Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday for winning a second term and said the strategic alliance between their two countries was \”stronger than ever\”.
JTA reviews the positions of presidential candidates Barack Obama, the Democratic incumbent, and Republican challenger Mitt Romney on some issues of importance to the Jewish community.
The moment in the final presidential debate when President Obama described his visit to Israel’s national Holocaust museum and to the rocket-battered town of Sderot seemed to be aimed right for the kishkes.
Israel had a starring role in the third and final presidential debate last Tuesday night. How big? China, a country of 1 billion people to which America owes $1 trillion and whose military and economic decisions will affect us for years to come, rated 32 mentions.
President Obama has led \”from behind\” on the Middle East, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney charged in a foreign policy speech.
It was the nuts-and-bolts convention that nearly broke down over the most ethereal of issues: Jerusalem and God.
A day after Israel\’s foreign minister called on Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi to visit Israel, a Muslim Brotherhood official called such a visit impossible.
President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly clashed over the possibility of a strike against Iran\’s nuclear facilities on Thursday, with Netanyahu aides reportedly saying that Peres had \”forgotten the role of a president in the State of Israel.\”
In three months, the American people will elect a President — either returning Barack Obama to the White House for a second term, or handing the reins of power to former Massachusetts governor, Mitt Romney.
President Obama would visit Israel in a second term, a top campaign surrogate said.
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