US President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participate in an expanded meeting with Israeli and US government officials, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023, in Tel Aviv. (AP/Evan Vucci)
Published October 18, 2023
Biden: Israel must again be a safe place for the Jewish people
Biden, who lost his wife and daughter in a car crash, talks about the small personal memories that those who have lost loved ones will recall for the rest of lives. “They will never be truly gone,” he says. “There’s something that is never fully lost, your love for them and their love for you.
He lauds the heroism of Israelis – civilians who fought terrorists, medics who treated victims, reservists who left everything to save lives during the Hamas onslaught.
“The State of Israel was born to be a safe place for the Jewish people. While it may not feel that way today… Israel must again be a safe place for the Jewish people.”
Biden: Hamas onslaught reminiscent of Holocaust, but ‘we will not stand by and do nothing again’
“You are not alone,” says US President Joe Biden in his remarks at the end of his half-day visit to Israel.
“Rape, beheadings, bodies burned alive — Hamas committed atrocities that recall the worst ravages of ISIS,” he says, “unleashing pure, unadulterated evil on the world. There’s no rationalizing it.”
Biden recalls the Holocaust and says the October 7 onslaught brought up the scars of that genocide.
While the world then “watched then and did nothing… We will not stand by and do nothing again, not today, not tomorrow, not ever,” he pledges.
Biden assures families of missing and hostages that they are not alone.
“For me as the American president, there is no higher priority than the release and safe return of all these hostages.”
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SOURCE: https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-october-18-2023/?utm_source=article_hpsidebar&utm_medium=desktop_site&utm_campaign=liveblog-october-18-2023
RELATED: Joe Biden So Weak He Reads Softly from Note Cards During His Meeting with Israeli Leader Benjamin Netanyahu as War Breaks Out Around Him
Published October 18, 2023
Joe Biden flew to the Middle East on Wednesday to meet with leaders at the Hamas-Israeli War escalated overnight.
Before he landed the leaders of Jordan and the West Bank announced they would not meet with the American president.
Imagine that!
During his press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Old Joe was forced to read softly from his note cards. He was too weak to think and speak for himself.
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SOURCE: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/joe-biden-so-weak-he-reads-softly-note/
RELATED: Biden pledges solidarity with Israelis and suggests ‘other team’ to blame for Gaza hospital blast
Published October 18, 2023
President Joe Biden vowed to show the world that the U.S. stands in solidarity with Israel during his visit there Wednesday, and offered an assessment that the deadly explosion at a Gaza Strip hospital that prompted mass protests in Arab nations apparently was not carried out by the Israeli military.
“Based on what I’ve seen, it appears as though it was done by the other team, not you,” Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting. But he said there were “a lot of people out there” who weren’t sure what caused the blast, which sparked protests throughout the Middle East.
Biden later said he based his conclusion on “the data I was shown by my Defense Department.”
The visit to Israel coincides with rising humanitarian concerns in Gaza, where Israel has cut off the flow of food, fuel and water. Mediators have been struggling to break a deadlock over providing supplies to desperate civilians, aid groups and hospitals.
Israel said Wednesday its radar as well as independent video showed a rocket in a barrage fired by Palestinian militants misfired and caused a large explosion just as the blast hit the hospital. It said there was no crater, which would have been present with an airstrike, and it released a recording it said was between two Hamas militants who said the blast was believed to be an Islamic Jihad misfire.
