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So who was bribing Biden then?

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A report by Israeli Channel 13’s Nadav Eyal revealed that at a meeting with then-Prime Minister Golda Meir just 40 days prior to Yom Kippur in 1973, Meir gave a detailed briefing to Biden, explaining that Israel was deeply concerned about the possibility that Egypt was preparing for war. Biden reassured Meir that Egypt had no intention of attacking Israel. He stated that during meetings in Cairo prior to his arrival in Israel, officials there assured him they had no intention of attacking Israel as they accepted “Israel’s military superiority.”

“I’ve published this evening a classified memo documenting the meeting, made by a senior Israeli official present in the room,” Eyal wrote in October. “ A fascinating meeting. Biden came from Egypt, some 40 days before Saadat ordered a surprise attack that would become the Yom Kippur War. He tells the Israeli PM that all the officials he met in Cairo assured him that they accept “Israel’s military superiority”. Of course, they lied (not his fault, of course. Israel was misled by its own intelligence community).”

“Biden criticizes the Nixon administration for being ‘dragged by Israel’. He says, according to this government memo, that there is no debate in the Senate about the ME because the Senators are “afraid” to say things that Jewish voters will dislike. (He says that to Golda).”

“He criticizes the Israeli labor platform arguing that it’s leading to a creeping annexation of the occupied territories.

“Considering Israel’s military dominance, Biden suggests it will initiate a first step for peace by unilateral withdrawals. This will be done from areas with no strategic importance- not the Golan.”

“Golda rejects Biden’s comments on the Labor platform, rejects his offers of unilateral withdrawal, and continues to argue that Israel can make no major mistakes considering the situation of the Jewish people after the Holocaust.”

Biden suggested that Israel’s interests would best be served by unilateral withdrawal from areas with “no strategic importance.”