Former Vice President Mike Pence has emerged into the spotlight to slam President Biden in a new op-ed, blaming him for recent airstrikes by the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip that have killed over 200 Palestinians in Gaza. He also praised former President Donald Trump for bringing “peace” to the middle east as violence rages on.
Writing in the National Review, Pence claimed the violence in Israel is the result of a “dangerous lack of support for the U.S. ally.”
“Instead of seeking peace through strength, he has invited violence through weakness,” Pence wrote. “Every tepid statement uttered by the Biden-Harris administration is built on a false equivalency between Israel and Hamas.”
“There is no moral equivalency between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas,” Pence wrote. “President Biden and every American leader should uphold Israel’s right to self-defense and condemn the terrorists of Hamas — as well as their supporters and apologists — in the strongest possible terms.”
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Pence in the op-ed praised Trump for his administration negotiating a peace deal in the Middle East. He claimed that Biden’s policies toward Israel have unraveled that work, describing them as being a continuation of the Obama-era policies in the region, which Republicans have long decried.
“He has replaced strength with weakness, moral clarity with confusion, and loyalty with betrayal,” Pence wrote of Biden. “Biden’s void, too, is being filled by America’s enemies — and Israelis are paying the price in blood.”
Biden on Monday approved $735 million worth of precision-guided weapons to be sold to Israel, a move some Democrats have rejected.
