February 23, 2012

Israel and U.S. Tangle over a Common Enemy

Heller & Spetalnick, Reuters

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Ever since their first awkward encounter - a hastily arranged meeting in a custodian's office at a Washington airport in 2007 - Iran has been one of the few issues on which Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu have been able to find some common ground.

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