U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden on Tuesday laid a wreath at the tomb of Theodor Herzl. He is the first world leader to do so, based on new regulations issued by the Knesset Committee for Symbols and Ceremonies, which decided to include the site as one of the places foreign dignitaries will be taken to on visits to Israel. 
This year is the 150th anniversary of Herzl’s birth.
The Vice-President was accompanied by former MK Hagai Marom, acting chairman of the World Zionist Organization, and director for Mt. Herzl in the WZO, Yaakov Gispan. Marom gave Biden a copy of Herzl’s book Altneuland. In response, Biden said that one did not have to be Jewish to be a Zionist, and that he considered himself one.
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“You Don’t Have to be Jewish to be a Zionist” is a very true and correct statement…
Thank you Mr. Biden for adding credence to the argument that if one is anti-Zionist, they are not automatically an anti-Semite or anti-Jewish…..
Israel’s in-your-face chutzpah toward Biden has been the biggest diplomatic kerfuffle we’ve yet seen in the Obama administrTION:
Report: U.S. vows to halt Israeli building in East Jerusalem
In an interview with CNN aired Friday night, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Israel’s announcement of new construction of homes in a Jewish neighborhood in East Jerusalem was “insulting” to the United States.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArtVty.jhtml
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