Israel is suddenly atop Washington’s agenda and may end up looming large on next year’s presidential campaign trail
President Joe Biden speaks from the White House on Saturday after Hamas launched bloody attacks on Israel The 80-year-old US President said he was first briefed about the unfolding situation only when he woke up on Saturday morning. In his own telling, he came to grips with the crisis “when I got up…at 7:30, 8 o’clock”.
The President’s insistence of “rock-solid” support for the Government and people of Israel was repeated like a mantra by his administration colleagues. While the Israeli government confronted a monumental failure by its intelligence agencies, a similar inquiry will now begin in America amid zero evidence that the US government was vaguely prepared for the
Biden now finds himself having to juggle two crises: the one unfolding in the Middle East, and his urgent need to secure fresh funding to back Kyiv’s war effort in Ukraine., has been ordered to sail to the eastern Mediterranean. The show of force is meant to be ready to assist Israel and prevent an escalation of the conflict, whether by preventing further supplies of weaponry reaching Hamas or conducting surveillance.
Trump’s spokeswoman called the Hamas assault “predictable”. The former President accused Biden of squandering the hopes created by the Trump administration’s crafting of the September 2020 Abraham Accords. He also claimed that “American taxpayer dollars helped fund these attacks”, a false claim referencing the US Government’s unfreezing of $6 billion in Iranian funds as part of last month’s prisoner swap agreement with Tehran.
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