United States Vice President Joe Biden, currently in Israel on an official visit, played on the Jewish state’s rapidly increasing diplomatic isolation to pressure Israeli leaders to move swiftly in expelling Jewish residents from their homes in Judea and Samaria ahead of what America hopes will be an Israeli surrender of these lands to the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority. “There is an international attempt to isolate Israel right now and sometimes we’re our own worst enemy by playing into the hands of those who wish to do that.”