Recently, President Biden has self-identified as a born-again Zionist, and forever a lover of Israel. Really? His actions post the Israeli massacres are contradictory and confusing.  

Biden was quick to show his support for Israel - traveling there, gathering warships and personnel, and broadly telling the world he and America stood with Israel.  

These words were like salve on an open wound, a hug after battle, a lifeline to survival. And Jews globally breathed a bit easier. 

But … but now it is more than two weeks since the attacks on Israel that shook the Earth. The Hamas terrorists in Gaza have continued to bombard Israel with rockets and missiles.  Israel is also being attacked by Hezbollah in the North from Lebanon, and Syria has now joined Israel’s bombardment as well. 

Hamas has said it is holding more than 200 Israeli and American hostages.  Nobody can ascertain the exact number.  Biden wants to negotiate the release of all hostages before Israel commences a ground war.  But their release could take weeks, months, or years.  It is a cruel psychological game. 

Yet we also have Joe Biden, in his latest speech to the nation, declaring the majority of people of Gaza 'innocent.'

We can’t ignore the humanity of innocent Palestinians who only want to live in peace and have an opportunity.

...and...

Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people.  Hamas uses Palestinian civilians as human shields, and innocent Palestinian families are suffering greatly because of them. 

To the Israelis, this makes no sense. Why is Joe Biden declaring most of the people in Gaza innocent? 

Are they innocent when they get paid to kidnap, torture, or butcher an Israeli?  The current going rate is $10,000 for a Jewish victim.

And Rep. Ilan Omar thinks Jews are all about the Benjamins?  

Many of us have heard the nauseating phone call a Hamas terrorist butcher made to his father in the wake of the Hamas attack to let him know that he got ten - "ten!" he proudly screamed, Jews murdered:

The IDF recovered a phone call in which a Hamas terrorist called his parents to boast of the amount of Jews he killed during the massacre of civilians in southern Israel on October 7. Listen to the conversation: https://t.co/oja1rmG30B pic.twitter.com/Szgm18YHy1

— The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) October 24, 2023

For him, that's a lot of ka-ching! That’s a lot of Benjamins. And the blood of Jewish victims was probably on his hands and clothes and flowing in the ground as he let his dear old dad know.

Yet Joe Biden's mixed messaging is nothing new.  

In June 1982, when Israel was at war with Lebanon, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, in desperate need for American aid, was visited by then-Sen. Joe Biden.  Biden argued rabidly with Begin, as described in this 2020 Wall Street Journal account:

Mr. Biden and Begin once clashed, in a private June 1982 session with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Mr. Biden, 39, lectured the 68-year-old Begin over Israeli settlements, jabbing his finger at the prime minister and banging his fist on the desk. Mr. Biden warned that eroding support for Israel threatened U.S. aid. Israel was at war in Lebanon and far more dependent on American assistance than it is today.

Begin stated to Sen. Joseph Biden:

"…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 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 with or without your aid.”  

When Menachem Begin said those words to then-Sen. Biden in 1982, the interests of the two countries were off-kilter.   

Now President Biden took a dangerous trip to Israel during a prelude to a bloody war and was greeted by Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu as a hero and helpmate.  

In many ways, it feels like 1948, and Israel is fighting another war for Independence and survival.  Yet, on the other hand, her peace treaties with neighboring Egypt and Jordan have held, and Saudi Arabia - hoping for normalization with Israel  - appears to be intercepting weapons aimed at Israel.

Almost all Jews living in Muslim countries, if not killed after the establishment of Israel in 1948, were thrown out with nothing - all of their belongings confiscated.  Today, only a smattering of Jews can be found living in Muslim countries with more than two billion inhabitants. 

Yet in teeny tiny Israel, with a population of approximately ten million people, tolerance and integration are the norm, even for non-Jews. Almost 30% of Israel's population is comprised of non-Jews, such as  Arabs, Christians, Bedouins, and those of the Baha'i faith. They are allowed to serve in Israel’s army and can be elected into Israel’s unicameral legislative chamber, the Knesset.  They are afforded all the same rights and obligations as their Jewish counterparts.  

The Israeli-Gaza situation has changed American politics in a way unimaginable at the beginning of October. Pre the Palestinian attack on Israel, Democrats did not particularly seem pro-Israel or pro-Jewish. But that was then. Democrats, along with approximately 70% of the American people, are strongly aligned with Israel now. 

While we are no longer trembling Jews, our existential survival, mere decades after Nazi Germany killed approximately six million Jews, is once again on the line. We are back in the 1940s. It could never happen here, in America, was our proud belief, but we were wrong. The lies, the smears, the propaganda, the dirty tricks, and the incitement to violence against Jews have all been recycled and are here -- Not on our doorstep, but in our living rooms and in our faces. 

There are approximately fifteen million Jews worldwide. Seven million live in Israel.

On a tiny strip of land in the Middle East, Israel has built a high-tech nation from an arid desert, once surrounded completely by hostile nations.  

There are over two billion Muslims in the world; at least half of whom want Israel and Jews erased from the face of the Earth.  

Incredibly, these two billion plus Muslims are not capable of absorbing the two million plus Arabs who live in Gaza.  Nobody wants them, and of course, it’s now easy to see why.  The Arabs in Gaza have not only shattered Israel’s sense of invincibility with their onslaught of butchery, they have released a torrent of ugly, aggressive world-wide Jew-hatred not seen since Nazi Germany. 

Joe Biden's mixed and contradictory messages and shifting stances are not helping.

One can only hope that Biden will be true to his word and allow Israel to fight for its own survival. 

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