Obama, who had previously benefited from diplomacy without violence, now encountered the same difficulty that overshadowed Mideast peace processes during the days of his predecessors. His embarrassment was evident in the improvised condemnation of the attack, which seemed to have been timed for news broadcasts aired on Israeli television. The president’s challenge is more complex than that of his predecessors, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, both of whom were popular with the Israelis. The Israeli public sees Obama as a weak president who plays up to the Arabs. Now he will have to convince them that America under his leadership can provide security to Israel, and not abandon it to terrorists from Hamas.
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