Watching President Biden mumble, dodder and wheeze his way through the Middle East this week was quite the spectacle.
Watching him learn to read what appeared to be a foreign language on live television was painful on a human level for even his most ardent detractors.
Clear enough. Perhaps even eloquent — for Mr. Biden. But things quickly went off the rails when he began assigning blame for the terrorist attack on Israel that nobody disputes was carried out by Hamas terrorists who operate in the Gaza Strip, the territory that Hamas controls. The problem here is that whether the Palestinian people in Gaza like it or not, Hamas DOES represent them all. That’s what an elected government is — for better or for worse.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looked on with patience, bordering on pity, bordering on alarm. Mr. Biden — the leader of the free world and Israel’s only true ally in a vicious neighborhood — appeared to be napping.“But the point is: I was deeply saddened and outraged by the, uh, explosion at the hospital in Gaza yesterday.”“Based on what I’ve seen, it appears as though it was done by the other team, not you,” he said, looking at Mr. Netanyahu.
“But there’s a lot of people out there not sure, so we got to overcome a lot of things,” he lectured the prime minister.
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