Biden is upping the odds that Israel will lose
By Post Editorial Board
Published Oct. 29, 2023, 7:19 p.m. ET
For all its headline support of Israel as the IDF moves to eliminate Hamas, the Biden administration is sticking to its pre-Oct. 7 approach to the Middle East — and so effectively working toward Israel’s defeat.
For starters, the Biden team still refuses to admit that Iran is pulling the strings of what Tehran calls the “Axis of Resistance”: Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza and the West Bank, Hezbollah in Lebanon and other Iranian proxies across the region.
This, when both The Wall Street Journal and New York Times have reported what US intelligence must also know: Top Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps officers helped plan the Oct. 7 attacks and coordinate followup strategies for the entire “Axis.”
That is: Most of the civilian government in Tehran may have been out of the loop — but that’s not who rules the country.
The IRGC reports directly to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who without question gave the green light.
The Bidenites’ willful denial isn’t just a public-relations move: They’re still plainly worried about “provoking” Iran, imagining they can somehow get past this current crisis so they can get back to appeasing the mullahs.
National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan even admits that they’re not breaking with the approach that he’d bragged (just days before Hamas’ attacks) had “de-escalated crises in Gaza” and made the region “quieter than it has been for decades.”
Witness the beyond-minimal US response after Iran’s proxies have attacked US bases at least 20 times since Oct. 7: We’ve answered only with pinprick bombing designed to damage IRGC property and not take lives.
The president can issue all the “Don’t” threats he likes; Tehran and its “axis” will look at his actions and see that he’s ruled by fear.
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