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US Vice President Joe Biden''s car arriving at residence of Israel President Shimon Peres, Biden getting out, being greeted by Peres, zoom in2. Cutaway of US and Israeli flags3. Zoom in to Biden and Peres shaking hands, pan...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eJerusalem\u003cbr/\u003e1. US Vice President Joe Biden''s car arriving at residence of Israel President Shimon Peres, Biden getting out, being greeted by Peres, zoom in\u003cbr/\u003e2. Cutaway of US and Israeli flags\u003cbr/\u003e3. Zoom in to Biden and Peres shaking hands, pan as they walk away\u003cbr/\u003e4. Biden and Peres in meeting \u003cbr/\u003eJerusalem\u003cbr/\u003e5. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US Vice President Joe Biden arriving at news conference\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE (English) Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I very much appreciate the efforts of President Obama (US President Barack Obama) and the American government to lead the international community to place tough sanctions on Iran. The stronger those sanctions are, the more likely it will be that the Iranian regime will have to choose between advancing its nuclear programme and advancing the future of its own permanence.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE (English) Joe Biden, US Vice President:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Progress occurs in the Middle East when everyone knows there is simply no space between the United States and Israel. There is no space between the United States and Israel when it comes to Israel''s security, and for that reason and many others, addressing Iran''s nuclear programme has been one of our administration''s priorities. We''re determined. We''re determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and we''re working with many countries around the world to convince Tehran to meet its international obligations and cease and desist.\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. Biden and Netanyahu shaking hands\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE (English) Joe Biden, US Vice President:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I''m very pleased that you and the Palestinian leadership have agreed to launch indirect talks. We hope that these talks will lead, and they must lead, eventually to negotiations or direct discussions between the parties. The goal is obviously to resolve the final status issues and to achieve a two state solution, with Israel and Palestine living side by side.\"\u003cbr/\u003e10. Biden and Netanyahu in news conference\u003cbr/\u003eRamallah, West Bank\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE (English) Saeb Erekat, senior Palestinian negotiator:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We agreed that Mr. Mitchell (US envoy George Mitchell) would come back on the 16th to continue with deliberations and discussions on the structure, concept, the sequencing, the framing of these negotiations, so I really cannot understand how can an American official say the negotiations began, because they did not. It was agreed that Mr. Mitchell would come back. Of course, we said, we will give him a ''yes'' answer. We heard that they have given him a ''yes'' answer to his proximity talks but yet we have to agree on the structure, the mechanisms, the sequencing, the framing, the timelines and all these issues which hasn''t been agreed yet. That is why he''s coming back on the 16th, in order to finalise these issues. So, with all transparency, the proximity talks did not begin yet.\" \u003cbr/\u003e12. Erekat walking to car, getting in\u003cbr/\u003eUS Vice President Joe Biden opened his first day of talks in Jerusalem on Tuesday morning, meeting Israeli President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.\u003cbr/\u003eHe said he was pleased that Israelis and Palestinians had agreed this week to resume indirect peace negotiations with US mediation. \u003cbr/\u003eThe announcement of indirect talks broke a 14-month deadlock and marked US President Barack Obama''s first diplomatic breakthrough in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. \u003cbr/\u003eBiden''s trip was the highest-level visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories by an Obama administration official.\u003cbr/\u003e\"We hope that these talks will lead, and they must lead, eventually to negotiations or direct discussions between the parties,\" Biden told reporters at a joint news conference with Netanyahu. \u003cbr/\u003eHe said he hoped the beginning of indirect talks would be a way of dispelling \"mistrust\" between the two sides. \u003cbr/\u003eBut the new peace push is likely to face enormous challenges, including sharp divisions among the Palestinians and a hardline Israeli government that is seen as unlikely to make wide-ranging concessions.\u003cbr/\u003eBiden offered assurances that the US remained committed to Israel''s well-being, saying there was \"absolutely no space between the United States and Israel when it comes to Israel''s security.\" \u003cbr/\u003eIran appeared to loom large in Biden''s discussions with Netanyahu, and in the joint appearance with the Israeli leader Biden said: \"We are determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.\"\u003cbr/\u003eIsrael has been pushing for stricter international sanctions targeting Iran''s nuclear programme, and has refused to rule out a military strike if sanctions fail.\u003cbr/\u003eIn the West Bank town of Ramallah on Tuesday, Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat insisted it was wrong to talk about the negotiations as if they had already begun, and said there were still points that needed to be clarified. \u003cbr/\u003eHe said talks could start this month, once \"sequencing, structures and a timeline\" had been agreed and that a meeting was scheduled with US envoy George Mitchell on 16 March.\u003cbr/\u003eObama began his term with a push for Mideast peace, prodding Israel to freeze its construction of West Bank settlements that swallow up land the Palestinians want for a future state. \u003cbr/\u003eBut that call came just as Netanyahu took over in Israel, and though the Israeli leader scaled back settlement construction, he would not accept a full freeze.\u003cbr/\u003eOn Monday, Israel enraged Palestinians by announcing new West Bank settlement construction, authorising the construction of 112 new housing units.\u003cbr/\u003eObama''s insistence on a total settlement freeze is seen by many in the region to have backfired by encouraging Palestinians to stake out a position that was politically 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