He probably just forgot that Israel even exists. It might be different if they had given his crackhead son a cushy, no-show seat on the board of one of their major companies. But they didn’t.
[He probably just forgot that Israel even exists.]
That could be. Joe probably thinks it’s 1929 and Franklin Roosevelt just went on TV to talk about “the princes of greed” and the stock market crash of that year. Joe had been listening to a phonograph.
Since Israel wasn’t yet again a nation in 1929 and Resolution 181 hadn’t occurred, Joe would have no idea they’re even there!