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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/americas-enemies-know-biden-is-weakThirty American citizens were murdered when Hamas terrorists attacked Israel on Oct. 7. At least 12 were kidnapped. Only two have been released. President Joe Biden has yet to demand publicly that Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad release their American hostages. Nor has he described the consequences should these citizens be harmed. This makes the United States look weak.
Instead, the administration is using Qatar, where Hamas’s leadership lives openly in luxury, as an intermediary. So far, the Qatari channel has produced a Hamas offer to free “10-15” of the 240-plus hostages in Gaza in return for a three-day “pause” in Israel’s campaign. On Nov. 6, Biden confirmed to reporters that he had asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a temporary ceasefire. Netanyahu refused. This also makes the U.S. look weak.
The administration is trying to look strong by sending out aircraft carriers and resupplying Israel with advanced munitions. It is trying to talk tough, telling Iran “Don’t” and making a rare public announcement that an Ohio-class nuclear submarine has gone east of Suez. But the State Department has returned to form in the Blinken of an eye and is begging America’s sworn enemies to play nice while telling Israel, which is in a war for its survival, to pull its punches. When asked by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) about Iranian-sponsored attacks on U.S. personnel, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin expressed only a vague intent to hold Iran “accountable.”
Neither the Obama nor the Biden administration held Iran, or Hamas for that matter, accountable for anything. They sent cash to Gaza despite the evidence that Hamas was diverting it and building up an arsenal of Iranian missiles. They gave Iran access to billions of dollars and allowed it to edge toward nuclear breakout. They disowned their allies Israel and Saudi Arabia. They made the U.S. look weak in a region where the strong survive by exploiting The mullahs and their allies are spitting in the face of the U.S. The Biden team is telling the public it’s raining. The storm is only beginning.