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The Full Measure of Joe Biden's Hypocrisy on Jerusalem

Posted: 31 Mar 2010 07:44 PM PDT

Not that long ago, Joseph Robinette
Biden was supposedly gravely insulted by Israel announcing that potential
housing to be built in Jerusalem had passed one stage of a multi-stage
approval process. Biden was so insulted by this dastardly act that he
stood up the Prime Minister of Israel for 90 minutes and that he and
various Obama Administration officials proceeded to lambaste Israel for
"insulting" Biden.

Hillary Clinton proclaimed; "it was not only
an insult to Biden, but an insult to the United States." "There was
an affront, it was an insult", huffed Senior Obama advisor David
Axelrod. Hundreds of newspapers immediately penned editorials denouncing
Israel's grave insult. The essence of it was that Israel had insulted
Biden by laying claim to Jerusalem during his visit.

There's just
one problem with this. In 1995 Biden himself served as a co-sponsor of S.
1322, known as the Jerusalem Embassy Act. (Additional Senate co-sponsors
included such obscure legislators as John McCain, Ted Kennedy, Harry Reid,
Jesse Helms, John Kerry, Joseph Lieberman, Strom Thurmond and Bob Dole.)
Let's look at
the text of the Jerusalem Embassy Act now.

(a) STATEMENT OF THE POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES-

(1) Jerusalem should remain an undivided city in which the
rights of every ethnic and religious group are protected;

(2)
Jerusalem should be recognized as the capital of the State of Israel;

So if we believe the White House, in 1995 Senator Biden
co-sponsored a bill in which he laid out a Statement of the Policy of the
United States as that of an "Undivided Jerusalem" that is the undivided
capital of the State of Israel. In 2010 that same Biden however was
gravely insulted by a potential Israeli housing project in Jerusalem.

But surely that was an accident. After all Biden might not have
known what resolution he was actually co-sponsoring. Except that in 1992
Biden
also served as co-sponsor of Senate
Consecutive Resolution 113. It states that;

Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate (the House
of Representatives concurring), That the Congress--

(1)
congratulates the residents of Jerusalem and the people of Israel on the
twenty-fifth anniversary of the reunification of that historic city;

(2) strongly believes that Jerusalem must remain an undivided
city in which the rights of every ethnic and religious group are
protected as they have been by Israel during the past twenty-five years;
and

(3) calls upon the President and the Secretary of State to
issue an unequivocal statement in support of these
principles.

So in 1992, Biden "strongly believed" that Jerusalem should
be Israel's undivided capitol and even wanted the President to issue an
"unequivocal statement" in support of that. Fast forward a bit and Biden
is supposedly gravely insulted because Israel believes unequivocally that
Jerusalem is its undivided capital.

Now certainly Senator Biden
twice co-sponsored resolutions and bills that proclaimed Jerusalem to be
Israel's undivided capital. But he couldn't for the love of god have done
it three times? Or could
he have.

In 1990 Senator Joseph Robinette Biden co-sponsored
Senate Concurrent Resolution 106 which stated that;

Whereas ambiguous statements by the Government of the
United States concerning the right of Jews to live in all parts of
Jerusalem raise concerns in Israel that Jerusalem might one day be
redivided and access to religious sites in Jerusalem denied to Israeli
citizens; and

Whereas such concerns inhibit and complicate the
search for a lasting peace in the region: Now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives
concurring), That the Congress--

(1) acknowledges that Jerusalem
is and should remain the capital of the State of Israel;

(2)
strongly believes that Jerusalem must remain an undivided city in which
the rights of every ethnic religious group are protected; and

(3) calls upon all parties involved in the search for peace to
maintain their strong efforts to bring about negotiations between Israel
and Palestinian representatives.

Now just so we're keeping track, Biden co-sponsored three
Senate resolution, all three of which insisted that Jerusalem should
remain Israel's undivided capital. One of which insisted that it was vital
for the peace process that Jerusalem should be affirmed by US policy as
Israel's undivided capital.

So naturally, like any good politician, he was insulted by
Israel taking him at his word. To argue that Biden was gravely insulted by
Israel, is to argue that he was insulted by the policies he himself
supported.

Not just passively supported, but co-sponsored in three
Senate resolutions which repeatedly stated that these were meant to be the
policy of the United States.

But of course the hypocrisy train
doesn't just stop at Joe Biden Station.

Hillary Clinton who claimed
that Israeli housing "was not only an insult to Biden, but an insult to
the United States", in 2007 (barely 2 and a half years ago) issued
a paper stating,

"Hillary Clinton believes that Israel's right to
exist in safety as a Jewish state, with defensible borders and an
undivided Jerusalem as its capital, secure from violence and terrorism,
must never be questioned."

And barely 2.5 years later, Hillary Clinton is vocally
doing the questioning. And the woman who not that long ago said that an
"Undivided Jerusalem" must never be questioned, was pretending that
Israel approving housing in Jerusalem was a grave insult to the United
States.

The question must then be asked, if Joe Biden and Hillary
Clinton supported an undivided Jerusalem and if Israeli housing projects
in Jerusalem are an insult to the United States-- weren't Hillary and Joe
insulting the United States. Or were they just insulting
the Jewish voters who believed their empty promises?

But the
"insults" don't stop there. In 2008 Obama gave a speech
in which he said, "Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it
must remain undivided." To be fair to Obama, he didn't waste too much
time divorcing himself from the statement he had just made. It
actually took him only a day to explain that he actually supported
dividing Jerusalem, he just didn't want it divided by barbed wire. No,
seriously.

You know, the truth is that this was an example where we
had some poor phrasing in the speech. And we immediately tried to
correct the interpretation that was given. The point we were simply
making was, is that we don’t want barbed wire running through Jerusalem,
similar to the way it was prior to the ‘67 war, that it is possible for
us to create a Jerusalem that is cohesive and coherent.

After a prolonged study by experts in semantics, it turns
out that Obama felt that "Undivided Jerusalem" was subject to all sorts of
misinterpretations, such as it being undivided, when he actually meant
that it should be cohesive and coherent. Unlike Obama himself. Since no
one knows what in the world "cohesive and coherent" might mean as applied
to a city, that made it a safe statement to make.

So to sum up, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and even Obama were
enthusiastic supporters of an "Undivided Jerusalem" not too long ago, but
in the spring of 2010 they were gravely insulted because Israel moved
housing in Jerusalem to be built on deserted land through one stage of a
multi-stage approvals process while Biden happened to be in the country.

Now this dog just won't hunt. Either an "Undivided Jerusalem" is a
grave insult to the United States and completely destructive of the peace
process... in which case Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and Obama have all
insulted the United States and are destructive of the peace process... or
they are completely
shameless liars and hypocrites.

Just to close off this sad
chapter with one more stop for the Hypocrisy Express at Joe Biden Station,
let's tune
in to Joe Biden circa 2001.

“Why is it that the one ally we have in that part of the
world [Israel], that we have the right to publicly chastise them? We
would not do that with any other friend … As much as the Middle East is
always on our minds, the best thing we can do is keep it off the US and
world press.” He also said that such criticism “emboldens those in the
Middle East and around the world who still harbor as their sacred goal
the elimination of Israel … It is not for you to tell them [Israel], nor
for me, what is in their best interests. We should give them the right
to determine what chances they will take”

Fast forward to 2010 where under the guidance of Barack
Hussein Obama, Biden staged a very loud and public bashing of Israel.

One is reminded of the question, how can you tell when a
politician is lying? Easy, his lips are moving.