Democratic V.P. Candidate Joe Biden has a pro-Israel reputation and in a recent interview with Shalom Television, even identified himself as "a Zionist" but it is an open question what the late Menachem Begin would have to say about that designation of the Delaware Senator.
According to reports in the Jerusalem Post by Moshe Zak and
another in Time Magazine, Messrs Biden and Begin had a serious confrontation in the Summer of 1982 in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on the issues of Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza.
According to Mr. Zak, a former Editor of Ma'ariv, who followed
Mr. Begin's career closely, during the committee meeting, which took place at the height of Israel's first incursion into Lebanon, Mr. Biden attacked the Jewish settlements and threatened if Israel did not immediately shut down the Jewish communities in the territories,
the U.S. would cut economic aid to Israel.
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