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Breaking down the Biden speech

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is joined by his wife, Jill, as he lays a wreath at the tomb of Theodor Herzl in Jerusalem, March 9, 2010. (The Jewish Agency for Israel)

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's attempt to reassure Israel of American steadfastness survived a steadfast Middle East tradition of self-sabotage. Read more »

Biden speech: The reaction

Reactions to Vice President Joe Biden's remarks Thursday at Tel Aviv University and his overall trip to Israel Breaking News Ten illegal aliens who worked at the former Agriprocessors kosher slaughterhouse will be deported by the end of the month. Brandeis University's Muslim chaplain issued an appeal for the return of his Koran days after his campus office was vandalized. A Swedish court ruled that the man accused of organizing the theft of the "Arbeit Macht Frei sign from the front gate of Auschwitz can be extradited to Poland. The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum welcomed its 30 millionth visitor this week. A British journalist held in Gaza for nearly a month was released. A civil trial in the death of American activist Rachel Corrie by an Israeli military bulldozer opened in Haifa. Germany will nearly double its funding for home health care to aging Holocaust survivors. The European Parliament passed a resolution that said European Union states should "demand the implementation of the Goldstone report's recommendations." Palestinians will not enter into indirect peace talks with Israel until approval to build 1,600 homes in an eastern Jerusalem neighborhood is rescinded. The Palestinian Authority canceled a ceremony to honor a woman who led the 1978 hijacking of a bus in which 35 Israelis were killed. A Kassam rocket fired from Gaza landed in the western Negev, causing damage to a building. Israel's Civil Administration, accompanied by Israeli troops, destroyed six new building foundations in Jerusalem's Etzion bloc.