Elizabeth Warren, Chris Murphy vs. Benjamin Netanyahu

Democrats are having a fit over Benjamin Netanyahu's statement that he's informed U.S. diplomats that he opposes the creation of a Palestinian state at the end of Israel's war in Gaza. Specifically, Sen. Chris Murphy and Sen. Elizabeth Warren are upset with PM Netanyahu. "Murphy, the Democrats’ top negotiator on the package, told reporters 'I think when Netanyahu says things like that, it does not help win votes from people who are skeptical about the future of a Palestinian state. That statement is not helpful and, yes, we’re going to need to get … a lot of Democratic votes to pass this.'"

Meanwhile, Sen. Elizabeth Warren is worried for a different reason. She said "It is the official policy of the United States government that we support two nations for two people to live in dignity and with self-determination. If Prime Minister Netanyahu opposes that, then we need to question why we are supporting the Netanyahu government."

The reason the U.S. needs to support Israel is because they're our strongest ally. Period. They're the reason why we don't have turmoil throughout the Middle East. Without Israel, we wouldn't have a counterbalance for Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, the Saudi's Sunni madrassas, Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

If anyone should be upset, it should be Israel. The Washington Free Beacon's Matthew Continetti reports this:

Secretary of State Antony Blinken sat for an interview with New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday. It was not reassuring.

The exchange began with a discussion of the Middle East. The region has been aflame since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, murdering 1,200 Israelis, kidnapping hundreds more, and spiriting away the innocents into an underground hell.

For the past 104 days, Israel has sought to destroy Hamas and free the captives. Throughout, Hezbollah in Lebanon has been fighting a low-intensity conflict with Israel. Militias have attacked U.S. forces deployed in Syria and Iraq hundreds of times. Houthi terrorists have fired drones and rockets at commercial shipping and U.S. naval assets in the Red Sea. On the morning Blinken spoke in Davos, Iran launched missiles into Syria, Iraq, and nuclear-armed Pakistan.

This interview should frighten people:

It's frightening to see Thomas Friedman constantly nodding at everything Blinken says. Blinken insists that they're coming at the world's problems from a position of strength. Friedman nods. Friedman says "What's it like for you? Take us inside the nature of your job today of managing weakness, not strength." Blinken replies, saying "I actually think we come at much of this from a renewed position of strength in the big picture. First, President Biden has made investments at home that people around the world are seeing..."

Is that why China's Defense Minister won't take our SecDef's calls? Is that why Houthi rebels haven't backed down in attacking Red Sea shipping lanes?

There's nothing strong about this administration. They showed weakness repeatedly when they didn't ship the required armaments requirements to Ukraine because Biden was afraid to "provoke Putin" after Putin had invaded Ukraine. They showed weakness against Iran, the Houthis and Hezbollah because they didn't want to escalate the war. Then Iran and the Houthis escalated the war by attacking cargo ships in the Red Sea. If that's Blinken's definition of a picture of strength, then Blinken needs a dictionary.