Schumer’s speech

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s speech summoning Israelis to vacate their prime minister was a political ruse to convince pro-Palestinian Democrats, many of whom voted “uncommitted” during recent presidential primaries, that President Joe Biden is solidly on their side.

Biden said it was “a good speech,” supplying his endorsement of Schumer’s rant. The speech included the ominous warning Israel risks becoming an international pariah, e.g., an outcast among nations, if its duly elected government is not quickly replaced. Presumably, Schumer signaled Biden would endorse new Israeli leadership provided it is far left and, through appeasement, would seek peace with Hamas — a doomed replication of Biden’s ongoing use of appeasement to convince Iran to abandon its sponsorship of Middle East terrorism.

Schumer’s speech occurred just days after Biden’s hot-mic moment following the State of the Union show, during which Biden said he told the Israeli prime minister they needed to have a “come to Jesus meeting.”

Schumer’s timing was not a coincidence, but a well-timed Machiavellian event previewing White House expectations for Israel. The Israeli prime minister knows Biden is behind in the polls. He knows Biden is desperate for a second term. And he knows if undermining Israel’s right of self defense and sovereignty would help win a second term, Biden would robotically undertake the machinations.

The prime minister need not prepare for what Biden called a Jesus-like meeting. The meeting would be emperor-like because the prime minister also knows, as in the scenario of the fairy tale emperor, Biden has no clothes.

— Herb Kline, Virginia Beach