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Source: http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/tobin/380719
Is Obama's "Charm Offensive" Over for Israel?
(Commentary) Jonathan S. Tobin - Obama chose to use his visit to Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, as the venue for comments directly criticizing Israel for approving the building of 1,000 new housing units in the Har Homa section of Jerusalem. Obama's stance on Jerusalem was unprecedented in U.S.-Israel relations: although the U.S. had never recognized Israel's annexation of the eastern part of the city in 1967, it had also never treated the building of Jewish neighborhoods there as a point of dispute between the two countries in this manner.