President Obama's first journey to Israel as president comes amid earth-shattering change in Middle East, much of it for the worse…
That's why the White House has been lowering expectations for Obama's trip to Israel all this week. He will announce no new peace plan, grand design or major foreign policy initiative. His advisers are calling the trip a "listening tour." That is what you call a state visit when you have little to say…
Of all the strained relationships in the Middle East, the partnership with Israel is the most important and potentially the most easily repaired. Obama is not popular in the country. A poll released last week showed he had a scant 10% approval rating in Israel, with an additional 32% saying they respect but don't like him…
From the USA Today column ("Obama's Middle East policy in tatters") written by James S. Robbins, senior fellow in national security affairs at the American Foreign Policy Council.
