Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Mitchell Bard http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Thu, 23 May 2013 20:58:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Obama’s Israel Trip: Did it Help? http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/obamas-israel-trip-did-it-help/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/obamas-israel-trip-did-it-help/#comments Sat, 23 Mar 2013 17:54:33 +0000 Mitchell Bard http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=112128 In the early months of the Obama Administration, one poll showed that only 4% of Israelis had confidence the president was pro-Israel. His standing did not change much the first two years, but as his policy toward Israel shifted as reelection approached, Israelis began to feel less trepidation; still, just before he arrived in Tel [...]

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