Deja Vu? In 1982, a young senator, Joe Biden, attacked Israel's operation together with the Lebanese Chritian community in Lebanon to take out the PLO who had taken over the Lebanese state.
“Don’t threaten us with cutting off aid to give up our principles. I’m 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.”
-Prime Minister Menachem Begin to Senator Joe Biden, 1982