WATCH: Psaki Won’t Answer When Asked If Israel Is Important Ally Of U.S.; She Doesn’t Answer

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Disgraceful. America does not have a better ally than Israel.

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WATCH: Psaki Asked If Israel Is Important Ally Of U.S.; She Doesn’t Answer

By Daily Wire, February 12, 2021

On Friday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was asked flat-out if Israel was an important ally of the United States. Psaki did not give a direct answer to that question.

A reporter asked, “Does the administration still consider the Saudis and the Israelis important allies?”

“Well, again, I think there are ongoing processes and internal inter-agency processes,” Psaki replied. “One that we, I think, confirmed, an inter-agency meeting just last week to discuss a range of issues in the Middle East. We’ve only been here three and a half weeks. And I think I’m going to let those policy processes see themselves through before we give kind of a complete lay down of what our national security approaches will be to a range of issues.”

“The Biden administration will restore diplomatic relations with the Palestinian Authority, more than two years after President Donald J. Trump effectively ended them,” The New York Times reported in late January, adding, “The shift, which will include a resumption of American aid to the Palestinians, was announced on Tuesday in a speech by Richard Mills, the acting United States ambassador to the United Nations.”

In 1982 Biden reportedly banged on a desk and berated Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin that if Israel continued building settlements in Judea and Samaria, the U.S. would cut off financial aid. Begin fired back:

Don’t threaten us with cutting off your aid. It will not work. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history. Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid.

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Begin added:

This desk is designed for writing, not for fists. Don’t threaten us with slashing aid. Do you think that because the U.S. lends us money it is entitled to impose on us what we must do? We are grateful for the assistance we have received, but we are not to be threatened. I am a proud Jew. Three thousand years of culture are behind me, and you will not frighten me with threats. Take note: we do not want a single soldier of yours to die for us.

 

In November 2019, Biden was asked if he would reverse President Trump’s decision to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem. He replied, “Not now. I wouldn’t reverse it. I wouldn’t have done it in the first place.”

Prior to the exchange in which Psaki declined to answer directly if Israel was an important ally, there was a series of questions about President Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. That exchange went like this:

Reporter: Is there any update on whether the president has called or plans to call Prime Minister Netanyahu?

Psaki: I don’t have an update. He is looking forward to speaking with Prime Minister Netanyahu. I can assure you that will be soon, but I don’t have a specific time or date for when that will occur.

Reporter: As I’m sure you know, there’s a narrative in Israel that this is an intentional dis, is it?

Psaki: It is not an intentional dis. Prime Minister Netanyahu is someone the president has known for some time. Obviously, we have a long and important relationship with Israel and the president has known him and has been working on a range of issues that there’s a mutual commitment to for some time. It is just a reflection of the fact that we’ve been here for three and a half weeks. He’s not called every single global leader yet and he is eager to do that in the weeks ahead.

Reporter: But he has called every other major ally in Europe and in Asia.

Psaki: He’s called many of them, that is true. Some would argue they haven’t received calls yet, and they are still eager to receive them. But I can assure you, he will be speaking with the prime minister soon and he’s looking forward to doing that. Go ahead.

Another reporter: Just to follow up on Anne, are you talking about days or weeks as the timeframe of the president speaking with Netanyahu?

Psaki: I don’t have an exact timeline to give you other than he’s looking forward to having the conversation. They’ve known each other for some time. There are certainly areas of mutual interest. And as soon as he makes that call, we will let you all know.

Reporter: Can you give us further details about the conversation that national security advisor Jake Sullivan had with his Israeli counterpart, I believe, to discuss Iran yesterday?

Psaki: I don’t have additional details on that. I’m happy to talk to Jake and see if there’s more we can read out for all of you.

Reporter: That’d be really great. And still on the issue of the Middle East, I mean, I know that you’re saying that things are still under review, including policies like the Abraham Accords, but can you please just give a broad sense of what the administration is trying to achieve in the Middle East? For example, does the administration still consider the Saudis and the Israelis important allies?

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Tasmanian Devil
Tasmanian Devil
3 years ago

Because Crazy Joe Biden thinks Yasser Arafat is his ally!

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tjke
tjke
3 years ago

Biden is an antisemite exactly like obama.

AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
3 years ago

America has voted for it’s ENEMIES FIRST AGENDA!!!
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Anonygrazer
Anonygrazer
3 years ago

I would like to know who that reporter was and what agency they work for.
THAT is hard hitting journalism.

“Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid.” — Begin to Biden in 1982

Biden hasn’t changed at all, he’s as corrupt today as he was in threatening Begin in 1982 and threatening Ukraine’s PRESIDENT(!) in the 2010’s.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  Anonygrazer

He admits he is corrupt years ago…1974!
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Liatris Spicata
Liatris Spicata
3 years ago

Does the administration still consider the Saudis and the Israelis important allies?

Well I’d have to answer that question in the negative. The US and Saudis have interests in common and that is not be be dismissed casually.

But it does not an ally make, in my mind, except possibly in a formal, military sense. The US embraces individual rights and freedom of conscience, however much we have fallen from our ideals in recent decades. The Saudis stand for the oppression in the individual mind and spirit. They would happily throw us under the bus and, I would say, have done so (check 9-11).

Saudi Arabia is not an ally of the United States of America. With respect to the Saudis, we have “processes”.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago

According to this article from the HuffPost Soddy Barbaria is the world’s leading sponsor of islamic terrorism:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-real-largest-state-sponsor-of-terrorism_b_58cafc26e4b00705db4da8aa

Commieobamie
Commieobamie
3 years ago

Just like the islamo obaMAO regime, Xiden hates GOD and the United States and Israel. Let GOD deal with the Illegitimate SCUMBAG.

Michael Goldman
Michael Goldman
3 years ago

Israel knows it is on its own now.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago

While Britain, France, Czechoslovakia, Germany and the US have at various times provided Israel with military weapons, munitions, weapons systems and parts for those weapons systems, I’m not sure if that will be true in the future as most of the countries listed become increasingly islamically compromised.

kktex12
kktex12
3 years ago

ANYTHING that Trump promised Israel that was not delivered before Trump left office will never be delivered until the demohores are removed from office.

Rob Porter
Rob Porter
3 years ago

I have never heard of any Visegrad country, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, becoming “Islamically compromised”. I cannot think of any leader, anywhere, more staunchly anti-Islam than Hungary’s Viktor Orban. Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia haven’t forgotten about 140 years of brutal Ottomam Muslim rule and don’t need any more of their barbarism. Poland with Lithuania fought off Ottoman for a few years and Poland’s King Jan Sobieski led the crusader army that in 1683 smashed the Ottomans outside Vienna. They haven’t forgotten Muslim savagery.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago
Reply to  Rob Porter

For the record none of the Czech countries have done anything for Israel since the ’48’ War of Independence, when Czechoslovakia, then under the boot heel of the USSR, provided the nascent state of Israel with Me-109 knock-offs manufactured in Czechoslovakia.

Steck3500
Steck3500
3 years ago

Biden needs to be impeached for supporting terrorist Palestinian. American aid to them will only be used for attacking Israeli like they’ve done in the past.

patd
patd
3 years ago
Reply to  Steck3500

Can’t because the moronic criminals in the Houses believe like he does and will cover up every crime that he commits until kneepads takes over!!!!!

Steck3500
Steck3500
3 years ago
Reply to  patd

You mean when his peepades and kneepads Kamalaho take over. Wonder why they’re hiding Dementia Joe’s senate records like they hid all of Obamass’s transcripts.

kktex12
kktex12
3 years ago
Reply to  Steck3500

They’re trying to hide his pedophilia.

tjke
tjke
3 years ago
Reply to  Steck3500

Yes absolutely, but impeach Harris and Pelosi too

Steck3500
Steck3500
3 years ago
Reply to  tjke

That’d be a start.

Steck3500
Steck3500
3 years ago

Biden needs to be impeached for supporting terrorist Palestinian. American aid to them will only be used for attacking Israeli like they’ve done in the past.

Intrepid
Intrepid
3 years ago

Most anti-Israel admin in U.S. History.

Psucki, we know what your answer is.

Silver Bullet Gun Oil
Silver Bullet Gun Oil
3 years ago

There is ONE thing that this ILLEGAL ADMINISTRATION can be surely counted on to do.
If it’s BAD for the USA and it’s Allies,and GOOD for our enemies,THEY WILL BE IN FAVOR OF IT.
These are satan spawn bottom feeders turned loose on the USA and the World with unlimited/unchecked power by George Soros $$$,William Ayers “Weather Underground” tactics/doctrine,Bathouse Barry,Black Panthers,ANTIFA,BLM,our alphabet agencies,the SC,Dominion and Smartmatic machines and so-called “Election” officials.
MASSIVE TREASON against the USA and the REAL POTUS,Donald J.Trump
Semper Fi

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago

Republican Rome was an ally of Israel against the Seleucids on at least two occasions, but not the Roman Empire…

YancyHomes1
YancyHomes1
3 years ago

Biden was a close friend and admirer of KKK leaders who served in the Senate with him. Biden has never been a friend of Jews or Blacks.

victoryman
victoryman
3 years ago

Did I miss Schumer, Nadler, Cohen, Schiff etc., on TV, radio and in newspapers
berating Plugs Biden for his obvious anti-Semitic actions towards PM Netanyahu and Israel? His (Or whoever tells him what to do) appointments to his administration reek of continuing bias towards Israel which began in you-know-whose administration.

kktex12
kktex12
3 years ago

The cowardly mouth piece is a bds supporter just as her boss is! Ps 109:8 Let his days be few; and let another take his office. This applies to her, her boss, and any demorat that takes over in the oval office!!!!

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