One is a Senator, one is an actor playing a deranged killer.
The actor has more hair.
Posted on 04/02/2015 5:31:22 AM PDT by SJackson
When Israel’s Prime Minister Told Joe Biden: I Am Not A Jew With Trembling Knees
Posted By Ronn Torossian On April 2, 2015 @ 12:20 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage | No Comments
While the Obama Administration continues their pressure on Israel, for at least Joe Biden, it is not the first time that there has been animosity with an Israeli leader. The reality is that while some of the names change, this conflict is about Israel’s refusal to surrender to a Palestinian Arab enemy who seeks to destroy the Jewish nation.
The United States is wrong to pressure Israel – yet, this too shall pass.
History often repeats itself.
On June 22 1982, Joe Biden was a Senator from Delaware and confronted then Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin during his Senate Foreign Relations committee testimony, threatening to cut off aid to Israel.
Begin forcefully responded,
“Don’t threaten us with cutting off your aid. It will not work. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history. Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid.”
As media reports that the United States Government continues to pressure Israel, America must respect the will of the Israeli public, whom overwhelmingly re-elected Benjamin Netanyahu. Rightfully, a senior Israeli elected official noted, “Settlement building will be one of the basic guidelines of the next government and just as I don’t interfere in America if they build in Florida or California, they don’t need to interfere in building in Judea or Samaria.”
During the exchange in ’82, Senator Biden reportedly banged the table with his fist, and Begin retorted,
“This desk is designed for writing, not for fists. Don’t threaten us with slashing aid. Do you think that because the US lends us money it is entitled to impose on us what we must do? We are grateful for the assistance we have received, but we are not to be threatened. I am a proud Jew. Three thousand years of culture are behind me, and you will not frighten me with threats. Take note: we do not want a single soldier of yours to die for us.”
Ze’ev Jabotinsky, the leader of the Revisionist movement, which both Begin & Netanyahu emanate from noted in 1940 that, “We hold that Zionism is moral and just. And since it is moral and just, justice must be done, no matter whether Joseph or Simon or Ivan or Achmed agree with it or not.” The reality is that principles matter.
World leaders would be apt to remember these words and times.
http://ww2db.com/event/today/06/20/1942
The first article referencing almost a million Jewish deaths (I am not suggesting that by this time it was accurate) due to Nazis.
If the NY times had that story, do you not think US Intelligence did not have the story?
Do you mean the Soviets?
Thanks for bringing up the Monroe Doctrine. Beleive it or not, as I am old(LOL), they did teach that to us in school when I was a kid. Now you sparked my interest gonna look it up again.
Its a Bazzar world and God is testing us, preparing us for future service.
In the meanwhile, it sucks. xo
Reagan was making similar threats. That was after destroying the Osirik reactor. Everyone got over it. Cheney thanked Israel later, after Desert Storm.
One is a Senator, one is an actor playing a deranged killer.
The actor has more hair.
Hah! No wonder he’s called ‘Plugs’ and he was only 40 in that combover pic. I laugh everytime I see that jackwad called ‘Plugs’ as that’s what an old GF called those EOM thingies instead of the K word. Hey Biden, you read that, your GF uses them as earrings, too! [I kid because I love, that guy’s total comedy relief, he’s the only one in the whole GD administration who’s not mean and nasty!]
Your memory is conveniently inconvenient. We knew about what was going on, but did nothing for a myriad of reasons. Yes, we liberated the camps after 6 million were massacred. It’s rather cheap for you to consider this as coming to their aid. At some point, our tanks would be coming through anyway.
Yuck. What a jerk you are. What you said is true in the most gross casual sense of the word. We did not rescue them - they were liberated simply because they were there. We did them no favors. Yuck...glad I don’t know you.
Some of those camps were "liberated" by the Soviets, who immediately converted them into their own Concentration Camps.
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