Biden agrees with hecklers about Israeli withdrawal
“If you really care about the lives lost here, you should honor the lives and also call for a ceasefire in Palestine.
“Ceasefire now, ceasefire now”
These shouts and chants from pro-Hamas protestors interrupted President Biden as he spoke at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, where a white supremacist shot and killed nine people in 2015, on January 8th.
Biden responded not just by agreeing to call for a cease fire, but calling for Israel to give up territory it already seized and cleared of terrorists, with hundreds of soldiers killed and maimed in the process:
“I understand their passion and I've been quietly working with the Israeli government to get them to reduce and significantly get out of Gaza, using all that I can to do that.”
SEE IT: Protesters interrupted Pres. Biden's remarks inside Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, the site of a 2015 white supremacist attack, to call for a cease-fire in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/51Lxm9dHJb
— ABC News (@ABC) January 8, 2024
Demands for humanitarian aid bad for Gazans
In addition to demanding a troop withdrawal, Biden has called for Israel to allow water, food and fuel into Gaza, even as Hamas continues shooting rockets a Israeli children while holding Israeli hostages as sex slaves. However, the administration’s demands for humanitarian aid only serve to prolong the war, a war that could have ended long ago. Hamas would have been forced to surrender, with hostages freed and the war halted with no further Gazan civilian casualties, or the civilian population would have overthrown Hamas to bring an end to the blockade.
Some families of hostages have protested the passage of the food and water trucks through Israel, even as those hostages are tortured and rapidly losing weight from malnutrition.
The Israeli police work to enable the entrance of aid into Gaza, while the families are protesting the absurdity of keeping the flow of resources that end up in Hamas hands
“This joke must end! My 80-year-old father has been there for over 3 months! How much longer could he… https://t.co/jJzNNsNjXy pic.twitter.com/7smqSkhhEd
— Adam Albilya – (@AdamAlbilya) January 9, 2024
Instead, Hamas hoards the humanitarian aid for itself, as some members of Congress were concerned would happen, leaving the civilians without food and water.
The dramatic scenes as local Gazans throw stones and withstand gunfire from Hamas agents in order to stop them from looting new humanitarian aid shipments that crossed in from Rafah. pic.twitter.com/pWbEx2g9BN
— Gaza Report – (@gaza_report) December 5, 2023
Gazans fear Hamas, want Israel to finish the job
Hamas has, in fact, been hoarding supplies, for many years, such as food, fuel, water, and medicine that were to have been for the civilian population, leaving much of the population suffering. From a series of recorded calls to the IDF from Gazans, it is apparent that the longer Hamas is allowed to survive, the more Gazans will be harmed and killed – by Hamas.
In one recorded call, a Gazan civilian testified that Hamas murdered his cousin because he tried to seek help from UNRWA. In another conversation, a civilian said he does not leave his home because he fears Hamas will seize it and use the property to fire toward Israel and destroy his house.
One civilian is heard on a recording saying, “When will you get rid of [Hamas]? They killed my cousin yesterday because he went to UNRWA.”
“They killed him in Rafah,” the civilian tells the IDF officer.
A different civilian is recorded telling the IDF how Hamas terrorists steal food from civilians.
What about the hostages?
In response to Biden's calls for withdrawal and his additional demand to move to low intensity fighting, understood to mean replacing air strikes with urban street battles, at great risk to Israeli soldiers, Israel has executed a pullout from areas of Gaza, to the delight of many in the Biden administration. To the extent that the pullout returns areas of Gaza to Hamas control, it leaves, not just Gazans in the hands of those who readily murder them, but about 130 Israeli hostages in Hamas’s hands, many of them girls and women who they continue to rape and sexually assault.