Stig Östlund

onsdag, mars 20, 2013

Obama Arriving in Israel








JERUSALEM – It took four years and a second term, but President Obama traveled to Israel on Wednesday for a richly symbolic state visit, bearing a message of solidarity to a wary Israeli public, and a promise to defend Israel from threats near and far.

Obama and Israeli President Shimon Peres.





A boy waves a Palestinian flag at a camp Palestinians
set up to demonstrate against Obama's visit on March 20.
Activists erected the tent city outside Jerusalem in
the West Bank to protest the Obama trip and continued
 Israeli construction of settlements in what they
consider an occupied territory.

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