (even though it’s been Israel’s land for some 55 years now). The regime even insists on wildly asymmetric punishment of Israeli settlers when there are conflicts in Judea and Samaria, as opposed to the mollycoddling of anti-Israel terrorists that the world community insists on.
The Biden-Harris regime is treading on thin ice this winter. Already suspected of being wildly biased in favor of our longtime enemies Iran and Syria, the past four months of counseling gentleness in Israel’s prosecution of Iran’s puppet Hamas have been blatant and unmistakable.
Over its first three years, the Biden-Harris regime sent billions of dollars to Iran, took Iranian-controlled terrorists off our sanction lists, and continued to pour millions more directly into various “humanitarian charities” that are well known for directly financing Hamas’ terrorism programs.
When these policies delivered the unavoidable, tragic result on October 7, the Democrats started to pull back, and made an effort to appear pro-Israel again, but all the while continued to pressure Israel to pull its punches, to leave as much as possible of Hamas’ terror network in place for later, pushing for a ceasefire right while Israel is making such solid progress.
It’s clear whose side the Biden-Harris regime is on. It’s not just Joe Biden or Kamala Harris here; their entire regime and in fact their entire party are demonstrably on the side of the Islamofascists.
Just four years ago, the United States of America were led by an administration that sided with the good against the evil, an administration that supported peace rather than constant war.
Just four years ago, our president managed the negotiation of the Abraham Accords, a series of unprecedented peace agreements between Israel and Morocco, Bahrain, Sudan and the United Arab Emirates.
What a difference an election makes. Pray that the next one is honest, and returns an honorable, peaceful administration to office at last. The world simply can’t afford another four years of this.
Copyright 2024 John F. Di Leo
John F. Di Leo is a Chicagoland-based trade compliance trainer and transportation manager, writer, and actor. Once a County Chairman of the Milwaukee County Republican Party in the 1990s, after serving as president of the Ethnic American Council in the 1980s, he has been writing regularly for Illinois Review since 2009. Follow John F. Di Leo on Facebook, Twitter, Gettr or TruthSocial.
A collection of John’s Illinois Review articles about vote fraud, “The Tales of Little Pavel,” and his 2021 political satirical discourses about current events, “Evening Soup with Basement Joe,” Volumes One, Two, and Three, are available in either paperback or eBook, only on Amazon.
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