There was a no-win question asked on the fourth-grade playground at Mt Sterling Elementary School when I attended, back in the days of quill pens and inkwells: If you were up to your neck in [insert vulgar term for feces here], and someone threw a bucket of [insert slang term for urine here] at your head, would you duck? That’s of what President Joe Biden’s latest foreign policy move reminds me:
US asks Israel to approve military aid to Palestinian security forces
By Jewish News Syndicate | Boston Tea Party Day, December 16, 2024 | 2:55 PM EST
The Biden administration has privately asked Israel to approve an urgent request for U.S. military aid to Palestinian Authority forces, Palestinian, American, and Israeli officials told Axios on Sunday night.
The request comes after the P.A. launched a rare counter-terror raid in Jenin, where Ramallah for years refused to act against Iranian-backed terrorist groups, in violation of its commitments under the Oslo Accords.
Ramallah launched its operation, dubbed “Defense of the Homeland,” following the Dec. 5 seizure by Hamas and Islamic Jihad of a P.A. vehicle and amid fears that terrorists in the Samaria city could attempt a coup inspired by the swift rebel takedown of Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria.
According to Arab media reports, two Palestinian terrorists have so far been killed by the P.A., including Yazid Jaysa, a leader in the Islamic Jihad-led Jenin Brigades who was reportedly also wanted by Israel.
What, is Bill Kristol determining our foreign policy in the last 35 days of the Biden Administration? This is a typical foreign policy establishment kind of idea, that we should somehow intervene on the side of the less bad bad guys when they are fighting worse bad bad guys. We’ve been doing that since the days of Nguyễn Văn Thiệu in South Vietnam, and continued with puppet leaders installed in Iraq and Afghanistan. When was the last time we actually won anything by doing that?
If Hamas/Islamic Jihad and Fatah keep fighting and killing each other, the longer it goes on and ‘Palestinian’ terrorists keep being sent to Jahannam and their 72 Bacha Bazi boys, that’s the real win for the United States, for Israel, and for Western civilization in general. When there’s a winner, if there’s a winner, the longer such a struggle has gone on, the better off we all are.
Many members of Israel’s security brass support P.A. control over parts of Judea and Samaria as a “moderating force” opposed to Hamas and other Iranian-backed terror groups.
But, in the very next paragraph:
Members of Ramallah’s forces have a long history of carrying out attacks against Israeli soldiers and Israeli civilians. Last year, Abbas’s Fatah boasted that most of its “martyrs” had served in the P.A. Security Forces.
Translation: every weapon the US or Israel gives Fatah to use against Hamas and Islamic Jihad is a weapon that will eventually be used to shoot at Israelis.
I can see surreptitiously sending a few arms to whichever side is losing, to enable them to keep on fighting each other, but that’s it. Otherwise, stay out of it!