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Biden: U.S. Condemns International Failure to Denounce Palestinian Terror Attacks
(Jerusalem Post) Tovah Lazaroff - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday denounced those in the international community and in the Palestinian Authority who have failed to condemn Palestinian terror attacks against Israel. "The U.S. condemns these acts and condemns the failure to condemn these acts," Biden said at a joint press conference with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem. Biden noted that his wife and his grandchildren, who have joined him on this trip, were having dinner on the beach nearby when a Palestinian terrorist went on a stabbing spree in Jaffa. Such violence, he said, "cannot be accepted. This cannot be viewed by civilized leaders as an appropriate way to behave. It is just not tolerable in the 21st century. They are targeting innocent civilians, mothers, pregnant women, grandfathers, American citizens. There can be no justification for this violence and the U.S. stands firmly behind Israel's right to defend itself."