US President Barack Obama is greeted by Cabinet ministers and other dignitaries at Ben Gurion Airport on Wednesday, March 20 (image capture Channel 2)
OMG PBO said he’s grateful to “get away from CONGRESS” these two day- LMBAO
PRESIDENT OBAMA & PM NETANYAHU JOINT PRESS CONFERENCE
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Trancscript of joint statement by President Obama and President Peres.
Treatment of the Palestinians “is not fair,” President Obama said in Jerusalem today. He also promised the U.S. would always back Israel.
Arab states must seek normalized relations with Israel, and Palestinians must “recognize that Israel will be a Jewish state, and that Israelis have the right to insist upon their security,” Obama said, adding that “Israelis must recognize that continued settlement activity is counterproductive to the cause of peace, and that an independent Palestine must be viable — that real borders will have to be drawn.”
Obama said people, not politicians, create peace. “You must create the change that you want to see.”
In This Photo: Barack Obama, Shimon Peres, Benjamin Netanyahu
(ISRAEL OUT) In this handout image supplied by the Government Press Office of Israel (GPO) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and U.S. President Barack Obama speak with Israeli President Shimon Peres as they visit the Israeli technology exhibition at the Israel Museum on March 21, 2013 in Jerusalem, Israel. This is President Obama’s first visit as president to the region, and his itinerary includes meetings with the Palestinian and Israeli leaders as well as a visit to the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
In This Photo: Barack Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu
U.S. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu view an alternative fuel vehicle at an Israeli technology exhibition in the Israel Museum on March 21, 2013 in Jerusalem, Israel. This is President Obama’s first visit as president to the region, and his itinerary includes meetings with the Palestinian and Israeli leaders as well as a visit to the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
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(ISRAEL OUT) In this handout image supplied by the Government Press Office of Israel (GPO) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C, R) hosts U.S. President Barack Obama at a dinner on March 21, 2013 in Jerusalem, Israel. This is President Obama’s first visit as president to the region, and his itinerary includes meetings with the Palestinian and Israeli leaders as well as a visit to the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
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President Barack Obama, left, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, March 20, 2013, (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Live streaming of President Obama in Israel
http://edition.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=4 …
Thank you, SG2! :-) I’m not feeling Bibi N.
Same here..
Chuck Todd’s a freakin IDIOT
Chuck Todd is determined to be an ass clown! Get rid of this clown. He’s way out of his league!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nIBeI0OkT1w
What an IDIOT
“CONFLUENCE AND SERENDIPITY” Bet Todd doesn’t know what either word means.
By MARK LANDLER and JODI RUDOREN
Published: March 20, 2013
JERUSALEM – It took four years and a second term, but President Obama finally traveled to Israel on Wednesday for a richly symbolic state visit, bearing a message of solidarity to a wary Israeli public, and a promise to defend Israel from threats near and far.
“Shalom,” Mr. Obama said, after embracing President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who waited for him on a red carpet under the looming shadow of Air Force One at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport.
“I see this visit as an opportunity to reaffirm the unbreakable bonds between our nations,” the president declared in a stately arrival ceremony, after Mr. Peres and Mr. Netanyahu both offered thanks to the United States for standing by its ally.
Mr. Obama did not mention the Palestinians by name in his brief remarks, speaking instead of Israel’s “neighbor.” Nor did he allude to Iran or Syria, the other top items on his agenda. But he invoked the Jewish people’s 3,000-year history in this land, referred to modern Israelis as “the sons of Abraham and the daughters of Sarah.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/21/world/middleeast/obama-arrives-in-israel-for-two-day-trip.html?_r=0