and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you.”[a]
I was recently contacted by a man who was upset by President Biden’s ambivalence toward Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Actually, the word “ambivalence” does not capture President Biden’s attitude toward Israel in general and Netanyahu in particular — he and his administration are openly disdainful!
Lest I sound blasé about the unbiblical attitude being manifest by the current American administration, let me make two points.
First, Biden’s antagonism toward Bibi is nothing new. Netanyahu’s own autobiography (Bibi: My Story) describes in great detail the callous and condescending contempt he was shown by Barak Obama and other American Democratic leaders time after time. While he was Vice President, Joe Biden refused to even participate when Netanyahu addressed a joint session of Congress, along with over 50 other Democrat legislators.
Second, the Biden administration’s attitude toward Israel and its Prime Minister is nothing new. Every liberal American administration (not just Obama, but Carter and Clinton before) was antagonistic toward Israel. Carter became so openly hostile that he wrote a book entitled Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid which was so left-leaning and one-sided that it was little more than a diatribe of propaganda.
I’m reminded of the old newspaper motto:
“Dog bites man” isn’t news because it happens every day. “Man bites dog,” we’ll print.
It is not the US versus Israel. It is Israel versus Israel and the old Abraham envy from long ago.
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