
By Tom Risen
President Obama spoke extensively last year about a peace between Israel and Palestine. Geoffrey Aronson focuses on the same goal as director of research and publications at the nonprofit Foundation for Middle East Peace, and he is concerned about the way Obama is approaching it.
Under this administration, numerous government officials have gone to visit the Israeli government; on Monday, Vice President Joe Biden became highest-ranking diplomatic visitor. Yet a New America Foundation poll released in December gave Obama only a 41 percent favorability rating among Israelis.
Aronson spoke with NationalJournal.com about whether the administration's outreach efforts are paying off for Obama's agenda. Read the full interview at NationalJournal.com's new blog Burn After Reading.
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"The regional leaders have to treat these options seriously - not as another photo-opportunity but in a substantive discussion aimed at opening the door towards comprehensive peace and regional economic development," he concluded.
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It's not only Isreal that shares Obamas hope of peace but so do many of the countries in the Middle East and throughout the world. If talks seriously starteded happening where Isreal and the Palistians were starting to work things out the entire region could start repairing. Perhaps then other countries in the region would realize the is hope in talking. Muscle Cars
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