Teddy Roosevelt said "walk softly and carry a big stick". Joe talks big and never backs it up.
The US should have 11 months ago explained if you don't follow our advice, that's fine, we won't sell weapons to you if we don't agree with the way they're being used. Is that too complicated?
As for supporting Israel? Anyone who cares about the nation, can't reasonably support Bibi's failed military policies that have killed and displaced over 2 million civilians and left Hamas largely intact (by the admission of the IDF's own commander). These misdeeds weaken the state of Israel and threaten Jews standing all over the globe.
Biden tells Israel not to invade Lebanon after killing Hezbollah leader: ‘Cease-fire now!’
By Steven Nelson, NY Post
Published Sep. 30, 2024, 2:36 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON — President Biden starkly instructed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday to abandon reported plans for an imminent invasion of southern Lebanon to clear out Hezbollah-held areas days after the assassination of Hassan Nasrallah.
“Israel may now be launching a limited operation into Lebanon. Are you aware of that? Are you comfortable with their plan?” a journalist asked Biden at the White House.
“I’m more aware than you might know, and I’m comfortable with them stopping,” the president replied.
Biden’s clear instruction comes as Netanyahu’s government is widely expected to invade its northern neighbor to prevent the Iran-backed group from firing rockets across the border in revenge for the death Friday of Nasrallah, 64, who led Hezbollah for more than three decades.
Israel’s airstrike that killed the terrorist leader flattened an area of residential buildings in the Lebanese capital and followed a stunning series of operations to demobilize the radical Shiite group before it had a chance to escalate its own operations.
Less than two weeks before the strike, a covert Israeli operation killed at least 42 people and injured thousands more by blowing up the pagers that Hezbollah commanders used to communicate.
Biden has had a difficult relationship with Netanyahu, despite the retiring 81-year-old president also casting himself as a longtime supporter of Israel.
Last year, Biden declared himself a “Zionist” and traveled to the Jewish state within days of the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre of about 1,200 people, which started the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip.
For his support of Israel in that conflict, anti-Israel protesters bestowed the nickname “Genocide Joe,” which they shouted at Biden during public events and even painted on the White House’s gates.
But Biden also increasingly denounced Netanyahu over mounting civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip and paused the delivery of some heavy bombs as an expression of disapproval.
Israel assassinated longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah after killing many of the terror group's commanders earlier this month.
If Israel does proceed with reported plans to attack Lebanon, it wouldn’t be the first time a US ally in the region ignored an American leader’s demands.
In 2019, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan invaded Kurdish-held parts of northern Syria after President Donald Trump withdrew embedded US troops — with Erdoğan ignoring Trump’s blunt warning, “Don’t be a tough guy. Don’t be a a fool!”
That incursion ended when the US used sanctions against Turkey to force a cease-fire.
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