Qatar is certainly good at influence spending. Maybe Biden is hoping that some of those dirty oil billions can find their way to his presidential campaign.
Appearing at the Brookings Institution’s Saban Forum, Joe Biden accused Israel of collective punishment and came out against sanctions on Iran.
While the Saban Forum is linked to a top Jewish Dem donor, Brookings’ was revealed to have come under the influence of heavy funding from Qatar. Qatar is a state sponsor of such terrorist groups as Hamas and ISIS.
While Brookings said its personnel were “not influenced by the views of our funders,” in 2012, The Times noted, the Qatari foreign ministry said that – thanks to a new accord with the institute, “the center will assume its role in reflecting the bright image of Qatar in the international media, especially the American ones.”
Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal, who lives in the Qatari capital, Doha, said on Aug 21, that “Our relationship with Qatar is not new… We appreciate Qatar’s stand, the brave political stand of its government and people.”
Biden urged the attendees not to make too much of the ugly relationship between Obama and Israel, calling them “normal disagreements.” That’s also the official line held to by Hillary Clinton in her remarks.
While reciting the usual boilerplate about Israeli security and another empty promise to prevent Iran from going nuclear, even as it’s doing so, he warned that sanctions on Iran would “lose the leverage we have to reach a good agreement”.
That’s quite a turnaround from when the official narrative was that sanctions were leverage.
Biden dragged out his old “malarkey” line, but the only malarkey is believing that after the collapse of the talks, Iran’s gloating and the extension, that there is any serious commitment to stopping Iran from going nuclear.
Meanwhile Obama’s people have refused to deny reports of sanctions being planned against Israel.
Vice President Joe Biden called on Israel to stop the demolition of homes of terrorists’ families, which he described as “collective punishment.” Biden also criticized expansion of Jewish settlements “in the West Bank and East Jerusalem” and called on the government to do more to stop “vigilante justice” attacks against Palestinians.
Biden actually co-sponsored bills recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Now he adopted the racist rhetoric of referring to Jews living in one of the oldest cities in the world as living in settlements.





















