Timmerman: Hamas Takes a Victory Lap in Tehran, Thanks to Biden

Opinion

Ken Timmerman’s Threat Watch, www.kentimmerman.com, 3-22-24

One thing I learned as a hostage in Beirut all those years ago was that no matter how intense our own suffering might be, it is nothing when compared to what our Lord suffered on our behalf. 

I thought of that today, Good Friday, as I was hauling three flat iron sheets a mile up my hillside in a wheelbarrow to make a new cover for one of our springs in France. 

It was tough going, made tougher by an excruciating bout of sciatica. But you gotta do what you gotta do. (Aspirin helps, too.)

Apparently, that’s what Joe Biden was thinking on Monday when he instructed the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations not to veto a Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza without any linkage to the release of Israeli and American hostages. You gotta do what you gotta do – in Biden’s case, win back the Left-wing base of a party that has become anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian, pro-Iranian, and fundamentally anti-American.

Admiral John Kirby, the National Security Council flak, tried to make us believe that the U.S. abstention at the UN was “no change” in U.S. policy. Oh, but it was.

It was the first time in history that the U.S. has allowed a blatantly anti-Israeli resolution to pass the UN Security Council without our veto. It was the first time the U.S. openly told our Israeli ally that we would no longer have their back against a hostile world. It was the first time the U.S. ever sided with Israel’s enemies.

My friend Shoshana Bryen, who is one of the most brilliant policy writers in Washington, noted in a column at the Jewish Policy Center that while the UN vote signified a shift in policy toward Israel, it meant no change in Biden administration policies toward Iran.

Since taking office in January 2021, Biden has voided U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil shipments, allowing Iran to earn at least $70 billion it would not have had under Trump, according to conservative estimates. Most of that oil – 1.5 million barrels/day last year – went to Communist China, Tehran’s ally.

Biden also lifted sanctions on the Houthis and the Palestinian Authority – both Iranian regime proxies. Biden restored funding to the PA in violation of the Taylor Force Act, which requires the PA stop its “pay to slay” policy of rewarding terrorists with government stipends.

And, of course, Biden and his State Department Iran-lovers have done zero to help the oppressed people of Iran, in particular since the crackdown on women who refused to wear the Islamic hijab. So much for the feminists in the Democrat Party.

So it was natural that Hamas leaders took a victory lap this week in Tehran, celebrating with the Supremo Ayatollah Khamenei their “victory” over the Jewish State. Khamenei happily welcomed their attempted genocide and encouraged them to a repeat performance, praising the “resistance” for its 
“exemplary resilience” against Israel.

Of course, calling for a repeat of the October 7 massacre was exactly what the  UN Security Council ceasefire resolution was all about. So, too, were Vice President Kamala Harris’s threats of “consequences” to Israel should Prime Minister Netanyahu defy the United States and attack Rafah, the southernmost part of the Gaza Strip, to eradicate the remaining four or five Hamas fighting brigades.

Leave those brigades intact, Netanyahu and his Security Minister Ron Dermer said, and Hamas will launch October 7 attacks against Israel again and again and again.

But the real big news of the week got almost no attention from the national media. And that was the signature by Russia and Iran of nineteen agreements covering cooperation in natural gas production, liquefaction, and export over the next twenty years. Iran, Russia, and Iran ally Qatar, together control 60% of the world’s supply of natural gas, and they want to make sure we pay more for it in the years to come.

If you want to read more about this monumental development in what I call the “Axis of Opportunism,” the Alliance that we are told will play a leading role in the End Times between Russia, China, and Iran, I recommend you visit this link: https://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-Gas/Russia-and-Iran-Build-Out-Gas-Alliance-String-of-New-Cooperation-Agreements.html

It’s just beginning, my friends. And while we can never know the timing of God’s plan, we can get ourselves right with God. And with that, we can only greet the future with joy.

He is Risen, indeed!

Blessings,
Ken

The views expressed in this commentary are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official position of Citizens Journal Florida.