The Week: Biden Turns on Israel

• Biden just put $6 billion of student debt from 78,000 public employees on the shoulders of taxpayers. Lay off the 78,000 public employees, and we’ll call it even.

• President Biden has been getting increasingly hostile in his rhetoric toward Israel in recent weeks, particularly when it comes to Israeli plans to finish the job against Hamas by invading Rafah, a town in southern Gaza. Vice President Kamala Harris chastised Israel for the planned offensive, claiming, laughably, that she had “studied the maps” and decided that Israel’s plan to evacuate civilians from the area wasn’t feasible. Then the administration betrayed Israel at the United Nations by allowing the Security Council to pass a resolution demanding an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza while Hamas remains in power and still holds 130 hostages. The resolution makes no mention of the October 7 massacres, and while it “also demands the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages,” it does not make the cease-fire contingent on their release. Unsurprisingly, Hamas rejected the cease-fire proposal hours after the resolution passed. Why make any concessions knowing that the U.S. is pressuring Israel to give up its fight anyway?

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• Biden just put $6 billion of student debt from 78,000 public employees on the shoulders of taxpayers. Lay off the 78,000 public employees, and we’ll call it even.

• President Biden has been getting increasingly hostile in his rhetoric toward Israel in recent weeks, particularly when it comes to Israeli plans to finish the job against Hamas by invading Rafah, a town in southern Gaza. Vice President Kamala Harris chastised Israel for the planned offensive, claiming, laughably, that she had “studied the maps” and decided that Israel’s plan to evacuate civilians from the area wasn’t feasible. Then the administration betrayed Israel at the United Nations by allowing the Security Council to pass a resolution demanding an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza while Hamas remains in power and still holds 130 hostages. The resolution makes no mention of the October 7 massacres, and while it “also demands the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages,” it does not make the cease-fire contingent on their release. Unsurprisingly, Hamas rejected the cease-fire proposal hours after the resolution passed. Why make any concessions knowing that the U.S. is pressuring Israel to give up its fight anyway?