May 19, 2021

With more than 3,700 rockets fired at Israel over the past ten days, former Vice President Mike Pence has issued a scathing assessment of President Joe Biden’s foreign policy in the Middle East, and it can be summed up in one word: Weakness.

“Instead of seeking peace through strength, he has invited violence through weakness,” Pence wrote in a column published in National Review on May 17.

“The Trump-Pence administration opened the door to a future of peace in the Middle East founded on our strong and unwavering commitment to the state of Israel. But now Israel is enduring the worst outbreak of violence in at least seven years – a direct result of the weakness shown by the Biden administration from its first day in office.”

In the article, Pence extolled Trump’s strategic, bold and pioneering approach to the Middle East, including an unapologetic defense of Israel and the successful brokering of four Arab-Israeli peace treaties, which he argued was distinctly different from the eight years of chaos and violence in the region under former President Barack Obama with then-Vice President Biden.

“Many Americans witnessing the recent bloodshed in Israel are perplexed by how quickly violence erupted after years of calm,” Pence noted. “The answer is that President Biden and congressional Democrats have abandoned unambiguous support for our ally Israel, emboldened our enemies, and turned their back on the policy that yielded historic peace deals in the Middle East.”

“We withdrew from the dangerous Iran nuclear deal brokered by the Obama-Biden administration, which put the world’s leading state sponsor of terror on the path to nuclear weapons while sending pallets of cash to the mullahs in Iran. We acknowledged Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights and the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria. And President Trump kept the promise made by countless Republican and Democrat politicians by actually following through in moving the American embassy to Jerusalem, the capital of the State of Israel.”

Pence argued that “Biden has sent the world a profoundly different message. Instead of seeking peace through strength, he has invited violence through weakness.”

Weakness arouses evil. Instead of seeking peace through strength, President Biden has offered weakness and ambivalence. Tragically, our friends in Israel are paying a terrible price.
 
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— Advancing American Freedom (@AmericanFreedom) May 19, 2021

“President Biden has emboldened anti-Semitic terrorist groups such as Hamas by shunning Israeli leaders and restoring more than $200 million in aid to the Palestinians that had been canceled by the Trump-Pence administration. He unilaterally took the Iranian-backed Houthis off the list of designated terrorist organizations. And worst of all, he has announced his intention to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal, destabilizing the entire region. When asked, Biden’s press secretary couldn’t even say whether Israel remains an ‘important ally’ of the United States.”

Pence concluded his column by urging Americans to “pray for the peace of Jerusalem and stand without apology for our most cherished ally, Israel, until the violence is quelled and Israel’s security is restored.”

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Former Vice President Mike Pence is blaming President Biden for the current conflict in the Middle East.

In an op-ed for the conservative outlet National Review, Pence highlights progress made during the time he was vice president toward Middle East peace while slamming Biden’s agenda.

“Israel is enduring the worst outbreak of violence in at least seven years,” he wrote. “A direct result of the weakness shown by the Biden administration from its first day in office. Many Americans witnessing the recent bloodshed in Israel are perplexed by how quickly violence erupted after years of calm.”

He added, “The answer is that President Biden and congressional Democrats have abandoned unambiguous support for our ally Israel, emboldened our enemies, and turned their back on the policy that yielded historic peace deals in the Middle East.”

The former vice president also pointed to the peace deals the Trump administration negotiated in the Middle East.

Last September, Israel signed peace deals to “change the course of history” with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, which were brokered by Trump.

“These groundbreaking peace accords happened not in spite of America’s support for Israel, but because of it. Other nations knew where America stood with absolute certainty,” Pence noted. “They knew America would respond forcefully if our citizens or allies were threatened. As a result, they responded rationally by pursuing peace and harmony.”

Pence condemned Biden for restoring over $200 million in aid to the Palestinians and taking the Iran-backed Houthis off the designated terror group list while simultaneously trying to rejoin the nuclear deal with the radical regime in Iran.

“President Biden has emboldened anti-Semitic terrorist groups such as Hamas by shunning Israeli leaders and restoring more than $200 million in aid to the Palestinians that had been canceled by the Trump-Pence administration,” the former vice president wrote. “He unilaterally took the Iranian-backed Houthis off the list of designated terrorist organizations. And worst of all, he has announced his intention to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal, destabilizing the entire region.”

The Trump-Pence Administration set the table for lasting peace. President Biden has replaced strength with weakness, moral clarity with confusion, and loyalty with betrayal.

If the world knows nothing else, let the world know this: America Stands with Israel. 🇺🇸🇮🇱 pic.twitter.com/QxDP5iZBs1

— Mike Pence (@Mike_Pence) May 18, 2021

Then Pence addressed the issue with Hamas, stressing why he strongly opposes any comparison between Israel and the terrorist group.

“Every tepid statement uttered by the Biden-Harris administration is built on a false equivalency between Israel and Hamas,” he wrote. “One is a sovereign nation with a legitimate government and a trusted ally. The other is an internationally recognized terrorist organization that has fired more than 3,000 rockets at Jewish families and businesses in the past week. There is no moral equivalency between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas.”

Pence concluded his article by urging everyone to pray for peace and unity.

“Americans should pray for the peace of Jerusalem and stand without apology for our most cherished ally, Israel until the violence is quelled and Israel’s security is restored,” he said.

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Former Vice President Mike Pence assigned blame to President Joe Biden for the current conflict between Israel and Hamas, saying that ‘weakness arouses evil.’

On Tuesday, Pence – a likely Republican 2024 presidential candidate – was out with a new video message and an op-ed for National Review touting the Trump-Pence administration’s ‘unrivaled’ commitment to Israel.

‘But from the moment President Biden took office, all that changed, and the results have reignited violence,’ Pence said in the video, adding that Biden has lost ‘four years of progress toward peace.’

Instead of seeking peace through strength, President Biden has offered weakness and ambivalence and, tragically, our friends in Israel are paying a terrible price,’ Pence also said.

Pence said the Biden administration was making a ‘false equivalency’ between Isreal and Hamas.

‘One is a sovereign nation with a legitimate government, and a trusted ally. The other, an internationally recognized terrorist organization that has now fired more than 3,000 rockets at Jewish families and business in the past week alone,’ Pence said. ‘There is no moral equivalency between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas.’

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— Mike Pence (@Mike_Pence) May 17, 2021

Pence outlined a number of Biden policies he believed contributed to the fresh conflict.

He blasted Biden for restoring U.S. funding to the Palestinian Authority and indicating a willingness to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal, which former President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of in 2018.

That deal had been negotiated by President Barack Obama’s administration, while Biden was serving as vice president.

He promoted the last administration’s decision to move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, and pointed to the Abraham Accords, peace deals between Israel and United Arab Emirates and also Bahrain, which were negotiated during Trump’s term in office.

Pence hit Biden and Congressional Democrats – some of whom have been extremely critical of Israel’s response to Hamas’ rocket attacks – saying they ‘abandoned unambiguous support for our ally Israel, emboldened our enemies, and turned their back on the policy that yielded historic peace deals in the Middle East.’

‘Apparently, Biden learned nothing from the tragic foreign-policy blunders made during his time as vice president. President Obama’s thin “red line” in Syria, his decision to “lead from behind” in Libya, and his slipshod withdrawal from Iraq each created power vacuums that were quickly filled by America’s enemies,’ Pence wrote in National Review.

‘Now Biden is repeating those grave errors by creating a power vacuum of his own. He has replaced strength with weakness, moral clarity with confusion, and loyalty with betrayal,’ Pence continued. ‘Biden’s void, too, is being filled by America’s enemies – and Israelis are paying the price in blood.’

‘Americans should pray for the peace of Jerusalem and stand without apology for our most cherished ally, Israel, until the violence is quelled and Israel’s security is restored,’ the former vice president added.

During the Trump years, the now former president put his son-in-law Jared Kushner in charge of coming up with a peace deal between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

It was rejected, in part, because it was too biased in favor of Israel.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki pointed to Kushner’s plan when asked Tuesday if the Biden administration believed the thinking behind the Abraham Accords should be reconsidered.

‘I would say that we are not following the same tactics of the prior administration. We – the president has reinstated humanitarian assistance and security assistance to the Palestinians. That’s something that was stopped back in 2018 and we felt was not a constructive action by the prior administration,’ Psaki said.

‘Aside from putting forward a peace proposal that was dead on arrival, we don’t think they did anything constructive, really, to bring an end to the longstanding conflict in the Middle East,’ the press secretary added.

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Former Vice President Mike Pence released a video statement Tuesday, from Advancing American Freedom, his new policy and advocacy organization, blaming President Joe Biden and his administration for the Israel and Gaza conflict due to his lack of strength.

Pence started by reaffirming “Israel is America’s most cherished ally,” and he believes this wholeheartedly. During Pence’s time as the vice president under President Donald Trump, he was honored to visit Israel and meet with Prime Minister Netanyahu and see the western wall. Pence said under the Trump-Pence administration, the United States and Israel witnessed “four years of progress toward peace.” He said the “Trump-Pence administration‘s commitment to Israel was unrivaled,” and they “made that clear to the world through our actions.”

He explained that Israel has been seeing unprovoked violence for more than a week from the terrorist group Hamas, asserting that this was able to happen from the weakness Biden shows while in office. Pence said, “Biden has replaced strength with weakness, moral clarity with confusion, and loyalty with betrayal.”

During the Trump-Pence administration, Pence said, they “brokered historic peace deals in the Middle East, we withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal, and it was three years ago last week that our administration kept a decades-old promise.” Pence expressed since Biden took office in January, all that has changed.

With Biden being inaugurated, he continued to say, violence reignited and his “weakness arouses evil” instead of “seeking peace through strength.” Pence said “our friends in Israel are paying a terrible price.” Biden has even hurt Israel by “restoring funding to the Palestinian Authority,” and Biden further endangered Israel with his announcement to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal.

Pence explained the difference between Israel and Hamas, saying, “One is a sovereign nation with a legitimate government and a trusted ally, the other is an internationally recognized terrorist organization.” Since the start of this conflict, the terrorist group in Gaza has “now fired more than 3,000 rockets at Jewish families and businesses in the past week alone.”

Pence said Biden, along with every other leader the United States, should uphold “Israel’s right to self-defense and condemn the terrorists of Hamas,” including condemning any type of supporters and apologists.

Pence ended his statement by saying, in the “midst of these unprovoked attacks” on Israel, “let’s pray for the peace of Jerusalem and if the world knows nothing else, let the world know this, America stands with Israel.”

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