John Kerry has an emotional connection to Israel, and will “cut Israel slack” should he be elected president, a close Senate friend said. “There is also an emotional component to this,” Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) told a Council on Foreign Relations meeting in New York on Monday. “It’s sort of part of the psyche, and it’s real.”
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