The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro unloaded on President Joe Biden for urging Israel not to conduct a major military operation in the Gazan city of Rafah, calling him a “senile old dotard” on his show Tuesday.

After first rejecting arguments that Donald Trump’s assertion that Jews who vote for Democrats “hate Israel” and “their religion” was anti-Semitic, Shapiro blasted Biden for trying “to win the votes of people who love Hamas in Dearborn, Michigan” while suggesting “that Donald Trump is an anti-Semite.”

“He’s literally doing this, by the way, at the same time that he’s putting significant pressure on Benjamin Netanyahu not to finish off genocidal anti-Semites in Rafah. Israel has successfully pushed Hamas away from Gaza City, away from Khan Yunis, and the final city — they have apparently four battalions of Hamas terrorists in there — is Rafah,” said the conservative commentator. “The only way that those terrorists will be eliminated is with a military incursion into Rafah. Everyone knows this. And yet the Biden administration is trying to pressure Israel into not doing that. Why? Because Joe Biden desperately wants to win those votes in Dearborn, Michigan.”

After summarizing National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s press conference about Biden’s call with Netanyahu on Monday, during which Biden apparently revealed his support for the defeat of Hamas but argued that an operation in Rafah was not an effective method for achieving that aim, Shapiro lost it.

“Yes, brilliant, noted military strategist Joe Biden is going to explain to the IDF, one of the single most effective fighting forces on planet Earth, exactly how they should do a military operation. Joe Biden, who literally could not abandon Afghanistan without getting tens of thousands of Afghan allies murdered and 13 American troops murdered, that dude is gonna have a military recommendation to the Israelis on how to finish things off in Rafah,” marveled Shapiro. “That senile old dotard is gonna be lecturing- by the way not just lecturing the Israelis, apparently putting enough pressure on the Israelis that he is, according to the New York Sun, threatening to withhold offensive military aid to Israel to actually do that.”

A few moments later, after playing a clip of Sullivan listing off the justifications for the administration’s opposition to action in Rafah, Shapiro unloaded again.

Sullivan’s reasons included the presence of refugees who fled Gaza City and Khan Yunis for Rafah, the city’s status as a “primary entry point for humanitarian assistance,” and its proximity to the Egyptian border.

“Okay, this is asinine!” began Shapiro. “All three reasons that he listed are asinine.”

He continued:

First he [Sullivan] says there are lots of people in Rafah and those people are gonna have to be moved and they haven’t presented us a plan with how to move those people. Presumably, they will move those people and in fact, they have in fact discussed with the Americans plans to move those people to safe enclaves. Because they’ve been doing that the whole time. Israel doesn’t want to be wading through civilians in order to get to the military members of Hamas. They don’t want to be doing that. That’s not something Israel has a military interest in doing. They would like to clear the area. So they say first, “Well, we’re gonna need to move the civilians.”

Then they make the counterargument. You can’t move the civilians! ‘Cause if you move the civilians, then Rafah’s an entry point for humanitarian assistance. Well, yes Rafah’s a humanitarian point for assistance because that’s literally where the people are. So if you move the people, then you move the humanitarian assistance. This is not all that difficult to understand. By the way, a lot of that humanitarian assistance, Israel is pouring humanitarian assistance into the Gaza Strip. And a ton of it is being stolen by Israel’s enemies, Hamas, which are still very much present.

Finally, he says Rafah’s on the border with Egypt and Egypt’s really upset. Weird how the United States won’t put any pressure on Egypt whatsoever to provide humanitarian aid, escape routes for people. You know what Egypt has done? Egypt has done nothing! Egypt has put up a giant wall, a three-barrier wall on the border of Gaza. And they have said we’re not even gonna talk about temporary camps for refugees so they can move into, say, the Sinai Desert temporarily and then move back into Gaza when all of this is over. Egypt’s like “Nope, we’re not taking anyone. We’re not going to allow any of that.”

“Once again, it is truly incredible how the burden is on Israel to take care of Gaza’s civilian population that elected Hamas,” concluded Shapiro.

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