Who Paid for the Simchat Torah Massacre? (Judean Rose)

Disclaimer: the views expressed here are solely those of the author, weekly Judean Rose columnist Varda Meyers Epstein. On or around September 7, President Biden unfroze $6b in Iranian revenues. One month later, there was a massacre in Israel, sponsored by Iran. No less than a Hamas spokesman affirmed that Iran lent its assistance to Hamas as its proxy to murder Jews. Was...

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Joe Biden, Jews and Israel, 1987-1992

Continuing my series of major quotes from Joe Biden in JTA and elsewhere:April 19, 1989:Secretary of State James Baker told a congressional panel Tuesday that he supports the Justice Department’s policy to grant refugee status on a selective basis to Soviet Jews wishing to enter the United States.Jewish groups have criticized the Bush administration for continuing a policy...

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What was Joe Biden's role in pushing UNSC 2334?

In the waning days of the Obama administration, the US pushed the UN Security Council to pass UNSC 2334, which called on all nations “to distinguish, in their relevant dealings, between the territory of the State of Israel and the territories occupied since 1967” and which explicitly included "East Jerusalem" in the definition of occupied territories.It was the first...

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Joe Biden on Israel, 1984-1986

Continuing on on reporting by JTA that quotes Joe Biden...November 13, 1984:U.S. policy in the Middle East is based on myth, a leading member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee charged here yesterday.Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, the second ranking Democrat on the committee, said the “three myths” which “propel U.S. policy in the Middle East” are “the belief that Saudi...

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Biden and Israel, 1980-1983

Continuing on with how JTA reported on Joe Biden over time, this is from the early 1980s:March 21, 1980:Secretary of State Cyrus Vance told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today that the Carter Administration would not disavow completely the anti-Israel resolution adopted by the United Nations Security Council on March 1 and refused to say that the Administration would...

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Joe Biden in the 1970s on Israel

Here are some quotes and stories about Joe Biden from the 1970s relating to Israel and Jewish issues.I'm not picking and choosing - these are all the topics I have seen in that decade.The first is from Ma'ariv in Hebrew, the rest from JTA.Ma'ariv, 2 September, 1973:An American senator fears the rise of the Israeli rightFears of the rise of the Israeli right and criticising...

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