After Obama, Netanyahu now turns attention to burying hatchet with US Jews
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With the bitter row over the Iran nuclear deal in the rearview mirror, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now turns his attention to patching things up not just with the Obama administration but also with one of its key constituencies - the American Jewish community.
"The prime minister has to create a climate where he lets the American Jewish community know that Israel is a bipartisan issue and not a partisan [one], and that both parties should be supporting Israel, not just one," said Seymour Reich, the former head of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
Speaking to The Jerusalem Post from New York, Reich said that Netanyahu's very public challenge of Obama's signature foreign policy achievement left a bad aftertaste in the mouths of many Jews who were put in the unenviable position of choosing to support their president over the objections of the Israeli government.
When asked if the prime minister has a lot of ground to make up with the American Jewish community, Reich concurred.
"He does, but he can accomplish it very easily with words and action in terms of addressing these issues," he said. "He can make it clear in his messages that his speaking before the House on the Iranian deal was an error and that he did not intend to create a division that did occur within the American Jewish community, but that's in the past."
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