{"id":1576610,"date":"2022-07-28T12:02:04","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T16:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1576610"},"modified":"2022-07-28T12:02:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T16:02:12","slug":"view-from-israel-biden-visit-despicable-disastrous-flag-waving-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/view-from-israel-biden-visit-despicable-disastrous-flag-waving-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"View From Israel: Biden Visit \u2018Despicable, Disastrous\u2019 Flag-Waving Failure"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fview-from-israel-biden-visit-despicable-disastrous-flag-waving-failure%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=1576610&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--><p>TEL AVIV \u2014 President Joe Biden\u2019s trip to Israel earlier this month featured saccharine platitudes and rote pledges of friendship and fealty, but given that Biden was spurned by the Saudis, used by the Palestinians, left Israel worse than he found it, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/president-joe-biden-has-covid-white-house-announces\">apparently got COVID<\/a> for his trouble, maybe he should\u2019ve stayed home.<\/p>\n<p>After landing at Ben Gurion International Airport July 13, Biden was warmly greeted by Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid, who called the American president \u201c\u200b\u200ba great Zionist and one of the best friends Israel has ever known.\u201d Israeli President Isaac Herzog was equally effusive, calling Biden \u201ca visionary and a leader,\u201d \u201clike the biblical Joseph.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s very words and deeds while in the Jewish State belied their charitable words, and it wasn\u2019t just the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/joe-biden-looks-lost-during-trip-to-israel-makes-holocaust-gaffe\">shocking gaffe in which he referred to the \u201chonor of the Holocaust<\/a>,\u201d or his failure to visit the iconic Western Wall. Biden smiled to our faces, then insulted us behind our backs. His limousine sported Israeli and American flags during visits to Yad Vashem and the Maccabiah games, but the Israeli banner vanished when he headed east Jerusalem to visit the Augusta Victoria Hospital on the Mount of Olives.<\/p>\n<p>The Palestinian flag waved from the hood of the presidential limousine when Biden went on to Bethlehem to meet with the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas. Biden stood mute while Abbas accused Israel of \u201capartheid\u201d and demanded an end to 74 years of \u201coccupation,\u201d an unmistakable call for the end of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Biden reiterated his support for a two-state solution, calling it \u201cthe best way to achieve an equal measure of security, prosperity, freedom, and democracy for the Palestinians as well as the Israelis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Palestinian people deserve a state of their own,\u201d Biden said before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israeli-news\/article-712210\">calling<\/a> for a divided Jerusalem to be the capital of that state, breaking from the Trump administration\u2019s recognition that Jerusalem is the undivided eternal capital of the Jewish people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJerusalem must be a city for all its people, its holy sites preserving the status quo \u2026 We must all be free to practice our faiths in peace, in safety, and in dignity,\u201d said Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Biden\u2019s real mission on the Middle East trip was to beg the Saudis for more oil production. With the Kingdom interested in better relations with the Jewish State, Biden sought to position the U.S. as a facilitator \u2013 in effect using Israel to leverage oil from the Saudis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBiden didn\u2019t come to Israel as a giver, rather as a beggar,\u201d said former Likud Member of Knesset and Zehut founder Moshe Feiglin. \u201cHe came to the Middle East because of the oil prices in the United States. He needs Saudi Arabia to produce more oil, and don\u2019t forget that it was Biden who left the Saudis alone to deal with Iranian attacks, so the Saudis are not exactly lining up to do him favors. The Saudis, due to U.S. foreign policy of abandoning them, have grown closer to Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/desantis-unloads-on-biden-over-energy-crisis-hell-fist-bump-saudi-arabia-but-wont-produce-oil-here\">Biden\u2019s infamous fist bump with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman<\/a> angered the left, which was hoping he would take a break from begging long enough to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-claims-he-confronted-saudi-crown-prince-over-murder-top-saudi-official-pushes-back\">deliver a rebuke<\/a> for the grisly murder of Jamal Khashoggi. Of course, the same left sought no such rebuke for Abbas, who praises terrorists who kill innocent Jews and pays their families if they are killed or imprisoned, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/xhpC0ySJyuA?t=2335\">noted<\/a> Israeli journalist Amit Segal during a recent question and answer session with Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro in Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBiden\u2019s Middle East trip was despicable, disastrous, and dangerous to the future of the Jewish state in the Middle East,\u201d said Melissa Jane Kronfeld, a former Rutgers University lecturer and national security expert who now lives in Tel Aviv. \u201cFrom the removal of the Israeli flag during his visit to Jerusalem\u2019s Arab neighborhoods and his homage paid to the \u201chonor of the Holocaust\u201d; to his callous commitment to the long defunct two-state solution and feigned intent to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon \u2014 whose sole purpose is the destruction of the State of Israel \u2014 and even his bestie fist bump with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman; Biden proved that his foreign policy is careless, cowardly, and always conciliatory to those state actors who seek to undermine the stability of the region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gaffes, snubs, and cynical photo ops aside, the real damage done by Biden\u2019s visit was caused by the leftist government of Lapid. As preconditions for the visit, Israel agreed to a host of \u201cgood-will\u201d concessions, including the approval of hundreds of existing illegal structures and the territorial expansion of Arab settlements, consisting of thousands of dunams in Area C of Judea and Samaria. Those will effectively lead to the isolation of Gush Etzion, a major Jewish area, from Jerusalem. In addition, Lapid promised Biden that his coalition will not \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/news\/356514\">surprise<\/a>\u201d the White House<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEL AVIV \u2014 President Joe Biden\u2019s trip to Israel earlier this month featured saccharine platitudes and rote pledges of friendship and fealty, but given that Biden was spurned by the Saudis, used by the Palestinians, left Israel worse than he found it, and apparently got COVID for his trouble, maybe he should\u2019ve stayed home. 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