"Earlier this year, Mitt Romney spoke glowingly of his friend and former Boston Consulting Group colleague, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "We can almost speak in shorthand," Romney told the New York Times, adding, "We share common experiences and have a perspective and underpinning which is similar."
As it turns out, that shared perspective extends to just about every aspect of Middle East policy. For years, Mitt and Bibi have seen eye-to-eye on settlements in the West Bank, charging Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with war crimes, the disinvestment campaign against Tehran and the urgency of U.S. strikes against its nuclear installations. And as newly released video once again confirms, Romney and Netanyahu are of one mind when it comes to a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine.
As he first suggested earlier this year, Governor Romney has little use for the policy expressed by Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama to realize two states, Israel and Palestine, "living side by side" in peace and security. Instead, Palestinian ambitions for a nation of their own should be determined by Bibi alone. As Romney put it in a January 26 Republican debate"
