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2015-03-29 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel is treated as 'domestic policy' in US: Analyst
[Iran Press TV] Israel is treated as a form of "domestic policy" in the United States due to the power of the Israel lobby despite the growing tensions between the two countries, a political analyst says.

President Barack Obama
It’s very rare that I come to an event where I’m like the fifth- or sixth-most interesting person....
is distancing himself from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu because he is an obstacle to peace in the Middle East, said Ian Williams, a senior analyst at Foreign Policy in Focus, a policy think tank based in Washington, DC.

He made the comments after US Republican Senator Bob Corker accused the B.O. regime of moving away from Israel in favor of stronger relations with Iran.

"What the White House is doing -- they're obviously moving away from Israel towards a relationship with Iran," Corker told CNN on Friday.

Williams said "there is some truth" to Corker's remarks but "one should never trust a Republican congressman of any kind on foreign relations because they don't know much about the rest of the world."

"The point is that Iran is a question of foreign policy for America where Israel is a question of domestic policy because of the strength of the [Israel] lobby," Williams told Press TV on Saturday.

Last week, Obama warned Netanyahu about his opposition to a Paleostinian state and for making racist comments about Arabs living in the occupied territories.

"Obama is moving away from Netanyahu obviously because Netanyahu personally snubbed him and is politically rendering any Middle East solution which Obama wanted to achieve before leaving office almost impossible," Williams said.
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#1 Well, that explains Obama
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#2 American-Israeli Rabbi compares Obama to Haman [LINK]
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