Op-ed:

Obama and Biden...No Friends of Israel

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio

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Simply, Joe Biden is no friend to Israel nor was Barack Obama when he was in office. Two U.S. presidents speaking out of both sides of their mouths when it concerns the Jewish State of Israel. Two presidents twisting the knife deeper into the back of America's staunchest ally not just in the Middle East but in the world, all while capitalizing on political infamy that serves no one well.

And it started with Obama back in 2011, when he “demanded” that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have Israel “retreat” to its pre-1967 borders, with “retreat” the Palestinian demand for peace negotiations to even begin. And Netanyhau's response to Obama was that, “the pre-1967 borders are 'indefensible,” which they then were...thus proving to all willing to listen that in his pushing for said borders Obama was making light of both Israel's right to determine and secure its own borders, and of her people's right to feel safe within said borders.

But little did the safety of Israeli citizens matter to Obama for he helped to usher in a decided change in U.S. policy towards the Jewish State. And what was initially but a small, could be patched-up split in U.S./Israeli relations grew wider, culminating in what I call Obama's “great divide”...a “divide” that not only further jeopardized said relations, but put Israel and the world in danger. More on that in a bit.

In fact, Obama's “demands” of Israel while president...including his “land swaps” fiasco that called for Israel to suspend all new settlement construction in the Israel owned West Bank...showed exactly who he personally...and thus our country...aligned with. Clearly, the Palestinian agenda was more important to Obama than was Israel's objective then as it is today...simply to live in peace without having to fear the Arab world that overwhelmingly surrounds them.

Now remember back to May 2015, when this man and his administration tried to interfere in Israel's election in an attempt to remove BiBi Netanyahu from office. And how exactly did Obama do this...simply by his funneling what were our taxpayer dollars to the State Department who in turn, then funneled those monies in the guise of grants... hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants...to a pair of “questionable” non-profit groups who used said monies to directly try to unseat Netanyahu. Don't believe me, then read this report, in full, in the July 12, 2016 edition of “THE TIMES OF ISRAEL.”

Also in 2015, in what I consider to be the worst of Obama's anti-Israel stances...the one that solidified what I call his aforementioned “great divide”...was when said “divide” was officially given a name, as in the “Joint Comprehension Plan of Action” (the JCPOA) otherwise known as “Obama's very bad nuclear deal.” Remember, this deal made in conjunction with the Israel-hating U.N., would allow Iran...the world's leading sponsor of terrorism...to join the club, if you will, of nuclear nations.

And while Obama and Iran claimed then and do still claim now courtesy of our puppet president, that Iran's goal has always been the development of “peaceful use” nuclear energy, Iran and the mullahs simply don't care that most know they've always been lying. And why should they care when Obama had to know Iran's true objective was to garner an arsenal of nuclear weapons, and yet he kept pushing the JCPOA down everyone's throat. A vile secret kept, while always hoping that Iran would not get caught “red handed” producing weapons that surely would be pointed directly at Israel.

But what's even more disturbing about the JCPOA is Obama's underhanded way in securing it. How so...in January 2016 while the deal was still in the final negotiates stage Obama, secretly in the middle of the night, sent $1.7 billion in cash (using non-U.S. currency) to the government of Iran...claiming it was the settlement of a decades-old arbitration claim between the U.S. and Iran. And this occurred within just days of his already having make a $400 million cash payment to Iran...a payment done on the very same day Tehran agreed to release four American held prisoners. Simply, what Obama did was what America never does, as in negotiating with terrorists by literally, in my opinion, “buying” said prisoners freedom, while at the same time the monies helped bring to fruition one of the worst deals any U.S. president ever made...a deal that not only jeopardized Israel, but the world as well. 

Want more? In December 2016, just one month before he was to leave office, Obama instructed our then U.N. ambassador to vote in favor of a resolution that allowed the Security Council to condemn Israeli settlements in both the West Bank and East Jerusalem, calling them a “flagrant violation” of international law, thus having “no legal validity.” And Israel's response to Obama's turncoat action came courtesy of a statement from Netanyahu's office saying that, “Israel rejects this shameful anti-Israel resolution at the U.N. and will not abide by its terms.” In fact, Netanyahu's response went even further by rightfully blaming Obama for failing to “protect Israel against this gang-up at the UN” and “colluding with the country’s (as in Israel's) detractors.”

Three major back stabs to Israel courtesy of Obama occurred within a mere two years time, but he wasn't done yet for just as his time in office was finally reaching its end, he gave Israel the proverbial finger one last time by releasing $221 million to the Palestinians, monies House Republicans had been blocking. And Obama, true to form, did so in a most despicable manner via his sending a notification to Congress that said money release was signed and sealed just hours before Donald J. Trump was to be sworn into office as America's 45th president.

Simply, Obama's anti-Israel actions while in office coupled with his deep seated personal hatred of Netanyahu, laid the groundwork for Iran's probably, in time, securing nuclear weapons. And when you add in Joe Biden's current flip-flop Israeli policies, you know more problems lay ahead for Israel as Biden is basically continuing the anti-Israel policies of Obama.

How so? Biden's two-faced Israeli stance actually surfaced during his first trip to Israel as president when he told Netanyahu that, “I don't believe you have to be a Jew to be a Zionist, and I am a Zionist.” And while those words might be true in most cases, for Biden it's just one more in a long list of lies told. And when that's coupled with this year's caught on “hot mic” moment where he said, “I told him, Bibi, and don’t repeat this, but you and I are going to have a ‘come to Jesus’ meeting”...you just know that Israel has no real friend in Joe Biden...never has and never will.

And Biden's sorted history with Israel and Netanyahu not just dates back to when he was Obama's VP, but goes further back to when in 1973 while still a senator, the great Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir noticed that when meeting Biden for the first time that he outwardly “signaled his lack of diplomatic experience” when laying out concerns over Israel having seized land in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Also, in 1982, then Sen. Joe Biden was among a group of U.S. lawmakers who had a not so cordial meeting with then Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. And it was here where Biden pressed Begin to “halt” the building of Jewish settlements in the West Bank, while at the same time openly criticizing of other aspects of Israel’s policies.

And so a pattern emerged over the years of a two-faced Joe Biden showing support for Israel while in the public venue, but criticizing Israel's leaders and actions in private conversations not meant for public consumption. Embracing the art of “double speak” when it's to his political advantage, Biden recently reiterated his past words said that, “the Jewish State has a right to self-defense.” What are true words in every sense have now become but hollow words for Biden, as witnessed when soon after Iran's drone and missile attack on Israel, he tempered down those nine important words by saying that in any retaliation Israel undertakes that, “Israel must protect Iranian civilian lives.”

And so Joe Biden...who like Obama...cares more about Iranian lives than he does about Israeli lives, doesn't see that Israel is basically now fighting a “two front” war...a war they never wanted...a war that if Iran does not back down could, in time, turn nuclear dirty. And if Iran decides to go that route Biden best know that “collateral damage” will be high, and that diplomacy that might have worked... especially with a “different” president at America's helm... will most assuredly not work now.

So if “collateral damage” is something Biden really doesn't want...whether it be Palestinian or Iranian...the answer is simply to stand strong and united with Israel or keep your big mouth shut. Remember, the best one can hope for in any war is that when the fighting ends it's the “good guys” that won and that the “bad guys” lost, but for Obama's puppet it seems he wants it to be the other way around.

Why so? Since Hamas' October 7, 2023 savage attack on Israeli civilians, Biden has vacillated back and forth as to how Israel has responded. And while Israel has done what needs to be done, all seemed to reach a head when back in late March, Biden tried to “play tough” with Netanyau by laying down a “red line” that his actions in Gaza were “over the top,” and that he dare not cross into Rafah to remove the last “vestiges” of Hamas. Saying doing so would “risk killing more civilians” and create more problems in delivering “humanitarian assistance,” what Biden ignores is the fact that maybe, for now, no “assistance” will be allowed to go into Gaza. And why...because a “humanitarian crisis” is not a crisis when those needing aid are but the enemy in disguise.

And making matters worse, Biden said in a memorandum that Israel is committing “mass murder” and “war crimes” in Gaza, and that he will immediately cut off all aide to Israel unless he gets “assurance” that Israel agrees to meet “arbitrary deadlines” in regards to Gaza's “humanitarian crisis.” And yet nary a condemnation of Hamas nor their actions taken has come from the Palestinians...Palestinians still loyal to Hamas...nor did Biden mention the fate of Israeli hostages let alone the real “war crimes” committed by Hamas on “Black Saturday.”

Indoctrination and the hatred of Jews runs deep in these folks and might well take generations to overcome even when this war...as all wars do...finally ends. But for now it seems that Biden's true intentions mirrors those of Obama who recently said in an interview regarding Israel...an interview where he does say that Hamas' October 7th actions were “horrific” but added that, “Israel does need to bears responsibility” for the “unbearable occupation” of Gaza.

But what Obama willfully chooses to forget is exactly what Biden is oblivious to, as in the fact that Israel has not...I repeat not...occupied Gaza since 2005 when they withdrew all military forces and settlers from the Gaza “enclave.” Simply, the Palestinians fate was sealed when they willingly voted Hamas into power.

And so Joe Biden remains as he's always been...a joke on the world stage...a man who thinks he can tell Netanyahu how to run his country and fight the very war that could determine Israel's survival. No wonder Republicans continue criticizing Biden for being “insufficiently supportive” of Israel, while the Democrat party base criticizes his “tentative approach” to what they deem to be a Palestinian “human rights crisis.” A crisis of the Palestinians own creation...a crisis only they can fix. No excuses, no sympathy from me...case closed. 

Copyright © 2024 / Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All rights reserved. 

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