Netanyahu: All White House contenders 'friends of Israel'



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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says President Barack Obama and his Republican challengers for the White House are all friends of Israel.

Appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday, Netanyahu said he's not going to be "thrown under the bus of American politics." Of Republican front-runners Mitt Romney and Rick Perry, who each have said they will be stronger allies of Israel than has Obama, Netanyahu heaped praise on them all.

"They're all friends of Israel, equally representing the friendship with America," he said.

PM Netanyahu and his wife lay wreath at ground zero.

Prime Minister Benajamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara laid a wreath in commemoration of the victims of the 9/11 terror attacks at the newly opened memorial site at Ground Zero.




The prime minister said that it was important to him to visit the place where thousands were killed a decade ago. He added that the eternal alliance between the US and Israel was signed with the blood of the terror victims who lost their lives in the criminal attack ten years ago. Global terror does not discern between victims.


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