{"id":256052,"date":"2022-07-14T06:39:22","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T06:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=256052"},"modified":"2022-07-15T07:25:19","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T07:25:19","slug":"biden-in-israel-you-dont-need-to-be-a-jew-to-be-a-zionist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=256052","title":{"rendered":"Biden in Israel: You don’t need to be a Jew to be a Zionist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lahav Harkov \u2013 Jerusalem Post July 13, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

US President Joe Biden reaffirmed his Zionism and the strong ties between the US and Israel in his remarks upon landing in Israel on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou need not be a Jew to be Zionist,\u201d Biden said, repeating past comments to which Lapid referred in his remarks<\/a> at Ben-Gurion Airport.<\/p>\n

The two-day visit to Israel is Biden\u2019s tenth, but his first as president. Remarking on his first trip to Israel, in 1973, during which he met then-prime minister Golda Meir and Yitzhak Rabin, who later became prime minister, the president said he had \u201cthe great honor of living part of the history of this great place.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery chance to return to this great country, where the ancient roots of the Jewish people date back to biblical times is a blessing,\u201d he said. \u201cThe connection between the Israeli people and the American people is bone deep, and generation after generation that connection grows as we invest in each other and dream together.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe connection between the Israeli people and the American people is bone deep, and generation after generation that connection grows as we invest in each other and dream together.\u201d<\/strong>
\n— Joe Biden<\/p>\n

Biden spoke of US and Israel partnering on \u201cthe most cutting-edge defense systems in the world,\u201d shortly before he went to a presentation by the Defense Ministry that included an Iron Dome battery<\/a> and the laser-based Iron Beam missile defense system<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will continue to advance Israel\u2019s integration in the region and expand emerging forms and engagements like new I2U2 summit,\u201d of Israel, the US, India and the UAE whose leaders are set to convene via video link on Thursday, \u201cto deepen the economic cooperation between the Middle East and Indo-Pacific,\u201d the president said.<\/p>\n

Biden said he will also discuss his \u201ccontinued support \u2013 even though I know it\u2019s not in the near term \u2013 for a two-state solution, which remains the best way for equal measures of security, freedom, opportunity and dignity for Israelis and Palestinians.\u201d<\/p>\n

The president spoke of his strong connection to Israel and the Jewish people going back to his childhood, when his father, a \u201crighteous Christian\u201d told him and his siblings about the Holocaust and \u201cimbued in us a sense of obligation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Biden planned to visit Yad Vashem after departing from Ben-Gurion Airport, where he said he will \u201chonor the six million Jewish lives stolen in the genocide and continue what we must do every day, to bear witness\u2026and honor those we lost so that we never forget that lesson.\u201d<\/p>\n

Herzog and Lapid’s remarks<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The US president did not mention Iran, but both President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Yair Lapid did in their brief remarks.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn this visit, you will discuss the security challenges emanating directly from Iran and its proxies, threatening Israel and its neighbors and endangering our region,\u201d Herzog said.<\/p>\n

Lapid called for a \u201cglobal coalition to stop the Iranian nuclear program.\u201d<\/p>\n

Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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