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The papers are full of reports about the startling criticism of Israel by the Obama administration — a criticism of a type not used by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton against many human rights abusing-governments the world over during the past year. (Who cares, for example, that 50,000 Muslim Burmese refugees are on the verge of starvation in Bangladesh, when you can bash Israel day after day, as the Obama administration did last week?) The Los Angeles Times noted that “Hillary Rodham Clinton’s harsh words stunned Israel.” The Wall Street Journal reported that “Clinton levied a blistering rebuke of Israel”...

Joe Biden’s Soft Anti-Semitism 2010 March 10 tags: Anti-Semitism, Israel, Joe Biden, News, Politics by Ben Shapiro If you’re Israel, there’s nothing like being lectured on your domestic policy by a man who thinks that the United States and France kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon.  Joe Biden is probably the least-informed man in American politics when it comes to the Arab-Israeli conflict.  That may be because he, like President Obama, want to portray some sort of moral equality between the violent and murderous Palestinian Arabs (yes, their population is largely violent and murderous, not just their leadership) and the...

At Tel Aviv University, US vice president stresses American commitment to Israel's security, says Washington determined to prevent nuclear Iran; accepts PM's stance on R. Shlomo plan. US Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday delivered a warm speech at Tel Aviv University on Thursday afternoon, stressing the importance of US-Israel friendship and Washington's commitment to the security of the Jewish state. "US President Barack Obama and myself know that the US has no better friend in the community of nations than Israel," Biden said at the start of his speech. He went on to share some memories from his first...