Israel's deputy prime minister says Obama is outdoing his predecessors. Ehud Barak praises Obama

Israeli Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Ehud Barak said Monday that when it comes to his nation’s security, the Obama administration is doing “more than anything that I can remember in the past.”

“I think that from my point of view as defense minister they are extremely good, extremely deep and profound,” Barak, a former Israeli prime minister, told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “I can see long years, um, administrations of both sides of political aisle deeply supporting the state of Israeli and I believe that reflects a profound feeling among the American people. But I should tell you honestly that this administration under President Obama is doing in regard to our security more than anything that I can remember in the past.”


When Blitzer pressed him, Barak said that ever since President Carter’s administration, “the defense relation between Israel and the United States are extremely stable and good.”

“It doesn’t mean that we agree on everything,” he continued, “it’s very well known that differences between our government and the American administration about peace process about other issues, but I believe that in regard to world turmoil, in regard to Hezbollah, in regard to what happens in Syria, in regard to Iran, we basically — basically agree on the diagnosis. We don’t agree on the prognosis on some of the issues.”