Biden continues to lie about 1973 trip to Israel

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(10-18-2023, 11:34 AM)Luvnit2 Wrote: https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/05/politics/fact-check-biden-meir-israel-war-liaison/index.html

Biden was in Israel prior to the 6 day war. Why does he continue to lie or embellish stories for political gain? Simple, he has a very poor record to run on. He looks weak on the world stage, story broke  yesterday he gave 1 billion dollars to Hamas. His Afghan withdraw cost us billions of equipment left behind for se by terrorists, but more importantly he allowed 13 Americans to die.

Biden's policy embolden Iran to make over 50 billion dollars to funnel to terrorist organizations and develop nuclear weapons. Biden has no clue how to create and keep peace in the middle east. This story was reported at false way back in 2021, yet he sill tells the lie.

Fact check: Biden tells inaccurate story about his 1973 meeting with Israeli prime minister
Daniel Dale Oren Liebermann
By Daniel Dale, Oren Liebermann and Amir Tal, CNN
5 minute read
Published 8:33 AM EST, Sun December 5, 2021

President Joe Biden has a favorite story about his long relationship with Israel. For decades, he has been publicly recounting his 1973 meeting with then-Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir – which he described in 2015 as “one of the most consequential meetings I’ve ever had in my life.”

But parts of the version of the story Biden told on Wednesday, at a White House menorah lighting for the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, were not accurate.

Most of the details of Biden’s Wednesday account were the same or very similar to the details in his previous accounts. Biden said that Meir kept referring to a bunch of maps, that future Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was present, that Meir offered to take a photo with Biden, and that Meir painted a dark picture of Israel’s security situation but then assured him that Israel had a “secret weapon” in its conflicts with its neighbors: “We have no place else to go.”

But two elements of Biden’s Wednesday version were different than usual, and both of these changes were incorrect. One of the falsehoods was obviously an accidental slip; the other was more substantial.

Biden began on Wednesday as follows: “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 so on and so forth.” Later in the story, he suggested that Meir had referred to him during the meeting as “Mr. Ambassador.”

Facts First: Biden misspoke about when his meeting with Meir occurred. The meeting took place about five weeks before the Yom Kippur War in 1973, not during the Six-Day War in 1967. More significantly, Biden inflated his importance to Israel at the time. There is no evidence that Meir had any intention of using him as any sort of “liaison” between Israel and Egypt.

At the time of the Six-Day War in 1967, Biden was still a law student and Meir was not yet prime minister.

Biden’s “liaison” claim is vague, but experts on the Yom Kippur War say it is also clearly inaccurate. While Biden did visit Egypt in 1973 just before he visited Israel, and told Meir what Egyptian officials had told him, there is zero indication that Meir wanted to use a 30-year-old American who had had never previously been to Israel and who had been a senator for only nine months as an intermediary in a complicated and critical conflict. In fact, an Israeli government official’s written summary of the meeting said Biden had seemed inexperienced and that Meir had vehemently rejected his proposal for Israel to unilaterally withdraw from certain territory as a step toward peace.

A White House official suggested to CNN on Thursday that Biden’s assertion that “she invited me to come over because I was going to be the liaison between she and the Egyptians about the Suez” was simply a reference to the fact that he had met with both Egyptian and Israeli officials on the 1973 trip to discuss relations between their countries.

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