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Obama Will Make His First Trip to Israel as President — and Here Are His 3 Main Goals

Mar. 11, 2013 6:55am Billy Hallowell

WASHINGTON (TheBlaze/AP) — Three goals will dominate President Barack Obama’s coming visit to Israel, his first as president: Convincing Israel and its leadership he means what he says about stopping Iran from building a nuclear weapon, mending a deeply-troubled relationship with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and, in return, enticing Israel back to negotiations with the Palestinians.

Some of the cosmic stars of diplomacy and Middle East reality are lining up to make the visit a success. Others are not. Whatever the outcome, the visit that will also take Obama to the West Bank and Jordan will mark a significant step by the president deeper into a problem that has bedeviled American leaders for decades. Managing expectations, therefore, is essential in the remaining two weeks before Obama sets off on his mission.

Obama Will Make His First Trip to Israel as President and Here Are His 3 Main Goals

FILE – In this March 5, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Though Obama said he wouldn’t be carrying a “grand peace plan” when he goes to Israel, the West Bank and Jordan later this month, three goals will dominate his visit: convincing Israeli leadership that he means what he says about stopping Iran from building a nuclear weapon, mending a troubled relationship with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and enticing Israel back to negotiations with the Palestinians. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Palestinian and Iranian issues dominated Obama’s remarks in a White House briefing with representatives of major U.S. Jewish organizations on Thursday. The president said it would be premature to take a grand peace plan, according to a person at the session who requested anonymity to detail the private remarks. The person said Obama planned to tell Israelis that just wanting peace was not enough, but would ask what hard steps are they were willing to take.

On Iran and attempts to sidetrack its nuclear program, Obama said Tehran must be left with sufficient face-saving room to accept a diplomatic solution. The president said he was not “going to do extra chest-beating in public” during the visit to Israel just to convince people he is tough, according to the person at the meeting. .

He left the talking on that issue earlier in the week to Vice President Joe Biden, who spoke the Washington gathering of American Israel Public Affairs Committee, America’s most powerful pro-Israel lobbying organization.

“The president of the United States cannot and does not bluff,” Biden told the group when he turned to U.S. vows to keep Iran from obtaining an atomic bomb. “President Barack Obama is not bluffing.”

In this March 4, 2013 file photo President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, where he told American Jewish leaders that he won’t be carrying a “grand peace plan” when he goes to Israel, the West Bank and Jordan later this month. Three goals that will dominate his visit are convincing Israeli leadership that he means what he says about stopping Iran from building a nuclear weapon, mending a troubled relationship with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and enticing Israel back to negotiations with the Palestinians. Credit: AP

Israel views a nuclear armed Iran as a threat to its existence, and Netanyahu has hinted at launching a pre-emptive military strike on the Islamic Republic to set back its nuclear program. Tehran has already enriched enough uranium to 20 percent purity for the country, should it decided to do so, to quickly move toward levels needed for a bomb.

Obama says he won’t let that happen, declaring that a U.S. military attack would be possible should negotiations with Iran fail. Netanyahu, however, needs reassuring. That showed in his words to the same AIPAC conference addressed by Biden.

“From the bottom of my heart and the clarity of my brain, words alone will not stop Iran,” the Israeli leader said, reinforcing his contention that negotiations with Tehran and damaging international sanctions may not stop Iran from becoming a nuclear power. The Iranians say they are only trying to refine sufficient uranium as fuel for power generation and medical research.

Netanyahu, thus, will want more public reassurances from Washington.

“Obama will have Netanyahu in his pocket if he truly manages to convince him that the United States will use military force if necessary,” said Jonathan Adelman, a professor and Israeli specialist at the University of Denver. “Then, Netanyahu will be comfortable saying: `You deal with the Iranians and we will give you serious negotiations with the Palestinians.’”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads the weekly cabinet meeting in his office on February 10, 2013 in Jerusalem, Israel. The topics of debate which Netanyahu will hold with US President Obama were addressed during the weekly meeting. Obama is due to visit March 20. Credit: Getty Images

Aaron David Miller, a scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center who was a Mideast negotiator under six secretaries of state in both Republican and Democratic administrations, said “Obama needs to have two kinds of conversations” during his visit.

In private, Miller said, the two leaders will have to find a way “to give one another the benefit of the doubt on both Iran and the peace process so they can figure out a way to manage each issue because there is no comprehensive solution.” The men have been “at cross purposes,” he said “because they couldn’t manage that uncertainty in the past.”

The two men got off to a terrible start. Netanyahu visited the president shortly after Obama took office in 2009 and publicly and bluntly rejected Obama’s insistence that Israel stop building Jewish settlements in the West Bank, land that the Palestinians view as the territory that will make up their future state. Obama subsequently dropped the issue, but it remains foremost in the minds of Palestinians, a pre-condition for a return to negotiations about creating a two-state solution — Israel and a Palestinian state living peacefully and side-by-side in a tiny swath of land over which so much blood has been shed.

For that reason, there looks to be little doubt that Obama and Netanyahu will emerge from their meetings, smiling and reassuring their constituencies that the bad blood of Obama’s first term is a thing of the past.

There have been hints, but only hints, that Netanyahu might be ready to again call a halt to expanding settlements — part of a potential deal that would leave those around Jerusalem in place in return for a land swap elsewhere. That’s a bitter pill for the Palestinians, but one they might swallow if the deal were sufficiently sweet. And the Israeli government quickly knocked down such reports on settlements.

U.S. President Barack Obama. Credit: Getty Images

Netanyahu is weakened at home after January elections in which his deeply conservative coalition was gravely damaged.

The prime minister has been unable in the ensuing weeks to pull together a new coalition and form a government despite a readiness to shed his former alignment with deeply conservative, ultra-Orthodox Jewish political powers.

Signaling a shift toward moderation, he has drawn former opposition leader Tzipi Livni into a future government, if it can be formed, to be justice minister and chief negotiator with the Palestinians. Livni’s party promises to push for the two-state solution with the Palestinians. But plenty of hardliners will remain in government.

The hope is that Obama reassurances on Iran will give a politically weakened Netanyahu the needed cover for a move back toward talks with the Palestinians, who are worried that Obama will do too little during his visit to pressure the Israeli leader on the need to resume negotiations.

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starman70
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 9:48am
Bibi, take everything he (Obama) says with a grain of salt. He is the grand master of obfuscation and double entrandre’ .

Remember the British believed Chamberlin prior to WWII and made Churchill leave parliment.

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 1:10pm
  Israel, the size of New Jersey, has its importance blown way out of proportion. It’s a two-bit, nothing, thug nation.
  
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- USACommoner
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 1:19pm
  Jerk, you hit the nail right on the head. NATION. They still have every RIGHT to defend themselves no matter what you or anyone else thinks of them.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 1:23pm
  USACommoner, without a world powers assistance. They’ve been sucking us dry since their inception. Siding with them back in 1948 as a foolish and costly move. Truman was warned. And, we’ve been paying ever since.
  
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- kaydeebeau
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 1:41pm
  Let me clarify what it would take in hard measures for the Palestinians, Iran Hamas, Hezbollah et al to accept peace talks – the annihilation of Israel. Israel has given up land, they have given up control they have done everything asked in past negotiations and what did the et al groups do? Lobbed rockets into Israel, scaled security to kill Israelis and refused to compormise anything. What the et al groups want is for there to be no State of Israel and no Jews left on the face of the earth.
  
  Anyone who doesn’t understand or believe that is delusional or lying
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 1:48pm
  Kaydeebeau, your conclusions are wrong because your history is inaccurate. Zionists have been the takers, from the beginning. An historical fact.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 1:51pm
  Kaydeebeau, you are a victim of propaganda. You are the desired Pavlovian response.
  
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- kaydeebeau
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 2:50pm
  Yeah well Navin, the same could be said about your anti-semite rants…
  
  but I will ask you this – what do you suppose New Jersey would do it New York, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermon, New Hampshire Maine and Maryland threatented annihilation and actually took measure in words and deeds to carry out that threat? What do you supposed New Jersey would do it they had 1000s of rockets lobbed into Cape May every month?
  
  I think it would be the civilized thing to do for the Ohio or Tennessee to offer assistance and the force of their state as a way to dissuade the aggressors from lobbing those rockets.
  
  But hey you keep up your propaganda – I’ll keep up “mine”
  
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- RobbieDolev
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 3:02pm
  Jerkface
  Please do me a favor: Get onto your CIC (and I don’t mean Commander) and ask, request, beg or even force him to stay away from here and to keep his piddling money while he’s doing so.
  We don’t need the US’s military, money or help. We DO need the US to stay out of the way when we need to take care of business in our own backyard.
  By the way, without Israel, you would be writing (not typing) your posts on paper and snail mailing it to the “Letters to the Editor” section.
  Wake up, Jerk, its time for you to go to sleep.
  
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- tzion
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 4:05pm
  @Jerk
  And exactly what did the US do to help Israel in 1948? At best all the US did was offer moral support and recognition of Israel’s entrance onto the world stage. A whole lot of good that did in fighting Egyptian tanks. Same can be said about nearly every war Israel has ever fought. Most of America’s actions involving Israel are to impede Israel’s war effort not assist it.
  
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- Armed Patriot
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 10:28am
  “Obama will have Netanyahu in his pocket if he truly manages to convince him that the United States will use military force if necessary,” said Jonathan Adelman, a professor and Israeli specialist at the University of Denver. “Then, Netanyahu will be comfortable saying: `You deal with the Iranians and we will give you serious negotiations with the Palestinians.’”
  
  These libs and academics, have NO IDEA, totally clueless. ““Then, Netanyahu will be comfortable saying: `You deal with the Iranians and we will give you serious negotiations with the Palestinians.’” Completely clueless and not understanding the world we live in and the enemies true goals.
  
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- Armed Patriot
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 10:36am
  Jerk, Hows that goosestep coming. You got it down yet?
  
  Your ignorant about who stole land. Ive helped you out here. Please follow the link and find out for yourself.
  
  The New Testament (actually the Torah) contains the oldest recorded land deed in history.
  
  Your hatred for the Jew is truly disgusting. Were you a Hitler Youth, a neo-nazi, skinhead, or just a simple racist?
  
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- Armed Patriot
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 10:43am
  Jerk, find out for yourself who stole the land.
  
  Here is a link showing and explaining the oldest land deed in history. http://www.israelifrontline.com/2011/02/how-much-land-did-god-give-israel-in.html
  
  This deed is recorded in the Torah and the New Testaments.
  
  What is Israels importance? How about the links with and honoring GOD, protecting the Holy Land and the Holy sites, but Im betting you dont have any of those links and are truly Godless.
  
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no1hd
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 9:33am
Israel’s response could be the real shocker. I am thinking they are tired of the prez’s romance with the Iranians and the likes.

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Listen_then_think
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 9:25am
Joe the village idiot just “telegraphed” what obama is doing, bluffing. All smoke and mirrors. They probably had to coach Biden for weeks to get that sentence right.

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oldincarolina
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 8:56am
Listen to what he has to say . WATCH WHAT HE DOES .

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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 8:50am
Translation of Obama agenda – make threats to Israel to do as Obama says or else.

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- Guerrino_P
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 1:38pm
  Snow, it’s time you start acting like an American and support America.
  
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- nzkiwi
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 7:03pm
  Snow IS a patriotic American.
  
  He just has a low opinion of Mr Obama, and Snow might say the “low opinion” is still too high.
  
  If you follow Snow’s posts, you will find that he often turns out to be right on the money.
  
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momrules
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 8:38am
Nothing he does or says will benefit Israel. Stand strong Mr. Netanyahu. Stand strong Israel.

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woodyee
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 8:33am
If after 4+ years of a constant, he thinks BB is going to take his word on ANYTHING, then he’s done the impossible, and become a bigger fool than I thought he was.

Obammy hates Jews. Obammy WROTE that he would defend his Muslim brothers. Obammy has unleashed he!! upon the MiddleEast by throwing vocal and physical support behind militant islamists, many allied with Al-Qaeda, in overthrowing foreign leaders that were at peace with us: Yes, Muammar Gaddafi rendered himself harmless after The Hon. R. Reagan toasted his home compound. Hosni Mubarrak went to great lengths to prevent roach (palestinian) infestation of his borders. Yemen and Tunisia were stable. Syria was contained.

All that is in the gutter, awash in slime with the rest of Gaybama’s ‘accomplishments’, and BB, being well aware of this and being first and foremost Israeli Prime Minister, and not a super-vacationing, self-promoting, selfish megalomaniac like Obammy, will be concerned primarily with the welfare of his Country.

Would that WE could find a leader like that.

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- momrules
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 8:41am
  Good post Woodyee……….
  
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- Charleyhorse
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 10:34am
  Bb is a leader. Barry is a divider. Stand firm Israel. Don’t take any crap from this $hitstain.
  
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cloudsofwar
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 8:30am
obama is going there to stir up trouble, it’s that simple. watch and see what happens after he leaves and he’s back in washington. so he’s already told israel, so if you really want peace what hard steps are you willing to take. what about the egyptians, hamas, syria? look for trouble when he comes back.

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TheCalmOne
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 8:14am
Why is this listed under “Faith”?

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- Locked
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 9:22am
  If you see no connection between Israel and religious faith, just read some of the comments. I guarantee we’ll see a lot of “I stand with Israel!” and “Israel is blessed by God!” and whatnot.
  
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- VaARNG_Guardsman
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 10:50am
  There is none….unless you endorse the Christian and Muslim oppressing Israel. I hope Obama looks into his eyes and says that America will not fight another Zionist war.
  
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Sargeking
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 8:05am
In the fourth leg of the matrix, Mr. Obama is going to release the traitor Pollard from federal prison. That will become just one more outrage from an almost daily deluge.

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DontStopBelieving
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 7:54am
I hope Bibi makes HUSSEIN enter by the servants door only to find Bibi is entertaining others and doesn’t have time for him.

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- BladerunnerKC
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 9:07am
  That would be perfect!
  
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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 7:53am
1. If President Obama is assasinated, the United States could still defeat Iran quickly?

2. If President Obama plays the calander game to appease handlers fascinated with prophecy, it will likely be a waste of time?

3. If nothing is going happen, why not stay home?

It doesn’t matter what we think, they do this stuff for public affairs and elections, not to get anything done that does not benefit them personally?

We will pray for peace, and open the eyes of those who dream of tomorrow?

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Beachbaby
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 7:53am
Dear Ben, Dont ever negotiate with the anti_Christ. Dont’t sit in the same space as the black devil.. Dont let Judas give you cash and say shhhhhhh. Dont meet with him. Treat him like he treated you. Dont let him in your God given country EVER.

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Slipstick
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 7:48am
Based on past performance, any promises this POS makes to Israel will be so much hot air.
The truth is not in him…

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- clodius
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 9:24am
  Also, he crosses his legs like a girl.
  
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- truthnstuff
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 11:28am
  That disgusting POS gives a whole new meaning to the term blue glum. His whole face has a blue tinge to it.
  
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phil1765
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 7:47am
Damn I can’t even stand to look at the moron in chiefs face anymore. He just totally digusts me. I am sure that the visit to Israel will be filled with begging for them to go back to pre 1967 borders and assorted bs like that, followed by the announcement of stricter sanctions against Iran that he knows will never be enforced or would even work if they were enforced. This guy is the biggest farce ever forced upon America.

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BehindBlueEyes
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 7:47am
I wonder if they’ll line the streets of Jerusalem with palms to honor visit of the anointed one?

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- cloudsofwar
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 8:43am
  oh good grief you might be right. i did not think of that he is going over there around palm sunday and easter. this is getting even more creepy.
  
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- USACommoner
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 1:11pm
  …this should be about the time the last pope is elected, too…yep, real creepy. It might just start to get interesting.
  
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- RobbieDolev
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 3:08pm
  The streets of Jerusalem are already lined with palms, that give tasty dates.
  I can’t speak for the rest of the people, but when obama passes by, I will be lining the streets of Jerusalem with palm outstretched and raised, with three fingers folded, if you get my drift.
  
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ShamanWorld
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 7:29am
It is possible Obama may ba assassinated by the fanatical Israeli regime. The Atlanta Jewish Times newspaper had already called for BarryO’s head. Anybody who belies the Izzies are going to give up one drop of land, or give Palestinians statehood is DELUSIONAL. Clinton tried for izzy/pal peace, and got blackmailed euro joo spy Monica Lewinsky. Bush Jr got 9-11 served to him, so the Israelis with attention now away from izzy/pal conflict, were able to kill Arafat, many Hamas members, and grab more land, all without much notice from the World, because the attention was on the “war on terror” and Iraq. Fast forward now, the euro Jooz have nearly bankrupted the US govt in order to weaken our persuasiveness. Never trust a euro joo. Or a moozlim.

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- nzkiwi
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 7:42am
  What an extremely odd post. In reply to your first..err.. question, I’m sure that the Secret Service is fully aware of the danger and is well up to the task of protecting the president.
  
  As to the rest of your strange post, I simply don’t know what to say…
  
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- DontStopBelieving
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 7:52am
  shamanwhackadoodle……WOW. JUST WOW.
  
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- GuruMeditation
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 8:12am
  and never trust a Shaman.
  
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- cloudsofwar
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 8:48am
  @ shama…… LOL, funny post. monica a jewish spy. LOL
  
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- cloudsofwar
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 8:54am
  @ shama…. when i first read your post i thought you were just trying to be funny. after reading it again maybe your just a jew hater. GOD BLESS ISRAEL. obama is after your destruction.
  
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- tzion
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 9:10am
  Anyone who believes Arafat wanted anything other than a violent conflict to justify his own power is delusional. Arafat was nothing more than a greedy, power-hungry warmonger and his appointment as PA leader set any chance of peace back over 40 years.
  
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- ShamanWorld
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 11:53am
  The biggest reason AIPAC and the euro Jooish lobby works in the US, is to keep US politicians and Presidents from forcing Israel to allow an independent state, and also for Israel live up to its UN obligations. This charade of the Israelis pretending to be for a “2 state solution”, and then using any excuse( “Palestinians threw a stone at us”) to make conflict, thus no negotiating on a state for the Palestinian. You older American should have realized this by now, (after 60 years of this nonsense between izzies and pals), either the Palestinians, the majority of Israelis don’t want to give the Arabs any more land; in fact Israel wants more land. The Atlanta Jewish Times published an op Ed in 2012 suggesting Obama should be taken out by Israel. If these people are bold enough to call for an assassination of the Prez, it is not far fetched that these same people would, lie, cheat, propagandize, bribe, and blackmail people in order to carry out their agenda. The Zionist agenda is not only war on Iran, and on American culture, but it is also open season on any politician who tries to find a workable 2 state solution. Obama hasn’t had time to focus on the Izzy/ pal situation yet, but when he does, he better not have a GOOD idea. Yitzak Rabin was killed, Clinton was blackmailed for it, and Bush didn’t try too hard for Izzy/pal peace. The Zionist bankers even bankrupted US to weaken our global diplomacy power. Obama can see the writing on the walls.
  
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- ShamanWorld
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 12:16pm
  Yeah I’m sure the Secret Service is up to the task, but Israeli intelligence ops and home turf will have the advantage. My first comment was admittedly very sloppy. Where is Monica Lewinsky these days? If Bill Clinton is so respected, why won’ t he broker the deal between the izziez and pals? Surely Bill Clinton can bring the 2 sides together…What happened to former UK PM Tony Blair being the special negotiator. Where is Tony hiding these days? When is the last time any of you have heard anything on the news about progress being made in the Isareli/Palestinian conflict since the vote at the UN for PA statehood? Long time right? The whole World including US voted for Palestine to be a recognized state at the UN, and the Israelis are pissed off. It is a proven waste of time to enter negotiations; as long as Zionists are in control of Israel, the Palestinians will continue to be boxed in and pushed out. Any US Prez who tries to force Israel’s hand gets burned.
  
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- tzion
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 1:01pm
  Clinton made a terrorist the de facto leader of the Palestinians and you think that was a good idea? It was a nice deal for Arafat to be sure. After all, with that authority he could beg Europe for money for the “starving people” and line his own pockets with it. He could take US dollars for setting up summer camps for children and use them to fund suicide bomber training camps (still for children). Oh and let’s not forget that it was Arafat himself who orchestrated the 2nd intifada.
  
  The facts are Shaman, Israel has transferred over half of the territory taken in 1967, exempting the Sinai, to the PA and all Israel got in return was more violence, more terrorism, and more bloodshed. Appeasement never works.
  
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- RobbieDolev
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 3:13pm
  Shaman, alias Bubba, or Billy Bob or whatever,
  You are not worthy of my time spent responding to your drivel.
  
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- ShamanWorld
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 9:12pm
  @tzion. I’ve had a busy day, sorry for the late response. You know full we’ll that Netanyahu, or Sharon never truly wanted peace or a state for the Palestinians. The “war on terror” was borrowed from Israels never-ending “war on terror” in the Palestinian areas. By portraying Hamas etc as a constant “terrorist” threat, Israel claims to not have to negotiate with”terrorists”. What do you think the Palestinians think the Israeli troops are,freedom fighters? Any excuse Israel gets to call off the peace process, they take. As for the 67′ land grab, yeah the Israelis stole land and gave “some” back. But I’m sure the land they kept was more valuable in water, oil and farmland etc. I do understand that the winner of battle makes the rules, but Israel is not a victim. They are the judge, jury, executioner, and reporter…..
  
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huey6367
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 7:29am
HIs top three main goals will be:

- A round of golf
- Go shopping
- Take the tour bus

Wasn’t there something else he should do?

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- BehindBlueEyes
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 7:51am
  Maybe he’ll get on one of those exploding buses they have over there.
  
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- Ben__Franklin
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 8:27am
  Behind, those bus rides are free. Obama would never take a free bus. He has to have the bus that costs a minimum 2 million American tax dollars.
  
  With the Sequestration, I wonder if Mrs. Obama will be taking the same jet over with Mr. Obama or will she have her own – “Air Force One” to herself again.
  
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- woodyee
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 8:52am
  Ben, she’s got, erahh, better things to do than to follow her sham to Israel – wink wink…
  
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IMCHRISTIAN
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 7:23am
“Guard well thy thoughts: for thoughts are heard in heaven” If only the President would tell the truth all the time then the World would believe him but he has been caught so many times that who believes him with out fact checking. He let out all those lawbreakers and Eric Holder hasn’t explained “Fast and Furious” and we know very little yet about Benghazi. But World is to listen and do as I say not as I do is his motto. …..Always do what is truthful and honest as life is short and eternity is forever.

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johnpaulkuchtajr
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 7:22am
Wow!

I’m afraid that the same Ayatollah Obama who said “on camera” that the “most beautiful sound on Earth is the evening call to prayers” is finally showing his political side.

Up to now, he’s told BiBi to go shot in his hat. Now, he’s his best friend?

BiBi went to Harvard, is a combat veteran and has been an Israeli politician long enough to make it difficult, if not impossible, for Obama to blow smoke up his butt.

“Remember Benghazi and ALL the Traitors!”

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AUsername
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 7:21am
What a waste of time, plenty of Americans that don’t have a big house boats and nice cars and there wasting time on the worthless world around us, just great.

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Gonzo
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 7:18am
Priority #1: Seven year peace treaty.

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- lel2007
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 7:25am
  It is close isn’t it…..
  
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- CatB
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 7:38am
  Yes I feel it is.
  
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- GuruMeditation
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 8:15am
  Will be watching and we know what to look for.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 8:26am
  I have certainly never seen this level of slavish support for a POTUS.
  
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- Your_Senile
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 8:31am
  What you must know
  
  The only reason for President Obama’s trip is to give Netanyahu a signed copy of his book “Dreams I had a Father”…..”and a girlfriend”
  
  it is so
  
  Your Senile
  
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- momrules
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 8:35am
  It will certainly be interesting if he decides to visit the Temple Mount.
  
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- moreteaplease
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 9:28am
  Could very well be. The time seems right.
  
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RedDirtTexas
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 7:13am
I hope Netayahu will balk and not find the time to see him! Turn about is fair play.

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burke
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 7:10am
It’s all smoke & mirrors, The muslim POS is only going for the optics of it, He means none of what he says & lets all hope he stays in his Muslim homeland.

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- CatB
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 7:33am
  Beware false profits.
  
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- CatB
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 8:15am
  Darn … tired (I hate daylight savings time) and auto correct .. prophets
  
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- RobbieDolev
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 3:20pm
  Hey Burke
  I hope you mean that he stays in Malaysia or Indonesia or wherever he grew up and not Israel.
  We don’t even want him here for the two days he’s planned,
  
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biohazard23
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 7:07am
Dear leader’s main concerns are as follows (in no particular order…):

1) himself
2) himself
3) himself
4) whatever it is he wants at the moment
5) himself
6) not to be “bothered” by Bibi anymore
7) himself
8) golf
9) golf
10) himself

Did I miss anything?

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- burke
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 7:14am
  you summed it up perfectly
  
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- BehindBlueEyes
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 7:39am
  @Bio
  You can add “destroy America and usher in communism”.
  
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- nzkiwi
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 7:46am
  I enjoyed that, Bio, and it’s probably pretty close to the truth…
  
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- biohazard23
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 8:00am
  Good morning, all! I think I forgot one thing: squee over Beyonce and call Israel the biggest human rights violator on the planet. Now THAT should pretty much cover all the bases.
  
  How’s things, Kiwi?
  
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- mollymmmo
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 4:52pm
  You have it SO right! Bibi is no dummy and knows what a despicable jerk BO is; he won’t believe anything BO says. And for sure, Bibi is smarter than ‘his highness’. I hope he snubs BO big-time; won’t matter because BO won’t help Israel not when he prefers his Muslim buddies.
  
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