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March 19, 2010       Share:    

Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/Politics/vice-president-joe-biden-tells-abc-exclusive-passing/story?id=10139848

Biden: U.S. and Israel Need to "Get Over" Tensions

(ABC News) Karen Travers - Vice President Joe Biden told ABC News in an interview Thursday that the U.S. and Israel need to "get over" the latest flare-up in tensions and insisted, "Israel's security is undeniably in our interest to make sure it is absolutely secure." Biden called the Israeli announcement of new building in Jerusalem last week "provocative" and said it was "obviously designed by some in Israel to undermine a peace process George Mitchell, our negotiator, finally got back on track." Biden denied a report that he told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel's position on settlements puts U.S. troops at risk. "No, I never said that," the vice president said.

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