'I am not a Jew with trembling knees'

[Persuader]

'Above one of the classroom whiteboards in the Jewish day school I attended as a child hung a poster featuring the face of former Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin alongside a quote: “I’m not a Jew with trembling knees.”

I would be tempted to say that our present circumstances call for a proud Jew to tell that to Joe Biden, but the fact is that he’s already been told — by Begin himself. In 1982, at a closed-door meeting of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Biden had threatened Begin with cutting off military aid for Israel’s offensive campaign in Lebanon. As Tevi Troy noted in the Wall Street Journal, the story went that Begin responded in fiery outrage:​

Don’t threaten us with cutting off aid to give up our principles. I’m not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history. Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid.

Forty-two years later, Joe Biden has learned nothing.
But we have learned who Joe Biden truly is. That he is doing exactly what he threatened Begin with over four decades ago suggests that Biden’s actions in pledging to withhold weaponry for an Israeli offensive into Rafah, however surprising they might seem to some, are drawn from a long-standing outlook toward Israel. In other words, Biden threatening to cut off aid to the Jewish state if it takes measures against its enemies is a feature, rather than a bug, of his decades-old policy.
Menachem Begin saw clearly. We can’t say we weren’t warned.

Menachem Begin Warned Us about Joe Biden | National Review

Biden has learned nothing from the Israeli prime minister’s warning against cutting off military aid.

www.nationalreview.com

 

[gipper]

Wasn’t Begin a bloodthirsty terrorist?

 

[Coyote]

Supporting defensive campaigns is one thing, supporting an offense is something else entirely.

 

[progressive hunter]

Supporting defensive campaigns is one thing, supporting an offense is something else entirely.

a good defense starts with a good offense,,

and if its a campaign it is an offense,,

a defense is just defending an attack,,

 

[Persuader]

Supporting defensive campaigns is one thing, supporting an offense is something else entirely.

A good offense is the best defense...who said dat?

Irregardless....why are you wasting your time on here when you could be out protesting with your comrades?

 

[Coyote]

A good offense is the best defense...who said dat?

Fine. But we don’t need to support or supply it,

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

Supporting defensive campaigns is one thing, supporting an offense is something else entirely.

You have to go where Hamas is. "We" should be supporting them

 

[Donald H]

The Zionist regime doesn't want to squander the sympathy gained for 'decent' Jews due to the holocaust. As the entire world turns against them, that will be their undoing.

The world will see them as the same as any other evil regime that commits genocide against innocent women and children!

 

[Lisa558]

Supporting defensive campaigns is one thing, supporting an offense is something else entirely.

It is a defensive campaign. The Muslim terrorists have sworn to keep repeating October 7th until every last Jewish baby, child, man, and woman are found and tortured to death. Israel Is destroying their ability to carry out their threat of genocide.

You make it sound like the IDF commander woke up one day and said to himself….hey, this would be a good day to bomb Palestinians.

 

[Persuader]

Fine. But we don’t need to support or supply it,

Do you feel the same way about Ukraine?

 

[Blaster]

The Zionist regime doesn't want to squander the sympathy gained for 'decent' Jews due to the holocaust. As the entire world turns against them, that will be their undoing.

The world will see them as the same as any other evil regime that commits genocide against innocent women and children!

Shit happens dude.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Supporting defensive campaigns is one thing, supporting an offense is something else entirely.

Don't start none won't be none Defend and then go on the offense

 

[westwall]

Supporting defensive campaigns is one thing, supporting an offense is something else entirely.

The best defense, is a strong offense!

 

[Lisa558]

The Zionist regime doesn't want to squander the sympathy gained for 'decent' Jews due to the holocaust. As the entire world turns against them, that will be their undoing.

The world will see them as the same as any other evil regime that commits genocide against innocent women and children!

^^^ and get a load of this antisemitic liberal. He thinks he gets away with it by adding in “decent Jews,” and then slamming “the Zionist regime.” And then, in case any doubt remains, he issues the blood libel lie about genocide.

 

[Persuader]

It is a defensive campaign. The Muslim terrorists have sworn to keep repeating October 7th until every last Jewish baby, child, man, and woman are found and tortured to death. Israel Is destroying their ability to carry out their threat of genocide.

You make it sound like the IDF commander woke up one day and said to himself….hey, this would be a good day to bomb Palestinians.

Coyote is very similar to biden...never been right about anything.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

'Above one of the classroom whiteboards in the Jewish day school I attended as a child hung a poster featuring the face of former Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin alongside a quote: “I’m not a Jew with trembling knees.”

I would be tempted to say that our present circumstances call for a proud Jew to tell that to Joe Biden, but the fact is that he’s already been told — by Begin himself. In 1982, at a closed-door meeting of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Biden had threatened Begin with cutting off military aid for Israel’s offensive campaign in Lebanon. As Tevi Troy noted in the Wall Street Journal, the story went that Begin responded in fiery outrage:​

Forty-two years later, Joe Biden has learned nothing.
But we have learned who Joe Biden truly is. That he is doing exactly what he threatened Begin with over four decades ago suggests that Biden’s actions in pledging to withhold weaponry for an Israeli offensive into Rafah, however surprising they might seem to some, are drawn from a long-standing outlook toward Israel. In other words, Biden threatening to cut off aid to the Jewish state if it takes measures against its enemies is a feature, rather than a bug, of his decades-old policy.
Menachem Begin saw clearly. We can’t say we weren’t warned.

Menachem Begin Warned Us about Joe Biden | National Review

Biden has learned nothing from the Israeli prime minister’s warning against cutting off military aid.

www.nationalreview.com

Except:

white house memo

Biden Is Not the First U.S. President to Cut Off Weapons to Israel​

Ronald Reagan also used the power of American arms to influence Israeli war policy. The comparison underscores how much the politics of Israel have changed in the United States since the 1980s.

Biden Is Not the First U.S. President to Cut Off Weapons to Israel ​

Ronald Reagan also used the power of American arms to influence Israeli war policy. The comparison underscores how much the politics of Israel have changed in the United States since the 1980s.

The president was livid. He had just been shown pictures of civilians killed by Israeli shelling, including a small baby with an arm blown off. He ordered aides to get the Israeli prime minister on the phone and then dressed him down sharply.

The president was Ronald Reagan, the year was 1982, and the battlefield was Lebanon, where Israelis were attacking Palestinian fighters. The conversation Mr. Reagan had with Prime Minister Menachem Begin that day, Aug. 12, would be one of the few times aides ever heard the usually mild-mannered president so exercised.

“It is a holocaust,” Mr. Reagan told Mr. Begin angrily.

 

[Billiejeens]

You have to go where Hamas is. "We" should be supporting them

Sawry, no one can reason with her.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

It's comical watching leftists and antisemites rant and rave about Israel taking it to Hamas after what Hamas did...a terrorist attack

 

[Billiejeens]

Except:

white house memo

Biden Is Not the First U.S. President to Cut Off Weapons to Israel​

Ronald Reagan also used the power of American arms to influence Israeli war policy. The comparison underscores how much the politics of Israel have changed in the United States since the 1980s.

Biden Is Not the First U.S. President to Cut Off Weapons to Israel ​

Ronald Reagan also used the power of American arms to influence Israeli war policy. The comparison underscores how much the politics of Israel have changed in the United States since the 1980s.

The president was livid. He had just been shown pictures of civilians killed by Israeli shelling, including a small baby with an arm blown off. He ordered aides to get the Israeli prime minister on the phone and then dressed him down sharply.

The president was Ronald Reagan, the year was 1982, and the battlefield was Lebanon, where Israelis were attacking Palestinian fighters. The conversation Mr. Reagan had with Prime Minister Menachem Begin that day, Aug. 12, would be one of the few times aides ever heard the usually mild-mannered president so exercised.

“It is a holocaust,” Mr. Reagan told Mr. Begin angrily.

Boring.

 

[westwall]

^^^ and get a load of this antisemitic liberal. He thinks he gets away with it by adding in “decent Jews,” and then slamming “the Zionist regime.” And then, in case any doubt remains, he issues the blood libel lie about genocide.

Oh, the duck is no liberal.

He's a chinese Marxist to the core.