The End of the Special Relationship?
Every American president since Harry Truman, the first world leader to recognize Israel in 1948, has embodied in varying degrees either an emotional or a coldly realist commitment to the US-Israeli relationship. The suspicion among many Israelis today is that Barack Obama embodies neither.
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TEL AVIV – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent visit to Washington highlighted fundamental disagreements between Israel’s current government and President Barack Obama’s administration. Netanyahu persists in questioning Obama’s infatuation with the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and he refuses to see the link that Obama believes exists between an Israeli-Palestinian peace and his capacity to curtail Iran’s nuclear ambitions.