relationship between net anyahu and obama is at this point? expressed his appreciation once again for obama s unequivocal, clear-sighted support for israel s right to defend itself. netanyahu is a very sharp character i can say from the experience i had when president clinton was not particularly a supporter of prime minister netanyahu there were times when that difference of political opinion came out, but when the chips are down a diplomatic way of putting it, jay. but when the trips were down, each side knows its operating for their country and not their party. look, it s going to have some discomfort. there will be some cracks made on the side and in the back rooms as these negotiations and discussions are going on. but right now, america is pursuing american foreign policy and israel pursuing its and these two individuals will try to hold their tongues. it certainly is a situation that is fluid and we will
hamas side ideologically. on the other hand, the president of egypt has made clear he doesn t want to throw over the israel/egypt peace agreement. how far can he go in supporting hamas without getting rid of that agreement or undermining it in a fundamental way? i expect him to go quite far. do you think the election affected the timing of this. did hamas step up its attacks to test the obama administration? did netanyahu act waiting for romney to be elected and not seeing that. it s hard to know. i can t get quite in their heads. in that part of the world they re aware of the american political calendar, as everyone is, and there is a sort of freezing of decision making in this period leading up to an american election. let s face it, a president romney would have been a very different approach. and probably preferred by netanyahu. it s seen that way.
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the peace, and they just virtually slap him. this story has played out so many times before. there are secretaries of state that go back to jim baker s time who would land, and israelis would announce settlements that would get in the way, so this movie has run before, and it sort of makes you wonder why it was they weren t better prepared for this. now, the state department will tell you, the white house will tell you that they believe prime minister net anyahu didn t know vice president biden was there. so they would have felt a whole lot better if biden had left town first, okay? the fact of the matter is the obama administration last year declared that the settlements had to freeze as a way of getting the talks started. then they began gradually to back away from that last
the fact that netanyahu is facing an election, maybe in january, and i want to read this new york times op-ed which asks what do you make of that? i think that s a fair point. it s a fair point. the editorial board of the new york times points out the world would be less likely to condemn israel. we don t have peace negotiations. that s a simple fact. there s lots of blame to go around. the prime minister s office certainly bears some of it. the palestinians bear a huge chunk. the united states hasn t been