Weekly Commentary: Woodward Reveals Biden Can't Concede Bibi Correct
Dr. Aaron Lerner 9 October 2024

While critics of Israel in general and prime minister Netanyahu in
particular, welcomed with glee excerpts from Bob Woodward's book "War," of
President Biden cursing Mr. Netanyahu, the excerpts actually reveal the
disturbing inability of Mr. Biden to concede that he and his team have been
consistently wrong in their assessments and advice.

Since the October 7, 2023 debacle, Israel has been constantly reassessing
the situation and revising its planning and operations accordingly.

This while the Biden team remains stuck on the same messianic fantasy that
creating a sovereign Palestinian state will magically put an end to the
existential threat of those committed to a "no Jewish state" solution.

The New York Times report on the book relates that:

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In April, for instance, the president questioned Mr. Netanyahu's conduct in
the war in a phone call, asking, according to the book, "What's your
strategy, man?"

When Mr. Netanyahu insisted that the Israeli military needed to push deeper
into southern Gaza and invade the southern city of Rafah, a key border
crossing with Egypt, the president, using Mr. Netanyahu's nickname,
dismissed this response.

"Bibi, you've got no strategy," Mr. Biden replied, according to Mr.
Woodward.

In May, Mr. Biden halted a shipment of 3,500 bombs to Israel out of concern
that they would be used in the Rafah operation and cause excessive civilian
casualties. After Mr. Netanyahu proceeded with the invasion of Rafah anyway,
Mr. Biden told advisers that Mr. Netanyahu was a liar, using an obscenity,
and added that "18 out of 19 people who work for him" were also liars, the
book says.

He questioned Mr. Netanyahu's motivations, saying that "he doesn't give" a
damn about Hamas but gives a damn "only about himself," although he used an
earthier term than "damn."
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The outcome of the Rafah operation was completely at odds with the warnings
of the Biden team.

It took a fraction of the projected time with a bare minimum of civilian
losses.

But instead of adapting to this reality, Mr. Biden remains angry.

And his team remains doggedly driven to impose its two-state solution
fantasy.

This while another self-serving fantasy regarding Iran drives American
policy.

That Iran, whose theology is committed to the destruction of the Jewish
State, world dominance and sees an apocalypse which would also destroy Iran
as a welcome path to Paradise, can also somehow be placated by the creation
of a sovereign Palestinian state.

The Woodward book reveals a dark hour in American leadership as a desperate
world seeks light.

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