“There is great danger of terrorism and flair ups of violence and we also have concerns about settlement activity”, said Obama,”We want to see how Israel sees the next few years… because we want to make sure that we keep alive this possibility of a stable secure Israel at peace with its neighbors and a Palestinian homeland that meets the aspirations of the Palestinian people”.
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During the encounter, Netanyahu thanked the President for the recently signed military aid package that will give Israel $38 billion for defense over a decade beginning in 2019 and said it will ensure that Israel can defend itself against any threats. Netanyahu needed to show that despite his well-known disagreements with Obama, America still supports Israel, said Jonathan Rynhold, a political scientist at Bar Ilan University near Tel Aviv. “It is based on common values, family ties, a recognition that the Jewish state of Israel is one of our most important allies”, he said.
“Israel has no bigger friend than America and America has no bigger friend than Israel”, Netanyahu reiterated. Obama promised to visit Israel often, because “it’s a attractive country with lovely people”. He then invited Obama to play at a golf course near his home in Israel. This news story is related to Latest/151633-Obama-tells-Netanyahu-of-US-concern-on-settlements-urges-peace/ – breaking news, latest news, pakistan ne. Others were shot dead during protests or killed in Israeli air strikes on Gaza. This comes on the heels of his approval of Israel’s $38bn military aid package, the largest in U.S. history, which many regard as a means to placate Netanyahu over the nuclear agreement the United States signed with Iran.
That aid deal – along with diminishing tensions over the Iran nuclear deal – has put the relationship on more steady footing than it’s been in years, the White House said.
Obama took over the American presidency in 2009 and vowed to the United Nations, “I will not waver in my pursuit of peace” between the Jewish state and Palestinians.
Netanyahu’s government was an angry opponent of Obama’s outreach to Iran, which previous year delivered an accord to halt Tehran’s ambition to develop nuclear weapons in exchange for sanctions relief.
Obama himself seemed to acknowledge that their closed-door meetings have been contentious.
President Barack Obama calls the US Men’s National Team captain Clint Dempsey and goalkeeper Tim Howard, on Wednesday, July 02, 2014 to commend them on their leadership and the team’s performance during the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
Israeli guards shot and wounded an unarmed 13-year-old Palestinian girl on Wednesday after she did not stop at a checkpoint, officials said, the latest incident in an upsurge of violence.
Netanyahu on Wednesday invited Obama for a round of golf in Israel once he departs office in January, saying warmly that Obama’s “influential voice” on global politics would remain a force “for many decades”.
The CIA Factbook online says about 371,000 Israelis live in settlements scattered among an estimated 2.7 million Palestinians in the West Bank, captured by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war.
On Sept. 20, Obama addressed the United Nations General Assembly in NY. King Don Felipe VI of Spain, right, greets U.S. President Barack Obama as he arrives for a luncheon during the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016. “We all have to do better as leaders in tamping down, rather than encouraging, a notion of identity that leads us to diminish others”.
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Since the signing last week of the USA aid package to Israel, some leaders and pundits in Israel have already pointed to the aid package as proof of the withering relationship between the United States and Israel. They said the meeting lasted about a half-hour.
