Why does Vice President Biden talk about the interests of "the Israeli people"? In the context of the modern political and legal doctrine of the self-determination of Peoples, the primary rule is that of self-identification. According to its own self-identification, Israel is the expression of the self-determination of the age-old Jewish People. Why is it so hard for the Obama administration to accept that Israel is the Jewish State? And, why does the Obama administration try to obscure the circumstance that the more than 3000 year old Jewish People --- of all extant Peoples--- has the strongest claim to be aboriginal to Israel? In order to respect the rights of a newly-minted Palestinian People ---which did not much self-identify as such until well after 1950--- there is no need to denigrate history, rights and dignity of the Jewish People. It is no business of the USA government to tell Jews who they are. Jews everywhere are entitled to make their own self-determinations. For this reason, Israel is the national home of the Jewish People, in the very same way that Greece is the national home of the Greek People. No good will come from USA interference in Israeli affairs, just as no good came from Chamberlain's 1938 interference in the affairs of Czechoslovakia.

What has Obama done for Israel' security that supports Biden's statement that there was (and presumably is) "absolutely no space between Israel and the United States where Israel's security is concerned?"