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grits-galraisedinthesouth · 7 months

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History Repeating Itself 💔

Joe Biden’s Role in the Yom Kippur War

Joe Biden had his first meeting with an Israeli leader, Golda Meir, on the eve of the Yom Kippur war, right after meeting with officials in Cairo. During the then junior senator’s meeting with Meir, Biden suggested that Israel make a unilateral withdrawal from settlements for peace, criticizing the settlement policies of the Labor Party, and suggesting they represent a form of “creeping annexation.” Though Biden assured Meir that Egyptian officials were convinced of Israel’s military superiority, 40 days later, Sadat initiated a surprise attack against Israel.

This is the gist of a bombshell tweet from Israel’s Channel 13 reporter Nadav Eyal containing excerpts from a classified memo from an Israeli official who attended that fateful meeting. While it may have been the first meeting between Biden and an Israeli prime minister, it was certainly not the last. In subsequent meetings with Israeli prime ministers, Biden threatened Menachem Begin with withholding U.S. aid, and publicly upbraided Benyamin Netanyahu because it had been announced in a town council meeting that 1600 homes were to be built in future in the Jewish Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo (more about this here).

Joe Biden paints that early meeting with Golda as something precious that cemented in his mind how important Israel is to the Jewish people. It is clear, however, that Joe Biden has always been against the Jewish people settling their indigenous territory. The very thought of Jews planning to build homes in Jerusalem makes him furious. Therefore, contrary to the love fest with Golda he has often described, Biden used the first chance he had to meet with an Israeli prime minister to broach the subject of unilateral concessions.

One wonders how much clout the young senator wielded at that time. Not to mention the timing of subsequent events, with the surprise attack on Israel by Egypt occurring just 40 days after Biden’s meeting with Meir. Is it possible that Golda Meir incurred wider U.S. displeasure by refusing to entertain Biden’s suggestion of unilateral concessions? Was Egypt perhaps emboldened by this state of affairs to attack Israel without fear of American intervention?

During its years in office, Israel fought the 1956 Sinai War, the Six-Day War and the Yom Kippur War. Labor agreed to UN Resolution 242 and the notion of trading land for peace. Nevertheless, successive Labor governments established settlements in the disputed territories and refrained from dismantling illegal settlements, such as those established in 1968 at Qiryat Arba in Hebron by Rabbi Moshe Levinger, and others set up by Gush Emunim. By 1976, more than thirty settlements had been established on the West Bank; however, their population was fewer than 10,000.

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Joe Biden’s Role in the Yom Kippur War

In January 1973, Joe Biden was sworn in as Senator from Delaware.

September of that year found him in the Middle East on a trip to Egypt. Shortly thereafter, Biden was in Israel in a meeting with Israeli PM Golda Meir.

In that meeting, Biden convinced Meir that Egypt would not attack Israel by convincing her that Egypt thought that Israel had absolute military superiority.

The meeting was documented on October 2, 1973 in a secret letter (below) written by Israel Foreign Ministry official Gideon Jordan. Four days later Egypt attacked Israel.

Foreign Ministry official Gideon Jordan summed up Biden’s words as follows: “Of all the personalities (in Egypt) he (Biden) met, he heard that there was not one of them who disbelieved in Israel’s perfect military superiority and therefore stated that it is not possible for Egypt to go to war against Israel now. According to the people he spoke to Egyptians, time will take its course and when God wills, he will find the solution.”

What this letter calls into question is Joe Biden’s extreme misreading of Arab “personalities” and their intentions. His misreading–and that of Israeli intelligence–had disastrous consequences in the Yom Kippur War. One cannot help but think of similar Biden misreadings when it comes to Iran, Lebanon, and elsewhere.

Gideon Jordan later notes in the secret document that Biden was interested in more than Egypt: “The senator repeatedly said that Israel should do a unilateral act, that is to withdraw from some territories, of course not from those territories of strategic importance such as the Golan Heights, Sharm el-Sheikh and the Gaza Strip–but to withdraw without even any negotiations or an agreement with the Arabs.”

Jordan remarks that Meir immediately disagreed with Biden about unilateral withdrawals without achieving true peace. Again, one cannot help but think about the disastrous Biden unilateral withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the unilateral concessions that the U.S. has demanded from Israel in the current Lebanon “agreement” talks.

The secret letter is below for those of you who read Hebrew:

When Biden met Meir: Joe Biden advised Jewish PM to trade land for peace - The Jerusalem Post

Biden meeting between Joe Biden and former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, described in a memo published by Israeli reporter Nadav Eyal, sheds light on the former Vice President's thought process at that time, and what he believed Israel should do shortly before the Yom Kippur war broke out. The meeting took place following his return from Egypt where he discussed with Saadat several things, roughly 40 days before the surprise attack that would turn into the Yom Kippur war.

https://www.jpost.com/us-elections/when-biden-met-meir-joe-biden-advised-jewish-pm-to-trade-land-for-peace-646732

#Joe Biden #israel #elections have consequences #heartbreaking 💔

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fandomwe1rd0 · 2 months

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Just finished rewatching fear no Mort. Crying. Vomiting. Sobbing. Morty's greatest fear is that Rick doesn't care about him, when Rick cares so so so so so much. I would even go as far as to say he cares about Morty more than anyone else. He could've just walked away if he didn't care about Morty. But he stayed and immediately sounded happy when Morty was shown to be fine. He even tried to hug Morty back...but Morty was terrified that if Rick hugged him back he would still be in the hole...

The fact that Rick didn't jump into the hole when Morty told him not to, even if he could've seen Diane again. The way he has a picture of Morty in his wallet, the fact that it's well worn out, the fact that it's in the front pocket, the fact he walked away looking so proud of his grandson...he immediately disproved what Morty was scared of and Morty didn't even see it. I...I cry

#Also didn't find the right time to talk about it #But the voice acting is so good wth #Morty sounded like he was about to cry when he said “You're not even in the hole are you?!”#heartbreaking 💔#Rick #And #Morty #rick c137 #rick and morty spoilers #rick sanchez #rick and morty #morty smith #rick and morty season 7 #fear no mort

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lewishamiltonstuff · 3 months

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I don't wanna say goodbye 'cause this one feels forever 😭

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kraeki · 6 days

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Proof that Trent is a cat

#he hasn’t found self-acceptance yet #heartbreaking 💔#trent alexander arnold

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youidiotwecouldbeenus · 8 months

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I was thinking about the last scene. When Azi said "You're at liberty to go" in episode one, he knew, that this tactic always works, and Crowley will come back, because he tried it earlier. When he said "Well, then there's nothing more to say" and things like that, he tried to use that tactic I'm dying

#good omens #good omens 2 #ineffable husbands #crowley #aziraphale #david tennant #michael sheen #neil gaiman #aziracrow #season 2 #ineffable divorce #give us season 3 #pay your writers #heartbreaking 💔

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darlin-djarin · 11 months

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i can't believe jar jar and qui gon broke up :(

#heartbreaking 💔#turns out idk how to rotate text in photoshop bc of this stupid update #(<- studied photography for 3 years)#star wars #star wars shitpost #star wars meme #jar jar binks #qui gon jinn #queen julia #extra virgin olive oil #the clone wars

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cyarsk52-20 · 9 months

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The anti LGBTQ "groomer" conspiracy has led to a severe uptick in violent incidents. O'Shae Sibley was murdered by hate for doing something joyful. Y’all homophobic biiiiches need to be looking at your own households or should I say church holds because we all know the real groomers are: those white conservative male pastors!

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sulasnsleep · 9 months

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“We once said that only death would tear us apart. Death was late and we split.”

— Mahmoud Darwish

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thedawnofcrime · 2 months

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🔴 HEARTBREAKING 🔴

Local trans girl annoys somebody once and can’t stop thinking about it

#heartbreaking 💔#transgender #trans #lgbtq #social anxiety

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michaelmylove · 3 months

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the curse of your favorite ships being gay men but are only able to draw women </3

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pixel-ninja · 4 months

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What song would he sing? 🎶

#monkey wrench #shrike sanchez #art #artists on tumblr #zeurel #funny #meme #tumblr sexyman #music #the song i had in mind while making this was #talking in your sleep #but realistically #he wouldn’t #heartbreaking 💔#amii art

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fantasybuff96 · 4 months

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So that’s who Finnick loves. Not his string of fancy lovers in the Capitol. But a poor, mad girl back home.

#odesta #annie cresta #finnick odair #hunger games finnick #finnick x annie #catching fire #mockingjay #my beloved #heartbreaking 💔#mad girl #victor #everlark #peeta x katniss

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lllivia · 9 days

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FUCKKK Fallout made all the straight guys discover Ella Purnell 😞😞😞😞😞😞

#heartbreaking 💔#also why do they comment so disgusting things on her pics #I hate straight guys #I'm jk maybe #fallout show #fallout 4 #the fallout #fallout #fallout 76 #ella purnell #yellowjackets

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paintskiinouii · 4 months

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Definitely

#eddie gluskin #outlast #outlast whistleblower #shitpost #heartbreaking 💔#are you for real #no way #old men #we all knew that

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cowcat44 · 1 year

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“I need to tell you these things....young man...I....“

#all might #toshinori yagi #izuku midoriya #my hero academia #boku no hero academia #subbed ver #heartbreaking 💔

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heaven-is-in-your-arms-series · 2 months

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I've been thinking (overthinking) about this costume of Khem's

It could be that he is portraying some heroic figure from one of the many jataka tales. A commoner perhaps.

But I also think, from what little we can see of it, (which is a crime,) that it has some elements that really remind me Lanna folk dances. Specifically the dance that comes from Jerng, the ancient Northern Thai martial art form.

There are two types of this dance:

Forn Jerng (barehanded)

Forn Jerng Daab (sword dance.) sometimes you will see flags in place of swords.

The headband and the rope around the arms is what gives me that impression but I'm just guessing here as we see no glimpse of the dance itself and barely anything of the costume.

#man suang #mansuang #man suang meta #khem #apo nattawin #thai dance #thai film #his eyes look so dead here #my baby #heartbreaking 💔#somebody save him #that man needs a knife to the throat #man suang spoilers

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