Showing posts with label Chanukah. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chanukah. Show all posts

Friday, December 3, 2021

Houseplant in Chief served as a 'liaison' during the Six Day War [perhaps for extra credit in law school]



According to alleged President Biden, he met with former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir and served as a liaison between Israel and Egypt during the Six Day War when he was getting crappy grades in law school. Brian Williams has also confirmed this breaking story and added that he too was instrumental in aiding the two nations to come together in peace while taking incoming rounds in Tel Aviv.

Biden mumbled the story during a menorah lighting ceremony to celebrate Chanukah on Wednesday at the White House.

It's possible that Biden got confused, if you can believe it. He may have been thinking about a meeting he had in 1973 just prior to the Yom Kippur War when Golda Meir was actually the Prime Minister.

Levi Eshkol was PM during the Six Day War in June 1967 and Biden was definitely not a "liason," whatever he meant by that.

"I have known every — every prime minister well since Golda Meir, including Golda Meir," Biden mumbled. "And during the Six-Day War, I had an opportunity to — she invited me to come over because I was going to be the liaison between she and the Egyptians about the Suez.

"And I sat in front of her desk," he continued. "And she had a guy — her staff member — to my right. His name was Rabin. And she kept flipping those maps up and down. She had that bevy of maps — sort of kept it — and it was — it was so depressing what she was — about what happened. She gave me every detail."

Biden graduated from Syracuse University in 1968. Golda was elected as PM in 1969 serving until 1974.

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And while our elected houseplant acted as if he was touting his wonderful relationship with Meir and support for Israel, a memo found last year summarized details Biden omitted, such as him telling Meir that the territories captured in the Six-Day War, including the West Bank and Gaza Strip, was deemed "creeping annexation."

An official at that meeting made notes, recording his impressions of Biden, saying that while Biden is full of respect toward Meir and wanted to learn, "and yet while speaking displayed a fervor and made comments that signaled his lack of diplomatic experience."

That's because Biden was never very bright to begin with, and now has the mental capacity of a glass of water.

Monday, December 26, 2016

Rabbi rips Obama's anti-Israel move at Nat'l Menorah lighting

Rabbi Levi Shemtov, the executive vice president of American Friends of Lubavich, was in charge of the National Chanukah Menorah lighting ceremony. He used his time on the podium wisely.

Just steps from the White House, Rabbi Shemtov criticized the Obama administration's sneaky decision to allow the United Nations to pass a resolution condemning Israeli settlements in the West Bank and portions of Jerusalem as illegal.

He turned Adam Szubin's speech about "fighting darkness with light" on its head, evoking Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and urging Jews not to despair about the "darkness" cast by the UN vote. Szubin is acting treasury undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence.

Szubin delivered a short speech that focused mainly on the significance and symbolism of candles and light as they pertain to Chanukah. He later helped light a 30-foot menorah.

But Rabbi Shemtov didn't allow the moment to be lost: "Secretary Szubin spoke before of fighting darkness with light. I remember those words being spoken to a particular man by the Rebbe [Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson-head rabbi of the Lubavich] many many years ago on Simchat Torah," an annual Jewish holiday marking the conclusion of one reading of the Torah and beginning another.

"The Rebbe told him you are working in a place where there is great grief and darkness, but remember that in that place of darkness, you can only counter it by lighting a candle. By creating light," Shemtov said. "That man was Benjamin Netanyahu, and he was at the time the ambassador to the United Nations."

Then Rabbi Shemtov brought up Friday's 14 - 0 U.N. Security Council vote, which the Obama administration abstained from voting, thus allowing the measure to pass and marking a major shift in U.S. policy.

"So as I know that some of us are so sad at what happened there with regard to Israel," Shemtov said. "We must remember that the way to counter any darkness, any disappointment is not with harsh rhetoric, not with anger, but when we create light, the darkness dissipates."


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