Has Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu got the Obama message?
To judge by his minimalist response to President Barack Obama’s landmark Cairo University address and his continuing reluctance to meet Obama’s demand for a total freeze on Israeli settlements, the answer would seem to be, ‘No’. It’s a mighty challenge for Netanyahu to counter, especially since he roots his political strategy in an exclusivist vision of what suits only a small percentage of Israelis, the 300,000 settlers in the West Bank, and in a policy that insists on Israel being allowed to go on building more homes in Palestinian territory. The depth of Netanyahu’s distress is in direct proportion to the breadth of the Obama vision for the Middle East, and its spillover into global relations between the U.S. and the Muslim world. But the lack of inspiration shown thus far by the Israeli leader and his ministers can hardly conceal their understanding that the Obama challenge won’t be easily shrugged off. Netanyahu announced at his weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday that he will give w
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