Biden, a Catholic, promising Catholic voters that he would
represent their ethics and values even as he endorses pro-abortion
rights and selected a Vice President who has built a political career
funded by the pro-abortion lobby represented by Planned
Parenthood.
Biden says one thing but does the opposite. Senator Biden in
1982 threatened to cut off US aid to Israel. In a heated exchange with Israeli
Prime Minister, Menachem Begin, Biden banged on the table and delivered his
threat to which Begin undiplomatically replied,
“Don’t threaten us with cutting off your aid. 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.”
In an administration that promised “no daylight”
between the United States, Obama, Biden, John Kerry and Hillary Clinton did
precisely the opposite.
Israel was furious at the Administration for leaking
intelligence of an Israeli airstrike on a Syrian facility storing Russian
surface-to-air missile systems.
A December 29, 2105 Wall
Street Journal article detailed how the Obama Administration conducted
surveillance on Israeli officials to discover how the Israeli government would
react to their bad Iran Nuclear Deal. This broke the decades-old bipartisan US
policy toward Israel.
The National Iranian-American Council, the
de-facto Iranian lobbying force in Washington DC, applauded the DNC’s
announcement that they intend to reverse President Trump’s sanctions on Iran if
they come to power in the 2020 election.
Biden has pledged to revive Obama’s Middle East policies,
particularly his highly criticized Iran Nuclear Deal which allowed Iran to
develop not only its advanced missile program but also more sophisticated centrifuges
buried in Iran’s underground facility at Natanz, scene of
a mysterious explosion in August. These
centrifuges will speed up the enrichment of uranium needed to produce a nuclear
warhead at a time of Iran’s choosing.
Thee disastrous fallout of this awful deal was a failure of
not understanding that the Iranian regime would not use the money on its people
but on broadening its malevolent regional intentions. The Obama-Biden generous
gift of $150 Billion plus an additional $1.5 Billion cash payment enabled the
Islamic regime in Tehran to extend their violent hegemony, directly and via
their proxies, through Iraq, into Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, and further south in
Yemen.
As Nikki Haley described it at the Republican National
Convention, “Obama-Biden let Iran get away with murder and literally sent
them a plane full of cash.”
This has left the Sunni Arab world with a dire sense of
vulnerability. Inadvertently, it has driven moderate Arab states to first
develop covert contacts with Israel and now, with the advent of the Israel-UAE
peace deal, with open relationships and partnership.
The recognition for this miraculous development rests with
President Donald Trump, not with the Obama-Biden Administration that left the
Middle East and North Africa in bloody turmoil.
One of the unsung benefits of UAE’s decision to normalize
their relationship with Israel was their official
renunciation of a 47 year boycott policy against Israel.
In effect, this act killed the infamous BDS Movement at a
stroke of the UAE pen. How is it possible for radical left activists, as well as
certain members of Congress, to promote boycott campaigns against Israel when
Arab states are not only dropping their boycotts but actively signing trade
deals with Israel?
It is worth noting that although an attempt to oppose an
anti-boycott bill in Congress was defeated, seventeen
Democrats continued to support BDS and a further ten abstained from the
vote. Two Democrat Presidential hopefuls absented themselves from the vote, as
did House speaker, Nancy Pelosi.
Although Democrat representatives do attend the annual AIPAC
Conference to show their support of Israel, the jury is out as to whether they
do so to appeal to their Jewish and Christian constituents, rather than an
affirmative love of Israel. The doubt stems from the failure of any Democrat
Congress member to attend
the opening of the US Embassy in Jerusalem.
They also swerved the Israel Embassy celebration party in Washington DC.
But the unkindest cut of all was when Obama-Biden
stabbed Israel in the back as they were leaving the White House. A
vindictive out-going President, backed by his VP, failed to impose the United
States veto in UN Security Council Resolution 2334 that decreed, wrongly, that
Israeli towns and villages in Judea & Samaria were an illegal occupation.
More recently, Biden has said he does not support “annexation”
which means he does not recognize Israeli sovereignty over the large towns and
villages in Judea & Samaria that are the homes, universities and work
places of 600,00 Jews.
He went further by saying he would renew
US funding to the Palestinian Authority ignoring their “Pay to Slay” reward
payments to Palestinian terrorists and killers of Israelis.
Biden said he would reopen the PLO-PA Washington bureau,
which this non-state calls its “embassy.”
Biden has embraced anti-Israel JStreet.
Former Defense Secretary, Robert Gates, privy to important
policy issues emanating from the Oval Office, famously said that Joe Biden has
been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue
over the past four decades.
On the campaign trail, Biden has become an embarrassment.
His faux pas and mumbling thoughts are a matter of concern for the Democrat
faithful. Even the Chicago
Sun Times, a paper that has endorsed the Democratic Party, fears that Biden’s
diminished faculties will handicap their election chances. But Biden was
never elected to affirmatively lead the country but to be the front man for the
growing radical wing of the party. In an act of national deception, the
Democrats try to project themselves as moderates in an effort to keep their
traditional voters on board. In truth, the party has changed beyond
recognition. It belongs to the Red-Green alliance, the Marxists and Islamists
that control the party Establishment to the point that their elderly leaders
take the knee to their demands and, should they take power, their policies.
One example of this change is personified in Ilhan Omar. Omar
projected herself as the shining face of a culture sensitive public when she
won her Minneapolis seat. She was supported by the Jews of her district as
representing their progressive values. That was before the mask came off and she
revealed her real self as an anti-Semitic Israel hater.
More recently, Omar has called for the dismantling of the
police. She also called to “tear
down the system.” This
radicalism shows where the heart of the Democrat Party lies.
It was not by accident that Joe Biden went public asking for
a Million Muslim Vote. He spoke the words, but the campaign strategy was
decided elsewhere. Biden has yet to go public and ask for a Million Jewish
Votes. He won’t. This is not where the party is today.
Ilhan Omar is the fundraiser for the Council of
American-Islamic Relations, the American Muslim Brotherhood. Even the United
Arab Emirates called CAIR a terror
group.
But the Democrat radicals in Congress are far more numerous
than this quartet. As mentioned earlier, thirty of them followed their
anti-Israel lead when it came to a vote. And their numbers will grow in the
next Congress. Elliot Engel, one of the dwindling pro-Israel Democrats was
easily defeated by a new radical in a recent primary.
This is the force what will set policy, not Biden. He will
be a figurehead President, rolled out to sign policies, read speeches off
teleprompters, and be seen shaking hands with visiting dignitaries. The
business of government will be executed elsewhere.
Where the party will be, policy-wise, should they win the
2020 election, is reflected in Ilhan Omar. They elected her to sit on the US
Foreign Affairs Committee failing to demote her following her numerous
anti-Jewish and anti-Israel remarks.
They failed because this is where the power of the party is
today.
Imagine a Democrat Administration with Ilhan Omar promoted
to chair the US Foreign Affairs Committee.
When that happens what do you think will be the United
States position on Israel?
Barry Shaw, Senior Associate for International Public
Diplomacy at the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies. Author of ‘Fighting
Hamas, BDS and Anti-Semitism.’
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