Today (Monday November, 9) President Obama and the Israeli Prime Minister met at the White House to further discuss their original disagreement over the deal between the world powers and Iran in regards to its Nuclear program. This disagreement unfortunately had set back the relationship between the United States and Israel to its "lowest point in decades." Obama had previously back Prime Minister Netanyahu in their most recent conflict with the Palestinians, while the Israeli leader continues to fight for settlement with the Palestinians. This fight, as it seems as if it will never end, has already been through two peace initiatives put together by the Obama Administration, which subsequently, failed. Today's meeting at the White House seemingly resulted in both men trying to find common ground and subsided any mutual frustration between the two leaders. What do you guys think will happen with their relationship? Do you see a mutual agreement between the two leaders being kept in tact? Or do you think more disagreements are bound to come before President Obama leaves office?
"It is no secret that the Prime Minister and I have had a strong disagreement on this narrow issue, but we don't have a disagreement on the need to make sure that Iran does not get a nuclear weapon and we don't have a disagreement about the importance of us blunting destabilizing activities that Iran may be taking." -President Obama
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2 comments:
I think that we should drop Israel as an ally in the Middle East. If our goal is peace in the region, allying ourselves with the biggest aggressor around is a bad plan, especially since we continue to support them. We need to recognize the war crimes committed by Israel and tell Netanyahu that changes need to be made or we will have to drop them.
Peace needs to happen. I don't like that Iran has nuclear power but with that being said its not necessarily the United States call weather or not they can have it. As long as there aren't using it in a destructive way then I don't think the United states should step in. Only time will tell.
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