The world is burning and there is no shortage of arsonists willing to add more wood to the fire. Like Donald Trump, who is precisely now taking a toll on his former friend Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel to project himself as a messiah.
He insisted on his lie: if the elections had not been stolen from him and he had been in the White House, Hamas would not have attacked. To the general embarrassment, he even described Hizbullah, a pro-Iran militia, as “very smart.”
US President Joe Biden faces a crossroads that could catapult or bury his re-election.
The possible financial closure of the Government coincides (date: November 17), the disorder in the Lower House with the Republicans at odds, the difficulty in continuing to support Kyiv, the tension with China over Taiwan or “the invasion” of immigrants along the southern border.
In this context, the conflict in the Middle East breaks out in which he acts as a tightrope walker. He has made three speeches expressing absolute solidarity with Israel, proclaiming its right to defend itself, but suggesting that, in retaliation, international law and the laws of war must be respected. At all times he has avoided criticizing so as not to break the harmony in the tragedy with the Israeli prime minister, with whom, until today, there was great distrust. In any case, there will be time for reproaches, not today with blood still hot.
Biden assumes the institutional role of the White House. On the other hand, Trump, who boasted so much about his friendship with Netanyahu and in another proof of his lack of appreciation for the pain of others, attacked the Israeli president, bait for his rally in West Palm Beach (Florida).
Although he had always presented himself as a fierce defender of Israel, especially to respond to accusations of anti-Semitism, on Wednesday night he assumed the role of transgressor, even among his own, to charge against Netanyahu after the Islamist aggression.
Trump explained his grievance with Israel to his fans. He sidelined the U.S., he said, when he ordered the 2020 drone strike that killed Gen. Qasem Soleimani, Iran's top security and spy chief. Trump claimed that Israel had been working with Washington on the plan, but then received a call telling him that the allied government would not participate. “I will never forget it,” he proclaimed to his followers. “I will never forget that Bibi Netanyahu let us down. That was something terrible,” he stressed in his recrimination.
The former president accused Israeli intelligence for its failure to anticipate the terrorist attack. “This has to be fixed, thousands of people knew of his deficiencies,” he said at his rally in an area of Florida that is home to many Jews.
His opinion was the usual one. Biden is to blame for everything and he insisted on the falsehood that his government gave funds to Iran, supported by Hamas. He also blamed the president, and possible rival in 2024, for the skirmishes on Israel's northern border, which Trump attributed to Hizbullah, the pro-Iranian militia in Lebanon, which seeks to destroy the Jewish state, a group he highly praised. repeated.
Some competitors for the Republican nomination responded to Trump. “Terrorists have killed more than 1,200 Israelis and 22 Americans and are holding hostages. “It is absurd that anyone, much less anyone in the race to be president, would choose to attack our friend and ally, Israel, let alone praise Hizbullah,” said Ron DeSantis. Former Vice President Mike Pence chimed in: “Hizbullah is not smart, he is evil.”
