Joe the gardener.

 "Israel blindsided Vice President Joe Biden''s fence-mending mission Tuesday by announcing a settler building boom in East Jerusalem.

The move to expand an Orthodox Jewish settlement by 1,600 units embarrassed Biden, who was trying to jump-start "indirect" talks with the Palestinians.

Biden showed his anger by arriving 90 minutes late for dinner at the residence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

"I condemn the decision" by Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai to build in the area of the West Bank annexed to Jerusalem by Israel, Biden said in an unusually undiplomatic statement.

He called the announcement "precisely the kind of step that undermines the trust we need right now and runs counter to the constructive discussions that I've had here in Israel.""  NY Daily News

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Joe! Joe!  If you kiss their butts and say that they are we and we are they, then you have to expect to be treated like the servant that you are.   Just today you snuggled up to them and told the world that there is no "space between Israel and the US."  They took you at your word, that's all.  You got what you asked for.  pl

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/03/09/2010-03-09_blindsided_biden_lashes_out_at_israel_on_settlement_boom.html