Hamas Attacks Israel: Blame the Attackers from Gaza and Not President Biden

Map of Hamas Attack Routes into Israel from Gaza

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The terrorist attacks into Israel by Gaza Hamas militants represent the worst crisis between the Israelis and the Palestinians in more than two decades. 

Details from NEWSWEEK with this headline:

“Donald Trump is Partly to Blame for the Situation in Israel | Opinion Piece”

Rather than offering constructive policy alternatives, Republicans have settled on an intellectually bankrupt strategy of blaming the Biden administration for everything. 

The finger-pointing is particularly rich given the way that the Trump administration obliterated longstanding American policy in the region, handed a series of pin-less policy hand grenades to President Biden, and then took cover.

The inability to broker a final settlement between Israel and Palestine is an American foreign policy failure that spans at least six administrations stretching back to the 1980’s. 

But it was the last two Republican presidents who departed dramatically from the international “land for peace consensus” that was supposed to result in a Palestinian state.

Former President Geo. W. Bush, despite occasional rhetoric supporting Palestinian statehood: (1) walked back America's commitment to widely shared interpretations of the UN Security Council’s Resolution 242 by signing off on Israel retaining large settlement blocs in the West Bank, (2) demanded that the Palestinians usher in a functioning democracy before peace was possible, and (3) then washed his hands of the matter when he didn't like the election results.

Bush's world-historically disastrous war of choice in Iraq did more to bolster Iranian authoritarians than any other single event since the country's revolution in 1979. 

But, it was Trump who did far more catastrophic damage. Trump greenlit the needlessly provocative move of the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. That was part of the two areas which is located in territory the UN considered unlawfully occupied by Israel since the 1967 war. 

That move abandoned another longstanding American negotiating position: That Jerusalem would ultimately be a shared capital between two national people. Warned that moving the embassy would result in blowback down the line, the Trump administration and its allies mostly gloated about how clever they were.

When Palestine did not immediately erupt into chaos, they concluded that the maneuver would have no repercussions. Not only that, but Trump then recognized the permanent Israeli annexation of the occupied Golan Heights. That invalidated a 1978 State Department ruling that Israeli settlements in the West Bank were unlawful.

Trump’s action instead gave the Israeli government carte blanche not only to expand existing settlements but to grant even isolated encampments anywhere in the West Bank legitimacy and sovereignty.

The Trump administration's subservience to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and his maximalist government was so complete that polling in Israel suggested Israel would have given Trump his largest margin over Biden if it were a U.S. state in the 2020 election.

To make matters worse, the Trump team followed through on its promise to torch the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPA), better known as the “Iran Nuclear Deal.” 

Not even Trump or government officials responsible for this gratuitous act of diplomatic sabotage could identify any reason for it, other than that they wanted to.

That move led predictably to the resumption of Iranian nuclear activities and also to the election of an ultra-hardline government in Tehran that redoubled its destructive meddling in regional affairs, including providing cash, training and weapons to Hamas militants. 

Now here we are now today as outlined above and the Hamas attacks and Israeli reactions to date. Yet the Trump owned GOP never mentions any of that why? They only want to blame President Biden.

My 2 Cents: Related to the ongoing GOP blame game of: “Blame Joe Biden for Everything” is this opinion piece also from NEWSWEEK.

I totally disagree with the writer and his opinion 100%. See if you do or do not, too after reading comparing them both.

Background helps to prove that the GOP Biden attacks are simply disinformation and not much else. Cite:

GOP Biden haters for no other rational logical reason vis-à-vis the Hamas attack on Israel keep up their false pretenses & disinformation campaign of chaos and disunity that keep the nation in turmoil and uncertainty … cite this from NEWSWEEK vs. the facts:

The GOP spin: This Hamas (Iran-backed) escalation comes shortly after the Biden administration last month agreed to allow the transfer of $6 billion of frozen Iranian funds from South Korean banks to Qatar as part of a prisoner-swap deal to free five Americans illegally detained in Iran.

FACTS: Brian Nelson, Treasury Department Undersecretary said: “All of the money held in restricted accounts in Doha as part of the arrangement to secure the release of five Americans in September remains in Doha. Not a penny has been spent.”

Further, not one penny is from U.S. taxpayers – it is Iran’s money taken from foreign banks and held based on U.S. and other internationally- approved economic sanctions for years since the 1979 U.S. Embassy attack and more recently their nuke program that Obama blocked and Trump took off the table.

Last month, the Biden administration agreed to unfreeze $6 billion in frozen Iranian funds. In doing so, the Biden administration granted clemency to five Iranian-Americans and issued a blanket waiver for international banks to allow the transfer of $6 billion of Iranian oil sale proceeds, frozen in South Korea, to a bank in Qatar for third party management. 

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