Obama Chooses Vice President

Barak Obama announced his Vice Presidential candidate overnight. Senator Joe Biden has been in the senate for 35 years and is a big supporter of Israel. Some have reservations about how he would act toward Israel, however. This commentary came from Ha’aretz:

Biden is a firm supporter of Israel, but the way he sees the U.S.’s role in the Middle East doesn’t necessarily reflect Jerusalem’s ideal of the ideal “American partner.”

When it comes to the Iranian threat, it is not clear that the Obama-Biden combo will raise smiles in Jerusalem. Biden’s past remarks have sparked criticism and have been described as “inconsistent.” Biden has said more than once that he does not think that isolating Iran is the most efficient way to combat the Islamic republic’s nuclear ambitions, and he has even urged sensitivity to Iran’s needs. He met with a senior Iranian official in Davos, which led his detractors to say that he was willing to negotiate with an extremist regime that supports terrorism. On the other hand, Biden has proclaimed that a nuclear Iran was “unacceptable.”