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Biden Administration Deletes Post Calling On Israelis Not to Respond to Hamas Assault
National Review ^ | 10/07/2023 | Philip Klein

Posted on 10/07/2023 10:05:03 AM PDT by Skywise

When Hamas launched a brutal assault on Israel overnight, the Biden administration’s Office of Palestinian Affairs initially called on Israel “to refrain from violence and retaliatory attacks,” before deleting the post.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Iran; Israel; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; biden; fjb; hamas; israel; terroristfunding; war
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To: Osage Orange

“I’m pretty sure Israel has WAY better info than our bum’s in the CIA.”

CIA only cares about DEI classes and Trump supporters.


41 posted on 10/07/2023 11:04:53 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Skywise

https://babylonbee.com/news/white-house-issues-condemnation-of-attack-biden-funded/


42 posted on 10/07/2023 11:09:49 AM PDT by Brown Deer
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To: Balata

Even more, did the Biden Regime help fund and organize the attacks on Israel?


43 posted on 10/07/2023 11:11:40 AM PDT by Ex-Episcopalian
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To: Skywise

For the Biden regime, they are too busy celebrating the slaughter of Israeli men, women and children..I bet at the white house they passed around candy and other treats..where is Omar, Tlaib, AOC, are they eating cake and cookies


44 posted on 10/07/2023 11:15:23 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Balata

US Intelligence probably knew in advance of this attack but since they hate Israel they were too busy going after old ladies in maga hats to give two sh*ts


45 posted on 10/07/2023 11:16:11 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Skywise
What they wrote: We stand firmly with the Government and people of Israel and extend our condolences for the Israeli lives lost in these attacks.

What they meant: We stand firmly with the Hamas Government and despise those filthy Jews of Israel, and extend our condolences for any heroic Hamas warriors lives lost in these attacks.

46 posted on 10/07/2023 11:16:51 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt ( )
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To: Balata

DID THE CIA AND OTHER INTELLIGENCE WITHHOLD VITAL INFORMATION FROM ISRAEL ABOUT THIS CURRENT ATTACK?
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Pretty sure they did.


47 posted on 10/07/2023 11:21:25 AM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: Billthedrill

I wouldn’t expect a lot of cogent responses from Dementia Joe. It takes time for his handlers to agree on a party line.


It takes time to set up a focus group and then send talking points to the media.


48 posted on 10/07/2023 11:22:22 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Israel has its own spy agency, and a damned good one. Why would we wait for info from the *chuckle* CIA?
*******
Fair point, how the hell did your great spy agency miss this one?


49 posted on 10/07/2023 11:22:27 AM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: Skywise

Every event in Joe’s /adm.’ has been a golden opportunity for him to demonstrate his ‘unfitness’ for the job

Stop, Joe.... we’re convinced already!!!!


50 posted on 10/07/2023 11:25:39 AM PDT by SMARTY (“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.” Thomas Sowell)
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To: yldstrk

I don’t know that they did. In 1973, they knew and forewarned of the attack on Yom Kippur by Syria and Egypt. But the Government decided to wait until it actually happened, fearing that another preemptive strike such as was done in ‘67 against Egypt would not sit well with the International Community, as if anything we ever did would (those were naive times). So maybe they missed it. A “great spy agency” is not omniscient. Or maybe the Government waited until it was on, fearing that they’d look like the bad guys if they preemptively swooped into Ghaza again, but picked out the juiciest targets ahead of time, using the info provided by the aforementioned “great spy agency”.


51 posted on 10/07/2023 11:41:21 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Skywise

Biden Administration Deletes Post Calling On Israelis Not to Respond to Hamas Assault

President Joe Biden speaks at the White House in Washington, D.C., October 6, 2023. (Leah Millis/Reuters)
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By PHILIP KLEIN
October 7, 2023 9:16 AM

When Hamas launched a brutal assault on Israel overnight, the Biden administration’s Office of Palestinian Affairs initially called on Israel “to refrain from violence and retaliatory attacks,” before deleting the post.

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Here is the post before it was deleted:

The administration subsequently released the following statement from NSC Spokesperson Adrienne Watson:

The United States unequivocally condemns the unprovoked attacks by Hamas terrorists against Israeli civilians. There is never any justification for terrorism. We stand firmly with the Government and people of Israel and extend our condolences for the Israeli lives lost in these attacks. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has spoken to Israeli National Security Advisor Tzachi Hanegbi and we remain in close contact with our Israeli partners.

As of this writing, President Biden has not offered any remarks or issued a statement on the unfolding attack on Israel.


52 posted on 10/07/2023 11:54:27 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Flu vaccines, work great if you’ve never had that flu! Otherwise they don't do any good/nor work!!!)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

Xiden: “ That $7 billion we gave to Iran was supposed to be used for terrorist attacks in the US, not Israel. We regret the misunderstanding.”


53 posted on 10/07/2023 12:01:23 PM PDT by Newtoidaho (All I ask of living is to have no chains on me.)
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To: Skywise

“the loss of life that has incurred.”

No, it’s occurred. This Administration is incompetent.


54 posted on 10/07/2023 12:02:31 PM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: Skywise

>>>Biden Administration Deletes Post Calling On Israelis Not to Respond to Hamas Assault.

Every day more Biden Administrative craziness on world display!!


55 posted on 10/07/2023 12:10:33 PM PDT by existentially_kuffer
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To: ConservativeInPA

Seriously.


56 posted on 10/07/2023 12:20:12 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Bammy set it up. President Trump shut it down. Bammy/Biden reopened it.


57 posted on 10/07/2023 12:22:25 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Eleutheria5

Exactly.
How did they miss this?
Did the have extremely competent opsec and only use couriers?


58 posted on 10/07/2023 12:24:24 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: hcmama; SJackson; ebb tide; LS; Liz; SunkenCiv; Red Badger

Nice conciliatory words from Biden’s administration.

We’re they the first version released? Or the revised version?


59 posted on 10/07/2023 12:36:18 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: Eagles6

If they missed it, how they missed it would not be something they’d tell the likes of me. But I’m not sure that they did, just as they didn’t miss the intel on the Yom Kipur attack, but waited for it to happen. Like I said, the IDF is going right at some choice targets. That might have been the Intel that they used, plus maybe stealing a march on mobilizing the reservists. But they might have known full well that this invasion was coming, but decided to sit it out as they did in ‘73.

1. They have listening posts in Ghaza for tapping into phone conversations, e-mails and other forms of communications.
2. They have native-level Arabic speakers infiltrated among the population.
3. Arabs are emotionally excitable and like to talk among themselves, especially about their next “glorious victory,” if they’re planning one, and they were.

So they’re not exactly hard to surveil. It’s unlikely that Mosad or Shin Bet were not aware of their plans.


60 posted on 10/07/2023 1:43:46 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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