“#Obama leaves office having wanted #Israel to live up to his lofty ideals. The public’s response: ‘No thanks’ [VIDEO]

JERUSALEM POST
A Skeptical Israel Not Willing to Put its Money Where Obama’s Mouth Is
by Herb Keinon
January 13, 2017

…Half-a-million dead Syrians later, a region riddled with failed and failing states, with an emboldened Iran on the move and a barbarous Islamic State terrorizing millions, Obama still dreams, and wants Israelis to dream with him. But what the US president has consistently failed to appreciate in his dealing with Israel is that it is tough – if not impossible – for many Israelis to dream his idealistic dreams in a reality where what is more real than the values the West shares with Islam is the nightmare prospect of a terrorist plowing a truck into a group of soldiers who could easily have been their own children. Asked whether he doesn’t think, in retrospect, that his Cairo speech was a bit naïve, Obama said he would not disown a word of it. READ MORE

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