{"id":9074,"date":"2015-04-25T17:18:34","date_gmt":"2015-04-25T17:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9074"},"modified":"2015-04-25T17:18:34","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T17:18:34","slug":"biden-u-s-israel-love-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9074","title":{"rendered":"Biden: U.S., Israel &#039;love each other&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Vice President Joe Biden wants to set the record straight.<\/p>\n<p>The United States and Israel are like &#8220;family.&#8221; The nations argue with each other, he said, but when the chips are down they &#8220;protect each other.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/04\/joe-biden-israel-relationship-117313.html?hp=b1_r2<\/p>\n<p>The vice president sought to tamp down the heated rhetoric of recent months over differences between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. His remarks came at a ceremony marking the 67th anniversary of Israel&#8217;s independence.<\/p>\n<p>Has the U.S.-Israel partnership been spat free over those six-plus decades? Hardly. Indeed, the differences pre-date the Obama administration. President Carter had difficulty negotiating the Israeli-Egypt peace agreement when he visited played host in 1978\u00a0to Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat at Camp David. Carter&#8217;s nemesis was Begin. But the deal got done.<\/p>\n<p>Israelis know that the United States stands with them in critical moments. They know their principal ally will not forsake them when they face a direct threat from the neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes we drive each other crazy, but we love each other \u2014 and we protect each other,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t that enough?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Joe Biden wants to set the record straight. The United States and Israel are like &#8220;family.&#8221; The nations argue with each other, he said, but when the chips are down they &#8220;protect each other.&#8221; http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/04\/joe-biden-israel-relationship-117313.html?hp=b1_r2 The vice president sought to tamp down the heated rhetoric of recent months over differences between President Obama &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9074\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biden: U.S., Israel &#039;love each other&#039;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[415,540,592,813,2369,2491,2505,3000,3052],"class_list":["post-9074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-anwar-sadat","tag-barack-obama","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-camp-david","tag-israel","tag-jimmy-carter","tag-joe-biden","tag-menachem-begin","tag-middle-east-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}