Things To Be Said. . .

(Things To Be Said. . . )

President Biden will be making a statement about the Israeli crisis in a few minutes. This speech has been anticipated since the Hamas incursions began. This situation will be difficult address because what is required now is leadership, a quality for which the President is not known for, Stating platitudes about Support for Israel will not be sufficient. Biden will need to layout concrete steps that will assist the IDF directly.


Climate change had better not be mentioned but he could offer a litany on how his failures have led to the current situation. His decisions and mis-judgements have all been factors going all the way back to Afghanistan. In any speech today, the President needs to declare that he is aware of Tehran's influence and that any response will take that into consideration.


One can start with he can rescind that $6 billon and donate it to the Israeli war effort. Then, he can announce sanctions on Iran, especially it ability to sell oil. Then, the President could reverse his energy policy, promising to open all means of oil production. The situation has also highlighted the situation at the southern border. The initial Hamas breach onto Israeli territory, where that music festival was engaged with considerable loss of life. The terror continued form there.


The President must express un-equivocal support for the Israeli effort and that must include the employment of American military efforts, not "boots on the ground" but other levers of American power that all Biden has to do is express a willingness to employ them. But, as is commonly understood, Biden has none of that will. This the time for Anglo-Israeli to at their most secure but the President of the United States cannot engage in high diplomacy.


Since its inception, Israel has been surrounded and there have always been elements that are committed to the Jewish State's destruction. Hamas and Hezbollah, with Iran' backing, have become the most visible element but if there is to be an end game, it could happen at the conclusion of the war. However long that might take.


So, what will the President say ? Could he show resolve and decisiveness, pledging all possible assistance to Israel ? Or will he defer to the need to seek a negotiated solution, end the fighting before the Israeli mission to destroy Hamas is complete ? Joe Biden might not be the one to ask.

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