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Mitt Romney Plans Summer Trip to Israel, Meeting with Netanyahu and Other Leaders

posted on July 4, 2012

Mitt Romney plans to visit Israel to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this summer, Philip Rucker reports for The Washington Post. “Romney has made Israel a centerpiece of his assault on President Obama’s record on foreign affairs,” Rucker writes. The trip is intended to “consolidate [Romney’s] support among pro-Israel evangelical Christians as well as Jewish voters and donors.” Rucker notes that Jews “overwhelmingly supported Obama in the 2008 campaign.”

Read at The Washington Post