Jewish Home minister: He’s here ‘to enchant us’

20 March 2013, 4:46 pm

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Uri Orbach, the right-wing Jewish Home’s new minister for Senior Citizens, says Obama is “here to enchant us,” and to assure us that he really cares about us — which is something, Orbach claims, “not all Israelis are convinced of.”

Labor MK Isaac Herzog is far more upbeat. “He’s here to embrace us,” but “I also hope,” says Herzog, that tomorrow in his speech to young Israelis, Obama makes clear “that we’re going to be committing suicide” if we can’t separate from the Palestinians.

Herzog, like so many Israelis interviewed in the past couple of hours, highlights how strongly Obama, in his airport speech, stressed Israel’s connection to this land — a theme strikingly absent from his speech in Cairo four years ago.