Israel has taken control of the Gaza side of the Gaza-Egypt border crossing in Rafah, the last remaining Hamas stronghold. In the U.S., antisemitism is raging, and the Biden administration is making costly mistakes. Let’s dive in.

Rafah

Rafah is Gaza’s southernmost city, sitting along the Gaza-Egypt border. It is believed to have a highly significant tunnel system, where Hamas’s top Gaza-based leaders, as well as many Israeli hostages, are located. Hamas’s military control of the city is secured through four terrorist-battalions located in Rafah. 

Since the onset of the war, Jerusalem has been clear that short of the hostages’ return and Hamas’s surrender, the IDF would have to enter Rafah if it is to complete the destruction of the terrorist organization responsible for the 10/7 Massacre. The U.S. opposes such an operation and has hoped a cease-fire could be reached, avoiding a full-scale assault on the city.

For months, negotiations over a second release of Israeli hostages have had fits and starts, indicating Hamas was unserious about releasing hostages. As the execution of Israel’s plans concerning the Rafah crossing became imminent, news broke that Hamas had, at long last, agreed to a deal. Tragically, that was not the case. Hamas had agreed to release hostages but would not confirm that they would release living hostages.

It Gets Worse

This type of underhandedness is to be expected from a terrorist organization that celebrated the rape and murder of 1,200 people in southern Israel. What’s surprising are reports the U.S. was aware of Hamas attempting to switch live people for dead ones and, nonetheless, let the entire fiction advance hoping Israel would feel pressured into accepting the astoundingly absurd terms.

One need not have a master’s degree in diplomacy and strategy to understand that the Biden administration’s plan here was so fundamentally unserious it begs the question: who’s running things over there?

But wait, it gets worse.

Just as the Hamas agreed to a cease-fire fairy tale was being sold to the public, reports came out that the Biden administration was withholding a key weapons transfer to Israel. It appears, the Biden administration is holding back ammunition to an ally engaged in a war with a genocidal terrorist organization to satisfy the President’s openly pro-Hamas, leftwing political flank.

Disgusting, Bigoted, Laughable

We’re nonpartisan, so no, the Biden administration isn’t the only center of power where the absurd are being allowed to play government.

Last week, as the House was voting on the Antisemitism Awareness Act (AAA), Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) claimed the bill was anti-Christian. Mind you, this is after she attempted to add a “space lasers” amendment to the recent national security supplemental bill, but we digress.

In response to the disgusting, bigoted, and laughable claims by Rep. Greene, followed by Tucker Carlson and others, flung at the bill in question, CUFI founder and Chairman Pastor John Hagee and Faith and Freedom Coalition Chairman Ralph Reed penned a letter to Congressional leadership concisely slicing through the false arguments made by the false preachers of the right.

“To the Biblically literate, claims the Antisemitism Awareness Act is anti-Christian are as insulting as they are injurious… And just as Biblical literacy is a necessary precondition to defending Christianity, so too is literacy of this law,” the pair of Christian leaders wrote.

So, where does that leave us? Right in the center of the fight.

The bigoted antisemites in Congress will know no peace. We will confront them while showing their would-be Congressional acolytes the immorality of their position. Likewise, Israel will either go into Rafah or compel Hamas to stop playing games, while we return to Washington in July to make clear to both ends of Pennsylvania avenue that CUFI’s 10 million members play no games.

Sincerely,

The CUFI Action Fund Team