I'VE GOT TO GIVE VP BIDEN SOME CREDIT

At least he isn't afraid to tell the Israelis what OUR interests are.

Joe Biden delivers 'hardest truth' in Israel
By LAURA ROZEN | 3/12/10 4:48 AM EST
POLITICO

But the Israeli press reported that in his private sessions, Biden was nothing if not blunt.

“People who heard what Biden said [to Israeli officials behind closed doors] were stunned,” the centrist Israeli daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported. “‘This is starting to get dangerous for us,’ Biden castigated his interlocutors. ‘What you’re doing here undermines the security of our troops who are fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. That endangers us, and it endangers regional peace.’”