President's Visit to Israel Highly Successful

nochain wrote:He should have gone over sooner but better late than never. It seems he made a good impression and I like the Israeli apology to Turkey result. Any decompression of tension over in the Mideast is welcome. He still has a ways to go before he convinces the general Israeli population but it appears he made a start.

"A poll published last week by the Israeli newspaper Maariv offered a glimpse of the perceptions of Obama among Israelis. Only 10 percent of those surveyed said they liked him. A third said he supported Israel, 38 percent said he was hostile and 14 percent said he was indifferent.

A poll published Tuesday in the Jerusalem Post showed that 36 percent of those surveyed considered the Obama administration more pro-Palestinian than pro-Israeli. Twenty-six percent thought the opposite was true, and 26 percent viewed the administration as neutral."

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-03-20/world/37862833_1_israeli-defense-minister-obama-souvenirs-president-obama

ZVUGKTUBM wrote:

nochain wrote:Ha

Agreed. I never voted for Bill Clinton, but I greatly admired his initiatives to make the Israelis and Palestinians come to terms with their differences. This photograph says it all:



The Bush administration had no interest in fostering Middle East peace, as they had intentions for war in that region from day 1. Let's hope Obama can make up for the ground that was lost from 2001-2009.

ZVUGKTUBM wrote:

nochain wrote:He should have gone over sooner but better late than never. It seems he made a good impression and I like the Israeli apology to Turkey result. Any decompression of tension over in the Mideast is welcome. He still has a ways to go before he convinces the general Israeli population but it appears he made a start.

"A poll published last week by the Israeli newspaper Maariv offered a glimpse of the perceptions of Obama among Israelis. Only 10 percent of those surveyed said they liked him. A third said he supported Israel, 38 percent said he was hostile and 14 percent said he was indifferent.

A poll published Tuesday in the Jerusalem Post showed that 36 percent of those surveyed considered the Obama administration more pro-Palestinian than pro-Israeli. Twenty-six percent thought the opposite was true, and 26 percent viewed the administration as neutral."

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-03-20/world/37862833_1_israeli-defense-minister-obama-souvenirs-president-obama

Agreed. I never voted for Bill Clinton, but I greatly admired his initiatives to make the Israelis and Palestinians come to terms with their differences. This photograph says it all:



The Bush administration had no interest in fostering Middle East peace, as they had intentions for war in that region from day 1. Let's hope Obama can make up for the ground that was lost from 2001-2009.

ZVUGKTUBM wrote:How Obama won over the Israeli public

http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2013/03/25/how-obama-won-over-the-israeli-public/?hpt=hp_t3

“When [Netanyahu] had conflict with [President] Clinton” during the Israeli leader’s first term in the mid-1990s, “he paid a high political price because Clinton was beloved in Israel,” says Natan Sachs, a research fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Saban Center for Middle East Policy. Similarly, “the more Israelis trust [this] president, the less likely they are to support a rash Israeli decision on the military option [vis-à-vis Iran].”

It looks like Obama poured cold-water on the dogs of war while he was over there. Good job, Mr. President!