Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Tuesday that he believes U.S. President Barack Obama is friendly to Israel.
In an interview on CNN, Barak said Obama “is friendly to Israel, especially in security-related issues. He’s also trying to be even ended with the Palestinians. I don’t think he’s part of the problem, he’s part of the solution.”
Barak added, however, that the solution to the conflict in the Middle East is not up to Obama but up to Israel and particularly the PA leadership, who he said should “show the burden of leadership and start to move.”