Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Disclaimer: the views expressed here are solely those of
the author, weekly Judean Rose columnist Varda Meyers Epstein.
On or around September 7, President Biden unfroze
$6b in Iranian revenues. One month later, there was a massacre in Israel,
sponsored by Iran. No less than a Hamas spokesman affirmed that Iran
lent its assistance to Hamas as its proxy to murder Jews.
Was Biden’s generosity to Iran in September responsible for
the war crimes committed by Hamas in October? While White House officials say
that none of the $6b went to Hamas, they have yet to relate to accusations that
Biden’s munificence served as a green light to Iran to do what it always says it
will do: murder Jews.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, speaking from Tel
Aviv, pretended that money was not fungible. The money, he said, had been sent
from South Korea to a Qatari bank, and Iran hadn’t even had a chance to touch
it, yet. “None of the funds that have gone to Qatar have actually been spent or
accessed in any way,” said Blinken to Netanyahu during his diplomatic blitz of
the Middle East in the wake of the atrocities.
Yes, dummy. We know that. But when there’s money in your
future, you can take money from elsewhere to fund what you like. Iran likes to
kill Jews. Tony Blinken knows this, because in reality, Blinken is no dummy. He
is, however, a Biden hack.
Look (as Biden likes to say), it’s called “robbing Peter to
pay Paul.” While Iran could not give the $6b straight into the hands of Hamas,
there’s always a workaround. It’s called creative accounting. You take money away
from a hospital or a school, whatever, and send it to Hamas. Wherever Iran took
the money from, it used it to fund the massacre, secure in the knowledge that
there would be $6b to cover the difference.
This really is not complicated, yet we can expect Blinken will
continue to deliver the same unsatisfactory message each time he is called upon
to answer for the October 7th war crimes. These were acts of war against
Israel, against America and others, with various nationals among the hostages. What
is now happening was brought to us by Iran, directly after they received a windfall
from Joe.
Yes, we know the $6b is not a gift. We know that the money technically
belongs to Iran. This is, however, an irrelevant factoid. Funds have been freed,
released to madmen. Whether the money is a gift or just a case of restoring it
to its rightful owner “in good faith,” matters not. The end result is the same:
money in the pocket to buy weapons and pay savages to kill Jews.
One could write off the $6b as a miscalculation, a mistake
by the Biden Administration. But not really. Joe Biden has been around a long
time (cough). He has an equally lengthy history of browbeating and bullying
Israel’s leaders, in spite of his intimate knowledge of the relevant actors
in the region. President Biden knows that Iran and Hamas are evil. And he knows
that Israel is not.
Israel is Joe Biden’s sacrificial lamb. Perhaps Biden
reasons that everyone would like the Jews to be gone. Whatever his excuse, it is
Joe Biden who strengthened the hand that fed us tragedy, in his final coup de
grâce to the Jews.
We may never know all the ways in which Biden tied Israel’s
hands to keep the Jewish State from defending itself. We don’t know what went
on between Biden and Netanyahu behind the scenes. Rest assured, however, that Joe
is using everything at his disposal to stall Israel as long as he can, from
launching its inevitable ground incursion into Gaza. In so doing, Biden continues
to strengthen the hand of the enemy. Each day that passes without the ground
incursion gives the enemies of Israel that much more time to prepare, more time
to get ready to slaughter the Jews (they will be sorry they tried).
We can see some of what Biden is doing against Israel, for
example, forcing Israel to allow aid to go through to the “innocent
people of Gaza,” unimpeded. Joe Biden himself is providing $100m to Gaza for
humanitarian aid.
What does it mean to give $100m to “Gaza?” It means to give $100m
to Hamas, the rulers of Gaza. The humanitarian aid, as well, is the opposite of
that. Sure, the hundred mil is ostensibly to be used only for things like
water, food, and electricity, but that will never happen. Thanks to yet more “creative
accounting,” the money will not go to civilians. The $100m is right now
literally funding Hamas, funding murder and inciting the world to war—whether
we can see the actual transactions, or not.
Here too, a Biden hack offers an irrelevant response to
criticism of Biden for sending aid and comfort to the enemy. This time it is Matthew
Miller, the State Department spokesman who pretends that money is not fungible.
"Not a penny has been spent, and when it is, it can only go for humanitarian
needs like food and medicine," says Miller.
Habibi, you are not fooling us. The hundred mil can only go to Hamas, the government of Gaza. And even if this filthy lucre is channeled through UNRWA, it will still go to Hamas. One way or another, wherever it lands in Gaza, that $100m will be lining the pockets of Hamas’ worst, the dutiful proxies of Iran.
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