Not according to your hero dementia joe...

Biden, to Appease Palestinians, Reverses Trump Policy on Legality of Settlements


23 Feb 2024

President Joe Biden attempted to appease Palestinians Friday by reversing a Donald Trump-era policy Friday that declared the presence of Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) to be legal under international law.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who has taken an increasingly hostile tone toward Israel, declared that settlements were “”inconsistent with international law,” reverting to a policy adopted by Barack Obama during the lame-duck weeks of his administration in 2016.

Trump reversed the Obama policy in 2019.

The decision was likely taken to appease domestic constituencies, including Muslim- and Arab-American voters in swing states like Michigan, who have been unhappy with the Biden administration’s (increasingly doubtful) support for Israel against Hamas.

However it also serves as a reward for Hamas terrorists, who can now claim that by launching a terror attack on October 7 that murdered 1200 people in Israel, and by seizing nearly 250 hostages, it has reversed U.S. support for Israel in Judea and Samaria.

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Critics blasted both the substance of the decision and its timing. Republican Jewish Coalition CEO Matt Brooks said:

Today, the Biden administration added yet another lowlight to its campaign of undermining Israel by overturning the Trump-Pompeo Doctrine, which recognized that according to international law, Israelis have a right to live in Judea and Samaria, which are rightfully part of the Jewish homeland. Labeling these communities as illegal affirms the BDS [boycott, divestment, and sanctions] movement’s anti-Israel premises. The communities at issue, located west of the West Bank security barrier, are not preventing peace – Palestinian terrorism is.

In the aftermath of the horrific October 7th massacre – when America’s leaders should live up to our proud history of standing with Israel against its deadly enemies – the Biden administration has: shamefully sanctioned Israelis by a first-of-its-kind executive order; pressured Israel to recognize a Palestinian state, which would reward Hamas’ barbarism; and said that Israel’s response to Hamas terrorists in Gaza has been “over the top”, even though – according to John Spencer, the chair of urban warfare studies at West Point – the Jewish state has done more to prevent civilian casualties than any military in history.

Joe Biden’s Middle East policy doctrine has been exposed: undermining the Jewish state while it is at war, and sending signals that will embolden our shared enemies.

The Biden administration has also begun sanctioning Israelis it says are implicated in “settler violence.” The phenomenon is largely contrived, and dwarfed by Palestinian violence against Israelis. The sanctions are a gift to anti-Israel extremists, in that the language of the sanctions is broad enough for the administration to apply sanctions to a wide swath of Israeli society.

One major problem with the Biden policy is that Palestinians consider eastern Jerusalem — including the Jewish Quarter of the Old City, where Jews have lived for millennia — to be an Israeli “settlement” and illegal under international law. Israel captured that area from Jordan in 1967, after Jordan attacked Israel despite pleas for peace. Jordan occupied the area from 1948 to 1967 after expelling the Jewish residents and destroying the Jewish Quarter.

 

Just imagined what would have happened if D-Day had failed in 1944 Hitler would have finish the job on his resettlement project for the Jews and none of this would now be happening ....

 

Joseph k You forgot while in the tent you bomb me,cut off my food,water and medical care

 

Joe Biden his not my hero. If I only voted for politicians who agree with me about everything, I would never vote. I agree with Trump about Israel, but I oppose his tax cuts for the rich, and I dislike his character, his personality, and his proud ignorance.

Generally speaking, I agree with the Republicans on the issues of crime, race and immigration. I agree with the Democrats on economic and environmental issues. The Democrat Party I really like existed from 1933 to 1963.

 

Palestinian Authority Government ‘Resigns’ in Fake Display of Reform for U.S.

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26 Feb 2024

The Palestinian Authority (PA) government performed the empty gesture of resignation on Monday — with the notable exception of President Mahmoud Abbas — in an attempt to appease U.S. pressure for “reform” as a condition for governing postwar Gaza.

CNN noted:

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh and his government have submitted their resignations, he announced Monday.

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The government, which is dominated by the Fatah political party, held administrative control over Gaza until 2007, after Hamas won the 2006 legislative elections in the occupied territories and expelled it from the strip. Israel has rejected the prospect of the PA returning to Gaza after the war, and has dismissed the idea of establishing a Palestinian state in the territories.

The US however favors a reformed PA being in control of both the West Bank and Gaza as part of a future independent state.

In effect, the resignations are merely cosmetic, as Abbas is still in charge of the PA.

President Abbas was elected in 2005 and is now in the 20th year of his first four-year term. The PA is regarded as corrupt by Palestinians and is not trusted by Israelis. Notably, the PA has failed to condemn the Hamas terror attack of October 7. Recently, Shtayyeh said the attacks should be forgotten, and said that the Fatah party that runs the PA was ready for “unity” with Hamas.

President Joe Biden has said that he wants the PA to return to postwar Gaza in a governing capacity. Israel is opposed to the idea, though Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not rule it out explicitly in a plan for postwar Gaza presented to his cabinet.

The PA government’s resignations are an effort to help the Biden administration implement its vision for postwar Gaza, which no longer appears to rule out a role for Hamas.

 

Why we think we need to dictate to israel or the Palestinians how to secure their nations is beyond arrogance.

Biden refuses to secure our own border.

 

President Biden is predictong a cease fire within a veryv short time. But its too late to correct his first mistake which was backing Bibi The Butcher right after the Hamas terror attack. President Biden should have told Netanyahu from the beginning you go ahead and get Hamas. But as soon as you start slaughtering civilian we cut off aid.

 

The american hater prefers the HAMAS version of reality because it furthers his goal of supporting our and Israel's enemies.

HAMAS, we must remember, brutally attacked Israel, raping and murdering women and children. HAMAS still holds hostages and reportedly is torturing and abusing them.

The Palestinians support HAMAS. They give them comfort and hide them from IDF forces.

HAMAS is a declared mortal enemy of Israel and the west, in particular America. If HAMAS could they would do to innocent Americans what they did to Israelis. And with bidens open borders plan they very well could do that. We can only wait and see.

This is who american hater defends.

 

When we manage to secure our own borders again perhaps ............

 

That is a worthy goal. We cannot wait for it. Israel and Ukraine need our help now.

 

When the British invited the Jews to return to the land of their ancestors the Jews came in peace. The Jews had no need to initiate the use of violence because they have the IQ power to out compete the Arab academically and economically.

The Arabs initiated the use of violence. The Jews fought back and won. That is the essence of the Arab Israeli conflict from then to now. Fortunately the Jews are good at fighting too.

I am pleased that Jews are successful in the United States and that the United States has always been protective of Israel. The Israelis are people like us.

 

The problem is that the amount of money and influence the Jewish lobby has in the USA and the rest of the world. The Israeli government and other Jewish organisations still shout out remember the 6 million it must not happen again.What will happen when the west bank and Gaza are full of Jewish settlers will the Israeli government and the IDF move to take over other countries in the area. Remember under Jewish/Israeli law all Jewish people in the world have what they call Right of return.I know this is correct a Jewish women I worked with registered her sons with the local synagogue to have this right. Look how many duel citizens or people visiting family were killed or take hostage in Gaza.

 

I will believe this when I actually see it.



Israel agrees to stop Gaza attacks for Ramadan: Biden
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Tue, February 27, 2024 at 3:04 AM MST
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STORY: U.S. President Joe Biden says Israel has agreed to halt military action in the Gaza Strip over Ramadan, the Muslim holy month that begins on March 10.

He made those remarks on NBC’s “Late Night with Seth Meyers”.

This came as Arab countries have voiced fears should the fighting continue into Ramadan it will further stoke regional tensions and while momentum on ceasefire negotiations gathered pace in Qatar.

On the show, Biden revealed there was an agreement in principle for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, which could be in place by this time next week.

He said such a pause would give time for remaining hostages Hamas captured on October 7 to be released.

The group took over 250 hostages when it stormed across southern Israel on October 7 and killed over 1,200 people.

Israel’s subsequent ground assault led to nearly 30,000 people killed, according to Gaza health authorities.

In his Late Night appearance Monday, Biden said Israel risks losing support from the rest of the world.

He added that the Israeli government made a commitment to him to try to evacuate large portions of Rafah, which has millions of displaced Palestinians who fled other war-torn parts of Gaza before Israeli forces move in to target what he called the ‘remainder’ of Hamas.

The last deal to suspend fighting came in November where Hamas released more than 100 hostages and Israel freed about three times as many Palestinian prisoners.

In recent weeks, both Israel and Hamas have publicly maintained positions that are far apart for a potential truce while blaming the other for delays.

Israel continues to say it will not end the war until Hamas is destroyed.

While Hamas says it will not free hostages without an agreement to end the war.

As Biden gears up for a bid at re-election this November, he has seen support among young Americans and left-leaning progressive voters sink as a result of his staunch support for Israel and the sky-high death tolls in Gaza.



https://www.yahoo.com/news/israel-agrees-stop-gaza-attacks-100410578.html

 

All this support for Israel will come to the USA and Europe when the HAMAS and fellow terrorist organisations decide to make revenge attacks on us.How much security will be need to police every football game,soccer game or music event to make sure no one has bombs and firearms on them.All it would need is a small bomb or people fireing it to the crowd to cause mass panic which would kill and injury hundreds more people. Then of course you have one problem that we in Europe does not have the 2nd ammendment.

 

Palestinian deaths in Gaza pass 30,000 as witnesses say Israeli forces fire on crowd waiting for aid
WAFAA SHURAFA, KAREEM CHEHAYEB and MELANIE LIDMAN
Updated Thu, February 29, 2024 at 9:32 AM MST·7 min read




RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli troops fired on a large crowd of Palestinians racing to pull food off an aid convoy in Gaza City on Thursday, witnesses said. More than 100 people were killed, bringing the death toll since the start of the Israel-Hamas war to more than 30,000, according to health officials.

Israeli officials acknowledged that troops opened fire, saying they did so after the crowd approached in a threatening way. The officials insisted on anonymity to give details about what happened, after the military said in a statement that “dozens were killed and injured from pushing, trampling and being run over by the trucks.”

U.S. President Joe Biden said the United States was still trying to determine what happened in Gaza City. When asked if the loss of life would complicate efforts broker a cease-fire, he said, “I know it will.”


Gaza City and the surrounding areas in the enclave's north were the first targets of Israel’s air, sea and ground offensive, launched in response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack.

While many Palestinians fled the Israeli invasion in the north, a few hundred thousand are believed to remain in the area, which has suffered widespread devastation and has been largely isolated during the conflict. Trucks carrying food reached northern Gaza this week, the first major aid delivery to the area in a month, officials said Wednesday.

Aid groups say it has become nearly impossible to deliver humanitarian assistance in most of Gaza because of the difficulty of coordinating with the Israeli military, ongoing hostilities and the breakdown of public order, with crowds of desperate people overwhelming aid convoys. The U.N. says a quarter of Gaza’s 2.3 million Palestinians face starvation; around 80% have fled their homes.

Kamel Abu Nahel, who was being treated for a gunshot wound at Shifa Hospital, said he and others went to the distribution point in the middle of the night because they heard there would be a delivery of food. “We've been eating animal feed for two months,” he said.

He said Israeli troops opened fire on the crowd as people pulled boxes of flour and canned goods off the trucks, causing them to scatter, with some hiding under cars. After the shooting stopped, people went back to the trucks, and the soldiers opened fire again. He was shot in the leg and fell over, and then a truck ran over his leg as it sped off, he said.

Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Jordan accused Israel of targeting civilians in the incident. In separate statements, they called for increased safe passages for humanitarian aid and for the international community to take decisive action to pressure Israel to abide by international law and to reach an agreement for an immediate cease-fire.

Alaa Abu Daiya, a witness to the violence, said Israeli troops opened fire and also that a tank fired a shell.

Medics arriving at the scene on Thursday found “dozens or hundreds” lying on the ground, according to Fares Afana, the head of the ambulance service at Kamal Adwan Hospital. He said there were not enough ambulances to collect all the dead and wounded and that some were being brought to hospitals in donkey carts.

Another man in the crowd — who gave only his first name, Ahmad, as he was being treated at a hospital for gunshot wounds to the arm and leg — said he waited for two hours before someone with a horse-pulled cart had room to take him to Shifa.

Dr. Mohammed Salha, the acting director of the Al-Awda Hospital, said the facility received 161 wounded patients, most of whom appeared to have been shot. He said the hospital can perform only the most essential surgeries because it is running out of fuel to power emergency generators.

In addition to at least 112 people killed, around 760 were wounded, Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra said. The Health Ministry described it as a “massacre.”

Separately, the Health Ministry said the Palestinian death toll from the war has climbed to 30,035, with another 70,457 wounded. It does not differentiate between civilians and combatants in its figures but says women and children make up around two-thirds of those killed.

The ministry, which is part of the Hamas-run government in Gaza, maintains detailed records of casualties. Its counts from previous wars have largely matched those of the U.N., independent experts and even Israel’s own tallies.

The Hamas attack into southern Israel that ignited the war killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and the militants seized around 250 hostages. Hamas and other militants are still holding around 100 hostages and the remains of about 30 more, after releasing most of the other captives during a November cease-fire.

Violence has also surged across the West Bank since Oct. 7. An attacker shot and killed two Israelis at a gas station in the settlement of Eli on Thursday, according to the Israeli military. The attacker was killed, the military said.

The increasing alarm over hunger across Gaza has fueled international calls for another cease-fire, and the U.S., Egypt and Qatar are working to secure a deal between Israel and Hamas for a pause in fighting and the release of some of the hostages.

Mediators hope to reach an agreement before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan starts around March 10. But so far, Israel and Hamas have remained far apart in public on their demands.

In a statement condemning Thursday’s attack, Hamas said it would not allow the negotiations “to be a cover for the enemy to continue its crimes.”

Meanwhile, U.N. officials have warned of further mass casualties if Israel follows through on vows to attack the southernmost city of Rafah, where more than half of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million has taken refuge. They also say a Rafah offensive could decimate what remains of aid operations.

Hundreds of thousands Palestinians are believed to remain in northern Gaza despite Israeli orders to evacuate the area in October, and many have been reduced to eating animal fodder to survive. The U.N. says 1 in 6 children under 2 in the north suffer from acute malnutrition and wasting.

COGAT, the Israeli military body in charge of Palestinian civilian affairs, said around 50 aid trucks entered northern Gaza this week. It was unclear who delivered the aid. Some countries have meanwhile resorted to airdrops in recent days.

The World Food Program said earlier this month that it was pausing deliveries to the north because of the growing chaos, after desperate Palestinians emptied a convoy while it was en route.

Since launching its assault on Gaza following Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, Israel has barred entry of food, water, medicine and other supplies except for a trickle of aid entering the south from Egypt at the Rafah crossing and Israel’s Kerem Shalom crossing. Despite international calls to allow in more aid, the number of supply trucks is far less than the 500 that came in daily before the war.

COGAT said Wednesday that Israel does not impose limits on the amount of aid entering. Israel has blamed U.N. agencies for the bottleneck, saying hundreds of trucks are waiting on the Palestinian side of Kerem Shalom for aid workers to collect them.

U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric on Wednesday countered by saying large trucks entering Gaza have to be unloaded and reloaded onto smaller ones. But there aren’t enough of them, and there’s a lack of security to distribute aid in Gaza.

Hamas-run police in Gaza stopped protecting convoys after Israeli strikes on them near the crossing.



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https://www.yahoo.com/news/strike-palestinians-waiting-aid-gaza-085752518.html

 

So now with utter catastrophe in Gaza how are they going distribute food it get just over the border and the desperate people help themselves. The IDF fires on anyone they feel like,No Police of any kind ,So will the truck drivers just stop delivering the aid.Who is going restored law and order.I can see no one will be willing especially as Israel will do there upmost to make it difficult them to work or even fire on them sorry thoughthey were HAMAS. Israel just what the Arab's to either leave or stave to death.

 

Still pusing that HAMAS propaganda.
You can't hate America more than pushing our enemies propaganda.

 

I don't hate America I just dislike jews