Biden: Obama Most Supportive President of Israel in 30 Years

Arutz Sheva ^ | 4/3/13 | David Lev

[Eleutheria5]

The Obama administration has been better for Israel than the last eight administrations, Vice-President Joe Biden told a large crowd at the AIPAC conference Monday. “We've stood shoulder to shoulder over the past 40 years defending the legitimate interests of Israel,” Biden told an enthusiastic audience, “but no administration, no President has done as much to physically secure the State of Israel as Barack Obama,” Biden said. In the midst of what Biden called “the Great Recession,” the U.S. has upped its aid to Israel, providing $1.3 billion in military aid in 2012.

In addition, Biden said, President Obama has worked more closely with Israeli security officials than any other president in the last thirty years. “I can say with certitude that I don't know when anytime in the last eight administrations that there has been as much security coordination,” Biden said. “The teams working with Israel are tired of all the international flights, they go so much,” the Vice-President quipped. “Our commitment to Israel has not changed and it will not change as long as he and I are President anf Vice-President of the United States.” Biden acknowledged that there were policy differences between Israel and the U.S., but said they were not relevant to U.S. support for Israel. “I have been there for a lot of Prime Ministers, and we have always disagreed on tactics. But we have never disagreed on the principles - that Israel must do it on its own,” Biden said, adding that it was the role of the U.S. to ensure that that was the case.

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[Eleutheria5]

Once there was a donkey who had to go through a forest, but was afraid of the wild animals there. So its master put a lion pelt on the donkey. When he went through the forest, all the animals left it alone, because they thought it was a lion. Then the donkey began to believe that it really was a lion, and decided to roar. When it roared, everyone knew it was just a jackass. But then all the lions became extinct, and in the ensuing generations, everyone forgot what lions sounded like. But the donkey's descendants still had a lion pelt, and brayed shamelessly, but everyone thought it was a lion's roar. So they were all afraid of the jackasses and their moldy, moth-eaten lion's pelt. The end.

[celmak]

Sounds like C S Llewis.