Tony Blinken is a failure as Secretary of State. His ignorance and hubris make him a threat to the safety of the state of Israel and by extension, the United States of America.
Tony Blinken made his seventh trip to Israel since the start of the war on 10/7 of last year. As always, Blinken mixed a positive message with outright slanders and threats. At one point, he told the most moral army in the world that it “does not have a license to dehumanize others.” In his press conference in Tel Aviv Wednesday, Blinken said some truly disturbing things. I will quote rather extensively to highlight how delusional, haughty and ignorant our current secretary of state is. From Blinken (highlights added throughout):
“We also discussed the imperative of maximizing civilian protection and humanitarian aid to address the ongoing suffering of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. Nearly 2 million people have been displaced from their homes. Hundreds of thousands are experiencing acute hunger. Most have lost someone that they love. And day after day, more people are killed.”
The proper word in Hebrew for the statement above is chutzpah. Let’s imagine a thief comes into a house and stabs the homeowner who in turn shoots the thief. After a brief stay in the hospital both the thief and his victim find themselves in front of a judge. What type of judge would conclude that since both men are injured, then both are somehow guilty? What type of judge would equate a thief who almost became a murderer with a homeowner who acted in self-defense and acted to protect family and property? As I wrote previously, Hamas and most of the Palestinian people are one and the same. I don’t say that because the latter elected the former eighteen years ago. I say so because the Palestinian people who worked in Israel gave Hamas the key details as to the location of individuals, army installations, officer home addresses, locations of weapons and defensive systems, and the number of people to be expected at each location. The Palestinian people joined the rape and plunder and were the ones jumping up and down when dead and dying Jews were paraded before them in Gaza. Released hostages have made it clear that they were held in the homes of Palestinian civilians. The Palestinian people are the ones voting 80 percent in favor of what Hamas did to Israelis during their mini-Holocaust. There is no reason to maximize their protection or feel sorry that many of them have lost their homes and possibly family members. Did normal Americans cry for the dead in German cities? Did they weep over the vaporized Japanese in Hiroshima? Israel has zero obligations towards the Palestinian population beyond not intentionally targeting civilians. Back to our clueless chief diplomat:
“On all of my previous visits here and pretty much every day in between, we have pressed Israel in concrete ways to strengthen civilian protection, to get more assistance to those who need it. And over the past four months, Israel has taken important steps to do just that: starting the flow of aid; doubling it during the first pause for hostage releases; opening the north and south corridors in Gaza so that people could move out of immediate harm’s way, through these corridors with four hours’ pause every day, three hours’ notice; opening Kerem Shalom; starting the flow of assistance from Jordan; establishing deconfliction mechanisms for humanitarian sites. As a result, today, more assistance than ever is moving into Gaza from more places than at any time since October 7th…”
Israel, in my opinion, is also foolish for giving humanitarian aid without specifically tying it to the daily release of hostages. This could have been done at the start of the ground offensive, but the folks in Jerusalem are just running a give-away to people who want to destroy the state of Israel. Sixty percent of aid that enters Gaza is grabbed by Hamas. Those “humanitarian sites” have been used by terrorists to fire rockets at Israel and organize attacks against the IDF. This is a war; it’s ugly. But the sooner you finish it off with a victory, the more readily you can move along to the hearts and mind stuff. Blinken is so worried about the Palestinians he supposedly told Benjamin Netanyahu that he cannot get the thought of the thousands of dead Palestinian children out of his head. That’s funny. When we and nine other American families, some of whom also had children terror victims, won a $655.5 million judgment against the PLO and Palestinian Authority in federal court in New York, Blinken did not think about our children when he personally asked the judge to have mercy on the terrorists and reduce the appeals bond in their favor. It never dawned on him to try to get a settlement for the benefit of his fellow American citizens. He likes the Palestinians more than he likes Americans, which is the reason that the US is so blasé about Americans who were killed on 10/7 or are still being held captive by the barbarians of Gaza. Who knows what they are suffering? But Blinken did not mention them at all on Wednesday.
Blinken:
“And yet, as I said to the prime minister and to other Israeli officials today, the daily toll that its military operations continue to take on innocent civilians remains too high. In our discussions today, I highlighted some key steps that Israel should take to ensure that more aid reaches more people in Gaza. Israel should open Erez so that assistance can flow to northern Gaza where, as I said, hundreds of thousands of people are struggling to survive under dire conditions. It should expedite the flow of humanitarian assistance from Jordan. It should strengthen deconfliction and improve coordination with the humanitarian providers. And Israel must ensure that the delivery of life-saving assistance to Gaza is not blocked for any reason, by anyone.”
Does Blinken know how many fellow Jews were murdered at the Erez or Kerem Shalom crossings? Does he care? Again, the Palestinians have brought this disaster upon themselves. There is no reason to feel sorry for them. Blinken could argue that people who did not take part in the pogrom or even expressed some opposition to it are also suffering. Well, there were probably some "good" Germans and Japanese who opposed Hitler and Tojo but still were blown up by Allied bombing raids. War is imperfect but the goal for Israel must be to win. The US no longer understands what winning wars means. Signaling the enemy in Iraq to get away before a retaliation attack is the way of losers. Such weakness only emboldens Iran, the puppetmaster for Hamas, Hezbollah and the militias attacking American troops in the Middle East.
Tony Blinken is a disgrace to his job and our country. He should be directing his ire and pressure towards Hamas and warning that a failure to release captive Americans will lead to American F-18s joining the IAF in bombing Gaza. He leans on his friends rather than threatening his enemies. I don’t deny that Palestinians are suffering. But they brought their situation upon themselves. October 6, 2023, was a nice, quiet day in Israel; the 7th could have been the same, but Hamas wanted to kill Jews and now they are paying the price for the wholesale spilling of Jewish blood. Many of those in Gaza who are cursing Hamas today would love Hamas if they were winning—just like they did four months ago. They threw their lot with Hamas and they are reaping the rewards. Tony Blinken should either support Israel and advance American interests or find a new job. He apparently would be a great humanitarian aid truck driver.