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Biden May Sacrifice Israel, or Tlaib is Aiding and Abetting Terrorists
The people in Dearborn, MI seem to think that they can singlehandedly determine whether President Biden wins the election in November. With those who have joined up to sabotage his election run, including local Dearborn officials and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, who is essentially supporting terrorism, it could have an impact on election results.
But will the effect be as consequential as Democrats and Joe Biden believe?
Let me explain my thinking.
First, Rashida Tlaib has been campaigning for Biden to side with Hamas in the Gaza War. For a resolution condemning the rape and sexual violence ordered by Hamas and carried out by their followers, Tlaib refused to vote. In addition, she was censured:
In November, the House censured Tlaib for having ‘defended the brutal rapes, murders, beheadings, and kidnapping — including of Americans — by Hamas as justified.’
Only 22 Democrats voted in support of that Republican-led resolution.
Tlaib, a Palestinian American and member of the progressive ‘Squad,’ received the rebuke for promoting ‘false narratives’ about the war on her social media account and posting the phrase ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.’
So, a number of issues have developed. In some ways, Tlaib is betraying not only the Democrats, but also the support of a long-term ally, Israel; she has told anyone who will listen in Michigan that they should vote “uncommitted” rather than vote for Joe Biden in today’s Democrat primary. She is demonstrating her support of Hamas, the organization that took hostages (including Americans), but has violated every tenet of lawful war and has committed war crimes.
Meanwhile, Biden has sent representatives to talk to Arab constituents in Dearborn (although he hasn’t gone himself). He’s worried that enough of those voters could refuse to vote for him, not only in the primary but in November, and compromise his victory, even though the Arab population is only 2.1% in Michigan..
Will he become desperate enough to shift his positions on Israel? Will he try to force them into an absurd hostage swap where Hamas has demanded an exchange of thousands of Palestinian prisoners for only some of the hostages? Will he insist on an unreasonable cease fire that would jeopardize Israel’s ability to be successful in this war? Will he require plans for a two-state solution, rewarding the Palestinians for their horrific October 7 attack?
As an aside, people periodically voice their concerns about American Jews who support Israel, saying their allegiances are compromised between the two countries.
I think that’s exactly the position that Rashida Tlaib is in, too, between the U.S. and Gaza.
Published in Foreign Policy
Hamas wears civilian clothes. Civilians are armed and celebrate the killings committed by Hamas. Hamas is deeply embedded in places where civilians live and work making it impossible to fight them without also killing civilians, unless they leave. Hamas doesn’t let them leave and uses civilians as human shields. Hamas steals food deliveries and Palestinians even try to attack Israeli military escorting humanitarian deliveries. Even UN agencies have been guilty of helping Hamas. Hamas started this with war crimes and thus isn’t entitled to Geneva protections. Instead, they are trying to get sympathy protections from anti-Semites, moral preeners, fools, and weaklings.
“Look at these bullets which were fired into my house by the baby-killing infidel war criminals!”
Looks like she dug into her family’s warfighting stash in her house. She is a Hamas sympathizer. Such mothers raise their sons to become Hamas.
That photo is actually from Iraq:
But you know that exact sort of garbage will get repeated over and over.
Except that this is what Gemini generated as a typical MAGA supporter.
Those Israelis are throwing ammunition at little old ladies!
Gotta be a war crime in there somewhere.
Anyone who has followed me knows one of my big complaints is our roe, all carrot, no stick. We apply these conventions even when the enemy does not, thus providing barbarians no incentive to apply them but to be as ruthless as possible, endangering our troops and civilians. It is as perverse a form of moral preening as siding with Hamas.
Our ROE are a stinking pile of fish eggs? ;-)
If it stinks worse than a skunk, then yes. Apple autocorrect refused to capitalize roe and I had no patience to fight it.
Probably thinks it’s gotta be either fish eggs, or vs. Wade.
On the contrary, Paul, I’m learning a lot.
But the blockading party is not allowing free passage of foodstuff, other essential supplies or humanitarian relief supplies.
As for their intent, courtesy the Times Of Israel:
So it’s perfectly okay to starve civilians who do not have citizenship of any state? That doesn’t sound right. Are you sure?
No, the issue isn’t that Gazans aren’t citizens/nationals of A(ny) State. The issue would be that the (quasi-)State they are supposedly citizens of, is not among the signatories to the Convention. And/or the State they are supposedly citizens of, if it were among the signatories to the Convention, is not abiding by the Convention and so those they attack aren’t bound by it either.
Yup. All people not party to the Convention are out there in the cold. If you could obtain the benefits of the Convention without agreeing to it, the Convention would fall apart. No free rides.
“essential supplies” means “guns, ammunition, and bombs.”
I haven’t found it necessary to follow conversations like this very closely, because Zafar was predicted by this German lad back on October 9. It’s all going according to script.
They are fighting “human animals.”
You must have missed this line:
Their target is Hamas, and, yes, what they are doing is OK. Explain how you feed civilians and not Hamas when they are together and Hamas wears civilian clothes.
From the same quote:
Is Israel allowing civilians to leave the strip via the borders that Israel controls? Is it allowing adequate amounts of food and humanitarian supplies into Gaza?
My understanding is that it’s legitimate for Israel to starve Hamas, but only if they also undertake one of these measures to protect civilian life.
(And yes, Egypt IS complicit in genocide though oddly not [yet] complicit in ethnic cleansing.)
I like caviar, if that’s what you’re getting at.
Are you being clever or stupid? The borders to which you refer are Israel and the answer to your question is NO, the Israelis are not allowing the people with whom they are at war to enter their country. This conversation has gotten ridiculous.
Netanyahu has said that Israel is not at war with the people of Gaza, only with Hamas.
Israel can close its borders. Wish we would close ours.