Joe Biden has failed Israel

Another week, another confirmation that when it comes to jihadism, the Biden administration’s foreign policy occupies the nexus between incompetence and moral vacancy. We’ve observed the President’s strategic genius when it comes to the Taliban (withdraw), Iran’s nuclear ambitions (appease) and Hamas (thus far but no further). Now we are seeing it when it comes to Hezbollah.

With the conflict in Gaza winding down, Israel is being forced to turn its mind to its restive northern border. Over the last eight months, with the eyes of the world fixed firmly on Palestine, the parallel war – for that is what it has been – with the Lebanese militia Hezbollah has been under-reported. Thousands of rockets have been fired into the Jewish state by the Iranian proxy, killing and maiming indiscriminately. Tens of thousands of Israeli civilians have been displaced to the south, where they are living in hotels funded by the taxpayer. Entire towns are inhabited only by soldiers and ghosts.

For the worst example of base Israelophobia disguised as lily-livered appeasement, we must turn to the Biden administration

Those who shout loudest about international law when Israel gears up for conflict have been shamefully silent about Hezbollah’s unprovoked aggression. According to UN Resolution 1701, the Lebanese militia has been supposed to restrict itself to territory north of the Litani river since 2006. It has long since violated this order.

I have visited the Israeli side of the border and seen Hezbollah men with my own eyes, operating within hiking distance. I have walked inside the jaw-droppingly sophisticated tunnels they dug into Israel before being discovered by the IDF. All this – not to mention the rockets that have claimed lives, destroyed family homes and set miles of woodland ablaze – has been met with nothing but shrugs from the UN and the Americans. They have been too busy demanding Israel stop its ‘genocide’ in the south for fear of victory over Hamas. And Biden has been too busy thinking about re-election, to the extent to which he has the capacity to form cogent thoughts at all.

What other country would be expected to live under such conditions? If the attacks continue unabated, Israel will have no choice but to offer more than targeted airstrikes in return. Its defence apparatus has drawn up plans for war which have been signed off at the highest levels. The Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Foreign Minister Israel Katz and other officials have attempted to galvanise the international community........

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