the prime minister of israel didn t air ba his fair share of the responsibility but the fact these two, probably with the exception of david ben guron and dwight d. eisenhower had most dysfunctional relationship between any american president and israeli prime minister. the president made a political calculation and he was vulnerable and exposed on this he had to take care of old business. too many people thought he was somehow hostile and adversary of the state of the israel. that coincides with policy on two issues. this president doesn t want to be the american president that iran acquires nuclear capacity or a weapon and this president does not want to be the american president on whose watch the two-state solution expires. reality is, it is clear from the beginning you want to deal with these issues effectively, you have to find away to cooperate. intimately, with many parties but, at the top of the list is the state of
only does he have astonishing vision but he is also a pretty practical-minded politician and consistently has good advice in terms of how we can approach many of these problems. i reaffirmed to president peres as i will throughout my visit that in this work the state of israel will have no greater friend than the united states and the work we do in our time will make it more likely that the children that we saw today alongside children from throughout the region have the opportunity for security and peace and prosperity. you know this obligation to future generations i think was well-symbolized by the tree planting that we started our meeting with. you know the talmud recounts the story of honig the miracle worker who saw a man planting a carrot tree. he asked the man how long before this tree yields
and greatful to your hospitality. it is wonderful to be back in jerusalem, this eternal israel with a son of israel who devoted his life to keeping israel strong and sustaining the bonds between our two nations. president peres knows this is a work of generations. just as he joined the struggle for israeli independence in his early 20s he is always looking ahead, connecting with young people and i m especially grateful for the time you allowed me to share with those extraordinary israeli boys and girls. their dreams are much the same as children everywhere. in another sense though their lives reflect the difficult realities that israelis face every single day. they want to be safe, they want to be free from rockets that hit their homes or hit their schools. they want a world where science and technology is created to build and not destroy. they want to live in peace,
his shameful record of never visiting israel by visiting israel. our goal here is to cut spending, not to shut down the government. if they tell you everything s awful, tell them no it s not. we re back, baby. it only took wall street and the industry five and a half years to self-repair the gaping wound they self-inflicted. about half of the people infected die. i m hopeful the senate democrats will work with us to make sure there s no threat of government shutdown. we will preserve the spending reductions of the sequester. let s get specific rather than this b.s. this budget has adopted a notion that austerity is a goal. they re going to shut off white house tours. who s being laid off at the white house? so childish. i mean, really? entiemts, you re lying here. we welcome the people to come to the capitol. can we get back to the old model of discriminating first and stopping it later?
america, weak america, weak america. back with us, julian epstein, karen finney and ron christy. if you were working with vice president cheney and this al qaeda leader had been taken off, you would be ordered to write a speech praising the administration quicker than you can say halliburton. i was a domestic policy advisor. i give the president credit for this. he gave the order working with the c.i.a. and the military and we found the guy. why does mitt romney describe him as a weak lead other foreign policy. on foreign policy this is a military decision. on foreign policy i think he is extraordinarily weak and enflamed israel for one, our closest ally and, number two, by giving a date certain in afghanistan and the taliban is coming back and a lot stronger and china continues to manipulate their currency making it a lot more expense is i have for american exports to go over and a lot more difficult for us to sell our products. if you look at the president s record on foreign