Posted on 08/24/2020 2:11:44 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Israel owes more to former Vice President Joe Biden than it does to President Donald Trump, argues Conservative Rabbi Michael Beals, the man Biden dubbed “my rabbi”.
Rabbi Beals, who leads Congregation Beth Shalom in Wilmington, Delaware, spoke with Galei Tzahal’s Efi Triger in an interview broadcast Monday morning, discussing how he became ‘Biden’s rabbi’, and why he is more impressed with Biden’s record on Israel than that of President Trump.
Rabbi Beals recalled the first time he met Biden, following the death of a congregant, Sylvia Greenhouse, in 2006. The rabbi was surprised to see then-Senator Biden, who had gained national attention during his abortive 1988 run for the Democratic presidential nomination. The senator noted that Greenhouse had donated to his first senate campaign back in 1972, and had continued to donate to every subsequent campaign he ran.
“I was having a shiva [condolence call] for a very nice woman, and there is Joe Biden. I was so surprised to see him. I knew who he was – he had already run for president once. I said to him very nicely, ‘Why are you here?’”
“He said that the lady had given him $18 for his first campaign.”
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“It was a really nice honor. Whenever he needs something, I’m there. When his son died and there was a funeral, he wanted me to be there to represent the Jewish community, so of course I came.”
While Biden would, if elected, become the oldest president in US history at 78 on inauguration day (compared to 70 for the current record, held by Trump on his inauguration day), Rabbi Beals said the former Vice President is a “youngster” compared to Moses, adding that age was not a vulnerability but an asset.
“In the Jewish tradition, we put a connection between being old and being wise, because it comes with being wise. Moshe Rabbenu was 80 years old when he took our people out from slavery. So compared to Moshe Rabbenu, I said to Biden, ‘You’re a youngster.’”
Turning to the 2020 presidential election, Beals rejected concerns from Israel and its supporters that Biden would be less supportive than Trump.
“When Israel made its request from the US for military defenses in the time of Biden and Obama, it was too much – they didn’t make their request. And Biden convinced Obama. How can Israel not be supportive of Biden?”
“It’s very nice what Trump has done. He moved the embassy, but, thank you very much, it was King David who put the capital in Jerusalem. But it’s symbolic. Symbolism won’t put food on the table of an Israeli.”
These are the arguments he puts first. Bile rose in my gorge before I could read the rest.
At first glance, I thought the headline said “Biden’s Rabbit.” :-)
Close enough.
“Israel owes more to former Vice President Joe Biden than it does to President Donald Trump,”
So let’s see. Osama Obama and his sidekick Joe Birdbrain sent folks over there in interfere with their elections, sent $150 billion to Iran who has sworn to destroy Israel and has made it possible for Iran to get nukes. What is this Rabbi smoking?
Israel owes Biden something???
Must be a kickback on some foreign aid he delivered to Israel that hasn’t been paid..
He visited and showed up 90 minutes late for the state dinner in his honor, calling the new housing development in Jerusalem “Liebensraum building” and Jerusalem “a problem we are trying to find a final solution to” and bemoaning the fact that Bibi did not accept his request for a state dinner themed on Hawaiian pork. This was as VP.
and the Rabbit was in the loop.
Rabbi Michael Beals is simply doing electioneering for Joe Biden. Just look at Joe Biden’s record compared to Donald Trump’s full support of Israel and the number of goofball democrats who keep talking down Israel. Did Joe Biden do anything like move the embassy to Jerusalem? Does Joe Biden speak up against the idiots like Omar, Tlaib, etc. who constantly speak against Israel? I have never heard him utter a condemnation of anyone talking against Israel. Having this Rabbi speak up for Biden is just democratic campaigning, nothing else.
Do all pseudo Catholics have Rabbis?
Israel is supposed to thank Joe Biden for the warning that they “better get used to a nuclear-armed Iran”?
Coincidentally, the Rabbi in question slipped into a Coma the third week of January 2009 and came out of his Coma exactly eight years later.
Rabbi Beals is so full of s**t that it is coming out his ears.
Lannigan did for a short lived series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanigan%27s_Rabbi
I wished some of these short lived shows could make it out to DVD.
Some of the NBC mystery movie programs were really good.
Biden’s Rabi is clearly a fool.
No matter what the Trump team achieves, there’s an effort to
diminish it’s importance.
This is a big deal, and is likely to lead to more agreements
in short order.
Israel has no desire to be the enemy of Arab nations in the
region, and I think the Arabs know it, and realized Israel
could be a help to them.
This Ribi just doesn’t get it.
The first Black Gomer and Biden, made no progress in eight
years. Trump made progress in less than four.
“...won’t put food on the table of an Israeli.”
I thought Plugs was a Catholic.
My ass. In fact, everyone's ass.
He’s in somebody’s pocket?
Sort of like a court jester, or a special herald for the Jooos!
In case the Church ever excommunicates him for his support of baby killing, he’ll quickly convert to Judaism. Conservative, so that they’ll just let him go on killing babies and he can still claim to be religious. Reform or Reconstructionist doesn’t cut it, and a follower of Shabetai Tzvi is so 1650.
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