No Surprise, Again

In conservative circles, there's an on-going meme that the Biden administration is actually the third Obama term. It's hard to really know if that's true, becuause the anonymous group of puppetmasters who control the decision making for our increasingly cognitively-disabled president are never identified publicly. It is true that there are a fair number of Obama administration re-treads who are in senior positions within the administration, and I suspect they have long memories.

It should come as no surprise, then, that the administration takes a cool position when it comes to Israel (think: Obama) and an even cooler (some might say, hostile) position when it comes to Israel's Prime Minister, Bibi Netanyahu, who Democrats have labeled as "hard right" since he made Barack Obama seem small on a visit to the US in 2015.

Never daunted, however, many Democrats (along with many left-leaning Israelis) haven't let up, suggesting that Netayahu's recent attempt to tamper with the Israeli Supreme Court is a "threat to democracy," ironic given the Dems' own ongoing attempts to tamper with SCOTUS. In fact, the far left progressive fringe has gone so far as to label Israel as a "racist" state.

The editors of the Wall Street Journal comment:

Last week the White House issued a statement urging Israel “to protect and respect the right of peaceful assembly” for judicial-reform protesters—as if Israel has done something else. New York Rep. Jerry Nadler calls Israel’s reform proposals “anti-democratic” and a threat to judicial independence. That he and other Democrats support packing the U.S. Supreme Court, and putting it under Congress’s thumb on recusal rules, never seems to prompt any cognitive dissonance. They treat Israel as an incipient authoritarian state.

As I have noted on numerous occasions, the Democrats are masters of psychological projection, blaming others for things (in this case, court tampering) that they themselves either are doing or want to accomplish. Some Democrats are also prone to accuse everyone but themselves of racist motives:

On Saturday Seattle Rep. Pramila Jayapal, chairman of the Progressive Caucus, told the Netroots Nation activist conference, “I want you to know that we have been fighting to make it clear that Israel is a racist state.” This false claim was a staple of Soviet propaganda, recognizable by its moral inversion. Israel is the least racist state in the Middle East and a stark contrast to the Palestinian Authority.

To their credit, about 40 Democrats in Congress rightfully scurried to condemn Jaypal's preposterous comment, but others were cool to any condemnation. Again, no surprise.