The White House Explains Biden Was Only Spouting Gibberish
By: NOAH ROTHMAN (NATIONAL REVIEW)
According to the unbiased liberal press, the American public is too stupid to understand Biden's nuanced proclamations. But polling data suggests otherwise.
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On Tuesday evening, Joe Biden took to social media to announce to the world that he had — or, soon enough, would — cave to the anti-Israel activists inside the progressive movement:
The scene-chewing attempt to achieve poetic poignancy notwithstanding, a plain reading of this text would lead most readers to conclude that it is a statement of opposition to Israel’s war against Hamas. What else could it be? After all, it is Israel that is giving “Hamas what they seek” — apparently, a lot of combat-related fatalities for its terrorist operatives and the dissolution of its regime in the Gaza Strip. Moreover, “we” should not be a party to that enterprise.
This wouldn’t be the first time Biden has endorsed the hostility his party’s far-left flank maintains toward the exercise of Israel’s right to self-defense. Moreover, Biden’s social-media post is stylistically consistent with his previous statements that suggest opposition to Israel’s battlefield imperatives, which tend to be so convoluted and incomprehensible that they are subject to interpretation. Reasonable observers could, therefore, conclude that Biden’s views on the conflict were gravitating closer to those of the progressive left.
No sooner had Americans committed to a dissection of Biden’s comment in pursuit of something approaching lucidity than the White House intervened to assure the country that the president had no intention of making any sense. In a statement provided to Jewish Insider , a senior administration official insisted that Biden’s remark should not be construed as announcing a “change in policy.” It was more of a non-sequitur – peacenik pablum designed to placate the overcaffeinated anti-Israel minority within the Democratic coalition:
“He meant that we can’t lose hope for peace, ultimately, in the region, that it’s still incredibly important that we continue to lay the groundwork for, and create the conditions for, a lasting peace, and that involves a two-state solution,” the senior administration official told JI on Tuesday night. And, the official added, the lines that were quoted in the tweet were “a reference to how Hamas does not want peace.” A two-state solution will not be possible with Hamas ruling Gaza, the official noted.
The White House insists this statement was excerpted from a speech in which the president expressed his support for a two-state solution. Okay. That doesn’t quite explain why the White House decided to publish this dog’s breakfast of buzzwords unadulterated by mitigating context that conveys precisely the opposite of what the president supposedly intended. Indeed, careful readers of this administration official’s comment might detect a note of irritation toward those who don’t understand the delicate dance that the administration believes it must perform to keep its coalition together.
The subtext is barely concealed: Don’t you people realize we are under immense pressure from the lunatics in our coalition who hate Israel and would rather burn this administration to the ground than be party to pro-Israel policies? Is throwing them a lyrical bone on social media really that high a price to pay?
Of course, we get it. Everyone gets it. But this is only a conundrum because the president and his allies treat it like a conundrum. Support for Israel is a supermajority proposition in this country. The agitators with whom the White House thinks it must ingratiate itself are a small, albeit loud, rump within the Democratic Party. If the president believes he has to get on the right side of the minority at the expense of the majority, that’s his problem — not ours.
To mollify the numerically small but influential cast of characters on the wrong side of this war, the Biden White House seems to think that the president has no choice but to promulgate maudlin twaddle that casts doubt on America’s seriousness and resolve. They may think that’s a modest concession to their undesirable reality, but they’re wrong.
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What's to understand? Israeli's want money. Palestinians want money. The UN wants money. Everybody and their Middle Eastern brother wants money. And Biden writes blank checks.
And they get it from the Bank of Joe.🤨
Ridiculous article. Biden has never voiced anything but support for Israel vis a vis Hamas. The article doesnt cherry pick, it changes the meaning of what Biden said.
Have you seen where the Biden Administration is being sued for funding terrorism?