Did the Biden administration withhold intel from Israel?
Or is the administration just so incompetent that they didn't know?
Palestinian terrorists (no, that’s not necessarily redundant) in Gaza launched a brutal terrorist attack on Israel yesterday. They slaughtered at least 800 Israelis, many of them unarmed women and children. Some were taken hostage back to Gaza where they were paraded through the streets and beaten.
It was a massive and highly coordinated attack with incursions by land, air and sea. From a thousand miles away, Iran was likely funding and coordinating it. There had to be a lot of cyber chatter preceding the attack.
Yet Israel was apparently caught by complete surprise.
The question being rightly asked is, how could Israel’s intel operations – one of the most sophisticated in the world – have been caught so off-guard?
The answer may be in Washington. The Biden administration has never gotten along with the Israeli government, nor did the Obama administration where Biden was Vice President. Biden and Obama have both seemed determined to let Iran – a terrorist state that has vowed to destroy Israel – get a nuclear bomb, and experts think that at any given moment they could have one in a matter of months. Biden just gave Iran six billion dollars in exchange for American hostages that Iran had taken.
The Biden administration distanced itself from the Abraham accords negotiated by the Trump administration which normalized relations between Israel and some of its Arab neighbors. Israel is currently negotiating with Saudi Arabia, and the U.S. is conspicuously not leading those negotiations. Several prominent Democrats are unabashed antisemites, and are seldom called out for it by the other Democrats or their media allies.
All this is in the context of the catastrophic American surrender in Afghanistan where the Biden military was shown to be both incompetent and untrustworthy.
Given all this, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided soon after Biden won the American presidency that he would stop sharing intel with the Americans. His forthright reason was that he didn’t trust the Biden administration. Sharing intel with an untrustworthy partner compromises the intel and compromises the sources.
So, the question now is this: Did the Americans have intel of their own about the impending Palestinian attack which, in a tit-for-tat, they failed to share with the Israelis?
If the Americans did not have such intel, then our intel operations in the Mideast are a joke. If we did have such intel but failed to share it with the Israelis, then the Biden administration has the blood of 800 Israeli men, women and children on its hands, soon to be mixed with the blood of thousands of Palestinians.
Meanwhile Jewish Americans keep voting for Democrats. Israel offends them, apparently.
You know, Glenn, I sympathize with your position here, but upon reflection, do you think the "Biden" (shorthand reference to the Obama cabal that is in charge of the federal government at all levels at this time) administration is bothered in the least by the deaths, kidnapping/torture and injuries inflicted on a few thousand Israelis? The "Biden" administration has been striving mightily to curry the favor of the Iranians who are the puppet-masters of Hezb'allah and Hamas, and just recently gave Iran access to $6,000,000,000.00 dollars formerly embargoed. Since "Biden" has no problem with the wholesale slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and the destruction of much of the property in eastern Ukraine, how much are Israeli problems a factor in "Biden's" thinking? And there's that open American borders thing, where millions of people from God-knows-where with God-knows-what diseases are flooding into this country, bringing drugs like fentanyl across, with the deaths of hundreds of thousands of AMERICAN CITIZENS resulting. But none of that matters to "Biden." So, incompetence or malign intent, "Biden" couldn't be bothered less.