27.05.2011                      23.Ijar, 5771                      Tag 38 des Omer

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Poll: 12% of Israeli Jews consider Obama to be pro-Israel

Despite AIPAC speech, 40% of 600 Jewish Israelis deem US administration pro-Palestinian in ‘Jerusalem Post’/Smith poll.

US President Barack Obama’s attempt to portray himself as pro-Israel in a hight-profile speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee on Sunday did not succeed, according to a Smith Research poll sponsored by The Jerusalem Post.
The speech was intended to correct impressions that he was hostile toward Israel, which may have been reinforced by a landmark adress about the Middle East that he delivered at the State Department last Thursday, and by a tense press conference at the White House on Friday with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu….