Richard Silverstein over at Tikun Olam observes in 'Bibi Disses Biden' how Netanyahu stood up the Vice President of the United States on his first night in Israel prefering to spend the evening in the company of pastor John Hagee and his militantly pro-Zionist Christians United for Israel.
Yesterday, on the first evening of Vice President Joe Biden’s official visit to Israel, when you’d think there would’ve been a state dinner to honor him, Bibi Netanyahu joined John Hagee in a massive Night to Honor Israel. Bibi pointedly dissed Biden while celebrating with Christians United for Israel, that country’s intransigence (or its adherence to God’s divine mission, depending on your point of view) and resistance to U.S. efforts to broker a peace agreement with the Palestinians. This night was full of praise for settlers and the most extreme of Israel nationalist politics. It was full of denunciation of peace and Arabs. It was fully of love for evangelical Christianity and revanchist Judaism, and smearing of Islam. Among Pastor John’s more memorable dinner quotations was one in which he called Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the “Hitler of the Middle East.”Read more here
Read Netanyahu's speech here
For the truth about John Hagee see With God on our Side
