The President-elect of the United States attended a conference in Atlanta in 2012, where he referred to the nuclear agreement with Iran, and asked for a minute of silence in memory of Ben-Zion Netanyahu, who died that year.
In a speech in 2012 in the state of Georgia to the Rabbinical Conference of the Traditional Movement, the President-elect of the United States, Joe Biden, spoke at length about the deep partnership of interests with Israel, American Jewry, the Iranian nuclear program, and also addressed the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: "Bibi, I do not agree with a word you say - but I love you."
During the speech, Biden asked for a minute of silence in memory of the Prime Minister's father, Ben Zion Netanyahu, who died that year.
Regarding the first time he was exposed to the Holocaust and the phrase Never again, the then vice president said: "From my father, a good Christian, I heard for the first time at dinner - a family focus for discussions - the phrase never again."
On Israel, he said: "American support for Israel's security is not just a social act or moral commitment, but a fundamental interest of the United States."