White House Blog for the Week of March 3rd

Elanna Cahn — March 7, 2014 – 10:11 am | Barack Obama | Foreign Policy | Israel | Secretary of State Comments (0) Add a comment

Matt Nosanchuk, an Associate Director in the White House Office of Public Engagement, has put together a great piece about this past week in Washington. In this post you can find links to speeches from Secretary of State Kerry, Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew at AIPAC, as well as remarks from the President and Prime Minister Netanyahu.

“We do not have a closer friend or ally than Israel and the bond between our two countries and our two peoples is unbreakable.”-President Barack Obama, March 3, 2014, Bilateral Meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The beginning of March provided several important opportunities for President Obama and senior administration officials to underscore that unshakeable bond between the United States and Israel. As they do every year, thousands of delegates to the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) 2014 Policy Conference came to Washington for an annual event that attracts bipartisan support.  Prime Minister Netanyahu’s appearance at AIPAC provided an opportunity for a meeting with President Obama at the White House. The two leaders discussed the status of the talks between the Israelis and Palestinians, progress on the P5+1 negotiations with Iran regarding Iran’s nuclear program, and regional issues, including the situations in Syria and Egypt.  As the President noted in his public remarks at the beginning of the meeting, “on a whole spectrum of issues we consult closely; we have the kind of military, intelligence and security cooperation that is unprecedented. And there is a strong bipartisan commitment in this country to make sure that Israel’s security is preserved in any contingency.”

Click here for the full blog post

 

Comments

There are no comments for this entry