He says so-called enemy combatants, foreign fighters captured on overseas battlefields, should not be granted the protections of the U.S.
VOA: standard.2009.11.25
Both Ya'ari and Benn, like many of their fellow commentators on the Left, argue that Obama's decision to invite Netanyahu to Washington and treat him like an ally rather than an enemy is proof that when stripped to its essentials, his foreign policy is pragmatic.
For the first time since the Gulf war, American troops are in a foreign land, not guarding an embassy, protecting aid workers or trying to keep a peace, but fighting an enemy.
Given its assertion that states base their foreign policies on unsentimental assessments of their national interests, true realists would argue that there is no rational bar to enemy states sharing the same allies if doing so advances their national interests.