After Israel announced the IDF’s elimination of Sinwar in Rafah yesterday, Vice President Harris made a congratulatory statement (White House transcript here, video clip below). This statement should fill a normal person with disgust.
🚨 Kamala speaks out about Sinwar.
“Know this, we will always bring you to justice”
Wait a minute… We? Sinwar was found in Rafah.
Wasn’t it Kamala who said going into Rafah would be a “huge mistake”?pic.twitter.com/quvg3jO7oR
— Kosher🎗🧡 (@koshercockney) October 17, 2024
The news of Sinwar’s death serves as an indictment of the judgment of President Biden’s and Vice President Harris’s disparagement of Israel’s conduct of the war on Hamas. To take the pertinent example of Biden administration harassment, they spent months warning Israel against an invasion of Rafah. Biden said going into Rafah was a “red line” for him while Harris warned there would be “consequences” because she “studied the maps.” See NRO’s editorial comment in This Week (behind the NRO paywall). Biden’s statement yesterday included the usual ceasefire blather (White House transcript here).
The comment below makes the closely related point. It’s not enough that these people are idiots. They are also frauds.
In the immediate aftermath of Sinwar’s death, the Biden crew claimed to have assisted Israel with the intelligence that facilitated it. See National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s comments here. Putting to one side the obstacles Biden and Harris have erected to Israel’s operation in Rafah, Michael Doran summarizes how it went down in the X post below.
Haviv Rettig Gur is an excellent Israeli reporter. He comment on Sinwar’s death in the X post below.
