Oval Office addresses are rare and signify major crises
ed note–Biden made a ‘lightning visit’ to Israel–as it is described in the piece below–to meet with Netanyahu, a meeting that lasted all of only 2 hours, and then he flew home.
Some will say he did this only for ‘political reasons’, meaning in order to appeal to the large pro-Israel base in the US, but this is not it. US Presidents don’t make ‘lightning visits’ to countries only to then return after a mere 2 hours. He was there to get his marching orders from Netanyahu and had to get back because something big is coming and he has to be in the Oval Office when it arrives.
Recall as well that he sent AN ENTIRE AIRCRAFT CARRIER FLEET to Israel’s coastline, and this is to protect the Jewish State from Hamas rockets that 99% of the time land in open fields with no damage being done?
Buckle yourselves in and hold on to something stable, ladies and Gentile-men, because our world is about to be unraveled in ways we have never seen before which the followers of Judah-ism have been planning for us ever since 70AD.
JTA
President Joe Biden will deliver an address to the nation from the White House’s Oval Office on Israel and Ukraine, a sign of how invested the United States is in the outcome of Israel’s war with Hamas.
‘Tomorrow, President Biden will address the nation to discuss our response to Hamas’ terrorist attacks against Israel and Russia’s ongoing brutal war against Ukraine,’ Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House spokeswoman, said in an email Wednesday night to reporters. The speech will be broadcast at 8 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday.
Oval Office addresses are rare and signify major crises. President George W. Bush used the Oval Office in 2003 to announce his intention to invade Iraq. President Barack Obama spoke about a deadly Islamist mass shooting in San Bernardino in 2015. President Donald Trump announced measures to combat the COVID-19 pandemic in a March 2020 address.
Biden wants Congress to fund U.S. defense assistance for Israel as it deals with the aftermath of the deadly Hamas attack on Oct. 7, and as Ukraine seeks gains in its bid to oust Russian invaders. Congress remains stuck in neutral as Republicans remain unable to replace Kevin McCarthy as speaker, after radicals on the party’s far right engineered his ouster two weeks ago.
There is widespread support for Israel funding in Congress but growing Republican opposition to additional funding for Ukraine. The latest republican to seek the speakership, Ohio’s Jim Jordan, says he would not advance funding for Ukraine. Jordan failed Wednesday in his second bid this week to be elected speaker, as Republican moderates and right-wingers remain incapable of reconciling.
Biden made a lightning visit Wednesday to Israel to show his support. While there, he secured an agreement from Israel to allow the transfer of humanitarian aid into Gaza, which Hamas controls, from Egypt.