WASHINGTON — Defending himself sharply against Republican attacks, President Barack Obama told a Jewish group Friday that his administration has done more than any other in support of Israel’s security, and he declared his support for Israel to be “unshakable.”
“So don’t let anybody else tell a different story,” Obama said. “We have been there, and we will continue to be there. Those are the facts.”
Obama never specifically referenced his GOP critics in his remarks to more than 5,000 listeners at a conference of the Union for Reform Judaism, which represents a large and generally liberal branch of North American Judaism. But his comments came amid sustained attack from the GOP presidential field over his record on Israel, with Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney and others accusing him of throwing Israel under the bus and siding with the Palestinians.
