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Published December 07, 2014.

(JTA) From the drive for Israeli-Palestinian peace to nuclear talks with Iran, Hillary Rodham Clinton is endorsing President Obamas Israel-related positions.

Clinton, who was Obamas secretary of state during his first term, spoke Friday night with Haim Saban, the Israeli-American entertainment mogul who through the Brookings Institution convenes an eponymous annual forum of Israeli and American leaders. Saban has been a backer of Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton.

Her talk was notable for the degree to which she endorsed Obamas policies. Clinton derided perceptions that U.S.-Israel tensions had become tense under Obama.

Nobody can argue with the commitment of this administration to Israels security, she said when Saban pressed her on the perceived tensions.

Clinton, a likely contender for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, has been perceived since leaving the government as distancing herself from Obama notably in her strident defense of Israel this summer during its war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Obama officials criticized some Israeli actions as excessive.

She forcefully endorsed the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks aggressively advanced by the Obama administration and resisted by the two sides. Their absence, Clinton said, created dangers for Israel and leaves a vacuum that is filled by bad actors, threats.

Clinton deemed as essential the two-state solution sought by her successor as secretary of state, John Kerry.

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Hillary Clinton Endorses Obamas Middle East Policy at Saban Forum