President Barack Obama would visit Israel in a second term, a top campaign surrogate said.
“We can expect him to visit Israel in a second term, should he be re-elected,” said Colin Kahl, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East, who is now a campaign spokesman on the region.
The call was timed ahead of this week’s trip to London, Poland and Israel by Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential candidate.
Kahl and others noted Obama’s visit to Israel as a candidate in 2008 and that a number of other presidents did not visit Israel in their first terms. — jta