Biden-Harris is financing the war on Israel

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A day after Kamala Harris demanded a ceasefire in Gaza a Hezbollah missile attack in the Golan Heights has killed 12 people, including several children.

Israel said it had identified “approximately 30 projectiles” crossing from Lebanon into Israeli territory in a barrage it blamed on the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and described as the deadliest against it since October 7. Hezbollah has admitted targeting other parts of the Golan Heights but “firmly denies” it was behind the deadly strike.

Israel has been under near-constant attack by Hezbollah for months. More on Hezbollah here.

The Biden-Harris administration which has been bashing Israel, was “working the phones” trying to dampen the fallout from this most recent attack. Kamala Harris slammed Bibi Netanyahu during his last visit to the US and the UN.

Meanwhile, Team Biden — Harris, most notably — has only thrown gasoline on the fire. She backstabbed Bibi moments after chatting with him when she falsely blamed Israel for “too many” deaths in Gaza and insisted on a premature cease-fire; such “daylight” between Jerusalem and Washington could’ve encouraged Hezbollah.

The missile used in the latest attack was a Falaq-1, made in Iran.

All the entities that have attacked Israel are proxies for Iran.

Since the 1979 revolution, Iran has built a network of proxies across the Middle East. As of 2022, Tehran had allies among more than a dozen major militias, some with their own political parties, that challenged local and neighboring governments. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and the elite Qods Force provided arms, training and financial support to militias and political movements in at least six countries: Bahrain, Iraq, Lebanon, the Palestinian Territories, Syria and Yemen.

Biden/Harris took the Iranian proxy Houthis off the terror list in 2021. The Houthis would then go on to savage shipping in the Red Sea.

This attack, that missile, the October 7 attack on Israel and the general war on Israel have all been financed by Biden-Harris. Donald Trump had imposed severe sanctions on Iran – the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism- that had plunged Iran into a recession and handicapped its ability to fund terrorism.

Six charts that show how hard US sanctions have hit Iran

The reinstatement of US sanctions in 2018 – particularly those imposed on the energy, shipping and financial sectors that November – caused foreign investment to dry up and hit oil exports. The sanctions bar US companies from trading with Iran, but also with foreign firms or countries that are dealing with Iran.

The Trump administration made clear the conditions for easing sanctions

Prospects for diplomacy to resolve the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program appear remote. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has laid out conditions Iran must meet to ease sanctions, including ending destabilizing actions in the region, such as its support for Houthi rebels in Yemen and Hezbollah. Iranian officials, however, regard these demands as tantamount to seeking regime change.

Near the end of his term Trump added even more sanctions

“The Trump Administration remains committed to denying revenue flowing to the Iranian regime as it continues to sponsor terrorist groups, support oppressive regimes, and seek weapons of mass destruction,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in the statement. Trump’s term ends on Jan. 20, when Democrat President-elect Joe Biden is to be sworn in to succeed him.

The Biden/Harris administration would come to Iran’s rescue.

Biden/Harris would begin to lift sanctions early, calling it “normal practice.”

The Biden administration lifted a handful of Iran-related sanctions Thursday in what the State Department described as a “normal practice” unrelated to the ongoing discussions over the Iran nuclear deal.

The Treasury and State Departments lifted sanctions “on three former government of Iran officials, and two companies previously involved in the purchase, acquisition, sale, transport, or marketing of Iranian petrochemical products, as a result of a verified change in status or behavior on the part of the sanctioned parties,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement.

State Department spokesperson Ned Price told reporters at a briefing Thursday that there was “absolutely no connection” between the delisting and the negotiations in Vienna over fate of the 2015 nuclear deal.

Since then, Biden/Harris has continued to fill Iran’s coffers

Choosing not to enforce oil sanctions finances Tehran’s terrorism.

You’d think the Biden Administration would have realized by now that enriching the Iranian regime is a dangerous mistake. You’d be wrong. Relaxed U.S. enforcement of oil sanctions continued through October, refilling Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s coffers even after the Oct. 7 slaughter and the more than 40 attacks on U.S. troops by Iran’s proxies in the weeks since.

Iran exported nearly 1.4 million barrels of oil per day in October, sustaining its average for 2023. This is up 80% from the 775,000 barrels per day Iran averaged under the Trump Administration’s “maximum pressure” strategy, according to United Against Nuclear Iran, the group of former U.S. Ambassador Mark Wallace and Sen. Joe Lieberman, whose Tanker Tracker generates the best public data we have.

The Iranian surge in oil exports since President Biden took over has brought Iran an additional $32 billion to $35 billion, according to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. The calculations are tricky, but the cause of the Iranian windfall is clear: As part of Mr. Biden’s quiet diplomacy with Iran, the U.S. has curtailed sanctions enforcement. Customers and middlemen have concluded the risk is low and the discount on Iran’s oil is too good to pass up.

Biden admin renews sanctions waiver giving Iran access to $10 billion from Iraq

The Biden administration has extended a sanctions waiver that will grant Iran access to roughly $10 billion from Iraq in exchange for electricity purchases.

The 120-day waiver, signed by Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday, is identical to one issued in July, but comes amid increased attacks against US forces by Iranian proxies and just over a month after Iran-backed terror group Hamas slaughtered 1,200 people in Israel on Oct. 7.

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State Department spokesman Matthew Miller defended the waiver extension, arguing that the money “can only benefit the Iranian people.”

“They get their hands on zero additional dollars as a result of these waivers. Again, none of these funds are sent to Iran. They are held in third-party accounts outside Iran, and can be used only for humanitarian and other non-sanctionable purposes for the benefits of the Iranian people,” Miller said during a press briefing.

No one believed that. And then Miller followed with this doozy:

The State Department official also argued that Iran would continue “destabilizing activities” regardless of whether the waiver was issued.

Biden/Harris decided to hand Iran even more money for funding terrorism.

Biden/Harris has decided that its mindless pursuit of the JCPOA (which was set to expire in 2025 anyway) is more important than Israel’s national security. Siding with Hamas, she boasted that she gave Netanyahu an order- “Let’s get it done”- referring to a permanent cease-fire. She would go on to say that she wants a two-state solution.

“So to everyone who has been calling for a cease-fire, and to everyone who yearns for peace, I see you and I hear you,” Harris said. “Let’s get the deal done. So we can get a cease-fire to end the war. Let’s bring the hostages home. And let’s provide much-needed relief to the Palestinian people. And ultimately, I remain committed to a path forward that can lead to a two-state solution.”

It was an effort to project some seriousness on her part, but Harris’ s comments undermine ongoing negotiations

A top Israeli official briefing reporters anonymously argued that Jerusalem had been uncomfortable with Harris’s tone throughout her remarks and accused her of overly stressing the importance of ending the war in a manner that appeared to show gaps between the positions of the US and Israel.

“Hopefully the remarks Harris made in her press conference won’t be interpreted by Hamas as daylight between the US and Israel, thereby making a deal harder to secure,” the senior official said.

Hezbollah noticed. Biden/Harris has been nothing but weak for its entire tenure and prospects only look to be worsened in a Harris administration as its financing of terrorism continues. Harris has been called a “danger to Western security”:

Not everyone is jumping on board the Kamala Harris train. While the Democratic Party has largely united behind the Vice President since President Joe Biden, 81, dropped out of the 2024 election and endorsed Harris, 59, instead, some commentators aren’t so sure she’s up for the job of leading the free world, Knewz.com can reveal. British journalist Con Coughlin, 69, has even branded the likely Democratic nominee a potential danger to Western security, writing: “She has a great deal to learn about the art of statesmanship if she is to be a credible contender for the White House.”

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“With such an indifferent track record, all the evidence suggests that Harris would become an even greater challenge for the Western alliance than Trump if she succeeds in winning the presidential contest. “The arrival of such an inexperienced figure, assuming the mantle of leader of the free world, would certainly be welcomed by the stony-faced despots in places like Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, whose principal objective is the destruction of Western influence in world affairs.”

This is the wing of democrat party Harris wishes to placate

Hezbollah just bombed an Israeli playground and killed 11 (Arab) children.

Here’s a picture of protesters at Princeton proudly displaying the Hezbollah flag: pic.twitter.com/ytTZ2zvduR

— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) July 27, 2024

She would ease the suffering in Gaza- at the cost of Israel.

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