Biden Quietly Apologized To Muslim-Americans For Not Believing Death Toll In Gaza Reported By Hamas

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America’s close relationship with the only functional democracy in the Middle East has become a real wedge issue for Democrats.

It used to be that support for Israel pretty much crossed party lines, but that was before the Anti-American, Neo-Marxists took their “Long Walk Through The Institutions” to indoctrinate an entire generation.

The times — they are a-changin’.

We’re seeing the tension right now as an octogenarian President who has spent 50 years in Washington is trying to navigate the rough waters of the Democrats’ historical support for Israel and the new wave of tacit Hamas apologists who are rocking the boat.

To continue with the maritime theme here — it’s clear that Biden is out of his depth.

Part of the problem is that the rules have changed so fast that the slow-moving, 81-year-old Joe Biden just can’t keep up.

Now it’s fashionable on some parts of the Left to see Hamas not as a terrorist group conducting an Iranian proxy war on Israel, but as “freedom fighters” who are just pushing back on the European colonialism that is … *checks notes* … the post-WWII creation of the state of Israel after 6 million Jews were slaughtered in the Holocaust.

Biden apparently took heat from several Muslim Americans for being skeptical of the thousands upon thousands of dead reported by the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry.

Biden at times has seemed to wrestle with his own emotions regarding the war. On Oct. 25, he voiced skepticism about the Gaza death toll provided by the Gaza Health Ministry, which is controlled by Hamas. “I have no notion that the Palestinians are telling the truth about how many people are killed,” he said.
Source: Washington Post (Archived)

Here is the moment he expressed a bit of hesitancy in believing that the death toll reported by Hamas was accurate.

That really upset some Muslim-Americans that vote for the Jackass Party, apparently. They met with President Biden the next day urging him to “show more empathy to the Palestinians.”

The following day, Biden met with five prominent Muslim Americans, who protested what they saw as his insensitivity to the civilians who were dying. All spoke of people they knew who had been affected by the suffering in Gaza, including a woman who had lost 100 members of her family.
Biden appeared to be affected by their account. “I’m sorry. I’m disappointed in myself,” he told the group, according to two people familiar with the meeting. “I will do better.” The meeting, scheduled for 30 minutes, ended up lasting more than an hour, according to one White House official, and ended with Biden hugging one of the participants.
Source: Washington Post (Archived)

According to the Washington Post, the guest list included: Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, Chicago-based Rami Nashashibi, interfaith leader Imam Mohamed Magid, Muslim lobbyist Wa’el Alzayat, and health-care advocate Suzanne Barakat.

Well, that explains the constant need by this administration to conflate antisemitism and islamophobia.

By the way, the support for Hamas by Palestinians is pretty high and the vast majority of Gazans approve of Hamas’s October 7 terror attack in Israel on a Jewish holiday. Just throwing that in here as an FYI.

WaPo reports that Biden’s top advisers have recognized that America’s typical pro-Israel stance in this conflict has “hurt America’s global standing.”

“We’re taking on a lot of water on Israel’s behalf,” one unnamed senior official is quoted as saying.

Wow. Who knew that standing with Israel would be such a problem on the world stage? Literally anyone paying attention to the resolutions passed by the antisemitic hive of scum and villainy that is the United Nations, but let’s not bring them into this right now… this is a blue-on-blue fight, and it’s happening in the West Wing.

From WaPo:

On Oct. 7, many in the White House responded viscerally to the brutal nature of the atrocities. Zients emailed staffers expressing empathy with Jewish staffers and those with personal ties to Israel. Many Jewish staffers appreciated the note, but some Arab and Muslim officials felt it was tone-deaf to their concerns, given that Israeli officials were vowing to carry out a scorched-earth campaign in Gaza.
Muslim appointees in the administration began raising “alarm bells” about the email from Zients and what they believed was one-sided rhetoric by the administration, a senior administration official familiar with the efforts said. Shortly after Oct. 7, Zients directed staff to conduct a “robust” internal and external outreach strategy to Jewish, Muslim, Arab and Palestinian American communities. And Dunn, Biden’s top political strategist, has led a daily meeting with about 30 White House staffers responsible for outreach to various communities, according to two senior administration officials.
Source: Washington Post (Archived)

War is bad. Civilians are killed and that’s horrible. That’s why people don’t like war. But perhaps Hamas should’ve thought of that before they broke the ceasefire that had existed on October 6.

But this is not just a hot war, it’s also a propaganda war and Hamas is winning that hands-down thanks to idiot journos who don’t know how to ask questions, provide any context, or, it seems reason themselves out of a wet paper bag. Oh, and also the raging antisemitic, pro-Hamas, pro-Hitler journos that report from Gaza.

• NOT SATIRE: New York Times Hires Pro-Hitler, Pro-Hamas Videographer To Cover Israel-Gaza War
• PROPAGANDA PRESS: Useful Idiots In The Media Back Off From Calling Hamas Terrorists ‘Terrorists’
• Libs And Journos POUNCE On Gaza Hospital ‘Bombing’ — There’s Just One BIG Problem…
• Associated Press Guidelines Favors The Hamas Propaganda War — Reporters Told To Avoid Using ‘Terrorist’
• WaPo Caption Said Israeli Children Held As Hostages In Gaza Were ‘Detained’ By Hamas
• WATCH: Saudi Journo Is More Honest About Hamas Than The New York Times
• Meet The AP Journo Who Chronicled The Hamas Attack In Real Time … With A Grenade In His Hand
• PALLYWOOD: Lib Journos Fall For Palestinian YouTuber Who Wears MANY Hats

Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) succinctly explains why there should be a whole lot of skepticism of any numbers reported by the Gaza Health Ministry — they lump in the Hamas terrorists with civilians.

The President of the United States just apologized for not believing the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry — the same one that lied about the Al-Ahli hospital “explosion” — on the death toll because it might alienate some of his base. That’s the state of the Democratic Party in the Year of Our Lord Twenty Twenty-three.

Unreal.

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