For the first time a new prime minister's visit to the US doesn't look like fun. Back in Israel everyone is worried. The new US president is different from his predecessors. Obama believes that the image of the US has been greatly harmed by the pro- Israel bias of US foreign policy. Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
This is an optimistic analysis that unfortunately lacks the hard evidence to support many of the claims made. Conclusions about the sentiment in Israel are made without any polling data, for example.
Netanyahu’s position is that Iran’s nuclear programme is a threat to Israel’s security, indeed, to its very existence. And although the Israeli prime minister is willing to concede self- government to the Palestinians he opposes the two-state solution. His is the standard Likud view, that all of Palestine belongs to the Jews and the Jews alone, and that any different people who may happen to reside there are entitled to self-rule but not independence.
