Republicans accused the president of reneging on his promises to Israel to appease pro-Palestinian protesters.
Speaker Mike Johnson told POLITICO right after President Joe Biden’s declaration of holding up weapons to Israel that it was “a complete turn from what I have been told even in, you know, recent hours.” | Francis Chung/POLITICOsaid he hoped President Joe Biden was having a “senior moment” when he declared he would withhold weapons from Israel if it proceeded with a planned invasion of Rafah.
The decision not to send weapons Israel could use to flatten Rafah was not a case of the president freelancing, aides said, but a strategy meant to push Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu off the course of ordering troops into the city’s most populated areas. A number of Republicans, including its leaders in both houses of Congress, accused the Biden administration of reneging on its promise to Israel by threatening to cut the supply of weapons just weeks after billions of dollars of aid in the national security supplemental was finally signed into law.
After that order leaked to the public, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin confirmed it Wednesday in testimony before Congress. Hours before Biden’s CNN interview, Austin acknowledged that the Pentagon had pumped the brakes on the shipment of 2,000- and 500-pound bombs to Israel. “The president is old enough to remember 1968, but he seems to have learned the wrong lessons from that pivotal year,” McConnell said Thursday. “Caving to the college radicals will only whet their appetite to spend the summer demanding anti-Israel concessions at his party’s convention.”
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