Joe Biden Bows to Force Majeure
Kneeling before Israelis is latest
indication of who rules in Washington
By Philip Giraldi
July
I8, 2021 "Information
Clearing House" -
- "UNZ"
- If one
were only limited to viewing or reading
the US mainstream media the story of how
President Joe Biden went down on his
knees to honor two visiting Israelis
would never have surfaced. Fortunately,
the story did make considerable waves in
both the Israeli and the alternative
media, though not enough to convince the
faceless editors at CBS news and
elsewhere to run with it. The kneeling
incident reportedly took place while
Biden was meeting in the White House
with soon-to-be retired Israeli
president Reuven Rivlin. Rivlin was
doing something like his victory lap,
having presumably completed his term of
office without being charged with
corruption, which is what the
Jewish state’s leaders have
traditionally been noted for.
In fact, the good
news re Israeli corruption is that
recent ex-prime minister Benjamin
Netanyahu, who has been dogged by
corruption charges for years, no longer
can claim immunity and just might now
have to pay the piper and go to jail
together with his lovely wife Sara. The
thought of Netanyahu in the slammer
brings tears of joy to my eyes, not only
because he is dishonest and a thief, but
also because he was part of an Israeli
spy ring that obtained
nuclear triggers to construct bombs,
which was operating against the United
States back when he lived here in the
1970s-80s. But that is another story for
another day.
Rivlin was in
town to say goodbye but also to discuss
Iran. The Israeli view on Iran is that
the Mullahs have a secret nuclear
weapons program so any kind of agreement
with them allows work to proceed
clandestinely. Israel believes that
allowing the United States to re-enter
into 2015’s Joint Comprehensive Plan of
Action (JCPOA) would take the heat off
Iran and would virtually guarantee that
the Islamic Republic would wind up with
a nuclear weapon, which would threaten
the entire region, most particularly
Israel and the Saudis. This line is, of
course, being echoed by Israel’s many
friends in the United States.
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The other view,
supported by both the United Nations and
the US intelligence community, is that
it is Israel rather than Iran that has a
secret nuclear arsenal which is not
subject to international inspection.
Everyone but Israel believes that Iran,
for its part, long ago gave up an
exploratory program that might plausibly
have led to a weapon. The only so-called
evidence challenging that view consists
of information on a lap top that was
fortuitously discovered by some
opponents of the Iranian government
which had previously been fabricated by
Israeli intelligence and placed so as to
be found and exposed.
Biden, completely
predictably, assured the Israeli
president that his personal commitment
to the Jewish state is “iron-clad.” No
doubt Rivlin for his part passed the
Israeli view regarding Iran on to Biden
during their meeting, though there has
been no subsequent document describing
in any detail that aspect of their
discussion. The White House
press release described their
interaction as follows: “President Biden
conveyed his unwavering support for
Israel’s security and his commitment to
deepening the cooperation between the
two countries across all fields. The
leaders discussed the many challenges
facing the region, including the threat
posed by Iran. The President emphasized
that under his administration, Iran will
never get a nuclear weapon. He also
assured President Rivlin that the United
States remains determined to counter
Iran’s malign activity and support for
terrorist proxies, which have
destabilizing consequences for the
region.”
In reality, of
course, it is Israel and the US that are
nuclear armed and have been supporting
terrorist proxies in the Middle East,
but we’ll give that one a pass. Rivlin
had with him his 45 year-old chief of
staff, a Haredi Orthodox Israeli woman
named Rivka Ravitz who has borne twelve
children. Many Orthodox Jews apparently
believe that procreating up to maximum
capacity is a requirement that comes
straight from Yahweh. Joe responded with
something like delight at the report of
the “cheaper by the dozen” offspring and
he got so excited that he went
down on one knee to honor the lady
and, presumably, her boss. And to make
matters worse, a photographer who
accompanied the Israeli entourage was in
the room with the beaming trio and was
able to take a picture of Joe on one
bended knee, though it also has been
claimed that he might have gone down on
both knees which raises the question how
he managed to get back up at his age.
Are Secret Service Agent required to
lift up kneeling presidents?
So here we have
the president of the United States down
on one or two knees in front of two
former Israeli government officials.
Doesn’t look good, does it? But it could
be a metaphor for what the entire United
States government and Establishment
choose to do when it comes to Israel.
Too bad there is no recording of what
Honest Joe was saying as he was going
down. Was it the usual inarticulate
mumble or something acknowledging the
power and majesty of his visitors? As
noted above, avowed Zionist Joe
reportedly said either before or maybe
after his prostration that the
commitment to Israel is “iron-clad,”
which one might suggest to be the
unofficial motto of the United States
Congress.
I know that Joe
Biden and almost everyone else in
Washington politics would not share my
view of the Israel-US relationship,
which to put it succinctly goes as
follows: the United States relationship
with Israel is a strategic liability
that has been a major factor in US
involvement in avoidable wars that have
cost a great deal of money and have done
terrible damage to actual interests,
while also leading to the killing of
hundreds of thousands of civilians and
American soldiers. On top of that, the
US inexplicably gives Israel, a wealthy
nation, billions of dollars each year
and uncritical political support that
has contributed to America’s sharply
declining international standing.
Finally, though the Israel Lobby that
has brought all of this about through
corruption of congress and the media
includes a rabid Christian Zionist
subset, the money and access to genuine
political power nearly all comes from
American Jewish groups and wealthy
individuals who are guilty of dual
loyalty, or actually singular loyalty to
Israel. They should all be registered as
“foreign agents” to make completely
clear where their allegiance lies.
Biden is, to be
sure, a funny bloke who wants to pretend
to being a devout Roman Catholic while
also supporting abortion as a form of
birth control. He also appears to want
to be President of the United States
while giving “iron-clad” guarantees of
loyalty to a foreign country. Given
that, his kneeling to Israeli officials
in the Oval Office is under the
circumstances appropriate as it reflects
who is actually in charge. Biden, like
Nancy Pelosi and the other bottom
crawlers that make up the US Congress,
reflexively and automatically defers to
Israel and to the powerful Jewish
community on both foreign policy and
many domestic issues. If one cannot
accept that simple truth it will become
impossible to understand what is
actually at play.
Apart from a
handful of liberals, who in the Congress
is complaining about using readily and
even illegally supplied American weapons
to kill Gazans? What do we have to do to
have a president that actually puts
Americans first, since neither Donald
Trump nor Joe Biden seem prepared to do
so? It is an unavoidable fact that on so
many of these issues the American
federal and even many state and local
governments have been dominated by
Israel’s interests. The only question is
“What can be done to change that
dynamic?” That’s the underlying problem,
but change just might come if and when
more Americans begin to realize the
extent to which their president and
governing system have been compromised
and their tax dollars stolen by Israel!
Philip M.
Giraldi, Ph.D., is Executive Director of
the Council for the National Interest, a
501(c)3 tax deductible educational
foundation (Federal ID Number
#52-1739023) that seeks a more
interests-based U.S. foreign policy in
the Middle East. Website is
https://councilforthenationalinterest.org
address is P.O. Box 2157,
Purcellville VA 20134 and its email is
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