As now scheduled, he'll arrive March 20. He'll remain until March 23. It's his first presidential visit. He made several trips before. He's only the fifth U.S. president to go. Others included Nixon, Carter, Clinton and GW Bush. He waited until Israel's new government was formed. It took weeks to do so. On March 15, coalition partners
Obama Heads To Israel
Palestinian activists throw shoes at a poster of U.S. President Barack Obama in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Monday, March 18, 2013. Some two dozen Palestinian activists protested the upcoming Obama visit. Obama’s trip to Jerusalem and the West Bank will take place March 20-22, and it is the U.S. leader’s first trip to […]