Joe Biden’s Address Heavy on Words, Light on Deeds

When President Joe Biden publicly addressed the intensifying Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Oct. 10, he began by hitting all the right notes. By the time he walked slowly away from the podium, though – ignoring questions from reporters, as he usually does – Biden had provided nothing that would have comforted the people of Israel or their supporters in the United States. Perhaps worse still, he said very little that would give the Jewish state’s enemies pause for thought. The current US administration, it appears, intends to mostly sit this one out except for the occasional barrage of outrage at the atrocities being committed.

With a couple of notable exceptions, Democrat officeholders can’t bring themselves to unequivocally condemn the Islamist terror group Hamas for its surprise attack on Israel that has claimed the lives of 1,000 or more civilians, including at least 14…