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Monday, October 15, 2012

The top foreign policy questions for Obama and Romney | Opinion | Jewish Journal

The top foreign policy questions for Obama and Romney

By Douglas Bloomfield

I concede that Mitt Romney and Barack Obama love Israel, are committed to its security and survival and they don't want Iran to get nuclear weapons.

...TURKEY -- Turkey also has an Islamist government that has been turning more and more toward the East as it appears to be vying for leadership of the Islamic Middle East.  It has vilified Israel, threatened war against the Jewish state and come close to breaking relations. As Israeli-Turkish relations have steadily chilled, US-Turkish relations seemed to be warming.

The Obama administration has acquiesced to several anti-Israel moves by the new Turkish government.  President Obama, how do you justify that?  Mr. Romney, how would you balance U.S.-Turkey and U.S.-Israel relations in a changing Middle East? For both men, what should the United States do to repair the rift between Israel and Turkey?...

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