The US and Israel have a "bone-deep" relation says bone-headed Joe. "You don't have to be a Jew to be a Zionist," he adds. No, but to support Zionism as practised by the Israeli State since 1948 you have to be a bigot and a racist. There will be a Palestinian State, sometime in the next thousand years or so. What we return to always is the atrocious fact of genocidal removal of long-established populations as settlers follow their vision of election or progress or sturdy individualism or whatever sanitizing name is attributed to slaughter, oppression, expropriation and exploitation. American delusions of grandeur rule the world and in the case of Israel-Palestine condemn the Palestinian people to a life of at least indignity and at worst utter dehumanisation. Biden can see, of course, as can anyone, that a US in which full citizenship was confined to Christians couldn't be a democracy, that it would be racist by implication. Yet when his thoughts switch to Israel, interests take over and reason is kicked into the gutter. Even John Kerry, as Sec of State made the point: theocracy can't be democracy. Why should there be an exclusively Jewish State? By any reasonable standard, it's an outrageous idea. Should there be Islamic States or atheist States? Freedom of belief is absolute but religion and politics are different realms. Politically, there is no argument, except brutality, against people being able to control their own lives. Why not a democratic Israel-Palestine? Well, because we might get another 2006 when Hamas won an election they weren't supposed to. Voting is okay so long as the rich and powerful get the result they want. Truly dismal that the best liberal opinion in the US can produce is a man who gives credence to a vicious regime which brooks no criticism and accuses anyone who whispers against it of Nazism. And all for oil and power.