Joe Biden is Israel’s best friend

Med Donald Trump Israel has now established diplomatic relations with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is struggling in domestic politics with a new wave of corona infections, protesters, and the upcoming corruption trial, most of his path is foreign policy. It will also do so if Donald Trump does not continue as president of the United States.

Trump has done more for Israel than any previous American president, but the slightly controversial real estate mogul doesn’t have the Israelis at his heart. However, he has Joe Biden and his vice presidential candidate, Kamala Harris.

With biden The US embassy will remain in Jerusalem and the illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank will remain. So will the unconditional US $ 1 billion aid to the Jewish state. And what about the relationship between Netanyahu and Biden? The two have been friends for many years, a friendship that was strengthened when Biden was Barack Obama’s vice president. As a member of the United States Senate since 1972, the Democratic presidential candidate has worked with nine different Israeli prime ministers.

Uzi arad, one of Netanyahu’s advisers, recalls the meeting between the Israeli Prime Minister and then-Vice President Joe Biden in 2010. Biden put his arm around Netanyahu and said:

-I’m your damn best friend here.

Two years later, Biden said in a meeting with Netanyahu that the two had been friends for thirty years:

-I don’t agree with everything you say, but I love you.

American Jews has largely voted for Democrats, but Trump’s active Israeli policy has drawn some to the Republican field. Biden now wants to do something about it, strongly encouraged by several prominent American Jews. Campaign donations have increased dramatically and Biden can also enjoy growing verbal support. For most American Jews, it was a relief that Israeli critic Bernie Sanders, who is also Jewish, was not nominated as the Democratic presidential candidate. When the time came, they couldn’t have had a better man than Joe Biden.

Especially when they know that the presidential candidate wrote alone the sections on relations with Israel in the political platform of the Democrats, which was adopted at the virtual national meeting of the party in July.

On the platform, the word occupation is not used once. A proposal to include this decisive word was rejected when 117 voted against and 34 in favor. The fact that Democrats support a two-state solution and do not approve of the Israeli annexation of the Jordan Valley and Israeli settlements in the West Bank is little consolation to the Palestinians. In any case, such annexation will not take place for long; Israel has committed to this by receiving political and diplomatic support from the Emirates and Bahrain.

It’s not fun either reading when Biden demands that the Palestinian Authority recognize Israel’s right to be an independent Jewish state. In the last three words is the fact that the Palestinians in Israel, who make up twenty percent of the country’s population, can become an even larger foreign element in the country in which they live.

But the election campaign is an election campaign, and Biden has to challenge Donald Trump as well when it comes to the Middle East. The other day, he strongly opposed the US president’s decision to withdraw from the international nuclear deal with Iran just over two years ago. Biden believes that Trump misjudged:

“It allowed the enemies of Israel to take hold in Syria and a dangerous power vacuum emerged,” said the US presidential candidate.

This is something that possibly Prime Minister Netanyahu can live with, because Biden is unlikely to risk a political conflict with Israel on this matter. But perhaps there will be a little less of new US sanctions against Iran if Biden is elected.

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Kamala Harris, With an Indian mother and a Jamaican father, she has supported Israel since as a child in Oakland, California, raised money for the Jewish National Fund in Israel. For her, Israel is not just an ally, but “one of the best friends we have.”

When he met Prime Minister Netanyahu in 2017, he made the following declaration of love for the Jewish state:

-When I visited Israel for the first time, I saw how Israeli wisdom and will had made a desert bloom.

Attorney Douglas Emhoff, who is Jewish, has retired from work and is actively campaigning for his wife and Joe Biden in Jewish communities across the United States. The first stop was Florida, where he attended a great meeting online. Avisa The Jerusalem Post made the following comment:

“Democrats choose Florida to reveal their new Jewish star.”