Are the Democrats Betraying Israel?

The decision by the Biden administration to withhold ammunition from Israel is both foolish and immoral. Nor is its foolishness and immorality minimized by President Biden’s announcement that the U.S. will send a billion dollars of arms to Israel two years from now, as it is obliged to do. Israel’s need is immediate.

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Let’s start with foolish. Reportedly, among the items being withheld are mechanisms that allow dumb bombs to be converted to smart bombs. Israel wants to use smart bombs precisely in order to reduce the number of collateral deaths of innocent Gazans who are being used as human shields by Hamas. Biden claims that the purpose of withholding ammunition is to prevent civilian casualties. But denying Israel the ability to distinguish between combatants and civilians is about the worst possible way of accomplishing this goal. What is Biden thinking! ...

In addition to being foolish and self-defeating, the Biden decision to withhold ammunition from its closest ally in the midst of a war, sends a dangerous message to America’s other allies. If an ally can’t count on a continuing supply of ammunition to defeat an enemy sworn to its destruction, what can it count on?

Ed Morrissey

This is the true strategic damage Biden is doing at the moment, and its effects will linger for years, if not decades. It's also now a pattern; Biden's Kabul bug-out left our Afghan allies holding the bag after twenty years of forming them to be dependent on US military intel and logistics. Biden and Barack Obama in Iraq in 2011 made it clear that the US is entirely unreliable, especially under Democrat leadership. 

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