Tag: Joe Biden
How Biden is smashing America’s moral compass and dragging the West behind it
For eight years, the administration of former President Barack Obama behaved as if the security needs of the State of Israel were such an irritating impediment to American foreign-policy aims that it had no...
‘It’s essential to protect historical truth’: Jewish groups react to Biden’s recognition of Armenian...
Jewish organizations responded positively to the United States officially recognizing as a genocide the killing and deportation of more than a million Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century.
The declaration...
Biden’s bad foreign-policy deals
Because Barack Obama struck me as a clever fellow, I never understood why, when negotiating with despots, he failed to utilize the leverage available to him.
For instance, he might have said to Russian President Vladimir...
Abbas’s snubs work like a charm on Biden
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas may be facing serious challenges to his reign in Ramallah, but he’s having no trouble playing the powers-that-be in Washington. After four years of being called to task by...
Biden’s ‘Nine-Miles-Wide Plan’
The Biden administration reportedly intends to demand that Israel return to the nine-miles-wide pre-1967 armistice lines. Should we be surprised? How dangerous would that be? And what should American Jews do about it?
According to...
Biden speaks with Netanyahu for first time since entering office
U.S. President Joe Biden called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday in their first conversation since Biden took office nearly a month ago.
According to the Prime Minister’s Office, the conversation was “warm and...
Yiddish professor goes viral in town hall with President Biden
President Joe Biden engaged in a rare moment of kvelling during a live broadcast of a CNN town hall in Milwaukee on Tuesday night.
“I actually know some Yiddish,” Biden revealed during an exchange with a Jewish...
The issue is Biden not wanting to help Bibi, not a phone conversation
Most of those debating when President Joe Biden is going to finally pick up the phone and call Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are either overestimating or underestimating the significance of this kerfuffle. The...
White House: Netanyahu to be first Middle East leader Biden will call
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be the first Middle East leader President Joe Biden will call, the White House said on Tuesday.
“His first call with a leader in the region will be with...
In viral tweet, former Israeli UN envoy urges Biden to phone Netanyahu
Former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon on Wednesday tweeted an appeal to U.S. President Joe Biden that he contact Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, listing other world leaders to whom the newly elected...