Jordan, Egypt, Palestinian Authority Cancel Summit With Joe Biden as He Heads to Israel to to Pressure Netanyahu to Go Easy on the Jihadis

What a clusterf**k. Biden setthe region on fire. Remember how the left hated Donald Trump’s Middle East peace? Well, these bastards are getting a hot war and it’s coming down fast.

Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi announced earlier Tuesday that proposed summit between Biden, Abdullah II, Abbas and Egypt’s El-Sisi was canceled.

President Biden’s planned stop in Jordan, which was to take place after his visit to Israel, has been canceled.

He has no respect from any of the players.

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— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) October 18, 2023

Biden heads to Israel to pressure Netanyahu to go easy on the jihadis

By Robert Spencer, Oct 17, 2023:

All this talk about making sure that Israel avoids civilian casualties is a calculated insult. Israel is the most careful military in the world to avoid civilian casualties. Old Joe should be pressuring Hamas to stop launching attacks from civilian areas. But he is more likely to slip them a few billion.

“How Joe Biden got on board with a wartime trip to Israel – and what he hopes to accomplish,” by Phil Mattingly, Kevin Liptak, Kayla Tausche, MJ Lee, Jennifer Hansler and Alex Marquardt, CNN, October 17, 2023:

It took an explicit commitment from his Israeli counterpart to open Gaza for humanitarian aid for President Joe Biden to agree to make an extraordinary wartime trip to Tel Aviv.

While the trip will amount to a dramatic show of support for Israel as it prepares its response to last week’s Hamas attacks, it will also act as Biden’s strongest push for easing the suffering of civilians and allowing those who want to leave Gaza out.

The high-stakes diplomacy with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his interlocutor of four decades, underscores the delicate balance Biden is striking as he embarks upon the last-minute wartime visit later on Tuesday evening.

At stake are the lives of millions of civilians, including Americans, currently stuck in the coastal Palestinian enclave where a humanitarian crisis is underway as Israeli troops mass at its borders ahead of an expected ground invasion.

While there was no explicit stipulation from the US that Israel not launch its invasion until Biden leaves the region, that’s the understanding among American officials who have spent the past several days debating and planning the president’s visit, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.

American officials want humanitarian plans for Gaza fully signed off on and implemented before start of the invasion, the people said, describing that task as among Biden’s main objectives during his visit to Tel Aviv on Wednesday.
While Biden has stopped well short of encouraging a ceasefire – the word hasn’t been used at all in the administration’s response so far – he has issued steadily stronger warnings about protecting civilian life, including during his telephone calls with Netanyahu.

Traveling to Israel in person may provide Biden – who despises Zoom calls and has long espoused the importance of face-to-face meetings – a better opportunity to convey those views to his Israeli counterpart, a leader with whom he believes he has a deep understanding.