Spineless Joe Biden is inching toward a full betrayal of Israel

Is there a Margaret Thatcher in the house who can help stiffen Joe Biden’s spine?

The late British prime minister, in a 1990 phone call during the early days of the first Gulf war, famously told a hesitant President George H. W. Bush that it “was no time to go wobbly.”

As Thatcher recounts in her first memoir, “The Downing Street Years,” Bush appeared reluctant to act decisively following Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait.

Although the United Nations Security Council approved a trade embargo of Iraq, it was left largely to the US and UK to enforce it.

Fortunately, Bush adopted the Iron Lady’s resolve and soon unleashed Operation Desert Storm, leading to a retreat of Iraq’s forces and a smashing allied triumph.

Biden needs a Thatcher now to set him straight during the current Mideast conflict.

Faced with Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza and a shaky re-election campaign, the president isn’t just going wobbly in his support for our embattled ally — he’s inching toward a full betrayal of Israel to appease American radicals.

His actions and statements are more troubling than those of the officials Thatcher ridiculed as “faint hearts” or “drifting with the tide.”

It is dishonest to defend Biden’s undercutting of Israel as part of some strategic view of how to bring a just and lasting peace to the region.

His words and actions increasingly have little to do with peace and everything to do with pandering to domestic political critics.

A timeline of the president’s shifting attitude shows his position, which began as forceful backing of Israel after the Oct. 7 invasion by Hamas, changed as large parts of the Democrats’ base made it clear they would not vote for him because of his support for Israel.

Some of those people, who include Muslim Americans and leftist students at elite colleges, can be charitably described as ignorant of both history and current events, especially their absurd accusations that Israel is committing “genocide.”

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