{"id":2060052,"date":"2023-10-08T20:07:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T00:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sowell-warned-us-about-biden-israel-and-palestine-we-should-have-listened\/"},"modified":"2023-10-08T20:10:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T00:10:47","slug":"sowell-warned-us-about-biden-israel-and-palestine-we-should-have-listened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sowell-warned-us-about-biden-israel-and-palestine-we-should-have-listened\/","title":{"rendered":"Sowell&#8217;s Biden, Israel, and Palestine Warning: We Ignored It."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsowell-warned-us-about-biden-israel-and-palestine-we-should-have-listened%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2060052&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Few figures in conservativism are more \u2063revered than Thomas Sowell<\/h2>\n<p>A free-market\u2062 economist, social theorist, and philosopher, Sowell\u2019s work has spanned decades and \u2062influenced generations.<\/p>\n<p>Sowell wrote a\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/abandoned-all-pretense-of-being-conservative-jonah-goldberg-joins-cnn-as-a-commentator-social-media-erupts\/\" title=\"\u2018Abandoned All Pretense Of Being Conservative\u2019: Jonah Goldberg Joins CNN As A Commentator, Social Media Erupts\">nationally syndicated column<\/a>, authored dozens of books, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/history-the-left-erased-the-founding-fathers-helped-obliterate-slavery\/\" title=\"Leftist historians have erased the crucial role of the Founding Fathers in abolishing slavery.\">dazzled television audiences time<\/a> and time again\u2063 with his\u2064 common sense, anti-intellectual approach\u200c to political and cultural issues.<\/p>\n<p>The following \u200bstory is part of The \u200cWestern\u2064 Journal\u2019s exclusive series \u201cThe\u2063 Sowell Digest.\u201d Each issue will break down and summarize one of Sowell\u2019s many influential works.<\/p>\n<p>As rockets and terror continue to rain down\u200d upon \u200dthe people\u200b of Israel, it \u200cbears\u200b reflecting on how \u2063we got to this point.<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, going \u200dback decades, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/obama-laid-groundwork-ukraine-invasion-sowell-warned-us-happen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thomas Sowell<\/a> warned us all about the dangers posed by both Joe\u2064 Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nikki-haley-at-rjc-biden-admin-cant-be-trusted-to-stop-iran-nuclear-threat\/\" title=\"Nikki Haley at RJC: Biden Admin Can\u2019t Be Trusted to Stop Iran Nuclear Threat\">foreign policy experience<\/a> and the \u200cWest\u2019s\u200b goal to create \u201cpeace\u201d between Israel \u200band Palestine.<\/p>\n<p>If only our leaders had listened to his sage advice.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Biden\u2019s Foreign\u200d Policy Blunder<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>This most recent conflict began on \u2063Saturday. Following a massive surprise attack, the Israeli \u2062cabinet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/israel-declares-war-first-time-50-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">officially\u2062 declared war<\/a> on the Palestinian\u2063 terrorist\u200d organization Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>Many believe the disastrous\u2063 foreign policy moves of our sitting president, Joe Biden, played a key\u200c role in igniting this bloody conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s\u200b policies\u2063 likely gave Hamas the ammunition \u2014 literally speaking \u2014\u200b to successfully \u2062kill numerous Israeli citizens. Back in \u2064September, the Biden administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/despicable-biden-deal-announced-9-11-radical-islamic-country-receiving-6-billion-funds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> it\u200d was sending five\u200d Iranian citizens jailed in the U.S., along \u200dwith a whopping $6 billion to Iran in\u2062 exchange for\u2063 five American hostages.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/iran-celebrates-hamas-attack-on-israel-as-proud-operation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iranian lawmakers celebrated\u200d the \u2064attacks<\/a> on Israel as a \u201cproud operation\u201d; Many members of the country\u2019s parliament changed \u201cDown with Israel\u201d and \u201cDown with America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to The \u200dHeritage Foundation\u2019s Victoria Coates, Hamas\u200c could \u200dnot have successfully \u200blaunched such a large-scale attack on Israel without Iran\u2019s backing.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Hamas could not\u2063 have\u200c carried out an \u200cattack of\u2064 this \u2062scale against Israel alone. They had \u2062help from Iran, and the Biden administration\u2019s permissive\u2064 policy toward\u2062 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sowell-warned-us-about-biden-israel-and-palestine-we-should-have-listened\/\" title=\"Sowell's Biden, Israel, and Palestine Warning: We Ignored It.\">terrorist regime helped fund<\/a> it.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VictoriaCoates?\">@VictoriaCoates<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4VyIsWD7XU\">pic.twitter.com\/4VyIsWD7XU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Heritage\/status\/1711025967244742893?\">October 8, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAbsent Iran, there\u2019s no way they can pull this \u2062off. And so we know \u200cIran is\u2062 taking all\u200b of \u2063the money that\u2019s\u200d been flowing to it\u200d for the last \u2063two and\u200c a half years\u2026 and pouring that into fueling an unprecedented terrorist operation \u200bagainst innocent\u200b Israeli civilians,\u201d she said during a recent appearance on Fox News.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Sowell on Biden\u2019s \u201cExperience\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>In \u200cthe past, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/time-thomas-sowell-took-pope\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sowell<\/a> warned us about the dangers posed\u2064 by\u2063 Biden\u2019s supposed foreign policy experience.<\/p>\n<p>The beloved \u200ceconomist did so\u2063 in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2008\/09\/foreign-policy-experience-thomas-sowell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2008 column<\/a> titled \u201cForeign Policy \u2018Experience.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the time,\u200b Sowell\u2062 was lamenting\u200c Biden\u2019s \u200black of solid experience, \u2062along with the fact \u2064that the career \u2062politician, if Obama were\u200b to be elected, \u200bwould soon be only \u201ca \u2063heartbeat away\u201d from becoming\u200c the president.<\/p>\n<p>If only he knew what was to come over a decade later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026[T]he big talking \u2063point\u2064 is \u2064that the Democrats\u2019 vice-presidential nominee, Senator Joe \u200bBiden, has years of foreign policy experience as a\u200d member, and now\u2062 chairman,\u2064 of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,\u201d Sowell wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat \u2064all depends on what the definition of \u2018experience\u2019 \u200cis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/will-new-mexicos-gun-ban-stop-crime-thomas-sowell-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sowell<\/a> went on to point\u2062 out that\u2063 just\u2063 because Biden had served \u200con \u2063the Senate Foreign Relations Committee meant next to \u200bnothing when\u200b it came to actual \u201cexperience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe difference between\u200d being a spectator and being a participant, with responsibility for the consequences of what you\u200d say and do, is fundamental,\u201d Sowell \u2062wrote. \u201cYou can read books about crime \u200bor attend lectures\u2064 by criminologists, \u200dbut you have no real experience \u2063or expertise about crime unless \u200byou have been a criminal or a policeman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact\u200b that Senator Joe Biden has for years listened to all sorts of people testify on all sorts of foreign-policy issues tells us nothing about how well he understood the issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And, \u200cas we would soon \u2064find out years\u2063 ahead, that lack of meaningful\u200b experience\u2063 would cause many major crises across the world \u200dincluding, but far from limited to, the disastrous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/marine-afghanistan-withdrawal-arrives-dc-shows-happened-bidens-watch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Afghanistan withdrawal<\/a> and the ongoing conflict in Israel.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Sowell on Israel \u2064and \u2062Palestine \u201cCease Fires\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.creators.com\/read\/thomas-sowell\/07\/14\/cease-the-cease-fires\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a separate column<\/a> published years later in 2014, Sowell made a point to call out the ignorance of those calling\u200c for cease-fires \u200cin the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>The Bidena administration\u200b itself played into this fallacious idea when\u200c it sent out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-admin-playing-damage-control-deleted-tweet-terrorist-attacks-israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a now-deleted post\u2062 on X<\/a> (formerly known as Twitter) urging Israel to refrain from defending itself via counterattack.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Joe\u200d Biden DEMANDS Israel NOT Defend Itself From Terrorist Attacks<\/p>\n<p>In a now deleted tweet, the Biden Regime demanded Israel stop fighting after \u2063a brutal surprise \u2063attack on Israel by terrorist group Hamas overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of Israeli civilians have been killed\/captured <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rG0Mqk3F4R\">pic.twitter.com\/rG0Mqk3F4R<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bennyjohnson\/status\/1710681394605650282?\">October \u20647, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to Sowell, such thinking betrays a\u2063 lack of \u2064understanding about the nature of conflict in the Middle \u200bEast, as well as a lack of understanding of the history behind them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Middle East must lead the world in cease-fires. If cease-fires \u2063were the\u2064 road to peace,\u200c the Middle East would easily be the\u200c most peaceful place \u2062on the \u2063planet,\u201d Sowell wrote. \u201cIn the short run, \u200cthey \u2064save some lives. But in\u200b the long run they cost far more lives,\u2064 by lowering the \u2062cost of aggression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When the cost of aggression is \u200blessened through cease-fires and periods of peace, \u200bterrorists are incentivized to periodically continue \u2063their attacks.<\/p>\n<p>This is especially the case for\u2064 Hamas and \u200bthe Palestinian people.\u2064 Hamas\u2019s official founding charter calls for the \u200ddestruction of Israel and, despite the fact that \u200bit is officially designated a terrorist organization, has been \u200bdemocratically elected by the Palestinian people, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/what-is-palestinian-group-hamas-2023-10-07\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/squad-dems-weigh-terrorists-murder-hundreds-israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Israel<\/a> wants peace. Hamas wants to murder the Jewish people. No\u2062 amount of peace\u2064 talks \u200dis every going to change\u2064 that.\u2063 But, as Sowell suggests, perhaps\u2063 swift \u2064action and \u2062serious\u200d consequences for terrorism could.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt one time, launching\u200c a military attack \u200con another nation risked not only retaliation but annihilation. When Carthage attacked Rome, that\u2062 was the end of Carthage,\u201d \u2063Sowell wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut when Hamas or some other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hulu-original-film-not-okay-given-trigger-warning-for-unlikeable-female-protagonist\/\" title=\"Hulu Original Film \"Not Okay\" Given Trigger Warning For \u201cUnlikeable Female Protagonist\u201d\">terrorist group launches<\/a> an attack \u200bon Israel, \u2063they\u2064 know in \u2064advance that whatever \u200cIsrael does in response will be limited by calls for a cease-fire, backed by political \u200cand economic \u2064pressures from the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf \u200cyou\u2064 want to minimize civilian casualties,\u2063 then minimize the\u200c dangers of war, by no longer coming \u2063to the rescue of\u200b those who start wars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/sowell-warned-us-biden-israel-palestine-listened\/\">Sowell Warned \u200bUs About Biden,\u2064 Israel \u2063and Palestine: We Should Have\u200b Listened<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western \u200dJournal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> \u2064 What role did Iran play in the \u200crecent attacks on Israel,\u2063 and how does it relate to the \u200cBiden \u200badministration&#8217;s foreign policy \u200cdecisions<\/h2>\n<p><span>  \u200dWhat did Thomas Sowell warn us about?\u2063<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Thomas Sowell, one of conservatism&#8217;s most revered figures, had previously warned \u200dabout the dangers posed by Joe\u2064 Biden&#8217;s foreign policy experience\u200d and the goal of creating &#8220;peace&#8221; between Israel and Palestine. It seems that \u2064his warnings were not heeded, as we now find ourselves \u200bin a conflict that has led to rockets \u2063and terror raining down upon the people of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u200c a recent article by The Western\u2064 Journal, \u2064many believe that Biden&#8217;s foreign policy\u200d moves \u2063played a key role in\u2063 igniting this bloody \u2063conflict. It is suggested \u200bthat Biden&#8217;s policies may have given Hamas the ammunition and\u2062 resources\u2062 to successfully carry out attacks on Israeli\u200c citizens. In September, the Biden \u2062administration announced\u200c that it \u200dwould \u200dbe sending \u200bfive Iranian citizens jailed \u2063in the U.S. to Iran, along with a significant amount of funds.\u200b Iranian lawmakers celebrated the attacks on Israel as a \u2063&#8221;proud \u2064operation,&#8221; indicating their involvement and support for Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>Experts, such as Victoria Coates from The Heritage Foundation, have claimed that Hamas could not have successfully launched such a large-scale attack without \u200dIran&#8217;s backing. The\u200b Biden administration&#8217;s permissive policy\u2062 towards the terrorist regime is\u2062 being criticized for indirectly funding\u2063 this operation.\u200b Coates emphasized that Iran has been receiving significant\u2063 financial support\u2063 over the past few years and has been \u2062using these funds to fuel terrorism against innocent Israeli civilians.<\/p>\n<p>It is evident that\u2062 Thomas Sowell&#8217;s warnings about the dangers of Biden&#8217;s foreign policy decisions and\u2063 the quest for peace in the region were valid. It \u200cseems that policymakers failed to listen to his sage advice, and now we are\u200c witnessing the \u200ddevastating\u200c consequences. The ongoing conflict serves as\u200b a reminder of the importance of\u200d carefully considering the potential\u200b ramifications of political decisions, and the need for leaders to be attentive to the wisdom and insights of figures like Thomas Sowell.<\/p>\n<p>The situation in Israel and Palestine is a complex issue\u200d with a long history, and it is crucial to approach it with nuance and understanding. However, examining the warnings of\u2064 influential thinkers like Sowell can contribute \u2064to a deeper understanding of the \u200bpotential consequences \u200cof political decisions\u2062 and the\u2064 importance of listening to voices from various perspectives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>conservative icon Thomas Sowell, a respected economist, philosopher, and social theorist, has left an indelible mark on generations. With a nationally syndicated column, numerous books, and captivating TV appearances, his practical, anti-intellectual perspective on political and cultural matters has earned him immense admiration in the conservative sphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2093,"featured_media":2060053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2060052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2093"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2060052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2060053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2060052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2060052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2060052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}