{"id":1556397,"date":"2022-07-15T12:34:06","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T16:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1556397"},"modified":"2022-07-15T12:34:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T16:34:15","slug":"good-friday-joe-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/good-friday-joe-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Friday, Joe Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">8<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgood-friday-joe-biden%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1556397&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-15-at-11.22.15-AM-1024x504-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Here is the president of the United States speaking in East Jerusalem:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"Gh3LajW2mMUYw5upKACcJ8OXx9yl0g7vHQEtVdPe6FiobBSk\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BIDEN in East Jerusalem: &#8220;\u2026the background of my family is Irish American and we have a long history not fundamentally unlike the Palestinian people, with Great Britain and their attitude toward Irish Catholics over the years for 400 years.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/stj17lgSvv\">pic.twitter.com\/stj17lgSvv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1547925421856940032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>My first thought on hearing Biden\u2019s comment was that the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.encyclopedia.com\/international\/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps\/cumann-na-mban\">women of Easter Rising<\/a> would have wanted to string him up for abortion heresy. But jokes (and eternal damnation) aside, it\u2019s difficult to understand what the president is saying here.<\/p>\n<p>Is he contending that the \u201cPalestinian people,\u201d like the Irish, have first claim to the land, ignoring the consistent Jewish presence in Israel since \u2014 let\u2019s be conservative \u2014 a few centuries before the unified Kingdom of Israel, around 1000 BC, or around 1600 years before the Muslims invaded? Is he saying that the British took control of Israel in 1917 so they could settle the land with foreigners and displace Muslims? Does he realize that the British were in \u201cPalestine\u201d \u2014 where they often abdicated their responsibility to protect the Jewish minority \u2014 only 30 years, as opposed to 850? Doesn\u2019t the Jew who fled Europe to return to the Middle East have more in common with the Catholic who fled England for Ireland in the 1600s or America later on? <\/p>\n<p>The first mention of a modern \u201cPalestinian people\u201d did not appear until the early 20th century, an invention of the British mandate. It initially described both Jew and Arab. The latter people incited pogroms, then wars, and then campaigns of terror to rectify the situation, all of which led to their tragic fate. A Good Friday agreement for the Palestinians is always within reach. All they need do is embrace reality and reject terror.<\/p>\n<p>But let\u2019s concede that Biden, who not long ago reportedly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/13133767\/joe-biden-ira-sinn-fein-gerry-adams-ireland\/?utm_source=twitter&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_campaign=sharebarweb\">discussed<\/a>\u00a0a united Ireland with an IRA fugitive, isn\u2019t merely repeating some progressive speechwriter\u2019s words. And let\u2019s point out that an ideological kinship between terror groups PLO and IRA existed in the \u201970s, \u201980s, and \u201990s (though, of the two, only the Irish would make peace.) In some Irish communities, where\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/world-news\/europe\/2019-11-03\/ty-article-magazine\/.premium\/a-proxy-israeli-palestinian-conflict-is-playing-out-thousands-of-miles-away\/0000017f-f98c-d460-afff-fbee07370000\">dueling<\/a>\u00a0Israeli and PLO flags still fly, there is a political affinity between people who view themselves either as occupied or terror victims, even though the situations aren\u2019t really comparable. Maybe Biden finds himself in agreement with those who fly the Fatah colors?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe someone will ask him what he meant.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  David Harsanyi is a senior editor at The Federalist. Harsanyi is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of five books\u2014the most recent, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Eurotrash-America-Reject-Failed-Continent\/dp\/0063066017\/\">Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent<\/a>. His work has appeared in National Review, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Reason, New York Post, and numerous other publications. Follow him on Twitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidharsanyi\/\">@davidharsanyi<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the president of the United States speaking in East Jerusalem: BIDEN in East Jerusalem: &#8220;\u2026the background of my family is Irish American and we have a long<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":831,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1556397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1556397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}