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Herman Cain said pushes by the "so-called Palestinian people" for statehood and an Iranian assassination plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States were evidence that President Obama was perceived as weak in the Middle East in an interview with an Israeli newspaper.

"I think that the so-called Palestinian people have this urge for unilateral recognition because they see this president as weak," Cain said during an interview with Israel Hayom. "I haven’t seen all the facts but I think this whole assassination attempt was another example of seeing this president as weak, in that regard. So, weakness invites attack and I think that he has projected a sense of weakness."

The Republican frontrunner also said that the president "threw Israel under the bus" when stating support for a peace process brokered around the framework of the 1967 borders.

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