Biden’s fantasy version of the end of Israel’s war

Preceding U.S. President Biden’s Wednesday evening televised statement, making sure that everyone knew that a deal had been made for the release of the Israeli hostages, while he is still at the helm, White House National Security Communications Advisor, John Kirby appeared on the Israeli evening news to credit the war’s end to the weakening of Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran, along with diplomatic efforts which have been ongoing for many months.

When pressed by the Israeli news anchor, Yonit Levi if Trump’s threat of “all hell breaking loose,” should a deal not materialize before his January 20th inauguration, had been instrumental in any way, Kirby assured her that enough hell had been paid, both by the victims who were kidnapped and by those who suffered the agonizing effects of the war.

It’s hard to describe the dishonest, political spin, placed on the war’s end, by an administration who brazenly manipulated Israel’s moves, at every turn over the course of the last 15 months. Because for those of us who lived through it, what we heard was nothing more than a fantasy version of the events which really took place. 

Having done everything in their power to put our soldiers at a great disadvantage, while fighting an enemy dedicated to our complete annihilation, the U.S. administration constantly sought to place both sides on a level playing field while, also threatening to cut off deliveries of needed weapons if their outrageous demands of non-stop humanitarian aid were not met.  

Refusing to acknowledge a policy based on complete appeasement of terrorists, along with those who gave them safe haven, is the fabricated story they are trying to sell. But their weakness and inability to face evil head is what contributed to the protracted battle which they lacked the fortitude to execute.  

While they are loathe to give any credit to incoming President Trump’s threats, who actually is naïve enough to believe that the brokering of an eleventh-hour deal, prior to Biden’s exit, was the work of skilled negotiations by his team? 

Much to his shame, Biden failed to provide crucial context to much of what he said. One such detail was the way he phrased the exchange of Israeli hostages for “Palestinian prisoners.” Apparently, his speech writer didn’t want to refer to them by their rightful description – murdering terrorists whose hands are dripping with blood. Those are the “Palestinian prisoners” who will be released in exchange for the anticipated remaining 30 or so hostages who are barely alive.

But why burden everyone with the truth?  Everything sounds so much better when you clean up the dirty and unsavory details of evil killers. The sanitized version continued as Biden declared that Palestinians will be able to return to their neighborhoods, allowing for these “innocent” people to have greater access to supplies. Are those the same innocent people who danced in the street while distributing sweets after hearing the news of the massacre? 

Those of us who live here remember, all too well, that Gazans were the same individuals who provided Hamas terrorists with specific information about the members of kibbutz communities where Gazans worked, facilitating the murderers to better maneuver with maps and personal details of who lived where. It was many of these “innocents” who looted homes and also kidnapped Israelis, hoping to gain, in some way, by their collaboration. 

The fact is that, over the course of 20 years, Gazan residents participated in the building of tunnels, the smuggling and hiding of weapons as well as sending their children off to training camps where they learned to brutally kill Israelis who they were taught, from birth, were the enemy who must be destroyed. Many allowed their homes to become launching pads for deadly rockets.

To hear it from Biden, it was the Palestinians who suffered “unimaginable devastation” because of the war, again, omitting the fact that their suffering was the fruit of having chosen to elect bloodthirsty terrorists who viewed them as dispensable collateral damage to help their cause in the battle to win over hearts and minds, convincing the world that theirs was a justified fight for freedom.

Praising a long list, within his administration, who he claims were responsible for bringing about the end of the war, Biden made sure to mention the “relentless efforts” of his vice-president, Kamala Harris, one of the most vocal to condemn Israel’s execution of the war, every chance she got.

Enthusiastically stating that he, along with Harris, cannot wait to welcome the hostages home, something tells me that such a face to face meeting will never take place. Of course, on his way out the door, Biden had to remind everyone of his many decades of foreign policy experience, stating that this, however, was one of the toughest negotiations with which he was ever involved.

Basking in the glory of the new Middle East which he “helped to shape,” Biden invoked the biblical passage, “Blessed are the peacemakers,” while chiding the incoming administration to make the most of the successful conditions which his administration has left them. 

In that spirit, he claimed that there is now a renewed hope for a Palestinian state to become a reality, despite 15 months of the unstoppable “From the river to the sea” chorus, the phrase that belies the desire of a two-state solution by one side who is not willing to share the land with their Jewish neighbors. 

Is it possible that no lessons were learned by anyone who worked for the Biden administration? Was a 20-year, coordinated strategy to seize the Jewish homeland entirely missed by them or is that their final message, taunting us that we will never be free of the Palestinian conundrum which is the perennial thorn in the side of Israel, intended to keep us embroiled in a never-ending conflict rather than being released from our own “hostage situation” which has been foisted upon us by a cynical world?

These are the fantasy closing statements of a botched administration which did everything in its power to injure us as we fought for our lives. Luckily, our existence is not dependent upon any superpower, because they simply don’t have what it takes to save the people chosen by God to fulfill the role for which He created them.

In the end, the One who preserved us and gave us the many victories which we achieved, was the One who truly is relentless on our behalf. That is none other than the God of Israel!