The US President Joe Biden's early engagement in politics in the United States, half a century ago, played a role in forming a long record of attitudes toward the rounds of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Reviewing this record reveals his strong commitment to protecting Israel's security and strengthening the US-Israeli partnership.
Biden said during his election campaign in 2020 that his support for Israel "is very personal, and extends throughout his career."
Since his first trip to Israel in 1973, shortly before the Yom Kippur War, Biden's commitment to Israel's security has been unwavering.
During his years as a senator from Delaware, Biden helped secure steadfast support for Israel's security.
Biden fought in the Senate to ensure Israel gets the most aid, often describing providing economic and military financial aid to Israel as "the best investment we make of $ 3 billion" and has always opposed sales of advanced weapons to Israel's neighbors.
During the administration of former President Barack Obama, in which Biden served as Vice President for 8 years, he was a key advocate for securing support for advanced Israeli military technologies, such as the Iron Dome anti-missile defense system, in addition to the Arrow 3 defense system.
In 2016 Biden oversaw the signing of an unprecedented memorandum of understanding between Washington and Tel Aviv worth $ 38 billion for 10 years for military assistance to Israel, the largest such military aid package in US history.
And he led efforts to oppose the delegitimization of Israel, whether in international organizations or through the boycott movement within the United States, which includes calls for divestment and imposition of sanctions on it.
Some commentators have linked Biden's toughness and pledge to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, and his understanding of the Israeli logic hostile to the nuclear agreement with Tehran.
The Obama administration and Biden imposed multilateral sanctions on Iran and forced it to negotiate, paving the way for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action that prevented Iran from developing its nuclear programs.
During the 2020 presidential campaign, Biden ridiculed Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders' call to impose conditions on providing military aid to Israel, considering it "strange" and describing the idea of imposing conditions on providing aid to Israel as "very outrageous and a fatal mistake."
During Biden's visit to Israel in 2010, Israel proceeded to expand settlements in the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem, and instead of criticizing the Israeli act, which experts considered insulting to the Vice President, Biden chose to emphasize the strength of the partnership between the United States and Israel, and said, "Progress is happening in the Middle East. When everyone knows that there are no differences between the United States and Israel. "
After Israel hit the wall with the wishes of the Obama administration and continued building settlements, Biden appeared in defense of
Israel and refused to exert any pressure on it.
After the Palestinian Authority resorted to the Security Council in 2011 to demand condemnation of Israel building more settlements in the occupied lands amid the events of the Arab Spring, and in a meeting at the White House on the nature of the decision that the Obama administration would take before the Security Council, then Secretary of State (Hillary Clinton) warned that the use of the veto right The veto against the settlement decision might turn the demonstrators in the Arab world against Washington. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, as well as UN Ambassador Susan Rice agreed, but Biden argued strongly for the use of the veto, and Obama followed his advice.
Then all members of the Security Council supported the resolution, and the vote was 14 against (one) the US veto.
And in Obama's second term, then Secretary of State John Kerry frantically tried to revive the peace process.
But by 2016, the minister realized that there would be no Palestinian state under the Obama administration.
The only thing left to debate was whether Obama should send a message outlining the parameters of a two-state deal, get the approval of the UN Security Council, and thus create an action plan for upcoming administrations.
All members of Obama's National Security Council approved the move, but Biden rejected it.
After coming to power last January, Biden pledged to restore the governing principles that guided US diplomacy towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including support for the two-state solution, and opposition to Israel's intention to annex land and build settlements.
But Biden also stressed that he would not backtrack on Trump's decision to move the Washington embassy to Jerusalem or recognize it as the capital of Israel.
After the recent Israeli aggression in Jerusalem and Gaza, the US President said that he hopes that "tension in the Middle East will end sooner rather than later," stressing what he considered "Israel's right to defend itself against the thousands of missiles that fall on it."