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Joe Biden’s Israel stunner: American Jews should let Israel protect them
Salon ^ | 3-29-15 | Corey Robin

Posted on 03/29/2015 6:05:11 AM PDT by SJackson

"No matter how deeply involved you are in the U.S. … there’s only one guarantee ... and that's the state of Israel"

In the April issue of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg reports on a remarkable incident last fall at the residence of Vice President Joseph Biden. Speaking before guests—including leaders of Jewish organizations and Jewish officials in the Obama administration—invited to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, Biden recalled meeting Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir when he was a young man in the Senate:

“I’ll never forget talking to her in her office with her assistant—a guy named Rabin—about the Six-Day War,” he said. “The end of the meeting, we get up and walk out, the doors are open, and … the press is taking photos … She looked straight ahead and said, ‘Senator, don’t look so sad … Don’t worry. We Jews have a secret weapon.’”

He said he asked her what that secret weapon was.

“I thought she was going to tell me something about a nuclear program,” Biden continued. “She looked straight ahead and she said, ‘We have no place else to go.’” He paused, and repeated: “‘We have no place else to go.’”

“Folks,” he continued, “there is no place else to go, and you understand that in your bones. You understand in your bones that no matter how hospitable, no matter how consequential, no matter how engaged, no matter how deeply involved you are in the United States … there’s only one guarantee. There is really only one absolute guarantee, and that’s the state of Israel.”

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1 posted on 03/29/2015 6:05:11 AM PDT by SJackson
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2 posted on 03/29/2015 6:05:33 AM PDT by SJackson (“ISIS is now going to regret this … because King Abdullah is not Barack Obama, Rep. Duncan Hunter)
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Come on Joe! Please, please, please, pretty please - RUN!!!!!

You did your time, you groveled, lied, browbeat and pandered for 8 years! It’s YOUR time now!.....

Please, please, please......we’ll take up a collection for you to get a new “short” bus you can tour around and campaign in, and we’ll even get you a new helmet with some cool decals on it!

Run!


3 posted on 03/29/2015 6:08:09 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: SJackson

Our guarantee is Hashem, the Lord of Hosts. Israel has disappeared before, but His promise to protect the Jewish people has not and can not disappear.


4 posted on 03/29/2015 6:09:12 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: SJackson
This guy is a clearly crazy.

Problem is, so is everyone else in the Regime.

5 posted on 03/29/2015 6:09:19 AM PDT by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
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To: 9thLife

Joe’s nuts, alright.
The rest of the circus is deliberate.


6 posted on 03/29/2015 6:12:33 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks ("If he were working for the other side, what would he be doing differently ?")
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To: SJackson

So, push comes to shove and I’m supposed to rely on Ireland or Scotland for my safety? I don’t think so. I’ve got Ruger and Glock for that function. Mossberg and Bushmaster will pitch in as well.

Biden is worse than a crazy uncle. There’s no sensible aunt to corral him at his worst.


7 posted on 03/29/2015 6:14:16 AM PDT by muir_redwoods ("He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative." G.K .C)
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To: 9thLife

he’s not crazy- he’s a far left winger and as such is an anti-Semite, along with a bunch of self-loathing Jews...


8 posted on 03/29/2015 6:15:54 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
The rest of the circus is deliberate.

I agree, but I guess I think that's a form of insanity, too.

But your point makes me wonder...perhaps he's just an ordinary, harmless buffoon, chosen to be the white face and the Catholic draw on those early campaign posters. In that case, hanging around with the rest of them must have put him over the edge.

9 posted on 03/29/2015 6:17:19 AM PDT by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
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To: 9thLife
This guy is a clearly crazy.

He may be crazy, but he is also stupid and lacks the judgment to choose his words carefully.

10 posted on 03/29/2015 6:18:38 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (WSC: The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end...)
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To: God luvs America
he’s a far left winger and as such is an anti-Semite

I see that as a symptom of insanity.

11 posted on 03/29/2015 6:18:42 AM PDT by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
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To: muir_redwoods
There’s no sensible aunt to corral him at his worst.

He takes the heat off Obama and the WH.

12 posted on 03/29/2015 6:19:47 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (WSC: The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end...)
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To: 9thLife

Is he crazy? Or does he know what’s coming? My $$ is on the latter.


13 posted on 03/29/2015 6:20:01 AM PDT by rbg81
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To: SJackson
 photo Done2_zps88fc9173.jpg The ONLY thing that could happen for American Jews to support Israel.
14 posted on 03/29/2015 6:23:29 AM PDT by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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To: rbg81
Is he crazy? Or does he know what’s coming? My $$ is on the latter.

Like a backhanded warning?

But they won't say that to illegal immigrants, or to muslims.

Curious.

Is he saying laws in America don't apply to Jews in America? Wasn't that assertion, when made in Germany, the foundation of the Third Reich?

15 posted on 03/29/2015 6:23:31 AM PDT by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
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To: SJackson

“American Jews should let Israel protect them “

That headline seemed like a stretch when I read the article.


16 posted on 03/29/2015 6:26:36 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: muir_redwoods
I’ve got Ruger and Glock for that function. Mossberg and Bushmaster will pitch in as well.

They have plans for them as well, I gather.

17 posted on 03/29/2015 6:26:40 AM PDT by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
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To: SJackson

Is it just me, or does this sound a lot like “get out, go to your place”?

Couple that with the Administration seeming to do everything it possibly can to see a nuclear-armed Iran, who has a publicly stated desire to erase Israel.

This is chilling.


18 posted on 03/29/2015 6:27:08 AM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: 9thLife

It would certainly be enough to drive me over the edge...


19 posted on 03/29/2015 6:27:50 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks ("If he were working for the other side, what would he be doing differently ?")
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To: 9thLife

Is he saying laws in America don’t apply to Jews in America?


I honestly think things are moving in that direction. When you look at what is happening on College campuses, there is hypersensitivity about any real/perceived type of offense or discrimination. Except when it comes to Jews. Slights against Jews are quietly being ignored or swept under the rug.


20 posted on 03/29/2015 6:28:18 AM PDT by rbg81
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