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Biden: U.S.-Israel Ties "Unbreakable"
(JTA) Vice President Joe Biden called the U.S.-Israel bond "unbreakable" in a speech to the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America on Sunday in New Orleans. "This administration represents an unbroken chain in American leaders who have understood this critical relationship," he said. Biden said his love of Israel dated back to 1973 when he took his first trip to Israel as a U.S. senator from Delaware, where he had an hour-long meeting with Prime Minister Golda Meir. Meir, he said, told him, "We Israelis have a secret weapon....We have nowhere else to go." "All these years later I feel both alarm and solace at those words," he said. "I feel that our support for Israel must continue on always and forever." Biden assured the group that U.S.-Israeli "disagreements when they have existed have only been tactical in nature. They have never been fundamental."