Israel Responds

As you know, Iran fired 300 drones and ballistic missiles at Israel last week, hoping to kill thousands of innocent Israelis. Joe Biden told Israel not to escalate the situation.

Israel just had 300 missiles fired at it. What exactly is escalation? Firing 301 missiles in response? 

Israeli leaders wanted to respond immediately, but Biden was already telling Israel, “Don’t.” There are reports that the same message was being communicated last night when Israel launched what appears to be a relatively minor counterstrike.

There’s another story being reported this morning with glee by the leftist media. The Biden administration has been contacting nations around the world and telling everyone they could that the United States had nothing to do with last night’s attack.

In my view, Israel’s limited response only makes sense if the White House is also telling Iran right now, “If you ever launch another attack like the one you launched a week ago, we will join Israel in obliterating you.”

Unless that message is being communicated, Biden’s pressure on Israel sends an entirely different message to Iran, which is “You can launch any attack you want and the United States will restrain Israel, and Israel will acquiesce out of fear of losing U.S. support.”

That is a prescription for disaster. Not only does it invite further aggression, but no one will invest in and want to live in any nation that can be routinely targeted by its enemies and prevented from defending itself by a feckless American president.

Biden and his appeasers are forcing Israel to make decisions that are not the best decisions for Israel’s security. The only way this pattern is going to stop is to have a president who really is a friend of Israel.