Israel's Obama-Anxiety is Subsiding
Steven J. Rosen, Foreign Policy | February 19, 2010
Israelis had been riddled with anxiety since Obama took office. ++ Obama is believed to be naïve about Middle East policy and is seen as being too much of a leftist. ++ Over the past year evidence has emerged to disprove that assumption- Obama has increased the US military budget, has come to terms with some Israeli settlements, and is refusing to deal with Hamas. ++ Obama is trying to portray himself as more of a centrist.++ “The anxiety in Israel is subsiding, and people are taking a more positive view him than they did a year ago.”
Fri, Feb 19th 2010, 20:37
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Such reactionary policies works againts the interests of all countries in the region desiring rigtfully to live in a peaceful geography. It needs to be undertood clearly that such approaches to present conflicts may have no chance of success in the long term.
In the article it is implied that the Israelites have been looking for peace overseas whereas the possibilities of peaceful co-existence obviously exists only in the Middle East and nowhere else...
Thanks,
Mustafa