“That rejection was seen by many in Israel as signaling that he does not recognize Israeli sovereignty in that part of the city. However, when asked at a press conference on Thursday whether that is how the situation should be understood, he said no.”
Biden is, as ever, a liar and a cowardly and opportunistic equivocator.
“Biden visits east Jerusalem without Israeli flag on limousine,” by Lahav Harkov, Jerusalem Post, July 15, 2022:
US President Joe Biden’s motorcade no longer had Israeli flags on it during a visit to a Palestinian hospital in east Jerusalem on Friday, despite his assurances that the stop is not a statement about Israeli sovereignty in its capital city.
The Biden administration refused to allow Israeli officials to accompany him on the visit to the hospital, where he announced $100 million in aid to the medical network.
“Biden’s visit to east Jerusalem without official Israeli accompaniment is a destructive move towards Israel, even if it was done with smiles and handshakes,” commented Religious Zionist Party MK Orit Struck. “Biden knows very well that that would never be allowed in Washington by a foreign leader and understands how much that hurts Israel’s national pride, doing it in Jerusalem.”
Spoken and unspoken signals
That rejection was seen by many in Israel as signaling that he does not recognize Israeli sovereignty in that part of the city. However, when asked at a press conference on Thursday whether that is how the situation should be understood, he said no.
In the White House statement about his meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, which took place after the hospital visit, “President Biden reiterated the US position that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and that it continues to be the policy of the United States that the specific boundaries of Jerusalem must be resolved through final status negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians.”
Yet, the flags on “the Beast,” the US president’s armored vehicle, sent a different message about the Jerusalem’s municipal borders.
The Beast had an American and an Israeli flag on it for Biden’s earlier stops, as can be seen in a video of him pulling up to the President’s Residence in Jerusalem on Thursday.
However, as Biden arrived at the Augusta Victoria hospital, the Beast had two American flags on it, apparently signifying that he does not want to make a statement as to whether the site, near the Mount of Olives, is Israeli or Palestinian.
Biden’s car had American and Palestinian flags on them during his visit to Bethlehem.
CogitoErgoSum says
I’m surprised one of the flags didn’t have the rainbow on it. Maybe he saved that one for his visit to Saudi Arabia. Would love to see video of Old Joe riding into Riyadh sitting atop a camel with his aviator sunglasses on and waving a Gay Pride flag in one hand and an ice cream cone in the other (melting faster than he can lick it). No, on second thought he’d look better sitting atop the mascot of his party – a jackass.
Hoi Polloi says
How disrespectful, hostile to a host country, and craven must a politician and his handlers be to do something like this? Well, we need wonder no longer.
gravenimage says
+1
somehistory says
He believes he’s exercising his freedom of speech, which his mozlum buds want to take away from all of us. so, he’s playing along with those who will…in his addled brain…eat him last.
James Hoagland says
This conduct and duplicity should be no surprise. People should not be deceived by the democrat-socialists of America. Israel is in a difficult bind with the decline of the US and the rise of communist China. Imperative upon the nation to hold on to its routes and cherish the land.
James Hoagland says
misspelled routes- should be roots.
mortimer says
Robert Spencer writes: ” a liar, a cowardly and opportunistic equivocator”.
(Equivocator: a person who uses ambiguous language to conceal the truth or avoid commitment)
Agree. That is the secret of his lengthy career in politics.
Not to mention the most corrupt and perfidious president.
Rarely says
It would not be surprising if he would throw Israel under the bus should the opportunity arise. Fortunately I expect that Israel senses that too.
Wellington says
Oh yes, Rarely. Israel knows (not just “senses”) only too well how completely unreliable the bogus Biden Administration is to the Jewish state. Be of no doubt in this regard.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Rarely and Wellington.
Wellington says
The Democratic Party of the USA is no longer a friend and ally of Israel. One knows this by now or should know it.
For that matter, the Democratic Party of the USA is no longer a friend and ally of America. One knows this by now or should know it.
gravenimage says
Presidential limo had US, Israeli flags in west Jerusalem, Israeli flag removed for visit to east Jerusalem
……………………
Just disgusting. I suppose we should be glad he didn’t fly a “Palestinian” flag instead…
Hoi Polloi says
How true. We’re all left hoping that’s not next.
gravenimage says
+1
Walter Sieruk says
First, Joe Biden has awful judgement because is either feeble-minded or treasonous to America,in either case his is totally unfit to be the President of the United States of America.
Second, Biden is favorable Hamas and Hezbollah , both are two jihad terror/murder entities which both strongly funded and supported in other ways by that vicious and hostile Islamic tyranny of Iran
Third, Biden with his Red/ Green alliance is very pro- Communists China and pro-Taliban and other Islamic powers, ,as in that mullah regime of Iran, which which despise to America and the American people in both spirit and in action.
Biden and administration is a disaster for the United States and her citizens and also to the State of Israel and her citizens.
tgusa says
Dems will toss their un-islamic victim groups under the bus when it comes to choosing a side. Those groups wont have a right to choose. Good luck lefties.
Infidel says
Too bad Israel didn’t have the cajones to immediately declare Biden persona non-grata and order him to leave the country right away!