President Joe Biden arrived in Israel on Wednesday, where he held a brief press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
In their remarks, both leaders highlighted the death toll, the atrocities committed by Hamas, and the impact on children in Israel.
In his remarks, Biden said; “I wanted to be here today for a simple reason: I want the people of Israel and the people of the world to know where the United States stands.”
Biden also said Israel was not to blame for a rocket attack on a hospital in Gaza, which left at least 500 people dead.
“I was outraged by the bombing of the hospital yesterday. Based on what I’ve seen, it was done by the other team. Not you,” Biden said to Netanyahu. “But there’s a lot of people out there who are not sure.”
Biden added: “The world is looking. Israel has a value set like the United States does and other democracies and they’re looking to see what we’re going to do.”
Netanyahu praised Biden for his visit, saying, “Your visit is the first visit of an American president to Israel at a time of war. It is deeply deeply moving.”
“On October 7th, Hamas murdered 1400 Israelis, maybe more. This is in a country of fewer than 10 million people. This would be equivalent to over 50,000 Americans murdered in a single day. That’s 20 9/11s. That is why October 7th is another day that we live in infamy,” he said.
Netanyahu continued: “I want to thank you for coming here today and for the unequivocal support you’ve given during these trying times. A support that reflects the overwhelming will of the American people. I’ve seen your support every day and the depth and breadth of cooperation that we have had since the beginning of this war, a level of cooperation that is truly unprecedented in the history of the great alliance between our two nations.”
He added: “We see that support and your steadfast commitment to provide Israel with the tools we need to defend ourselves. We see that support and the clear message you send our enemies not to test our resolve. And in the two American carrier battle groups that you send to the region. To back up those words with action.”
The Israeli prime minister also urged the president to imagine what the Israeli children were imagining when Hamas broke into their homes and committed their horrific massacre.
Biden responded. “It’s beyond my comprehension.” He also said Hamas was guilty of slaughtering Israelis: “They’ve committed evils that atrocities that make ISIS somewhat more rational.”
Biden also met with family members of the victims of the Hamas terror attacks as well as those who were taken hostage by Hamas.
Kudos to JB for not wavering and standing up for Israel!
If by “not wavering” you mean “giving IRAN Billions of dollars and giving HASMA millions of dollars all the while showing American weakness on the world stage” then I know what you’re talking about.
Why do you give the antisemite in the White House who enabled Iran to do this a platform to try and trick people into believing that he doesn’t hate Jews? Why?
You’re funny.
you have nothing useful to contribute.
To give such a banal uninformed judgment is a sign of a foxnews brainwashing.
Good luck
you have nothing useful to contribute. Saying “Fox News brainwashing” isn’t a counterargument, any more than if you had just given a random grunt.
It is a matter of record that Biden gave Iran $6 billion dollars, and it’s also a matter of record that he restarted funding of Hamas that had been halted by Trump. If you can’t see those actions as Jew-hatred, then you’re simply willfully blind.
https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2023/joe-biden-funding-every-angle-israel-hamas-war-fact-check/
Biden administration officials said none of the $6 billion, which was transferred from South Korea to Qatar’s central bank, has been disbursed to Iran yet, and any distribution would be supervised by the U.S. Treasury Department.
Blinken said in an Oct. 12 news conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, that the money can only be dispensed for humanitarian goods and that the U.S. has “strict oversight of the funds, and we retain the right to freeze them.”
that money is fungible, and that if, say, you get $X from one source towards your mortgage, then that frees up $X for something else.
See, people who work for a living know such things. Meanwhile, the Democrats and their apologists are depending on uninformed people like you.
Thank you for a voice of reason.
Especially at a time like this we don’t want to go around blaming people and making the horror into just politics.
I’m pretty sure he’s the best president as far as Israel is concerned that we’ve had in decades.
And you can substantiate that with what evidence?
A downvote but no actual answer and no evidence. Gee, I wonder why.
biden just handed over $100 million to the savages that murdered us
Yea no, that was The Donald my dear
To all those calling president Biden an antisemite, please read bibi’s autobiography.
He makes it very clear that Joe Biden always had Israel’s back. Even during his time as vice president under Obama.
Bibi writes how during the bad times of the Obama administration, Biden was the only Friend he had. Do your research.
Sure, he had Israel’s back. So that he could stab it.
The fact that people in the comments are calling our president an antisemite makes me wonder if we’re any batter than them.
We have enough real problems, don’t turn our community into a victim. This is straight out of the left’s playbook.
Just remember how little you pay attention to complaints minorities have because of all the lies that are told.
The same way BLM makes any real issues of racism seem untrue as they are watered down by so much nonsense, calling our president and antisemite waters down any real claims of antisemitism.
For years you and your ilk have been calling Trump an anti-semite with not the slightest shred of evidence, and despite his clear support for Israel and for Jews, expressed not just in words but in actions. (Twisting his words, for example the false claim about “very fine people,” is not evidence.)
Now you have Biden, who actually gave money to terrorists, and you’re shocked that anyone would call him an anti-semite? Why, because he talked a good game while stabbing us in the back?
I feel bad for the families who lost their loved ones that they had to deal with some old geezer trying to wheeze out some fake political condolences to make him sound good and pretend they care
It is horrifying that even Chabad media outlets are not providing their viewers with a balanced report, including facts that Biden’s and blinkens visit intentionally stalled (detrimentally so) Israel’s campaign (sadly in coordination with Gantz and Netanyahu), and in all senses of the word)— and worse, were active participants in this war and its decisions — which should have one interest — what’s best for israel. It is no secret That America, Europe, and other nations of the world who don’t have Israel’s interests at heart, have funded, directed policy, and crippled Israel’s ability to act in its own interest.… Read more »
Beautiful, may we all know true peace, deliverance, and tekias hamesim right now.