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Cooking Culinary Adventure: inspired by Halifax's Seaport Market | SaltWire #cooking #cookingshortsWASHINGTON - When Joe Biden met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his war cabinet during his visit to Israel, the U.S. president assured them:"I don't believe you have to be a Jew to be a Zionist, and I am a Zionist."
"Biden's connection to Israel is deeply engrained in his political DNA," said Aaron David Miller, a former Middle East negotiator who served six secretaries of state in both Democratic and Republican administrations."Whether he likes it or not, he's in the midst of a crisis he'll have to manage." Biden's alignment with the right-wing leader risks alienating some progressives in his Democratic Party as he seeks re-election in 2024, with a growing international outcry against Israel's tactics also casting some blame on the U.S.
His career was marked by deep engagement with the Israeli-Arab conflict, including an oft-retold encounter with Prime Minister Golda Meir who told the young lawmaker in 1973 on the cusp of the Yom Kippur War that Israel's secret weapon was"we have no place else to go." Republican U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, in an interview with Reuters, expressed confidence that the"arc of time" in Biden and Netanyahu's relationship would enable them to work together.