Amit Segal<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\nThe last days of every president of the United States are a demonstration of Freud's insight into what happens to the human soul when the id, the focus of passions and pleasure, prevails over the super ego, which, in the case of presidents, is the pressure of public opinion and international constraints. When he is freed from electoral considerations, the real Joe Biden is revealed.
The 46th president was the man who constantly limited Israel in its actions in Gaza and Lebanon to prevent an international crisis, but now he is arming Ukraine with permission to fire American missiles into Russian territory, while bringing the continent to threats of using nuclear weapons. Instead of dealing with the nuclear threat from Tehran, it is generating a nuclear threat from Moscow. In the same breath, instead of removing the gloves he put on Israel in its fight against Hamas and Hezbollah, he prefers to impose sanctions on more and more Israeli entities and his government is already considering a decision in the Security Council that would endanger Israeli soldiers.
Major General Giora Eiland rightly said that American policy led to the murder of hostages, as humanitarian aid kept Hamas alive and kicking and did not force it to make concessions. It can be added that the evil delay in the supply of D-9 bulldozers leads to the death of soldiers in Gaza and Lebanon inside houses that remain death traps. Biden defines himself as a lover of Israel, but his and his administration's love has often been platonic. In the test of the result, he delayed an operation in Rafah, thwarted the cleansing of the north of the Gaza Strip, stopped the humanitarian siege on the Gaza Strip that brought about the first abductees deal, a year ago.
In Lebanon he stopped and prevented. The debate between Netanyahu and Gallant, part of which was reported this week by the Prime Minister from the podium of the Knesset, reflects the desire of the Americans to be veto players in the Israeli cabinet.
One hand provided billions of dollars in aid and the other made sure it would not result in a decisive victory. Israel does not choose the leaders of the world, but the least it can do is to internalize who is a true friend, who is a friend sometimes and who is not a friend.
Two weeks ago it finally dawned on even the last of the Israelis that the powerful man in the Netherlands, Geert Wilders, is not the extreme anti-Semite they have made him out to be here for years, but a lover of Israel who fights anti-Semitism.
Argentina currently has a president who loves us more than most of us do: Javier Millay fired a foreign minister who voted "not like Israel" and his successor who was sworn in after a word of the Torah from a parashat to you (unlike some of our ministers, he doesn't need a socialite to write to him). The fact that there is no open line, that there is almost no attention to his tremendous support, that the Prime Minister did not visit Argentina, is very unfortunate. We do not have the privilege of cold shoulders with so few hands outstretched.
(The full column today in the Shabbat supplement of Yedioth Ahronoth)<\/div>\n\n