Obama-Israel

Over the past three days, two op-eds have appeared in two of America’s largest and most respected newspapers calling for Obama to speak with the Israelis and to show even-handedness when dealing with the Middle East.

On 7/30/09, the Washington Post published an op-ed, “Tough on Israel” which calls on Preseident Barak Obama to “to show both sides that they can trust him — and he must be tough on more than one country.”

In the New York Time’s op-ed, “Why Won’t Obama Talk to Israel?” (07/27/09) Aluf Benn offers the voice of the Israeli public to the American mainstream, “If Israel is part of the problem, it’s also part of the solution. Yet so far, neither the president nor any senior administration official has given a speech or an interview aimed at an Israeli audience, beyond brief statements made at diplomatic photo ops…The Arabs got the Cairo speech; we got silence.”

Benn goes on to say, “Mr. Obama’s quest for diplomacy has appeared to Israelis as dangerous American naïveté.  The president offered a hand to the Iranians, and got nothing, merely giving them more time to advance their nuclear program. In Israeli eyes, he was humiliated by North Korea’s nuclear and missile tests. And he failed to move Arab governments to take steps to normalize relations with Israel.”

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