Posted on 03/11/2010 4:20:22 AM PST by SJackson
If you’re Israel, there’s nothing like being lectured on your domestic policy by a man who thinks that the United States and France kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon. Joe Biden is probably the least-informed man in American politics when it comes to the Arab-Israeli conflict. That may be because he, like President Obama, want to portray some sort of moral equality between the violent and murderous Palestinian Arabs (yes, their population is largely violent and murderous, not just their leadership) and the Israelis, and knowing too much about the conflict would make it difficult to draw that sort of moral parity.
On Monday, Biden said, while visiting Israel, that,
“It is incumbent on both parties to build an atmosphere of support for negotiations and not to complicate them.”
He was responding to a decision by the Israeli government to erect 1,600 “settler” homes in East Jerusalem.
“Yesterday the decision by the Israeli government to advance planning for new housing units in East Jerusalem undermines that very trust, the trust that we need right now in order to begin … profitable negotiations,” blathered Biden.
This is soft anti-Semitism. I am one of the few American columnists who has called President Obama anti-Semitic based on his consistent association with anti-Semites, his comfort level with their rhetoric, and his obvious anti-Israel bias. As I wrote in May 2009,
“Obama’s attitude toward Israel demonstrates his belief that the Jews should be held to a higher standard than any other nation – the standard of unrelenting surrender.”
Biden obviously feels the same way. East Jerusalem is Israeli territory, conquered in 1967 and annexed. No number of specious UN resolutions can trump the basic laws of war that have governed humanity since time immemorial. Israel has every right to build apartment complexes on its own territory. But the Obama Administration feels this “undermines trust.”
What trust, exactly? The Palestinian Arabs celebrate every suicide bombing, refuse to accept the very existence of the State of Israel, train their children to murder Jews (watch Palestinian TV if you doubt it), and openly announce that they see the peace process as a Trojan Horse. Israel has made concession after concession, and has gained nothing but the blood of its own citizens. Yet the Obama Administration thinks that building apartment complexes is what stops the peace process from moving forward, not the outright hatred of Israel and Jews exhibited on a daily basis by the Palestinian Arabs.
Biden needs to shut his trap – probably an objective more difficult than actually achieving peace between the Arabs and Israel. He knows nothing about the conflict, but even more than that, he knows nothing about the nature of good and evil. Every time he pushes Israel to concede to evil, he underscores his own soft anti-Semitism and that of the Administration he serves.
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In my view it's not antisemitism, simply the diplomatic efforts of an incompetent. It's not just Israel, this administration would tell every non-Muslim nation how to conduct their affairs, worse yet is engaged in determining how every American should live their lives in the land of the free. They're very smart people, The Biden and The Obama, they know better than us what we need.
Best line from the piece.
Nothing soft about what the dems think of Jews.
It’s brutal and a nightmare.
The Biden and The Obama could do useful things, like feeding themselves to Polar Bears beset by melting ice. Just think how the planet could be saved and greened and stuff.
As much of a moron as Joe Biden is, I’d rather have him in the White House than Zero.
I agree that this blithering attempt at portraying equal parity between Israel and the Palestinians is not necessarily antisemitism, although the demands to cede real estate are always aimed at Israel. The Obama administration, like many before it, wants to “solve” the Palestinian problem and to go on record in history as having solved it. Moreover, in their naive hope-and-change worldview, once they have “solved” this crisis, they believe that many other tensions in the world will simply go away. Obama did promise to “repair the world”, and this is simply one of the primary fixes he expects to accomplish. Once he has “fixed” the Middle East, he can go on to fix African disputes, Northern Ireland, and so on. “It’s a small world after all...” Let me know how that hope-and-change thing works on radical Islam.
I’ve always thought that Biden was one step removed from reality. He always struck me not as a Senator but as an actor playing a Senator. Now he strikes me not as a Vice-President but as an actor playing a Vice-President. And a smarmy ham actor to boot.
Krauthammer played the fool last week with his Religion of Peace dogma!
I'm getting sick of people making excuses for terrorists!
” As much of a moron as Joe Biden is, I’d rather have him in the White House than Zero. “
Agreed .
I thought Biden looked physically awful -like he’s aged 20 years in the last couple of weeks.
Barry sits back , smokes and drinks,
plays basketball and tickle games with Reggie Love while he constantly sends Biden and Hillary all over the globe .
Biden and Hillary both look exhausted and beat down and I don’t think that’s accidental.
One thing to keep in mind that the left in general—in collusion with the old line ivy-league elites, are “soft-anti-Semites” (or hardened ones) as a whole. This administration is full of leftists and elitists...and the State Department is especially full of career leftists and elitists....all of whom, if they are not fully Jewish themselves, really do dislike Jews.
I recall Oliver North’s memoir about his dealings with the State Department careerists...(even under Reagan) who tended toward some shockingly anti-Semitic attitudes.
I suspect there are almost as many anti-Semitic people in the USA now as there there were in the 1930s...(that is a whole lot, including FDR), post-Holocaust they just keep quiet about it, and, of course, object to Israeli (survival) policies.
...while he constantly sends Biden and Hillary all over the globe. Biden and Hillary both look exhausted and beat down and I don’t think that’s accidental.
Imperialist America and its belligerent ally Israel need to accomodate the oppressed Palistinians. Third World people of color cannot be expected to behave as normal humans. These are the assumptions.
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