Israeli overwhelmingly continue to feel President Obama is hostile to the Jewish State. In fact, according to a new poll published in Ha’aretz, only 13% of Israeli say the President is “not hostile” to Israel. Meanwhile, “a majority of Israelis believe “any price” must be paid to restore prisoners in enemy hands to their families. A survey carried out by the Truman Institute at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the Palestinian Center for Policy and Public Opinion in Ramallah showed that 52 percent of Israelis support this view. However, 35 percent of Israelis maintained that terrorists responsible for the deaths of Israelis should not be released.”
HEADLINES TO TRACK:
- Ahmadinejad dismisses U.S. deadline for nuclear deal
- After U.S. warning, Israel’s top brass discusses Iran nukes — “The West can give Iran as many deadlines as they want, we don’t care,” Ahmadinejad told supporters in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz.”
- NYT: Next Stage on Iran Could Hold Real Peril — Israelis may be running out of time, and patience
- ‘Hamas received Israeli offer, will respond in coming days’
- Netanyahu offers to release Hamas terrorists in exchange for captured Israeli soldier, but would deport the terrorists to Gaza or a foreign country — one Israeli columnist sees this as just the right way to proceed
- New poll finds 59% of Americans support the “surge” in Afghanistan
- WSJ: Europe’s Israel Obsession — “Baroness Catherine Ashton of Upholland (the European Union’s new chief diplomat in the likely case you don’t know her) isn’t exactly what one would call “experienced.” Perhaps to shed her much-deserved reputation as a foreign-policy novice, she used her maiden speech in the European Parliament to fuel the Continent’s No. 1 international-affairs obsession: trashing the Jewish state.”
- New report shows 1-in-3 Israeli children in poverty — “In the wake of the global economic crisis, the number of Israeli children below the poverty line unsurprisingly increased to 834,000 – just over one in three, a significant increase since the 1980s.”