By John F. Di Leo, Opinion Contributor
The criminal-in-chief is in the Middle East.
In the midst of a war, a war started by Hamas a mere eleven days ago, the Biden-Harris regime is trying to blunt Israel’s necessary responses.
And on Wednesday, Biden proposed a gift of $100 million in US tax dollars for the Palestinian people. But there’s one big problem: Hamas and Fatah control everything, including where money goes.
A bit of background, before we go further: Hamas is the so-called “Palestinian” terrorist network that rules the Gaza Strip, and Fatah is the comparatively moderate so-called “Palestinian” terrorist network that rules the regions of Judea and Samaria, which the press likes to call “The West Bank.”
A brief aside: Why do they call it The West Bank, instead of Judea and Samaria, you may ask? Good question. Because if they called it Judea and Samaria, as the area has been known for 3000 years, it would be obvious that it belongs to the Jews. By calling it the West Bank, they can inject some undeserved vagueness to the ethnic history of this historically Jewish area.
Hamas and Fatah rule their respective regions like the wardens of prison camps. They control what happens in them. They run almost everything – or at least, anything that happens needs their blessing to occur.
Want to build a clinic? Sure, if Hamas says okay. Want to set up a food dispensary? Sure, if Fatah says okay. Want to open a fashion shop, selling the latest burkas? Sure, if Hamas says okay. Want to operate a mobile falafel stand? Sure, if Fatah says okay.
That’s just how it is there. It’s not like the United States, or Israel, or Japan, where independent businesses and charities can usually operate without the blessing of government.
Everything that happens, and especially, every flow of funds or goods, is handled, managed, approved, and run, either by or through Hamas or Fatah. A little less so in Judea and Samaria and in the Gaza Strip, but only marginally.
Compared to Gaza, the area managed by Fatah is a free country. But compared to a free country, it’s like Gaza.
In the final analysis, when you give money to Gaza, you’re giving money to Hamas. When you give money to Judea and Samaria, you’re giving money to Fatah.
It doesn’t matter whether you call it “humanitarian aid” or “medical assistance” or “war relief;” the money is controlled by Hamas and Fatah.
And since money is fungible, whatever you pour into that pool, you are enabling Hamas and Fatah – at the moment, especially Hamas – to do what they do, which is to commit vicious, bloodthirsty, terrorism.
To call it barbaric is an insult to barbarians.
Now, under US law, we have always considered the financial backers of terrorists to be terrorists themselves, and with good reason. People who support Al Qaeda and ISIS, the Taliban and the Muslim Brotherhood, even if they’re just shipping food and clothing, are contributing to those organizations’ homicidal cause, enabling their crimes just as surely as if they were providing rifles and bullets.
Now Joe Biden, speaking on behalf of the Democratic Party (remember, the man is incapable of speaking for himself; whatever he says has been written for him by his party leadership back in Washington), is proposing a $100 million gift to Hamas and Fatah. They call it a humanitarian package, but they’re not fooling anyone.
A week after Hamas launches this kind of genocidal attack on Israel (yes, “genocidal” is the right word for it; pay attention to Hamas rhetoric if you’re dubious), Biden offers a massive payment to the perpetrators?
The American Democratic Party is still stuck in an old, timeworn, long-disproven belief that if the United States is going to help anyone in the middle east, then we must help both sides equally. If we give aid to Israel, then we must give aid to Arabs. They’ve had this idea for half a century.
But even if there were logic to that approach at some other points in history, it certainly doesn’t hold water today. Hamas launched these brutal attacks. Hamas murdered over a thousand and injured thousands more.
This is one of those rare moments of moral clarity in human events: Hamas is completely in the wrong here, and Israel is completely in the right. Yes, we can help Israel without helping Hamas. In fact, that is the only moral option here. We MUST help Israel and we MUST deny aid to Hamas.
Because again, we must remember: any assistance of any kind that we provide to Gaza buys rockets and rifles for Hamas to use against Israel. That’s just the way it is, no matter how thick one’s rose-colored glasses may be.
And the Biden-Harris regime is trying to funnel more American money – tens of millions of dollars – directly into the coffers of Hamas, just days after these gruesome attacks. The Democrat Party has outed themselves more clearly in the past ten days than ever before. There is no longer any doubt who or what the Democrat Party is.
America’s Democrat politicians fund terrorists. And that means – by US law, and by international law – they ARE terrorists themselves.
The Democratic Party’s voters have long suspected this truth, but most have not wanted to admit it to themselves. After this, however? The blinders are coming off; the truth becomes undeniable at last, and wise, moral Democrat voters are fleeing the party of their parents and grandparents with revulsion, now confronted by the truth of what they’ve supported all these years.
There’s one bright side of the current, ongoing Speaker battle, at least: No bill for $100 million in aid to terrorists can be introduced in Congress while the Speaker’s chair is vacant. So that should buy us time for public opinion to recognize the magnitude of this treasonous proposal.
The Biden-Harris regime – not just Joe Biden himself but his policy team, so therefore the entire administration – is trying to consciously, blatantly make the United States a funder of Mideast genocidal terrorism. There is no other way to look at it.
And if that’s not grounds for impeachment, nothing is.
Copyright 2023 John F. Di Leo
John F. Di Leo is a Chicagoland-based trade compliance trainer and transportation manager, writer, and actor. A one-time county chairman of the Milwaukee County Republican Party, he has been writing regularly for Illinois Review since 2009. Follow John F. Di Leo on Facebook, Twitter, Gettr or TruthSocial.
A collection of John’s Illinois Review articles about vote fraud, The Tales of Little Pavel, and his 2021 political satires about current events, Evening Soup with Basement Joe, Volumes One and Two, are available, in either paperback or eBook, only on Amazon.
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