{"id":2632,"date":"2020-11-14T14:29:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T14:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/?p=2632"},"modified":"2020-11-14T14:45:57","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T14:45:57","slug":"biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/?p=2632","title":{"rendered":"Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\nAcross\nthe world people who show sympathy and solidarity with the\nPalestinians will not shed a tear over Trump\u2019s departure from\noffice next January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> However we should not expect a campaign for justice for the Palestinians from Biden.  In 1986 the then senator Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FYLNCcLfIkM\">said<\/a> \u201cIt\u2019s about time we stop ..apologizing for our support for Israel&#8230; It is the best $3 billion investment we make.  Were there not an Israel, the United States of America would have to invent an Israel to protect our interest in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-algemeiner-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Ama2Qwv0H4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/2020\/11\/11\/joe-biden-is-pro-israel-but-hasnt-hesitated-to-criticize-it\/\">Joe Biden Is Pro-Israel, but Hasn&#8217;t Hesitated to Criticize It<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Joe Biden Is Pro-Israel, but Hasn&#8217;t Hesitated to Criticize It&#8221; &#8212; Algemeiner.com\" src=\"https:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/2020\/11\/11\/joe-biden-is-pro-israel-but-hasnt-hesitated-to-criticize-it\/embed\/#?secret=2MLW43ZOYj#?secret=Ama2Qwv0H4\" data-secret=\"Ama2Qwv0H4\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\nOne\nhundred years ago another politician in another Imperial power wrote\nsomething similar.  Winston Churchill wrote<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\u201cBut\nif, as may well happen, there should be created in our own lifetime\nby the banks of the Jordan a Jewish State under the protection of the\nBritish Crown, which might comprise three or four millions of Jews,\nan event would have occurred in the history of the world which would,\nfrom every point of view, be beneficial, and would be especially in\nharmony with the truest interests of the British Empire.\u201d\n ZIONISM\nversus BOLSHEVISM 1920<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> For those who hope that Biden\u2019s views have changed since 1986, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3fGQBFtQoXU\">this is him<\/a> in 2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> \u201cIsrael is the single greatest strength America has in the Middle East,\u201d Biden said, \u201c Imagine our circumstances in the world were there no Israel, how many battleships would there be, how many troops would be stationed. 21<sup>st<\/sup> June 2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> An indication of the usefulness of Israel to the USA was shown  an article from Today\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/11\/14\/israeli-operatives-killed-al-qaedas-no-2-leader-in-iran-in-august-report\/\">NewYork Post<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\u201cAl\nQaeda\u2019s second-in-command, accused of helping to mastermind the\n1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa, was killed in Iran in\nAugust by Israeli operatives acting at the behest of the United\nStates&#8230;Masri, one of al Qaeda\u2019s founding leaders, was killed\nalong with his daughter\u201d.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> With Trump\u2019s going we see the weakening of evangelical support for Israel, sadly it is unlikely that a Biden administration will usher in justice for the Palestinians.  Justice for Palestinians will come from grass roots support and activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Across the world people who show sympathy and solidarity with the Palestinians will not shed a tear over Trump\u2019s departure from office next January. However we should not expect a campaign for justice for the Palestinians from Biden. In 1986 the then senator Biden said \u201cIt\u2019s about time we stop ..apologizing for our support for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/?p=2632\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biden<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dicks-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2634,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632\/revisions\/2634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}