{"id":1100,"date":"2019-03-05T09:15:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T13:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geraldahonigman.com\/blog\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2019-03-05T09:15:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T13:15:24","slug":"senator-joseph-biden-and-the-2020-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geraldahonigman.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/05\/senator-joseph-biden-and-the-2020-presidential-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Joseph Biden and the 2020 Presidential Election"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Biden, Jihadi Cheer Leaders, Socialist, and other Democrat Hopefuls in 2020\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

by Gerald A. Honigman<\/p>\n

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Former Vice President\u00a0Joseph Biden is considering a run for the presidency against President Trump in 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the face of it, when compared to the new crop of\u00a0hijab-wearing overt\u00a0anti-Semites, Socialists, and other Democrats making the\u00a0news, many observers will likely suggest that he is too passe and yesterday’s news…and is also known for a bit too many faux pas involving his mouth.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet, as a Florida\u00a0NPA registered Independent with no particular allegiance to any major\u00a0political party, I can perhaps more objectively than some others appreciate his better attributes as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

Take\u00a0our much used\u00a0and abused friends and allies, for example, the Kurds, who have done most of the fighting and dying against assorted jihadis in the Middle East. Unlike\u00a0most others in the region,\u00a0these folks actually tend to like America.<\/span><\/p>\n

As someone who has done\u00a0substantial work for almost five decades now involving these 38-40 million <\/span>truly <\/i><\/span>stateless people, I can say that, up until his very recent statement regarding the supposed necessity of the unity of Iraq, Biden has stood out as a source of relative reason and knowledge among his colleagues on this subject. He’s to be commended for at least his professed continuous\u00a0concern for these people who, too often, have been betrayed by Washington (and others) big time over and over again.<\/span><\/p>\n

Still, regardless of\u00a0Biden’s alleged\u00a0interest and that of some others over the decades, I remain at a loss trying to explain how tens of millions of Kurds still have no “roadmap” of their own towards independence, with virtually no media or other support in academia to speak of, while Biden and his former boss, President Obama, repeatedly pressured Israel to cave in to virtually all that Arabs demand for the creation of their own <\/span>22nd <\/i><\/span>state. That would be the latter’s second, not first, by the way, \u00a0within the borders of the original Mandate of Palestine that Great Britain received on April 25, 1920.\u00a0<\/span>What would later be\u00a0named “Jordan” has sat on almost 80% of that total area since 1922 as a\u00a0gift to Arab nationalism, in one of its many stripes,\u00a0by Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill. This occurred around the same time that London was shafting the Kurds in the Mandate of Mesopotamia as well. Scores of millions of them remain stateless to date as a\u00a0 result. Check out whose efforts have been used by many others on this very subject <\/span>https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?source=hp&ei=jFB-XO6rB8Gk_Qa7u4uYCQ&q=%22british+poetroleum+politics%2C+arab+nationalism%2C+and+the+kurds%22+by+gerald+a.+honigman&btnK=Google+Search&oq=%22british+poetroleum+politics%2C+arab+nationalism%2C+and+the+kurds%22+by+gerald+a.+honigman&gs_l=psy-ab.3…1699.28045..28453…0.0..1.147.7556.73j12……0….1..gws-wiz…..0..0i131j0j0i13j33i160j0i13i30j0i22i30j0i8i13i30j33i10.nTBkMdvzMKs<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

For all of\u00a0his supposed earlier concern, I can’t recall any real force or effort exerted by Biden on the Kurds’\u00a0behalf\u00a0during his decades in the Senate or as\u00a0Vice President for eight years. .<\/span><\/p>\n

Contrast this with Biden\u2019s approach to demands he\u2019s made upon Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n

Except during periods of campaign fundraising–when the time arrives for many\u00a0to milk Hebrews for all the gelt they can deliver–as Vice President, Biden served, along with Secretary of State John Kerry, as one of President Obama\u2019s major attack dogs against Jews who refused to grossly endanger themselves and Israel for the sake of creating that\u00a022nd Arab state. A forced return to the \u201849 \u201cAuschwitz\u201d\/armistice lines imposed upon Israel by the UN would do just that.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

From 1949 until the June ’67 Six Day War–started with an Arab blockade of Israel (a\u00a0<\/span>recognized casus belli) and other overtly hostile actions–Israel was made a 9-15 mile wide sardine can, ghetto of a state, where most of its population, international airport, parliament (Knesset),\u00a0infrastructure, and so forth\u00a0were squeezed into. At the end of that war, the final draft of\u00a0UNSC Resolution 242 promised that Israel would not have to return to those Auschwitz lines and would receive a territorial compromise in the disputed lands instead. So, guess where the \u201csettlements\u201d (i.e., Jewish towns\u2014often built on land where Jews have much history) are located and why… <\/span>https:\/\/ekurd.net\/john-kerry-israel-obama-2018-01-28<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Here’s Britain’s Lord Caradon, one of the key architects of the final draft of 242, on this subject:<\/span><\/p>\n

“We didn’t say that there should be withdrawal to the ’67 lines; we did not put\u00a0 the word ‘the’ in; we did not say ‘all of the territories’ deliberately (when discussing eventual withdrawal, in the context of true treaties of peace, not \u201chudna\u201d ceasefires)\u2026 We all knew that the boundaries (’49 armistice lines) of ’67 were not drawn as permanent frontiers, that they were merely ceasefire lines of a couple of decades earlier…We did not say that those\u00a0( pre-) ’67 boundaries must be forever.”<\/span><\/p>\n

President Lyndon Johnson June 19, 1967:<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

“A return to the situation on June 4 (the day before the outbreak of hostilities) was not a prescription for peace, but for renewed hostilities.”<\/span><\/p>\n

President Ronald Reagan, September 1, 1982:<\/span><\/p>\n

“In the pre-’67 borders (sic), Israel was barely 10-miles\u00a0wide…the bulk of Israel’s population within artillery range of hostile armies. I am not about to ask Israel to live that way again.”<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span>Secretary of State George Shultz, 1988:<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

“Israel will never negotiate from nor return to the ’67 borders.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Many others understood all the above as well–the need for a reasonable territorial compromise–including one of America’s more recent leaders, President George W. Bush. He spelled this out in letters given to Israel\u2019s Ariel Sharon during its unilateral withdrawal from Gaza…yet another test that Arabs would flunk with flying colors.<\/span><\/p>\n

Judeans–Jews–<\/i>lived and owned land in Judea (with Samaria, the West Bank) clear up to the 1920s and 1930s–when Arabs massacred them. After Arab Transjordan seized the west bank of the Jordan River when it joined other Arab states in attacking a reborn Israel in 1948, it formally made Judea \u201cJudenrein.\u201d Holding both banks, it soon renamed itself \u201cJordan.\u201d This issue is not just one of history. How it is dealt with is important for the future of any proposed peace between Arabs and Jews as well. <\/span><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, if the past is any indication of what can be expected from Biden when it’s not fundraising time, \u201cmoderate\u201d Joe won\u2019t be much better than the Jihadis\u2019 new American Democrat Congressional Representatives, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and their various other Left of Lenin pals (Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, etc.) on such matters.<\/span><\/p>\n

I hate bullies…<\/span>don’t you<\/i><\/span>? <\/span><\/p>\n

In well-documented reports, in addition to later being one of Obama’s attack dogs, Biden used\u00a0similar strong-arm tactics with Israel\u2019s late Israeli Prime Minister, Menachem Begin. Back in 1982\u2014banging on the desk with his fists and so forth\u2014he tried to intimidate\u00a0Begin into relinquishing his nation’s barest security needs to American State Department, oil-tainted “no friends, just interests” policies\u2026the same ones still shafting Kurds to this very day.<\/span><\/p>\n

I know that Biden has called himself “pro-Israel,” and when compared to his former boss, President Obama, he has at least sometimes appeared to be.<\/span><\/p>\n

But I never wished that, as an American senator or vice president, Biden\u00a0would be “pro-Israel.”<\/span><\/p>\n

America should be as objective as possible\u00a0and strive for good relations with all nations.<\/span><\/p>\n

I just don’t want the various Joes to unfairly\u00a0place the sole, minuscule, resurrected\u00a0State of the Jews in a vise because it refuses to accept all that\u00a0they want to shove down its throat on behalf of Arabs and others\u00a0who would have it dead in a heartbeat if they could. And a forced return by Israel to the suicidal ’49 armistice lines–what the “Settlement” issue is largely all about–would be a step in that direction. <\/span><\/p>\n

Do Neville Chamberlain, Czechoslovakia, “peace for our time,” the Sudetenland, and Munich 1938 ring any bells here? <\/span><\/p>\n

Nations fight wars and obtain territories that they have no\u00a0former ties to thousands of miles away from home. Does the conflict over the Falkland Islands, over 8,000 miles away from Great Britain off the Argentine coast, ring any more bells? And hundreds of others like it…<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span>Has Biden ever banged a table or threatened Arabs over their far worse murderous, rejectionist attitudes and intransigence? <\/span><\/p>\n

To this day, even his “moderate,” latter day Arafatian buddies of Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah and the Palestinian Authority insist that they will never recognize Israel as a State of the Jews, regardless of its size. And they still talk of <\/span>Trojan Horse<\/i><\/span> ceasefires…not real treaties of peace with “their” \u201ckilab yahud,\u201d <\/span>Jew dogs.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>So, hey Joe, here\u2019s <\/span>not<\/i><\/span> what you know, but what I know…<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

<\/span>Peace–<\/span>real <\/i><\/span>peace, not that of the grave, the one which Arabs still have in store for Israel–will never come by forcing Israel to forsake its concrete, minimal security needs in return for promises by Arabs which can (and will) be broken tomorrow.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>When peace is made between enemies, for it to last (the lesson of what happened regarding Germany after World War I), a reasonable compromise, addressing the needs of <\/span>both <\/i><\/span>parties, must be reached. No one side gets all that it wants at the expense of the other. That kind of stuff only gives rise to problems down the road. Supposedly, President Trump\u2019s long-awaited plan will resemble this better oapproach. Time will tell\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>In the past, taking the lead from Biden\u2019s chief, President Obama, the State Department, and others, Arabs stated–repeatedly and recently as well–that their obligation in “negotiations” (i.e., Hebrew arm-twisting) would be to simply receive what Israel would be forced to cede.<\/span><\/p>\n

To such folks–whether the \u201cbad cops\u201d\u00a0<\/span>of Hamas or (until President Trump) the Washington-whitewashed alleged \u201cgood cops\u201d of Abbas\u2014Israel owes nothing.<\/p>\n

When Senator Biden tries to make himself appear to be Israel\u2019s good buddy compared to other Democrat hopefuls in 2020, it\u2019s best to keep all of this in mind\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/q4j-middle-east.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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