Israeli Vote Puts Hurdle in Front of Obama’s Policy Goals
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The Israeli election buried one of Barack Obama’s major foreign policy goals and imperiled another.
The unexpectedly strong showing by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s party dimmed any prospect of a breakthrough in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. And Republicans in the U.S., who aligned themselves with the Israeli leader, now will be stiffened in their opposition to the nuclear deal with Iran that the U.S. and five other world powers are trying to negotiate.