WITH FRIENDS LIKE JOE BIDEN, ISRAEL DOESN'T NEED ANY ENEMIES (2)

In “With Friends Like Joe Biden, Israel Doesn’t Need Any Enemies” (3-17-10) it was alleged that both Vice President Joe Biden and General David Petraeus had stated that Israel’s actions in its conflict with the Palestinians were endangering the lives of American soldiers. According to Yediot Acharonot, in response to the announcement that Israel was going to build 1,600 new housing units in East Jerusalem, Biden “reportedly” said that to Prime Minister Netanyahu. And Mark Perry, a correspondent for Foreign Policy, wrote that Gen. Petraeus blamed Israel for casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan in a report to the Pentagon.

Well, according to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, it turns out that Biden never said any such thing to Netanyahu. That was a deliberate lie planted by Yediot Acharonot, a far-left publication that has vociferously opposed every action ever taken against the Palestinians by a moderate or conservative Israeli government. Yediot Acharonot is the voice of Israel’s left which acts as a “Fifth Column” for the Palestinians.

And what about Gen. Petraeus’ report? Mark Perry, a former advisor to Yasser Arafat, has been a long-time mouthpiece for the Palestinians. In “The Petraeus Briefing; Biden's Embarrassment is not the Whole Story,” an article in Foreign Policy, Perry repeated the Yediot Acharonot lie and then embellished it by adding that Gen. Petraeus had reported to the Pentagon that Israel was to blame for American casualties. The general never said anything like that. What he reported was that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was a threat to Middle East stability and that our support for Israel damaged America’s interests in the Arab world, facts long ago established.

Perry deliberately planted his lies on behalf of the Palestinians. America’s media immediately seized on Perry’s story without ever checking on whether it was true or not. The TV network talking heads asked every government official they could find to comment on the charges that Israel was endangering the lives of American soldiers. The media has to be well aware that if these charges ever gained traction with the American people, the tide of public opinion would turn against the Israelis.
Surprise, surprise - the American media has not reported that Biden and Gen. Petraeus never said Israel was endangering the lives of our soldiers.

No one in the Obama administration other than Rahm Emanuel has refuted those lies. The pro-Palestinian element in the Obama administration, and that includes President Obama himself, must have done cartwheels when these lies were being passed around by the media. Biden, being a loyal Obama soldier, has not refuted the lies. Obama's senior adviser David Axelrod, a Jew himself, would not refute them, saying only that “I’m not going to get into that.” Hillary ‘The Hun’ Clinton treated Israel like a vassal state by demanding that any plans to build 1,600 new housing units be rescinded and that Israel must make other concessions to the Palestinians.

Make no mistake about it, the Obama administration speaks with a forked tongue when, over and over again, it expresses its undying support for Israel’s security. In fact, it is doing everything it can to undermine Israel’s security by pressuring the Jewish state to make concessions to the Palestinians who continue to vow that there will be only one state, a Palestinian state, “from the river to the sea.”

And until the vice president comes out and publicly states that Israel’s actions do not endanger the lives of American soldiers, I am not going to change the title, “With Friends Like Joe Biden, Israel doesn’t need any enemies.”