Biden's Comparison Of Obama With Truman On Israel May Be More Accurate Than He'd Like

No president since Harry Truman has done more for Israel’s security than Barack Obama.
Vice President Joe Biden, April 2012

If we take a closer look at Joe Biden's comparison of Obama to Truman based on the discovery of recent documents, there may indeed be a basis for comparison.

It is now being reported that the US State Department made threats in 1948 to prevent the establishment of Israel:

Video: Biden Favors, Opposes #Pollard Clemency--Whichever Gets Jewish Vote

In the middle of a meeting with 15 rabbis in Boca Raton, Fla., last week, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. took a punch meant for his boss.
Obama Turns to Biden to Reassure Jewish Voters, and Get Them to Contribute, Too, New York Times, September 30, 2011

And now we know how true that is!

At that meeting, Biden boasted that he personally blocked Obama's plan to grant Pollard clemency:

One of the rabbis asked why Jonathan Pollard, the Israeli spy convicted in 1986, was still in prison. Mr. Biden, on a mission to shore up support for President Obama, replied forcefully, according to several people at the meeting.

“President Obama was considering clemency, but I told him, ‘Over my dead body are we going to let him out before his time,’ ” Mr. Biden said. “If it were up to me, he would stay in jail for life.”

Now it turns out that back during the 2008 campaign, while bragging what a good friend he is of Israel, Biden said that though he opposed a pardon--"there is a rationale in my view why Pollard should be granted leniency (1:20):