Biden: You don't have to be Jewish to be a Zionist

US President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that you do not have to be Jewish to be a Zionist, in a new affirmation of his absolute support for Israel.

For his part, Israeli President Isaac Herzog told Biden, who received him at the White House today, "You are definitely a Zionist and I thank you for being a special friend of Israel." Herzog noted that he had a meeting that he described as constructive with the American president.

"There is a great commitment and effort to move forward. I sincerely hope that we will see certain results in the foreseeable future, in the next few days, in some of these efforts," Herzog told reporters after the meeting.

This is not the first time Biden has repeated the phrase "You don't have to be Jewish to be a Zionist," as he repeated it in mid-July in an attempt to attract Jewish voters in the United States before announcing his withdrawal from the presidential race in favor of Kamala Harris.

During Biden's term, which ends next January, Israel has received unlimited support in light of the ongoing war of extermination it is waging on the Gaza Strip and later including Lebanon.