WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says Israel’s security depends in part on its ability to court Arab public opinion, as the strongman leaders it long depended on give way to democratically elected governments that may be more hostile to the Jewish state.
“There is now a situation in which Israel can’t count on just a few autocrats holding everything together in the neighborhood,” President Barack Obama told an Israeli television station in an interview. “Israel has an interest in being able to speak to the Arab street.”
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