With Israel desperately seeking friends in a largely hostile Obama White House, Ben Smith wonders whether Vice President Joe Biden could be the friend for whom we are looking. Biden’s instinctive embrace of Israel at a moment it was under fire from the international community

was the most vivid example yet of Biden’s emergence as the West Wing’s most prominent public supporter of the Jewish state

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Is Biden an effective advocate for Israel or is his job just to feel the pain?