Koch on Obama and Israel

In May 2011 Ed Koch write an article titled  Obama's Hostility to Israel Continues.

All of this is by way of historic background to the speech delivered by President Obama on May 19, 2011. Also as background is what happened in March of 2010 when President Obama displayed his hostility towards the Jewish state. He demanded that Israel cease all housing construction in East Jerusalem and on the West Bank in Jewish towns before talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority could proceed. Prime Minister Netanyahu agreed to a ten-month settlement construction moratorium on the West Bank. Hillary Clinton, U.S. Secretary of State praised that action as "unprecedented." Israel's prime minister refused to stop building residences for Jews in any part of Jerusalem, Israel's capital. President Obama then had the vice president Joe Biden - a great friend of Israel - make an extraordinarily harsh statement denouncing Israel, when on the previous day, he expressed his personal devotion to Israel, as well as the Obama administration's "ironclad commitment to Israel's security." Even more disheartening and threatening were the threats voiced by Hillary Clinton in a telephone conversation she had with the Prime Minister, described in The New York Times of March 12, 2010, saying Israel's plan for new housing units for Jews in East Jerusalem sent a "deeply negative signal about Israeli-American relations." And of course, we all recall how rudely the Prime Minister was received by the President at the White House.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/05/24/obamas_hostility_to_israel_continues_109970.html

What a difference a year makes.

Koch argued that when it comes to Israel, “I have concluded that [Obama's and Romney's] positions are acceptable in both cases … so that I won’t be voting on who’s better between the two candidates on that issue.”
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