"Obama knows that he's going to have a lot of conversations with Netanyahu this year," said David Makovsky of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. "Those conversations will be easier conversations if Obama connects with the Israeli public and demonstrates what he believes, which is that he has their back."
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Associated Press writers Josef Federman in Jerusalem and Mohammed Daraghmeh in Ramallah, West Bank, contributed to this report.
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