(New York Times) David E. Sanger - As one of the president's foreign policy advisers said on Monday, after Mr. Netanyahu gave another defiant speech, "our Israeli friends are not asking themselves the question, if Obama can't set some parameters for our allies, how is he going to set some for the mullahs?" "The key way that you project strength is to show that you mean what you say," Ben Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser to Mr. Obama and his foreign-policy speechwriter, said on Monday. However, David Rothkopf, a noted expert in the exercise of presidential power, noted, "He's in the position of appearing fierce with the Israelis over an insult, but timid with the Iranians over nuclear weapons."
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