'Like the Obama administration in which he served as vice-president, the Biden presidency has shattered the hopes of millions that it might, finally, bring about an ethical foreign policy in Washington DC'// Mark Brown
President Joe Biden arrives at King Abdulaziz International Airport, Friday, July 15, 2022, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. .
Needless to say, Biden did not jeopardise the US-Israel love-in by mentioning the killing by the Israeli army of the Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh . Like his political forebears, Lapid made the cynical assertion that Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians is justified by the Nazi Holocaust of’s Jews. “In order to protect freedom, sometimes force must be used,” he said, in reference to the continued sabre-rattling of Israel and the US over Iran’s nuclear enrichment programme.
Lapid equated Hamas’s occasional, largely ineffective military action against Israel with the Al Qaeda attacks on the US on September 11. This rhetoric – in which Israel is cast as the victim of Palestinian “terrorism”, rather than a highly-militarised Goliath towering over the Palestinian David – is entirely at odds with the assessment by Amnesty International, Nelson Mandela and the late Bishop Desmond Tutu that Israel is an apartheid state.
Declaring Israel and the US to be part of the “free world”, Lapid praised Biden’s support for “an alliance of moderate countries that believes in peace” in the Middle East. The primary Arab state in that alliance is, he said, Saudi Arabia.
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