Victor Davis Hanson: The Ugly American Has Abandoned Israel

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The Biden administration is reportedly trying to overthrow the elected government of Israel—almost in the fashion the Left used to rail about CIA-leveraged regime change in 1950s Latin America.

Sen. Chuck Schumer all but called for a new imposed Israeli government on the floor of the U.S. Senate. Sen. Elizabeth Warren wants to cut off further sales of F-15s to Israel.

The Bernie Sanders/Squad/DEI base of the Democratic Party is now actively trying to bring down the Netanyahu government.

Now we hear rumors that some officials in the U.S. and Europe are contemplating threats of war crimes charges against Israeli leaders. Biden implicitly warns that the U.S. may cut off support to the oldest and only democratic ally in the Middle East.

Anthony Blinken suggests the Israeli response to root out Hamas killers from their human shields is approaching the moral equivalent of the Hamas barbarism of October 7.

So terrorist killers who break the peace to murder, rape, torture, behead, incinerate, and kidnap hundreds of Israeli civilians at peace—while sending 7,000 rockets into civilian centers—are the moral equivalents of those who respond to the unrepentant killers, who try to distinguish murderers from their human shields, who attempt to root out terrorists had been moving 250 hostages in 500 miles of tunnels, and who text and drop leaflets warning civilians to keep distant?

Does Biden believe the Israelis are less careful than the U.S. was in rooting out terrorists from civilians in Mosul—where we nevertheless may well have killed thousands (10,000?) of noncombatants who were interspersed with ISIS terrorists? One could argue the coalition’s use of artillery in Mosul was more “indiscriminate” than Israel’s in Gaza.

Was the recent tragic killing of World Central Kitchen workers by an IDF error more or less egregious than what the U.S. did in our catastrophic flight from Kabul?

Do we remember the American mistake that led to the bombing and killing of 10 Afghan civilians (including 7 children). The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mark Milley initially insisted that the killings were a “righteous strike”. Did the Israelis whisper of the incident “war crime”?

Instead of hammering Israel in response to the (likely empty) threats of Democratic anti-Israel/pro-Hamas voters in Michigan to sit out the 2024 election, why has not the administration demanded first the return of all the hostages?

Or why has Biden not given Hamas a deadline to return American citizen hostages–or prompted an international effort to charge the Hamas October 7 planners with “war crimes”?

Moreover, what is exactly the U.S. blueprint for Israel to eliminate the promised threats of Hamas to continue its grisly efforts to kill Jews and wipe out Israel? Follow the American lead in Fallujah where citizens were merged with terrorists? Copy the fire raids of Japan that were a response to the Japanese government deliberately dispersing war production among civilians? Are we suggesting Israel emulate American Operations Rolling Thunder and Linebacker in Vietnam?

Does the apparent grand tactician/strategist Joe Biden have a better way to destroy Hamas when it coerces Gaza civilians to shield its command and control centers inside and beneath hospitals, schools, and mosques?

Why does not Biden simply call for a ceasefire, contingent on the return of all the hostages and the surrender of the murderers and planners of October 7?

Did Biden ever give Hamas a deadline to return Americans or else—or does it only give Israelis such do or die dates?

Does proconsul Biden think the removal of Netanyahu, and the American insertion of his opposition, the order to Israel to cease the war, and to allow Hamas to regroup and essentially win the war—will end the conflict or be supported by the Israeli public, or encourage Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Iran to return such magnanimity with commensurate quietude and dialogue?