US President Obama and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, March 20, 2013. Photo: Avi Ohayon/GPO
The warm and friendly visit of US President Barack Obama to Israel was bound to lead to criticism from the Muslim world, which has long accused the US of favoring Israel.
Arabs see the visit as a reversal of Obama’s initial attitude upon beginning his first term in 2009 and his famous outreach to the Muslim world, symbolized by his speech in Cairo that same year. Arabs held out hope that the president would rebalance American foreign policy, long seen as slanted and detrimental to the Palestinian position.
The Obama visit to Israel has so far been filled with effusive rhetoric, small talk in English between the president and Israeli leaders and other acts of closeness between the two countries, leading to a reaffirmation of the Arab world’s perception of US policy as being biased toward Israel.
The editorial in Thursday’s London daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi stated that Obama did not come with a plan to solve the conflict and that in any case the peace process is dead..............
FULL ARTICLE: Obama’s Israel visit leaves Arabs upset | JPost | Israel News
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