mo4ch:>‘Best $3bn investment we make’: Biden quip about US-Israel ties sets Twitter on edge | Mo4ch News

An unearthed clip of Joe Biden explaining that if there was no Israel, the “US would have to invent an Israel to protect our interests” has been met with angry reactions on social media.The video, filmed in Congress in 1986 shows a then-senator Biden explaining how important Israel is to the US in fairly blunt and illuminating terms.The former vice president to Barack Obama and possible presidential candidate in 2020 starts by saying people should stop apologizing for their support for Israel. “There is no apology to be made, none,” he shouts. “It is the best $3 billion investment we make.”“Were there not an Israel, the US would have to invent an Israel to protect our interests in the region,” he continues.The US has long highlighted the importance of its relationship with Israel, the “only democracy in the Middle East,” but Biden’s explanation lays out just how strategic that connection is. Essentially, Biden is saying that the US uses Israel as a tool to wield influence in the Middl…