Et Tu Biden - With friends like this, Israel needs no enemies

In response to Joe Biden's visit to Israel and Ramallah, March 2010

Biden and Obama’s administration continue to insist that that they are some of the best friends of Israel, yet little is further from the truth, or more dangerous to Israel. Biden’s Senate voting record includes voting against US sanctions designed to hinder Iran’s quest for nuclear weapons. He voted against designating the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization, even though it is currently the biggest direct sponsor of global terror. Biden is on record as stating that he wants to deal with Iran in the same manner that the US dealt with North Korea. That diplomacy resulted in totalitarian North Korea building nuclear weapons.

If Jews were to be denied planning permission in the USA on land that they have legally purchased simply because they are Jews, then the US government would be dismayed by such discrimination and take action. Sadly, Joseph Biden, the self-proclaimed friend of Israel who voted in the US Senate against sanctions designed to hinder Iran’s quest for nuclear weapons, has launched an international outcry because Jews wanted planning permission for their property in Jerusalem, the capital of their historic homeland.

Obama has had the current US administration adopt a “narrative” to the Mid-East that is at odds with the actual events we have lived through in the past 40 years. The acts of Biden and Obama encouraging the development of real existential threats to Israel, and ultimately the Jewish people, by tyrannical regimes cannot be considered friendly. Caesar was murdered by Senators led by his avowed close friend, Brutus. If Israel’s leaders choose to listen to a warped ex-Senator, they too may soon be saying, “et tu Biden”.