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On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Owens, Missy <[email protected]> wrote:

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> *Subject*: Fw: VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN TRIP TO ISRAEL POOL REPORT #2 MARCH 9,
> 2010
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> *Subject*: VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN TRIP TO ISRAEL POOL REPORT #2 MARCH 9,
> 2010
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> ``Vice President Biden, Joe, welcome to Israel and welcome to
> Jerusalem,’’ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday after
> meeting Biden at the prime minister’s official residence in Jerusalem.
> ``We’ve been personal friends for almost three decades. Can you believe
> it’s been that long?’’ Netanyahu said as the two stood beneath a canopy in a
> garden area outside the residence.
> ``You’re getting older Bibi,’’ Biden said.
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> Netanyahu, after their roughly two-hour meeting, thanked Biden for his
> friendship and thanked the U.S. for helping Israel sustain its qualitative
> military edge, including the ``battles against the infamous Goldstone
> report.’’
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> ``The bonds are unbreakable,’’ Netanyahu said.
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> ``I think this unbreakable bond will help our two countries face the two
> historic challenges that we face today in the Middle East,’’ Netanyahu said,
> citing preventing an Iranian nuclear weapon and securing comprehensive
> Arab-Israeli peace.
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> Netanyahu urged countries to join in the U.S. sanctions push on Iran.
> ``I think that the international community and the leading countries of the
> international community have to join the American effort and Israel has been
> helping out with key countries and will continue to do so,'' Netanyahu said.
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> Biden called his friendship with Netanyahu ``real’’ and recalled times when
> they were each in the minority when he would ``get a phone call at home’’
> from Netanyahu.
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> Biden called the proximity talks with the Palestinians ``a start.’’
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> ``The United States will always stand with those who take risks for
> peace,’’ Biden said reading from prepared remarks.
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> At the end of the statements, during which neither took questions from the
> press, Netanyahu tried to present Biden with a framed document showing that
> Israel, in the ``Forest of the Leaders of the Nations’’ had planted a grove
> of trees in Biden’s mother’s memory, ``because you have said many times that
> she was a source of immeasurable strength, which I recognize in you Joe.’’ The
> glass of the frame was somehow broken. Netanyahu pushed away the glass with
> his hand, took the document out, signed it and presented it to Biden.
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