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On Biden in Israel
by Daniel Pipes
March 10, 2010
Cross-posted from National Review Online
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2010/03/biden-in-israel
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Joe Biden's trip to Israel fits neatly into the context of the Obama administration's internal struggle over Israel policy.
The far left prevailed initially, as evidenced by Hilary Clinton's May 2009 declaration that Obama "wants to see a stop to settlements – not some settlements, not outposts, not natural growth exceptions." But this approach bombed, permitting the center left to take over in about September 2009.
The center left still rules the roost, as Biden's twin statements yesterday indicate. First, he offered his administration's "absolute, total, unvarnished commitment to Israel's security." Then he slammed an Israeli decision to build new housing units in Jerusalem as a step that "undermines the trust we need right now."
The center-left approach is better than the far-left approach but neither has a chance of succeeding. What Israel needs is not hectoring about its residential housing policies but an American ally that encourages it to win its war against the irredentist Palestinians of both Fatah and Hamas. (March 10, 2010)Related Topics: Israel, US policy receive the latest by email: subscribe to daniel pipes' free mailing list This text may be reposted or forwarded so long as it is presented as an integral whole with complete information provided about its author, date, place of publication, and original URL.
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| Muslim Jerusalem ? [196 words] | Bamaguje | Mar 30, 2010 18:06 |
| Thumb in the eye [188 words] | Jay1 | Mar 19, 2010 22:51 |
| No such thing! [527 words] | Irredentist Palestinians | Mar 17, 2010 20:44 |
| Obama Administration Confrontation with Israel Over Jerusalem [w/response] [693 words] | Herbert Roth | Mar 17, 2010 12:03 |
| Has Sec. Clinton lot her mind ?!?!?!?! [43 words] | jerraissy | Mar 17, 2010 05:42 |
| ↔ Yes Hillary has lost it - But she is still the darling of the American Jewish Community [193 words] | Abba McDonald | Mar 18, 2010 12:37 |
| Self-Defeating [107 words] | Edward Halper | Mar 15, 2010 21:53 |
| Israel [11 words] | Jon Purizhansky | Mar 15, 2010 20:42 |
| The Visitor [225 words] | Arlinda DeAngelis | Mar 14, 2010 17:28 |
| ↔ The Visitor Biden [184 words] | Kiel Hesselmann | Mar 15, 2010 18:24 |
| collective suicide [68 words] | Bill Narvey | Mar 14, 2010 16:41 |
| ↔ On "Collective Sucide" [118 words] | Warren Brunch | Mar 15, 2010 07:42 |
| ↔ Typical Canadian Israel hater - living on stolen Indian land that was colonized by Europeans [186 words] | Abba McDonald | Mar 15, 2010 08:46 |
| ↔ Kudos for Another Islamofascist [240 words] | Arlinda DeAngelis | Mar 15, 2010 16:47 |
| ↔ Collective Suicide [88 words] | Bill Narvey | Mar 19, 2010 06:15 |
| Hundreds Of Christians Killed In Nigeria While Biden Was In Jerusalem-Yet Media & Obama Spoke Only Of Jerusalem [48 words] | Simcha | Mar 14, 2010 12:07 |
| What Israelis think [98 words] | Edward L. | Mar 13, 2010 14:45 |
| ↔ Demoncrats stink now but in November they will reek [394 words] | Abba McDonald | Mar 14, 2010 09:20 |
| ↔ "despised by the Clintons..." [24 words] | Andrew Swat | Mar 15, 2010 07:27 |
| Settlements [34 words] | Carolyn K. Dinofsky | Mar 12, 2010 17:19 |
| Keeping Friends Close, Enemies Closer [315 words] | M. Tovey | Mar 12, 2010 15:17 |
| Democrats are Anti Semites with a smile [398 words] | Abba McDonald | Mar 12, 2010 14:39 |
| A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing [299 words] | Jerrold L. Sobel | Mar 12, 2010 11:26 |
| ↔ ????? [22 words] | cww | Mar 13, 2010 19:09 |
| Make them understand [70 words] | Doug Corrigan | Mar 12, 2010 11:11 |
| "Israel needs ... to win its war against the irredentist Palestinians of both Fatah and Hamas." [w/response] [89 words] | Pål-André Haugen | Mar 12, 2010 05:29 |
| biden's visit [97 words] | Andria | Mar 11, 2010 22:45 |
| No big deal if US asks Israel to stop [70 words] | Maham Khan | Mar 11, 2010 21:20 |
| Israel & the Cry For a Two-State Solution to be Accomplished by the Obama Administration [106 words] | Renee Bouvier | Mar 11, 2010 21:00 |
| ↔ Huhh!! [77 words] | James D | Mar 16, 2010 03:09 |
| ↔ James D Wants Proof; James D Does Not Want Criticism of One's Country or People [1361 words] | Renee Bouvier | Mar 16, 2010 19:03 |
| ↔ no more of this . . . please!!! [150 words] | James D | Mar 18, 2010 02:39 |
| ↔ More BS [391 words] | James D | Mar 18, 2010 04:58 |
| Biden-------Stay out of Israel's business! [20 words] | Jean Overton | Mar 11, 2010 18:29 |
| Let's call it a red herring [87 words] | Richard Feinbloom | Mar 11, 2010 17:18 |
| Why should Israelis trust Biden at all? [49 words] | MD | Mar 11, 2010 16:18 |
| " Trust " Israel has earn trust many times over, Israel has kept every peace agreement .. 2010 Mar [171 words] | Phil Greend | Mar 11, 2010 15:51 |
| JOE BIDEN [58 words] | Manny | Mar 11, 2010 15:44 |
| On Biden in Israel. Obama administration says one thing does another. [387 words] | Anne- USA | Mar 11, 2010 15:15 |
| Comment [84 words] | Dannel R. Ballesteros | Mar 11, 2010 14:58 |
| Biden on Israel [89 words] | Ayasha | Mar 11, 2010 14:13 |
| Israel should stop trying to please the Arabs [34 words] | Allan Unger | Mar 11, 2010 12:49 |
| Obama is pro-Arab, and therefore is anti Israel [289 words] | Carmen Waggoner, Ph.D. | Mar 11, 2010 10:49 |
| MidEast Reality [443 words] | Arye Shamir | Mar 11, 2010 10:11 |
| Biden and settlements [481 words] | Harry Lieberman | Mar 11, 2010 09:25 |
| What's Goin' On? [w/response] [142 words] | John W. McGinley | Mar 11, 2010 08:19 |
| Surreal [219 words] | Mladen Andrijasevic | Mar 11, 2010 07:19 |
| Biden on settlements? [95 words] | Laura Kern | Mar 11, 2010 07:16 |
| Israel [59 words] | 2outspoken | Mar 11, 2010 05:58 |
| Commitment to Israel may be a ruse [72 words] | Gamaliel Isaac | Mar 11, 2010 05:57 |
| ↔ Correction [12 words] | Gamaliel Isaac | Mar 12, 2010 14:23 |
| ↔ Obama Lied to AIPAC [205 words] | anthony | Mar 16, 2010 21:36 |
| Sometimes a true friend needs to apply tough love [160 words] | Ben Clarke | Mar 11, 2010 05:00 |
| ↔ UN Era is a joke [215 words] | Peter Herz | Mar 12, 2010 21:53 |
| ↔ Tough Love? Surley You Joke! [203 words] | Ben Wankerlin | Mar 16, 2010 20:26 |
| ↔ Ben lets support Muslims who oppose extremism not lump them together with the radicals [217 words] | Ben Clarke | Mar 17, 2010 22:05 |
| Losing a winning war [202 words] | kamekish | Mar 11, 2010 04:55 |
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