We could have predicted that the White House would have a modified limited hangout available if it took too much heat for Joe Biden’s abject betrayal of Israel. The Wall Street Journal got the first edition of their excuse, which makes Joe Biden look like Dean Vernon Wormer of Faber College. According to this new spin, they expected to suspend arms transfers to Israel secretly.
The public rebuke is all Israel’s fault for leaking it to the media, or so they claim:
In withholding arms, Biden opted to only halt a single shipment that was due to be flown to Israel in the coming weeks. A U.S. official said that the move was taken because 2,000-pound bombs, in particular, could be especially destructive “in dense urban settings” such as Rafah and noted that other potential sales were also being reviewed.
The decision was initially intended as a confidential signal to Israel that it…
