That’s how Rep. Nathaniel Moran (R-Texas) interprets President Joe Biden’s antagonistic actions toward Israel, in theory a U.S. ally, in its ongoing war against Hamas.
Israel’s offensive into Rafah, where it says the last four remaining Hamas battle units are holed up, continued Monday with ground troops and aerial bombing.
'Civil society' doesn't hide behind masksChad Groening, AFN.net An Ohio-based conservative activist says he is grateful the state’s attorney general plans to stop anti-Israel protesters from wearing face coverings during protests on college campuses. After weeks of pro-Palestinian campus riots across the country, Attorney General Dave Yost sent a letter to the state’s public universities to forewarn students about a 1953 law written to deter Ku Klux Klan demonstrations. The same law could be used to impose felony charges on students who wear masks while protesting. Violating this "anti-disguise" law is punishable by a fourth-degree felony charge, up to $5,000 in fines, and five years on community control. Tom Zawistowski, president of the tea party-affiliated We the People Convention, says he hopes Ohio law enforcement follows the example set by police on the campus of UCLA when they were removing people’s masks while under arrest. “You can't commit a crime and be anonymous,” he argues. “That's against civil society.” Janet Porter, who leads, Faith2Action, says the protesters are not wearing masks out of fear of the COVID-19 virus. “This is people trying to keep their identity secret,” she says. “I think what the attorney general's doing in Ohio is actually a step in the right direction for transparency, for accountability.” |
It also continued without key U.S. weapons and munitions being withheld by Biden.
“I think the objective of the Biden administration may be to cave to college radicals, maybe to cave to Leftists in Michigan, maybe to cave to sympathetic individuals in the administration that want to promote an idea that maybe Iran needs to be supported in a way that we don't think should be supported,” Moran said on Washington Watch Friday.
Recent comments from State Department spokesman Matthew Miller make it clear that Biden is trying to use U.S. influence to usurp management authority for the war.
Miller was frustrated that Israel, which lost roughly 1,200 civilians in the Hamas attacks last Oct. 7, would not act on U.S. suggestions for administration of the war.
“We continue and I should say we do continue to engage with them about other options that they can pursue. We have presented a full range of other policy choices that they can make that we think would achieve the goal of dismantling Hamas and choking off the Hamas battalions that remain in Rafah without further endangering civilians there,” Miller told a press conference gathering.
Balking at the administration’s attempted micromanagement of Israel, the Congressman said Biden and the White House are "politically motivated" because of an election year. So the President is being pressured here at home, Moran believes, to use U.S. power to change with Israel is doing on the front lines of a war.
“There are some Iran sympathizers in the administration that need to be outed and gutted," Moran told show host Jody Hice. " We need to be standing strong with Israel right now instead of telling them how to go about their objective, and frankly, without redefining the objective.
Moran: U.S. should adopt 'full-court press'
The offensive in and around Rafah continues amid protests from numerous countries as well as from some families of Israel Defense Forces (IDF) military who see the ground invasion of Rafah as a “death trap” for the sons and daughters. They expressed this concern in a letter to IDF leadership, The Guardian reported.
The offensive is the right call for Israel and the U.S. should adopt the same mindset, Moran said.
“We have to have that strategy across the world against these growing totalitarian regimes that want to do the West harm. We can't simply say, ‘We’re going to wait until you do us harm on our border.’ No, we've got to project strength outside and say, ‘We are going to come after you, and we were going to stop you before we get here,’” Moran said. “I’m all for the full-court press defense. We want to press and provide defense before the enemy gets across midcourt and before they even have a chance to score against us. Then we want to play tough defense when they get here.”
