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Fast Forward 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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Fast Forward 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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Fast Forward 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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Fast Forward 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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Fast Forward 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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Fast Forward Reform Biennial Features Joe Biden and Michael Douglas
Vice President Joe Biden and Academy Award-winning actor Michael Douglas are scheduled to speak at the Reform movement’s biennial in Orlando, Florida. Biden will address the gathering of Reform Jewish leaders on Saturday, the Union for Reform Judaism announced in a news release Monday. Douglas, the winner of the 2015 Genesis Prize, known as the…
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Fast Forward Joe Biden Says No to 2016 White House Run
Vice President Joe Biden, perhaps the closest Obama administration official to the pro-Israel community, said he is not running for president. Biden appeared Wednesday with his wife, Jill, and President Barack Obama at the White House to deliver his announcement. Speculation has mounted for weeks that Biden, whose son Beau’s wish before dying in May…
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Fast Forward Barbara Boxer Urges Joe Biden To Give Up on White House Race
Senator Barbara Boxer is urging Vice President Joe Biden to stay out of the Democratic presidential race and instead support Hillary Clinton, Politico reported on Thursday. After months of deliberating on the issue, Biden is expected to announce this month if he will seek the nomination, as he did in 2008 and 1988, and a…
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