his, wrote Sima Kadmon, under the headline: Shalom, Friend.

his, wrote Sima Kadmon, under the headline: Shalom, Friend. ds708 His speech was aimed directly at our nerve center, at our strongest existential fears. Obama promised us that the United States would not accept nuclear weapons; it simply would not permit their existence .It was a good speech for us, even an excellent one. We heard in it everything we wanted to hearand read that we have someone to rely upon.
The press reaction increased the odds that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu s Monday morning White House meeting with Obama will produce comity. Obama s remarks to the Israel lobby included passages that could have been seized on for argument and contention. (Recall that a year ago, Netanyahu created a huge flap by lambasting Obama s call for basing an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement on autel maxidiag md801 1967 borders while ignoring the president s crucial parenthetical, with agreed-upon swaps. ) This time, the signal from Netanyahu s camp was positive, especially over Obama s reference to Israel s soverign right to go it alone against Iran, if it feels it must, even though the American president also made clear that he d much prefer it did not.
The left wing Haaretz made that its play headline: PM welcomes Obama s recognition of Israel s right to defend itself, by itself.
I appreciate all these statements and expect to discuss them [on Monday] with President Obama, Netanyahu said in Canada on Sunday, where he was meeting with prime minister Stephen Harper, an ardent supporter of the Jewish State who, like Obama, signaled his preference for a peaceful solution to the Iranian challenge.
Karl Vick has been TIME's Jerusalem bureau chief since 2010, covering Israel,the Palestine territories and nearby sovereignties. He worked 16 years at the Washington Post in Nairobi, Istanbul, Baghdad, Los Angeles and Rockville, MD.
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