Desperate to satisfy the Democratic Party’s hard left, the Biden administration just took a giant step toward abandoning Israel by declining to veto the latest UN Security Council resolution calling for a cease-fire in Gaza.
The measure from the 10 non-permanent Security Council members demands an immediate ceasefire through the month of Ramadan, while also calling on Hamas to release the 100 or so Israelis it still holds hostage from its Oct. 7 terror raid.
No matter that Hamas will refuse; the measure still adds to the pressure for Israel to end its necessary, justified and humane war against Hamas just as it’s getting close to destroying the terror cadre’s last battalions.
And never mind that Team Biden itself has warned that such resolutions only complicate actual talks about a temporary ceasefire in exchange for hostage releases — because they give Hamas fresh hope that Israel’s “friends” will force it to stop fighting anyway.
The focus on Ramadan is a transparent dodge.
Israel’s Islamic-state neighbors have waged war on Ramadan, even against Islamic countries: Egypt and Syria against Israel in 1973, Iran against Iraq in 1981.
Washington should have vetoed this obscenity.
But this president can’t even resist relying on the terrorists’ propaganda to call out Israel’s tactics as supposedly “over the top.”
Yes, the Biden team blocked earlier, equally vile UN resolutions, but it’s plainly starting to cave rather than call out the Democratic Party’s ever-wider pro-Hamas caucus (which now, shamefully, includes Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer).
Witness its own ceasefire resolution, put forth Friday and promptly kiboshed by Russia and China. Or the absurd “red lines” it’s drawing around the coming assault on Rafah.
Washington abstained Monday because, per UN Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, it didn’t agree with everything in the text, such as the resolution’s failure to condemn Hamas for its Oct. 7 atrocities. How was that not enough to be worth an actual “nay”?
Remember: Hamas is at fault for the ongoing war. Not Israel.
The terror group could’ve ended the war months ago by returning the hostages it has instead chosen to keep.
Hamas could have avoided the war in the first place by not committing the worst slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust.
The onus is not now somehow placed on Israel to simply give up a necessary battle for survival in order to appease the global left.
That Washington has joined this farce shows that the rot has fully infected the highest levels of the executive.
There’s now clearly no hope of a cure without political change in November — which means defeating Biden and the Democrats who enable him is now a moral and geostrategic necessity.