Israeli Media Skeptical of Obama Trip
(CBS)
(JERSUALEM) Barack Obama spent the morning reaffirming his support for Israel at the first of a long list of meetings with high level leaders. Wearing a blue and white striped tie, Israel’s colors, Obama posed for pictures with Defense Minister Ehud Barak and later with Likud Party leader - and Former Prime Minister - Benjamin Netanyahu.
He later visited Yad Vashem, a Holocaust memorial museum, where he laid a wreath at the Hall of Remembrance. Obama wore a white yarmulke and looked somberly at a stone slab covering the ashes of Holocaust victims, as photographers snapped pictures.
However, despite these attempts to show that he is a friend of Israel, some local news reports this morning questioned the sincerity of Obama’s overall visit. The headline on the front page of the widely read newspaper “Haaretz” read: “Obama Visiting Israel to Impress Jewish voters, Not Israelis.”
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