A failed president meets with failed Israeli leftists and failed terrorists.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. This article was written before the trip began, but it all still holds true.
Don’t touch me.
Even though Biden was seen pressing the flesh with outgoing British Prime Minister Boris Johnson at a NATO summit, and getting a hug from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, not to mention shaking hands with a variety of foreign leaders during his summer trip to Europe, including those of Turkey, Indonesia, and India, there’ll be no touching in Israel.
According to a Jerusalem Post report, the Biden administration has told the Israelis that its titular figurehead won’t be shaking hands in Israel due to COVID. Apparently there’s a whole lot more of a COVID threat in Israel than in meeting politicians from across the entire world.
Instead of the traditional greeting line at Ben Gurion Airport, the Israelis have been told that due to “scheduling pressure, COVID, and the hot weather, the US president will not shake hands with the invited, and there will be no opportunity for personal photographs.”
Not that there’s likely to be too much demand for selfies with Biden anyway.
While the official word is that Biden is too old and won’t be able to handle 90 degree heat, he did not seem to have a problem getting out and shaking hands when he landed at Spain’s Torrejon de Ardoz air base last month at a time when temperatures in Madrid hit 88 degrees.
Either, Biden aged quite a bit in three weeks or two degrees make a hell of a difference.
Or, possibly, the Biden administration wanted to avoid a big show with the Israelis and is using COVID, old age and the weather as an excuse for playing down the traditional ceremony.
While Biden won’t be touching any Israelis (something the local women will no doubt appreciate), he has made a point of becoming the first sitting president to visit a “Palestinian” facility in East Jerusalem. The Biden administration refused to allow Israeli officials to accompany him on the hospital visit, demonstrating that despite President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem, Biden doesn’t recognize Israel’s sovereignty over its own capital.
Considering the location of the hospital in question on the Mount of Olives, Biden is effectively declaring that the historic location belongs to the terrorists. It’s a much worse insult than shaking hands with the tyrant of Turkey, but not elected officials in the Jewish State.
Biden began the prep for his trip by boasting of providing “over $500 million” in aid to the terrorist-occupied territories in Israel despite the refusal of the PLO to stop its ‘Pay-to-Slay’ program subsidizing salaries for convicted terrorists and payments to the families of PLO, Hamas, and even ISIS terrorists killed during their attempts to murder Israelis and Americans.
Administration figures have also demanded that Israel upgrade the terrorist territories to 4G, complaining that the Palestinian Authority is still only able to use 3G networks. After repeated terrorist attacks that murdered Israelis, the big issue is that the terrorists won’t be able to download beheading videos on their iPhones at 4G and will suffer under 3G speeds instead.
There’s no apparent reason for Biden to come to Israel except to boost the terrorists.
The visit is especially oddly timed since Israel doesn’t even have a functioning government. After the collapse of the leftist coalition, the country is headed for new elections. Biden will be greeted at the airport by the ‘caretaker’ prime minister, Yair Lapid, Israel’s answer to Justin Trudeau, whose militantly secularist leftist Yesh Atid party falls well below Netanyahu’s Likud party in the polls, but whom the Biden administration is trying to boost in the coming elections.
Biden will be met by Lapid and outgoing former prime minister Naftali Bennett, and then will have an event with Defense Minister Benny Gantz whose Blue and White party alliance, one in a long series of fake centrist stalking horse parties for the Left, is a player in the next election. And then there will be a session with President Isaac Herzog, the former head of the leftist Labor Party. The Israeli portion of this visit is essentially one long Biden leftist election ad.
But Biden’s stamp of approval isn’t likely to do much for Lapid since Biden is not that much more popular in Israel than he is in America. Surveys of the Israeli public show that confidence in the White House has fallen significantly since the Trump administration. Biden has released funds to Iran and to the terrorists inside Israel. And his visit is set to undermine Jerusalem and Israel.
After the photo ops with Israeli leftists, Biden will head to the PLO to meet with Mahmoud Abbas, its terrorist leader, and to announce concessions being made on behalf of the Israelis.
What the visit really amounts to is Lapid and various leftist politicians trading away Israeli security and lives for an election ad with Biden. And Biden is using the trip to undermine President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem and an end to taxpayer money going to terrorists.
But a meeting between Biden, Lapid, and the rest of the gang is a conclave of failed politicians.
When presidents fail at home, they turn abroad. Biden’s European and Middle Eastern trips are a futile effort by a failing president to bolster his image. Biden has nothing new to offer the Middle East. In Israel, he is reduced to picking away at Trump’s accomplishments and promoting a diminished agenda for the terrorists after the success of the Abraham Accords.
As Biden, 79, meets with Mahmoud Abbas, 87, the leaders of the Left and the PLO are men whose eras have passed. The Palestinian Authority is a failed institution and the entire ideological infrastructure of the peace process on which it was built has been discredited.
The visit of a failing president will conclude with a meeting with a failed PLO president and will come after a series of meetings with Israeli leftist politicians whose governing coalition also failed.
Even before Biden sets foot in Israel, his trip is already marked by failure. It’s just as well that he won’t be shaking hands with anyone. Failure can be even more infectious than the coronavirus.
somehistory says
He said that the ‘Holocaust” was to be forever to the ‘honor’…er, “horror.”
‘it’s important to “bear witness” to the “honor of the Holocaust.”
source New York Post
He doesn’t wish to touch a Jew because that would anger his many anti-Jew friends and he doesn’t want any of his friends to be angry with him.
OT
In other news, the Washington Examiner has this on the squad leader
“AOC says Capitol Police were ‘opening the doors’ for Jan. 6 rioters”
And this has been said by those who walked in innocently, from the get-go.
mortimer says
No doubt, the gaffes made in Israel convinced the Israelis he is genuinely senile.
gravenimage says
Freudian slip?
somehistory says
Probably so.
Phil Copson says
“In other news, the Washington Examiner has this on the squad leader
“AOC says Capitol Police were ‘opening the doors’ for Jan. 6 rioters”
And this has been said by those who walked in innocently, from the get-go.”
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This is fascinating – more on Jan 6th instigator Ray Epps: Follow this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylYF6-sZkgM
or just go to Youtube and enter “Tucker: The curious case of Ray Epps and the January 6 Committee”
somehistory says
thank you, Phil.
somehistory says
Very interesting. and they are correct…it was a “fedsurrection” and the crowd was right in calling epps a ‘fed.’
gravenimage says
+1
somehistory says
biden’s “image” can’t be made to look better by doing more of the same kind of things he has been doing.
However, this is all making him look so much worse…and that seemed nearly impossible.
The Israelis should have insisted on accompanying him, for security reasons…but then, since he didn’t allow them to, they would be in the clear if some unhappy mozlum, seeing biden ogle his wife, decided to take him out.
Infidel says
Talking about the Israelis, I recognize that there are a lot of Leftist fakes out there, like Benny Gantz, Yair Lapid and so on, and even former PM Netanyahu was found extremely wanting: always willing to pull back from the brink at the urging of DC. That said, I am impressed how every one of them have successfully (so far) said “No” to the Pali consulate in Jerusalem, given the fact that they have a quisling party called the “Joint List” in that coalition
Much as Israel may not want it, given the frequency w/ which it has happened, they should have elections, and let a new government be formed. Hopefully, it can be w/o Bibi, who’s been there long enough
Shema says
I have been quite surprised with yair lapid. He seems to be quite pragmatic regarding israel’s security. Although politically he seems to be infected with anti-Trump, I mean anti-Bibi hate.
somehistory says
“Secret Service Agent Working on Biden’s Middle East Trip Detained by Israeli Police After ‘Physical Encounter'”
“A Secret Service agent who was sent to Israel prior to President Joe Biden’s visit there has been sent home after what several reports frame as an argument that turned physical involving a woman.”
https://www.westernjournal.com/secret-service-agent-working-bidens-middle-east-trip-detained-israeli-police-physical-encounter/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=AE&utm_campaign=can&utm_content=2022-07-14&seyid=11439
gravenimage says
Biden’s Israel Trip was a Failure Before He Even Arrived
…………………….
This is embarrassing at best. Then with the huge sums going to pay for the PA murdering Jews it just gets worse…
Minister says
Well written piece. I have nothing to add except that I knew that the now defunct Israeli communist (aka left) government would fail badly. I believe that Netanyahu’s Likud party will return to power. The people of Israel have learned a very hard lesson to believe the lies of the communist (aka left) that put them in power. As the people of the U.S.A. are in the process of learning what destructive Communism can do to a freedom loving country.
On a historical note: I never believed the lies told about Netanyahu. I believe it was a ruse to place the communist (aka left) in power of which left, in many ways, placed Israel into the hands of their terrorist enemies. As it happened in the USA via a political presidential election coup.
The People of Israel and the USA will prevail in ridding ourselves of communist (aka left) oppression. For we have the same goal of freedom from our domestic and foreign enemies.
G-d bless the people of Israel and the United States of America.
On a side note: Why does most state the “left” this and that; when everyone knows “Communist” is the correct identifier of the enemy?
My Heartfelt Respects to all in this fight of right.
somehistory says
Glenn Beck calls them communists. He had a very informative program last night on that very thing.
Minister says
Glenn Beck has become a wuss since his days on Fox News. But he has his moments.
somehistory says
I would not call him that. And he has some information that others might well notice if they cared to look beneath the surface of things.
Walter Sieruk says
Even on conservative talk radio news the people who listen to it are wise not take everything they here on it literally.
For example , on the night of 7/13/22 and 2:00 PM the radio news started out with the sentence “President Biden is airborne to Israel…”
There is no genuine “President Biden” is should always be remembers that Joe Biden is such a loser that he willingly and knowingly others who are just as sinister as him but much more intelligent than him ,in different levels of power, who engaged in as schemed national election fraud hoax to make it appear the Biden had “won” the November 2020 election.
Now those power elites in appointed him in Office now have their useful idiot , as their stooge and tool ,to attempt fulfill their Red/Green alliance agenda. So Biden is really a puppet “president. In other words, Biden is a Pseudo “President”
Therefore, it may be rightly said that Joe Biden is a fake, bogus, “President ” who is sitting in the White House Oval Office masquerading as a real American “President.”
To explain this in another way it may be ,truly, said that “This is the first time in the history of the United States that this nation has no President. instead this the US now has only a criminally installed figurehead.”
Walter Sieruk says
That horrible fake US “president” Joe Biden is a personage of weakness that will only make things worse in the Middle East. At the very best that could possible is Biden time will spend in the area of the world will have no effect, at all
To give only one example , out of many ,of the complete folly and weakness of Biden is his appeasement policy of the Muslims tyrants of Iran with that hoax of a deal that Joe Biden that made with that hostile ant-America Islamic tyranny of Iran exposes just how terribly weak Biden actually is.
Weakness is just how the ayatollahs, mullahs and others in total control and power to view his policy of appeasement towards them. Therefore, they will become more arrogant and demanding.
The coming of Joe Biden to the Middle East is a recipe for making a bad situation even worse.
Walter Sieruk says
The ancient Greek Philosopher, Plato, did have a good valid point when he had written “The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
When applying that wise statement to Joe Biden, his “measure” is more than lacking, it’s outright example of weakness , foolishness folly .that will only .end in complete and total failure.
That horrible villain US “president” pretender is a disaster for creating any type of genuine lasting peace in the United States.
Wellington says
“Biden’s Israel trip was a Failure Before He Even Arrived.”
To which I would add, “Biden was a Failure Before He Even Arrived in 1942.”
maria linde says
biden is a disaster not only for the US but for the whole world and not only he, Harris, Squad, AOC,Antifa och BLM are terrorist groups and do their best to start a new war.
That is exactly what muslim pigs want.
Walter Sieruk says
Of course Joe Biden will totally fail to accomplished anything that is good or of value of worth.
The only thing the Biden is able to do well is eat ice cream
Roland says
Our old decrepit Emperor arrived in Judea and humiliated his dependent Israeli hosts. He essentially promised to take no military action against Iran. He has all the time in the world. He kicked the can down the road. He is not a morally serious person.
James Hoagland says
The Emperor is not an emp- he is an imp. He is a front-man for radical left and can be a$$ociated with the CCP with his son. He is more programmed than programmer.
tim gallagher says
Will Biden remain as President for much longer? On this trip, apparently he was his usual decrepit, hopeless self. On Sky News here in Australia, where they have often shown Biden seeming to be demented and rambling, I saw him climb the stairs of the plane and turn and wave goodbye inside the plane and he looked so fragile and, probably exhausted. The commentators on the panel on the program, said it is sad to actually see this shambolic man and he should be in a retirement home. I suppose he might get some energy back once back home, and the trip might have exhausted the old guy, but he did look too buggered to be allowed to stay as President.