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    Is timing of assistance a coincidence?

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Also the coincidence President Obama today through a whole lot of your money at Israel just as likely challenger Mitt Romney heads to the Jewish state.

During his first foreign policy trip.

Here's senior White House foreign affairs correspondent wonderful.

The bill the president signed demonstrably US guarantee that Israel will always be militarily superior to its neighbors.

Everybody understands how committed all of us are Republicans and Democrats.

As Americans to our friends and make.

It was safe and secure.

The bill provides a seventy million dollar expansion of the iron dome missile defense system already protecting Israel from Hezbollah rockets.

It commits the US to support Israeli Palestinian peace talks but makes it official US policy to deny Palestinian refugees the right of return.

By affirming our commitment to Israel as a Jewish state.

-- traveling with Mitt Romney welcomed the legislation but said quote.

Unfortunately this bill does nothing to address yesterday's evasiveness from the white house on whether President Obama recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

White House spokesman Jay Carney today admitted he'd stumbled when asked yesterday about whether mr.

Obama recognizes Jerusalem is Israel's capital.

The status of Jerusalem is an issue that should be resolved.

In final status negotiations between.

Israelis and Palestinians.

Congress has ordered the embassy be moved there.

But that would put the US in violation of the UN Security Council resolution that calls on Israelis and Palestinians to work it out -- presidents Clinton.

George W.

Bush and Obama have all refused.

In the 2008 campaign mr.

Obama declared his support for Jerusalem as the Israeli capital but didn't preclude negotiations.

Romney himself has declined to criticize the president while abroad but he and -- on him earlier this week.

President Obama is fond of lecturing Israel's leaders.

He's -- would cut he was even caught by a microphone deriding them some saw the timing of today's ceremony a day before Romney travels to Israel as an effort to upstage him.

That Democrats denied it.

You at all because -- -- John Boehner and Eric Cantor said he.

-- at the time frame for this.

Polls give the president a substantial lead over Mitt Romney among Jewish voters but not nearly as big as the -- enjoyed over John McCain the Romney camp -- just reducing the advantage.

We'll help change the outcome in November.

-- on the dollar in the White House briefing around Wendell thank you the opening ceremony.

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