Israel Kasnett, JNS, Apr. 17, 2024
U.S. President Joe Biden’s “Don’t” warning to Israel’s enemies didn’t work. Iran attacked Israel directly, and its Lebanese proxy Hezbollah continues to fire rockets at Israel on a daily basis.
In fact, Biden’s “Don’t” strategy has never worked. It wasn’t taken seriously by the Taliban in 2021, or by Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2022 either.
But now, Biden’s “Don’t” is being directed at Israel, the U.S.’s only ally in the Middle East. The president wants Jerusalem to “take the win’’ and not respond, in what appears to Israelis as a policy of appeasement.
Michael Oren, a former Israeli ambassador to Washington, told JNS that while the United States has always stood by Israel on defensive measures, “it has almost never supported Israeli offensives—not in 1948, 1967 and 1982, nor in any of our battles with Hezbollah and Hamas.”
“Biden’s policy is in keeping with this long-standing policy,” he said. …SOURCE