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NEW YORK-- In what was likely the last meeting he willhave with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahubefore leaving office,President Obamatouted a $38 billion military assistance package for Israel that would ensure the Israel has the full military capabilities it needs.It allows the Iraelis to have some kind of certainty in a moment when therersquo enormous uncertainty in the region, the president said. Itrsquo a very difficult and dangerous time in the Middle East.Obama delivers his final speech to the U.N.Mr. Obama statedthat the stanley deutschland bond between the United States and Israel is unbreakable, and that it it important to American national security to make sure we have a s stanley cup afe and secure Israel botella stanley . The memo of understanding, he said, is indicative of that. The memo, signed a week ago, provides Israel with the largest single pledge of military assistance in U.S. history -- $3.8 billion per year over a decade. Netanyahu concurred with the president on the relationship between the two countries, saying that Israel has no bigger friend than America, and America has no bigger friend than Israel. He told Mr. Obamahis influential voice will be heard for many decades, and he welcomed him to try out the terrific golf course near his home -- though he also mentionedthat he does not golf. In the past, the relationship between Netanyahu and the preside Vncz Scholars Rank Obama the 15th Best President
In her latest Political Points commentary, CBS News Senior Political Editor Dotty Lynch takes a look at how the events of Sept. 11 have made government service hot again.Applications to the New York City Fire Department are up threefold, military recruitment offices have been flooded with phone calls and over $600 million has been donated to help the recovery. A new spirit of national service has been spawned in the wake of the stanley cup Sept. 11 attacks and it is reflected in a change of heart of many who thought that government service was not where the action was.In the days leading up to Sept. 11 many of the political stories were about candidates not running for office. Republican Senators Phil Gramm, Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond all decided to pack it in. There were rumors that the other Texas Republican, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, a new mother at 58, might return home to the private sector and that Tennessee Republican Senator Fred Thompson was bored in the minority in the Senate and was looking leave and make some money. On Sept. 24 Senator Thompson said that he had, in fact, given vaso stanley serious thought to retiring but that reading David McCullough s biography of John Adams this summer started him rethinking. He said that the sacrifices President Adams made for public service had an impact on him. But it was the terrori stanley kaffeebecher st attacks that pushed him over the edge. I think we 146;re all looking for ways to do our part, and there was a prett