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Biden's Choice for Secretary of State Called Reassuring for Israel


(Ha'aretz) Allison Kaplan Sommer - Dore Gold, who served as an adviser and director general of Israel's Foreign Ministry under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and previously advised premier Ariel Sharon, recalled that in 2016 he led a delegation to Washington for talks with Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Joe Biden's choice for Secretary of State. Despite the fact that Blinken served at the time in an administration that had forceful disagreements with Israel, Gold says he found Blinken "to be open, not confrontational or ideological in any way, but someone who would get work done. So when I heard he could become Biden's secretary of state, I personally found it - as an Israeli - reassuring."
2020-11-26 00:00:00
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