Soon after him being elected as President for the second
time, Barrack Obama is on a good-will tour in Israel, US’s closest friend since
the nation of Israel was formed in 1948. Obama’s two day visit, however need not
be given undue importance as it is no more than good-will tour. In other words,
nothing worth noticing is going to be held concerning Israel-Palestine conflict
dating back to decades. This is Obama’s first visit to Israel after being
elected as US President.
On Friday, after his two day visit to Israel, US President
is scheduled to visit Ramallah where he will have a cordial meeting with
Palestinian President Mahmood Abbas and soon after he will fly back to US.
Just one or two weeks before Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli
Prime Minister cobbled together a govt after week-long hectic parleys with
various political parties. In the election which was held recently, contrary to
expectations Likud Party of which Mr.Netanyahu is the leader fared badly but
that didn’t force him to beating a retreat from trying a hand to form an
alliance with the help of a few other parties and in his efforts he could
succeed in forming a govt. Most important parties which are included in the
coalition are former Foreign Minister Avidgor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu, Yesh Atid of Yeir Lapid, The
Jewish Home of Naftali Bennet and Labour Party of Shelly Yachomovich.
The first dignitary after Mr.Netanyahu was sworn in as Prime
Minister is Barack Obama and therefore the latter’s visit assumes significance
though nothing concrete is expected from the talks between the two dignitaries.
Anyhow US President’s visit to Israel at a critical moment like this helped
boosting the confidence of Israeli leaders. Most of the Arab countries in the Middle
East are baying for the blood of Israel in the backdrop of Iran reportedly
developing a nuclear weapon primarily to target Israel, whom Iran and its
allies consider a perennial threat to their existence. Besides being accorded a
red carpet welcome, besides holding friendly talks with Benjamin Netanyahu,
Mr.Obama was given a warm welcome by Shimon Perez, President of Israel and with
whom also Obama held cordial talks. Israeli leaders took the opportunity to extol
the virtues of US’s all out support to Israel in its moments of crisis and
expressed gratitude towards Obama and the US govt in general .In the recently
held election in US for the post of President though it is a well-known truth
that Benjamin Netanyahu and his coalition govt preferred Mitt Romney, the
Republican Party candidate to Barack Obama, the Democratic Party candidate to
be the President of US since Republicans are ahead of Democratic infighting for
the cause of Israel and it is always the Republican Party leaders who are in
the vanguard for prevailing upon the Democratic Party govt to stand with Israel
thru thick and thin. It is relevant to recall here that Barack Obama didn’t
hide his disappointment when Israeli forces launched a bloody attack on Hamaz-controlled
Gaza strip on one occasion. He stressed the importance of holding negotiations
between the leaders of two nations across the table and chalk out a formula to
cease hostilities between the traditional allies while was serving his first
term as President of US.
Anyhow this could be a harbinger towards more and more
visits and more and more talks in the coming days between the God father US and
it’s all-weather little friend Israel.
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