The Texas senator wrongly criticized the president but gave a pass to Donald Trump, who blasted Benjamin Netanyahu and praised Hezbollah.
Editorials and other Opinion content offer perspectives on issues important to our community and are independent from the work of our newsroom reporters.Ted Cruz, like the overachieving student that he was, sometimes doesn’t know when to quit while he’s ahead.
Called on it, Cruz pointed to several other statements. Biden also said: “I made clear to Prime Minister Netanyahu that we stand ready to offer all appropriate means of support to the government and people of Israel.” Not good enough, Cruz contends — Israel deserves unqualified support.As so often happens with Cruz, his effectiveness was diminished by his stubbornness. The president said the very words he desired, and he should have acknowledged it.
Biden and his surrogates have also been too hard on Israel, playing footsie with leftist criticisms that complicated internal political squabbles over the structure of Israel’s judiciary are authoritarian or anti-democratic.
The former president and likely repeat GOP nominee displayed many of his worst qualities when discussing the terror attacks Wednesday at a campaign rally. Trump blasted Netanyahu — with American hostages still missing and Israel turning simultaneously to the destruction of Hamas and the burying of more than a thousand innocents. He chose that moment to pick nits over what he sees as insufficient fealty from the prime minister when Trump took out Iranian terrormonger Qassim Suleimani.
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