The war between Israel and Hamas, the most serious conflict between them since 2014, shows no signs of abating. Lebanon has been drawn in and the Biden administration is fighting an internal battle between its own antisemites and Israel haters and more rational Democrats. The AOC and Bernie Sanders wing want Israel cut off and sanctioned. The moderates realize Israel has every right to self defense after repeated rocket strikes from Gaza.

They also realize the only reason Hanas made this move is that they read the American political situation and realized they were up against a weak American president. Just how weak we will find out in the coming weeks, as this war comes to a climax.

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FNC: “After more than a week of fighting, appeals by major powers for calm and a growing number of casualties, the conflict between Israel and Hamas continued to intensify Tuesday amid reports of rockets also being launched from Lebanon.

“President Joe Biden expressed support for a cease-fire between Israel and Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers in a call to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, but stopped short of demanding an immediate stop to the eight days of Israeli airstrikes and Hamas rocket barrages that have killed more than 200 people, most of them Palestinian. Biden’s carefully worded statement, in a White House readout of his second known call to Netanyahu in three days as the attacks pounded on, came with the administration under pressure to respond more forcefully despite its determination to wrench the U.S. foreign policy focus away from Middle East conflicts.

“Israel said the half dozen rockets from southern Lebanon never reached Israeli territory and it is unclear what group was behind the launches. The New York Times reported that Hamas has fired 3,350 missiles and killed nine civilians in Israel, and at least one soldier.”

“On Monday 17 May at around 1130pm, UNIFIL detected firing of rockets from general area Rashaya Al Foukhar north of Kfar Chouba in s. Lebanon,” the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon tweeted, according to the Washington Post. “IDF [Israeli Defense Forces] returned artillery fire directed at location from where the rocket originated.” It has spread. It may spread more.

This piece was written by David Kamioner on May 19, 2021. It originally appeared in DrewBerquist.com and is used by permission.

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