Posted on 04/08/2024 7:33:12 AM PDT by Red Badger
NewsNation anchor Chris Cuomo tore into President Joe Biden on Thursday, accusing the White House of sending a “mixed message” on Israel and warning him that no amount of political pressure — even from within his own party — was an “excuse to be weak.”
Cuomo was responding to Biden’s Thursday call with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during which he reportedly pressured the Israeli leader to move ahead with a ceasefire in Gaza despite the fact that the terrorist group Hamas — which started the current war with an unprovoked attack on October 7th and is still holding Israeli and American hostages — has thus far refused to make any concessions.
During the call, the president also suggested that U.S. policy toward Israel moving forward would be reevaluated and determined based on Netanyahu’s response to Biden’s demands.
Cuomo was apparently not impressed, and he used his Thursday monologue to address Biden directly.
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“I know that the war in the Middle East is a major concern for you in the election, and I think that explains why you misplayed it the way you did today. You gave a mixed message. You talked tough, what sounded like a threat to your main ally in the region,” Cuomo said. “And then you said you’re giving them more weapons.”
“You’re treating the war against Israel as if it were another political point of compromise. ‘This is wrong. But this is wrong. And we need to do better here. And there has to be change and blah, blah, blah. Ceasefire.’ A lot of words, a lot of conditional language, a lot of half-speak, a lot of appeasement in a situation that is not about balance. It is about realities,” he continued.
Cuomo went on to explain that he understood the likely political calculus that was going on behind the scenes, saying that he knew the presidential race was thus far shaping up to be a close one and that Biden stood to lose support from within his own party if he did not make some effort to appease the pro-Palestinian voters. But he argued that was “no excuse” for allowing the politics to drive policy when there were still American hostages in the hands of Hamas terrorists.
“I get how worried you are that you’re not going to have the same base you had the last time. But that is not an excuse to be weak. There’s a primary reality, okay? We seem to have forgotten it,” Cuomo added. “Hamas is a terror organization. You designated them as that. They stole people. They need to give the people they stole back to us, to Israel, first. The hostages have become an afterthought and that is wrong. And the reason it has happened is even more wrong. The reason it has happened is because other political exigencies and agendas have overtaken their relevance.”
Completely forgotten is more like it
They have been raped and tortured daily since October 7... So while some may still be alive, they likely wish they were dead.
A broken clock is right twice a day.
I’m glad there’s at least some minor pushback from other democrats.
Why we haven’t helped Israel get these hostages back is beyond my comprehension.
Chris Cuomo is a good demonstration of what happens to a person when they leave the Leftist echo chamber.
Five years ago if you’d told me he would do a hit piece like this I’d a said you were nuts................
This brain dead fraud has never given Americans’ suffering a single thought.
Really, recovering hostages should be secondary to ending Hamas and any future times they’ll take new hostages.
Biden is doing is bungling everything.
Biden isn’t in charge...Our former Muslim President is...
Hostages are always going to be a casualty of war. Changing policy in sympathy for a few people who are almost certainly broken by now anyway can’t be allowed to influence the overall mission and its success. Harsh, yes, but that’s the reality. The Israelis would be wrong to sacrifice their future for a few hostages. Rewarding hostage takers inevitably leads to more hostage taking.
This does not in any way excuse Biden’s meddling in the conduct of the war or his empty platitudes about the American hostages…when he bothers to mention them at all.
Biden should be demanding the release of hostages, not a ceasefire. Amazing how nobody cares that Hamas committed atrocities and still has hostages and Biden is treating them like friends.
Biden has to be re-elected. That isn’t happening with Israeli’s killing Hamas. He needs his donors, and most Jews in America don’t support or like Israel.....Just Democrats.
A few people, some maybe not Israeli or even Jewish, raped and tortured everyday is acceptable collateral for the people that have hoisted the petard known as Joe Biden on the Public.
Don’t worry, since Israel didn’t do the job, the killing will continue. Israel will have another opportunity to visit the planned Islamic Jihad against them “From the River to the Sea”. I suggest strongly that they become independent of the US equipment and arms before that.
And I would have agreed with you. I’ve been nuts before.;-)
He probably just in remission.
The Leftist cancer will return soon. It will roar back and consume his soul.
Forget it creep. You were a mouth piece for the Marxists. A turn to the right will not restore your credibility.
Here’s a video where Cuomo complains about Biden’s Transgender Visibility Day and transgenders in general.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wQvpi5UAosI?feature=share
Cuomo needs to shut up.
I wonder how many have taken their own lives too.
If Biden had any clue he’d announce that if all the hostages aren’t released alive and unharmed in 48 hours he would put the United States Navy and Air Forces at Bibi’s disposal. That would include American crews.
The only restriction would be no nukes.
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If Biden had any clue he’d announce that if all the hostages aren’t released alive and unharmed in 48 hours he would put the United States Navy and Air Forces at Bibi’s disposal. That would include American crews.
The only restriction would be no nukes.
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