Vice President Kamala Harris has jumped into one of the world’s bitterest conflicts, so better check your stocks of tinned goods, potable water, and ammunition. On March 4, the nation’s schoolmarm demanded an “immediate ceasefire” between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza sandpit. Playing favorites, Principal Harris blamed a “humanitarian catastrophe” solely upon Israel, which is fighting a war of defense against Islamists who wish to destroy it. “The Israeli government must do more to significantly increase the flow of aid. No excuses,” she said, as if downgrading little Bibi Netanyahu for late homework and a bad attitude.
The vice president has security clearance from the world’s most extensive intelligence-gathering operation. If she forgets her password, she can always read a newspaper. She knows perfectly well that truckloads of aid are backed up on the Israeli and Egyptian sides of Gaza’s borders. She knows that Hamas is slowing the aid’s delivery, just as Hamas is commandeering the aid convoys that do get through. She knows why Hamas is doing this, too: to stave off Israel’s assault on Rafah, the last Hamas stronghold in the Gaza Strip. When Harris says, “The conditions are inhumane, and our common humanity compels us to act,” she is doing Hamas’s work. She knows it, and we know why she is doing it.
If Hamas loses Rafah — and if the Israelis go in, it will, as it has lost every stronghold in this war — then Hamas loses its grip on Gaza. But that will not mean the end of fighting in Gaza. The high-intensity phase of this war is already largely over and will be completed if Israel takes Rafah. The low-intensity phase of constant, targeted counterterrorist operations has already begun in the areas under Israeli control. It will continue for years. It will be bloody, and it will delay the reconstruction of Gaza and its society along slightly less barbaric lines.
How inconsiderate of the Israelis to fight for their survival without sufficient regard for the needs of the Democrats and the timing of American electoral cycles. How inconsiderate of them to demand the return of their hostages. And how forgiving the administration was when ceasefire negotiations broke down a couple of days after Harris’s speech because Hamas refused to supply even a list of the hostages it still holds. A serious U.S. administration would have put the two-faced terrorist funders of Qatar on notice months ago. Instead, President Joe Biden calls the emir of Qatar on Feb. 29 and, we read, begs him to “get me a deal.”
Harris dumped on Israel at an event commemorating the 59th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday” in Selma, Alabama, with the Edmund Pettus Bridge behind her. The symbolism is deliberate. Symbolism, which is about images and sound bites, is all this administration knows how to do. Reality is somewhere out there beyond the Beltway, where the racists and rednecks rule and you can’t get decent sushi. Harris deliberately cast Israel as the Alabama among the nations, Netanyahu as Gov. George Wallace, and the Palestinians as black civil rights campaigners being persecuted by racist police.
A New York Times/Siena College poll released on March 5 finds that black support for former President Donald Trump has risen from 4% to 23% since 2020. Naturally, CBS went with “Biden campaign aims to fix enthusiasm gap among black voters.” The polls all show that, regardless of their color or party, people are unenthusiastic about the Biden economy, the Biden crime wave, the Biden border crisis, and yes, the Biden foreign policy. They see that Biden is senile and corrupt and that Harris is a dim opportunist. In Alabama, she tried to re-enthuse black, Muslim, and leftist voters by lying to them. We shall see if the voters’ response confirms the Democrats’ assumption that their core supporters are low-information voters who don’t like Jews. It’s one way to hold a coalition together.
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Complaining about ethics in politics is like complaining about the food in a brothel. Politics is about power and using it wisely. The arrogant lack of wisdom is more alarming than the amorality. When the Democrats project their moral fantasies onto their foreign policy, they export the same soft bigotry of low expectations. Just as the footage of the Oct. 7 rampage sent leftists, Islamists, and college professors into the streets to celebrate the scourging of the Jews, so it galvanized the State Department and the Democrats to do their bit to destroy the Zionist Entity by creating a Palestinian state.
While the Biden administration publicly claims to seek a Gaza without Hamas, it privately works to save Hamas. The administration talks of “revitalizing” the Palestinian Authority, “reuniting” the West Bank and Gaza, and “absorbing” Hamas into the Palestinian Authority, which is controlled by its mortal rival, Fatah. This managerial gibberish wishes away the reality it will create. The only way any of this can happen is if Hamas, the rising power, absorbs Fatah and takes over the Palestinian Authority. This is what the Biden administration is prepared to call peace. It won’t be enough to swing the elections in November. It is a recipe for an even bigger war. It is the realpolitik of fools, by fools, for fools.
