Secure Freedom Minute

Amidst the growing carnage wrought by Team Biden’s policy failures in Ukraine, Israel and the U.S. borders, scant attention has been paid to what may prove to be its most disastrous betrayal of the national interest of all. 

Largely hidden from public scrutiny and without a single vote approving such sedition, Obama-Biden 3.0 is beavering away at  “fundamentally transforming” America from a freedom-protecting constitutional Republic to an enslaved subset of a new, tyrannical “global governance” order.  

Thankfully, former President Donald Trump this week powerfully denounced the unlikely instrument for engineering this stealthy coup – a newly empowered, supranational World Health Organization. He promised, if re-elected, to undo Biden’s betrayal. 

Better yet, with Mr. Trump’s help let’s prevent it from happening in the first place by defunding and withdrawing from the WHO now. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

Fresh from his whirlwind visit to Israel, Joe Biden, will provide tonight a report on the war there. It’s unlikely to be either a complete or honest rendering. 

After all, that would require him to take substantial responsibility for this conflict. While Beijing and Tehran enabled their Hamas proxy’s genocidal invasion, none of that would likely have happened but for Team Biden’s anti-Israel machinations since it came to office. 

Biden’s wrecking operation – aimed not only at destroying Donald Trump’s Mideast legacy but isolating and undermining the Jewish State and its government – has transformed the relative security Israel and other pro-American nations there enjoyed in November 2020 with an incipient regional conflagration.

Joe Biden’s making U.S. weapons resupply contingent on Israel allowing what amounts to the resupply of Hamas in the guise of “humanitarian relief” is, shamefully, more of the same.

This is Frank Gaffney.

With “friends” like Joe Biden, Israel needs no enemies. 

On the eve of Biden’s self-invited visit to the Jewish State, our Center for Security Policy Senior Fellow Caroline Glick has issued a searing video indictment that exposes his fraudulent professions of support for Israel’s right to self-defense and his administration’s serial betrayals of our vital interests in the region.

For example, before Biden’s arrival, his Secretary of State, Tony Blinken, held seven hours of struggle-sessions with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s War Cabinet. Its express purpose was to compel the Israelis to allow the resupply of Hamas under the cover of “humanitarian assistance.” If they don’t, they’ll be denied urgently needed U.S. bunker-busting weapons essential to the destruction of the terrorists’ buried targets in Gaza while minimizing civilian casualties. 

We must truly stand with Israel and against those standing with her enemies.

This is Frank Gaffney.

Today, the Republican majority of the House of Representatives will confer upon Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio the position of Speaker. At least that will be the case if the GOP caucus recognizes both the character of this leader, the opportunity his election represents to unify the party’s fractious membership and the necessity of, yes, filling the post now, but in a way the times demand. 

Call it the Jordan Moment.

While Jim made his mark as a principled conservative and founder of the House Freedom Caucus, in recent years he worked closely with Kevin McCarthy and his team. Throughout, however, he’s exhibited the decency, personal integrity and profound faith that have enabled him to garner support from every quarter of his conference. Such qualities clearly will serve him and the country well in the critical days ahead.

Godspeed, Jim Jordan.

This is Frank Gaffney.

Israel's Fighting our War, Too

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

It is now widely recognized that the terrorist group Hamas is indistinguishable from the terrorist group ISIS. Both believe their god mandates the use of violent jihad to destroy all unbelievers and achieve the global triumph of Islamic rule. 

Consequently, just as ISIS poses a threat to our security which justifies America’s use of crushing military power to defeat it, the utter elimination of Hamas is not just desirable. It’s essential.

That is true, of course, for the Jewish State. It is also true for us. Witness the appeal for and response here to the “Day of Jihad” Hamas issued last week.  

In short, Israel is fighting our war and that of Western civilization more generally. Consequently, we must not relieve the pressure on Hamas or otherwise embolden such jihadis by publicly second-guessing her efforts to achieve its decisive defeat.  

This is Frank Gaffney.

Hamas Equals ISIS - and the Muslim Brotherhood

 

 

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

Who committed the genocidal attacks against Israel last weekend? The answer is, of course, Hamas, the terrorist group that controls Gaza and has called on Muslim sympathizers elsewhere to rise up today in solidarity with their action.

The Israeli government has accurately described Hamas as indistinguishable from the notorious jihadist group, ISIS –  which a U.S.-led international coalition has striven to utterly destroy. Yet, Hamas is the Palestinian franchise of the Muslim Brotherhood, a group the three Obama-Biden administrations have embraced as having “eschewed violence.”

In fact, the Brotherhood and all other Sharia-supremacist groups believe their god, Allah, demands they use violence like that unleashed on Israel to terrify, conquer and compel global submission to Islam. 

We need Muslims who genuinely reject that doctrine to stand with the rest of us and Israel in defeating those who ruthlessly practice it.  

This is Frank Gaffney.

Amidst the violent conflagrations raging in eastern Europe and now the Middle East, the role of an “arsonist” in a position to have sparked them has gone largely unremarked. 

Chinese Communist emperor Xi Jinping is not only arguably the principal beneficiary of the invasions of Ukraine and Israel. Prior to their launch, Vladimir Putin and top Iranian and Palestinian leaders respectively consulted in Beijing with Xi and Company. 

For his part, Xi has made no secret of his intention to create a new global order. He also faces acute internal crises that give him an incentive to launch a war of his own against Taiwan and others – possibly including us. The more distracting “fires” elsewhere, the better his prospects for success. 

What’s left of the Free World could sure use a competent and loyal “fire-chief” about now. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

Yesterday, Joe Biden reiterated American solidarity with Israel and sought to deter Iran, another of its terrorist proxies, Hezbollah, and others from interfering with Israel’s retaliation for Saturday’s murderous invasion by Hamas. 

Unfortunately, Biden’s credibility is sorely lacking as his administration had actively contributed to conditions that prompted that horrific attack. 

It relentlessly conveyed hostility towards the Israeli government, was complicit in leftist congressional efforts to deny the Jewish State resupplies of vital anti-missile weaponry, undermined Israel’s existing peace agreements with regional regimes and interfered with the conclusion of one with Saudi Arabia.

Worse yet, it resumed taxpayer funding of Hamas and other Palestinian terrorists, allowed over $30 billion to flow to Iran and turned a blind eye to Chinese destabilizing of the region. 

To truly “stand with Israel,” Joe Biden must stop standing with her enemies, and ours. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

Horrifying videos taken by Palestinian “journalists” accompanying Saturday’s surprise invasion have documented a genocide perpetrated against the equivalent in a population of Israel’s size of 40,000 Americans. 

Three things are clear: First, there is no negotiating with enemies determined to destroy the Jewish people and their state. Surrendering land like Gaza in the hope of getting peace predictably engenders disaster. 

Second, those responsible for the present war include the mullahs of Iran and U.S. officials who have enriched and emboldened them. The ayatollahs must be punished, too, and their enablers, notably including Robert Malley – Obama-Biden’s longtime and reportedly disloyal Iran envoy – must be held accountable.

Third, Joe Biden has allowed into this country untold numbers of jihadists and others intent on doing to us what has just been done to Israelis. Mitigating that threat immediately must be our national purpose.

This is Frank Gaffney.

Joe Biden insists the U.S. stands with Israel – and we must. But, as with Ukraine, he invited this war by not standing with the target of aggression before it happens. 

Indeed, Biden has relentlessly undermined Israel since taking office. Until last month, he refused to meet with her leader. He’s encouraged Palestinian ambitions by: restoring funding that supports terrorists and their families; undermining the Abraham accords; and interfering with – not facilitating – a peace accord with Saudi Arabia. 

Team Biden emptied an emergency weapons stockpile Israel desperately needs now. And worst of all, it’s empowered the Iranian regime behind the murderous attack on Israel by Hamas – and much worse in prospect from Hezbollah, Syria and the mullahs, themselves.  

The blood of Israelis is on Joe Biden’s hands. Are his disastrous policies inviting additional catastrophes in the Western Pacific, and possibly here next?

This is Frank Gaffney.