ChrisO’s modification of 2004 UN Map of Israel
President Joe Biden will exit the White House in one week with his legacy severely tarnished by his response to the ongoing fifteen-month Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip. Israel had responded to the Hamas attack that killed about 1,200 Israeli Jews in one day, on October 7, 2023, by invading the Gaza Strip and so far killing over 45,000 Palestinians, with the large majority of them being civilian casualties. This disproportionate killing has angered much of the world. But it has angered many in the Biden administration.
Disagreement in Biden’s Cabinet Regarding the War
Even though many in President Joe Biden’s administration had been advising him to forcefully curb Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s aggressive handling of the war, Biden had approved of it without demanding otherwise. Yesterday, in an interview with 60 Minutes on television Andrew Miller, former State Department point person on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, said Biden allowed Netanyahu to do whatever he wanted in the war without establishing a red line. He also revealed that even though it was difficult to obtain information about the combat zone in Gaza, “we didn’t exactly work very hard to try to acquire the information.”
With Biden’s incontestable support of Israel in this Gaza war, which has resulted in 45,000 Palestinians killed to date, I believe he has unwittingly contributed to the increasing antisemitism in the world.
U.S. Weapons Supplied to Israel
Most disconcerting was that Israel has used devastating U.S. weapons furnished to it for this war, such as dropping 2,000 pound bombs to try to destroy underground tunnels created by Hamas. Miller said Biden could have objected by refusing to supply Israel with such weapons, but he didn’t. Miller explained, “we could have said, we are taking this step because we believe this class of weapons … is being used inappropriately.” Indeed, some members of Congress have be alleging that Israel has violated U.S. law by “inappropriate” use of weaponry furnished to it by the U.S.
Miller concluded his remarks by saying this war will end only “when Israel says it’s over.” Yet, the Biden administration said today that a cease fire agreement between Israel and Hamas is close to happening. But then, we’ve heard that before.
I acknowledge that Netanyahu has had a difficult situation, since Hamas had for many years built a rather sophisticated tunneling system throughout much of the Gaza Strip, and due to this it has been difficult to eliminate Hamas, which the U.S. and others have rightly deemed a terrorist organization. But Netanyahu’s Israel had ignored this Hamas development in its strategy to keep Hamas in Gaza and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank as antagonists against each other in an effort to prevent solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by the creation of a Palestinian state.
How to Solve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?
As I set forth 35 years ago in my book, Palestine Is Coming: The Revival of Ancient Philistia, this conflict will never be solved without two states. But I also say there needs to be an alternative to the traditional two-state proposal—a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Seventy years have passed since that was proposed, showing it was a non-starter as I said in my book.
Very Expanded Gaza Strip
I propose such an alternative in the book, which is to create a very expanded Gaza Strip as the State of Palestine and let Israel annex all of the West Bank. The only negative is that this requires a transfer of peoples. But this result will provide far more security for both peoples than the traditional proposal would afford. Israel has members in Netanyahu’s cabinet who want to unilaterally annex the West Bank to Israel.
The situation is getting closer and closer to what I laid out in my book long ago. But it wasn’t original with me—I discovered it in end times Bible prophecies.
[Most of this book is available for free-reading at my website kermitzarley.com.]