Joe Biden; "I'm a Zionist"

As soon as Barack Obama announced his choice for a VP, rumours started flying around the Internet that Joe Biden is a Jew, that is wife is a Jew, as you would expect.

Simply Jews, in their capacity as fronting for the Elders of Zion's ceaseless activity of wheeling and dealing and making and unmaking kings, immediately published a strong denial. Appearances must be kept.

My own research on google conjured up a very cryptic message (gone by now, alas), in keeping with the insistently esoteric quality of the above whispered organization.

However, someone managed to unearth the truth and it is stranger than fiction:

He described Israel as "the single greatest strength America has in the Middle East."

He travelled with Barack Obama to Israel in late July, when Obama promised strong support for Israel against the threat from Iran, and said he would strongly support the Mideast peace process soon after he takes office.

In the same interview, Biden revealed that his son is married to a Jewish woman, of the Berger family from Delaware, and that he had participated in a Passover Seder at their house.

He added that "probably my most poignant Seder memory is not with the Bergers, but what happened right after I came back from meeting Golda Meir (in 1973). I had predicted that something was going on in Egypt. And I remember people talking about what it meant to them if Israel were actually defeated."

Well, well. I know some people whose whiskers will droop over this information. And they are not anywhere near Gaza or Egypt...

Campaign promises are just that, promises written on sand on the beach.