“how Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could be toppled from power”
So saving “democracy” applies to the United States government selecting which democratically installed government is allowed to retain power?
Yes, the Obama US government did the very same in Ukraine.
Yeah, I could have sworn that liberals frowned on this sort of thing. I mean, they SAY they do.
According to Tablet Magazine, a highly placed source confirmed that it was also Biden who pressured Ukraine into voting ‘yes’ on UN Resolution 2334 which declared that Jewish settlements in the West Bank (including the Old City of Jerusalem) were in violation of international law.
But in fact, we have an example on the record when Biden actually did angrily confront a world leader — Menachem Begin, prime minister of Israel.
The Begin Center Diary blog has the full text of an article in The Jerusalem Post by Moshe Zak, written on March 13, 1992, describing how Biden, when he was a Senator, lost his temper with Israeli PM Menachem Begin during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing:
During that committee hearing, at the height of the Lebanon War, Sen. John Biden (Delaware) had attacked Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria and threatened that if Israel did not immediately cease this activity, the US would have to cut economic aid to Israel.
When the senator raised his voice and banged twice on the table with his fist, Begin commented to him: “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.” [emphasis added]
But ironically, in this case, where there is a clear example of Biden giving an ultimatum to a world leader, Biden himself is eager to deny that it ever happened.