Last night Biden yammered on. In the immediate aftermath of the worst mass murder of Jews since the Nazis were vanquished, Biden yammered on. He talked about himself. He talked about Ukraine. Indeed, his comments on Ukraine predominated. …

Speaking of deterrence, Biden seeks to deter Israel:

When I was in Israel yesterday, I said that when America experienced the hell of 9/11, we felt enraged as well. While we sought and got justice, we made mistakes. So, I cautioned the government of Israel not to be blinded by rage.

In a sense, this is utterly patronizing. Israel is engaged in a war of self-defense. It seeks to eliminate Hamas. In another sense, Biden’s comment is worse than patronizing. It implies that the elimination of Hamas is driven by rage rather than self-preservation.

[I didn’t watch Biden’s speech last night, but did follow some of the commentary on Twitter. It’s telling that Biden used the Oval Office on the pretext of the acute Gaza-Israel war but spent more time talking about Ukraine. As Scott notes, the warning about “Islamicphobia” is ludicrous in the wave of anti-Semitic rallies on college campuses in support of Hamas’ ‘decolonization’ of Israel. — Ed]