Joe Biden is the president-elect of the United States
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Breaking News Joe Biden Tells J Street That Benjamin Netanyahu’s ‘Damaging Moves’ Block Peace
Joe Biden and John Kerry said the Obama administration remained committed to advancing a two-state solution and criticized Israel and the Palestinians for obstructing its path. Biden, the vice president, and Kerry, the secretary of state, addressed J Street’s annual gala and lavished praise on the liberal Jewish Middle East policy group for embracing the…
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Breaking News Joe Biden Will Speak at J Street as Speculation on New Peace Push Grows
Vice President Joe Biden will address J Street, the liberal Jewish Middle East policy group. The April 18 event comes a month after Biden, the Obama administration senior figure closest to the pro-Israel community, addressed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a center-right group often at odds with J Street. It also comes as speculation…
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Breaking News Joe Biden Goes To Bat — Big Time — for Judge Merrick Garland
WASHINGTON – Joe Biden on Thursday ramped up White House efforts to get a Senate confirmation hearing for Supreme Court selection Merrick Garland, as the vice president offered the most vigorous defense yet of his 1992 comments that senators should not consider a nominee in a presidential election year. Senate Republicans have used Biden’s 1992…
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Breaking News VIDEO: Joe Biden at AIPAC Scolds Israel for Expanding Settlements
WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden called on Israel’s government on Sunday to demonstrate its commitment to a two-state solution to end the conflict with the Palestinians and said settlement expansion is weakening prospects for peace. “Israel’s government’s steady and systematic process of expanding settlements, legalizing outposts, seizing land, is eroding in my view the…
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Breaking News Joe Biden Talks ISIS, Syria and Iran With Bibi
Vice President Joe Biden discussed Iran, the threat from Islamic State militants and the crisis in Syria in a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Wednesday, the White House said in a statement. Biden also discussed with Netanyahu ongoing violence and tensions between Israelis and Palestinians, the statement said. The meeting…
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Breaking News Joe Biden’s Wife and Grandchildren Narrowly Escape Tel Aviv Terror
Vice President Joe Biden said on Wednesday his wife Jill and their grandchildren were dining on a Tel Aviv beach when a Palestinian killed an American tourist with a knife and wounded 11 other people on the seafront “not very far” away. Since October, Palestinian stabbings, shootings and car rammings have killed 28 Israelis and…
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Breaking News Joe Biden Plans Visit to Israel — Bibi Readies Red Carpet
Vice President Joe Biden is “considering coming to Israel in the coming days,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. A date for the visit has yet to be determined, Netanyahu said Sunday at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting. “But it is clear that Vice President Biden is a welcome guest in Israel anytime…
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Breaking News Joe Biden Wins Reform Cheers for Israel Support — Slams ‘Derogatory’ Bibi Aide
Thousands of Reform Jews cheered Vice President Joe Biden’s criticism of Israeli settlements, but were even more boisterous in applauding his pledge to fight the delegitimization of Israel and to stop Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. In a keynote address to 5,000 people at the 2015 Biennial of the Union for Reform Judaism, Biden…
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