The White House has also been frustrated with repeated Iran-sponsored attacks on U.S. He maintained that a two-state solution is the best way to ensure a вЂњfuture of equal measure of freedom, prosperity and democracy for Israelis and Palestinians alike.вЂќ His national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, said Biden would not offer any proposals during the trip aimed at restarting talks. HeвЂ™ll meet Friday Friday with Palestinian officials.Д«iden said he will emphasize in talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders his continued support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but acknowledged that outcome likely wouldnвЂ™t be feasible вЂњin the near term.вЂќ вЂњDid you see the president hug me?вЂќ she asked вЂњHe asked permission to kiss me and he kept on holding my hand and we were told not to touch him.вЂќД«iden is set to meet Thursday with Israeli officials, including Lapid, Herzog and opposition leader and former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. She later was adopted by a childless Jewish couple after she arrived in the United States in 1946. Quint, who was born in Poland, said she was reunited with her father in a male slave labor factory, where she pretended to be a boy. One of the survivors, Rena Quint, 86, later said she told Biden how her mother and brothers were killed in a death camp. вЂњMy mother would say вЂ™God love you, dear,вЂ™вЂќ Biden told the women. His eyes welled with tears as he chatted with them. He then greeted two Holocaust survivors, kissing the women on their cheeks. Two Marines placed a wreath on the stone crypt containing the ashes of Holocaust victims and Biden listened as a cantor recited the remembrance prayer. The president later visited the Yad Vashem memorial to Holocaust victims in Jerusalem.Д«iden, wearing a skullcap, was invited to rekindle the eternal flame in the memorialвЂ™s Hall of Remembrance. Soon after he arrived, Biden was briefed on the countryвЂ™s вЂњIron DomeвЂќ and new вЂњIron BeamвЂќ missile defense systems.

Israelis seemed determined to underscore the imminent threat from Iran.

president of the вЂњsecurity challenges emanating directly from Iran and its proxies, threatening Israel and its neighbors and endangering our region.вЂќ ThatвЂ™s left the Biden administration increasingly pessimistic about resurrecting the deal, which placed significant restrictions on IranвЂ™s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief.ДЄt the airport, Israeli President Isaac Herzog thanked Biden for championing Israel during his more than 50 years in public office. to reenter the deal have stalled as Iran has made rapid gains in developing its nuclear program. вЂњThere are those who thought with the last administration we sort of walked away from the Middle East, that we were going to create a vacuum that China and or Russia would fill, and we canвЂ™t let that happen,вЂќ he said.Д«ut indirect talks for the U.S. Biden said Trump made a вЂњgigantic mistakeвЂќ by withdrawing the U.S.

вЂњYou said to me, вЂIf only I had hair like yours, I would be presidentвЂ™ to which I answered, вЂAnd if only I had your height, I would be Prime Minister,вЂќ Lapid said.Д«iden made reviving the Iran nuclear deal, brokered by Barack Obama in 2015 and abandoned by Donald Trump in 2018, a key priority as he entered office. Biden was vice president and Lapid was finance minister. Lapid reminded Biden of when they first met roughly eight years earlier.

The president was greeted by Lapid, the caretaker prime minister who is hoping to hang on to power when Israelis hold their fifth election in three years this fall. Iran insists its program is for peaceful purposes, though United Nations experts and Western intelligence agencies say Iran had an organized military nuclear program through 2003.Д«idenвЂ™s visit to Israel follows the collapse of a coalition-led government headed by Naftali Bennett. Iran announced last week that it has enriched uranium to 60% purity, a technical step away from weapons-grade quality. Sanctions on the IRGC, which has carried out regional attacks, have been a sticking point in negotiations to bring Iran back into compliance with the agreement meant to keep it from having a nuclear weapon. list of terrorist organizations, even if that kept Iran from rejoining the Iran nuclear deal. вЂњWe will discuss the need to renew a strong global coalition that will stop the Iranian nuclear program,вЂќ said Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid, as he greeted the Democratic president at the airport ceremony in Tel Aviv.Д«iden said he would not remove IranвЂ™s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from the U.S. Israeli leaders made clear as they marked BidenвЂ™s arrival that IranвЂ™s nuclear program was the top item on their agenda.

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