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| US President Obama in the Oval Office puts “pressure” on Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu on the other end of the line, June 2009. (Pete Souza/White House) |
On 13 July, President Barack Obama received 16 leaders of the most prominent pro-Israel organizations at the White House. The gathering was an effort to assuage American Jewish concerns about US pressure on Israel over a settlement freeze in the occupied West Bank.
One participant argued that in the past any progress toward peace has only been made when there was “no light” between American and Israeli positions. “I disagree,” the president responded according to one witness, and pointed out that during eight years of the Bush administration, “there was no light between the United States and Israel, and nothing got accomplished.”
Tags: President Barack Obama, Arab-Israeli conflict, pro-Israel organizations, settlements in the Wst Bank, US-Israeli relationship
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