‘Iran-Loving, Hamas-Appeasing Buffoon’: Blinken Blasted For Reportedly Threatening Israel It’s Running Out Of Time To Destroy Hamas | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Hank Berrien.

    Backlash erupted against U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken after he reportedly threatened Israeli officials who said it could take months to eradicate the terror group Hamas.

    A report from The Times Of Israel derived from Channel 12 News claimed that when Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told Blinken that all of Israel backs the elimination of the terrorist group Hamas "even if it takes months," Blinken responded, "I don't think you have the credit for that."

    "You can't operate in southern Gaza in the way you did in the north," Blinken reportedly warned IDF Chief Herzi Halevi and Gallant. "There are two million Palestinians there. You need to evacuate fewer people from their homes, be more accurate in the attacks, not hit U.N. facilities, and ensure that there are enough protected areas [for civilians]. And if not? Then not to attack where there is a civilian population. What is your system of operation?"

    "We follow a number of principles - proportionality, distinction, and the laws of war," Halevi reportedly responded. "There were instances where we attacked on the basis of those principles, and instances where we decided not to attack, because we waited for a better opportunity".

    Gallant then asserted, "The entire Israeli society is united behind the goal of dismantling Hamas, even if it takes months," prompting Blinken to answer, "I don't think you have the credit for that."

    Despite the 1,200 Israelis murdered by Hamas in the October 7 attack, Blinken's warning that Israel's attack is on borrowed time is distinctly different from the Biden administration's lasting and continuing support for Ukraine in its war against Russia, which has lasted since February 24, 2022. President Joe Biden asked Congress for $33 billion to support Ukraine on April 28, 2022; $20 billion of the funding was to provide weapons to Ukraine. According to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, by September 2023 the Biden administration had sent $76.8 billion to Ukraine.

    Blinken was harshly criticized for his threat to abandon U.S. support for Israel.


    "Secretary Blinken's meeting in Israel yesterday where he told Israel that they didn't have the credit they needed to destroy Hamas followed by that rather disastrous press conference in which - I don't even know how to frame it other than it was a complete and utter message to Hamas that we're going to pull the rug out of Israel, do what you will - I think yesterday will go down as one of the worst diplomatic face plants in history," radio host Hugh Hewitt said bluntly.

    "The idea that after the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, Israel needs 'credit' to defend itself is outrageous. Blinken and Biden should be ashamed. The American people stand with Israel - even if Biden does not," Arkansas GOP Senator Tom Cotton blasted.

poll#211

26 days after the October 7th Terror attacks on Israel, where over 1400 Jewish men, women and children were gruesomely murdered, and hundreds more made hostage: Should the Biden /Harris administration finally state that the administration's primary Middle East negotiating partner, Iran, is behind the funding and strategy of the aggressors, the Hamas Terrorists, or continue to take the more moderate position of "Don't," which is clearly not working?

  Yes, name Iran as the funding /strategy culprit, and begin to enforce the President Trump era sanctions to END Iran's ability to prosecute this war against Israel and the United States.

  No, Iran is a valuable partner in the motives of the Biden / Harris administration, and must not be named as the culprit and our enemy.

  I have larger concerns just to survive in this economy.

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poll#201

Considering what real news is available for all to witness, and in great specificity, should one pursue what is true outside of the channeled realm of the corrupt corporate /legacy media, and: Is Institutionalized Corruption real, and is it a hindrance to sustaining our Constitutional Republic now, and for future generations of American citizens?

  Yes

  No

  Not sure

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poll#209

In the minds of many, since January 20, 2021, the World has become far less safe in every theater of conflict, beginning with the attack of Israel by Iran /Hamas, so the question becomes: What caused this Worldwide calamity of extreme geopolitical dysfunction, and what will correct it?

  Joe Biden is the cause of this frightening Worldwide situation, and it will end when a Republican is elected president.

  This delayed Worldwide dysfunction and constant conflict is all Donald Trump's fault, as it is with everything that occurs going forward, and long before the man ever became the 45th president..

  Joe Biden is the "root cause" of this frightening Worldwide situation, and it will end when former President Donald John Trump is elected president.

  In the imitable words of Alfred E. Newman: "What, me worry?"

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