1. What two main topics did President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discuss during their meeting at the White House on Monday?

2. a) Why did President Obama press Prime Minister Netanyahu to do?
b) What argument did the President use?

3. What comments did President Obama make regarding Israel in an earlier interview with Bloomberg View?

4. What did Prime Minister Netanyahu say Israel wants and what did he say his government wants Palestinian President Abbas to do?

5. Prime Minister Netanyahu has insisted on numerous occasions that for a peace deal to be signed with the Palestinians, they must recognize Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people. President Abbas has refused to do so on numerous occasions.
a) Do you think the Israelis are justified in demanding that the Palestinians acknowledge this before a peace deal is signed? Explain your answer.
b) Palestinians seek to establish a state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, with East Jerusalem as its capital. Israel captured those areas in the 1967 Middle East war and in 2005, pulled out of the Gaza Strip, now run by Hamas Islamists opposed to Abbas's peace efforts. Do you think there could be a real peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians if Hamas continues to control the Gaza Strip? Explain your answer.

6. Despite the Obama administration's push for negotiations, Iran continues to work to develop nuclear weapons. The Iranian government on numerous occasions has called for the destruction of Israel. Ask a parent: Do you think President Obama has a solid foreign policy on dealing with Iran? Explain your answer.