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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/13/world/middleeast/biden-israel-mideast-visit.html
U.S. President Biden Welcomed in Israel
(New York Times) Peter Baker - At a red-carpet airport ceremony on Wednesday, Isaac Herzog, Israel's president, called President Biden "our brother Joseph," declaring that "you are truly among family." Biden indicated he wanted to restore traditional Democratic support for Israel. In an interview with Israeli television, he rejected Democrats who have denounced Israel as an apartheid state. "There are a few of them," he told Channel 12 at the White House on Tuesday. "I think they're wrong. I think they're making a mistake. Israel is a democracy. Israel is our ally. Israel is a friend. And I think that I make no apologies." Asked if he would use force against Iran to stop it from obtaining a nuclear weapon, he answered, "If that was the last resort, yes." At Yad Vashem, Biden met with two Holocaust survivors, Rena Quint and Giselle Cycowicz, who were interned at concentration camps and, after the war, emigrated to the U.S. With the two women seated on chairs, Biden knelt to their level, spoke with them for several minutes, clasped their hands and kissed their cheeks.