Posted on 09/17/2009 5:51:21 AM PDT by SJackson
WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama is arriving at a crossroads in his bold bid to revive Arab-Israeli peace talks as he prepares to make his debut at the UN General Assembly next week.
Obama, now eight months in office, risks losing credibility as a new type of peacemaker in the White House if he fails to take critical decisions by the end of the month, analysts warn.
They say he must finally articulate his long-awaited peace plan and push past his narrower aim of restarting negotiations by striking a still elusive deal on freezing Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.
Not all were sure he would, however.
Daniel Kurtzer, a former US ambassador to both Israel and Egypt, said Obama has reached a point where he must either outline his vision for peace or settle for a more modest aim of managing the decades-old Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
"He's raised expectations that the peace process is going to be important to him," Kurtzer told AFP.
"The higher they get, and the longer they persist, the harder the fall is going to be. So yeah, the time has come for the president to tell us what he wants to do, and how he wants to do it," he said.
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risks losing credibility
With a 4% approval rating in Israel, it's crredibility with the Muslim world which is a concern. Maybe he's make a speech.
found elsewhere:
America Is Now a Muslim Nation Thanks To Obama 4 minutes ago
The first website that ever gave me chills:
If nothing is said or done about this, I’m afraid of what we are going
to face. I had to pass this along .
This is scary and I’m afraid it’s a sign of the times to come.
OUR LIVES BEGIN TO END THE DAY WE BECOME SILENT ABOUT THINGS THAT MATTER.
Obama did not have (for the first time ever) the annual
White House CHRISTIAN Prayer Breakfast this year.
On Aug. ‘09 The Obama Administration Denied (for the
first time ever) a Flyover at the 43rd annual ‘God and Country’ Rally in
Colorado, “because of its CHRISTIAN nature.”
AND NOW............
We should have heard about this upcoming Muslim rally in Washington
months ago, but, our (?) government, who issues permits for these
gatherings on public property, did not bother to let it be known.
Did you hear ANYTHING about the following Muslim National Prayer
Gathering on the “mainstream” news???? Of course not. This is another
very important e-mail for us to read and take into consideration as to
where Obama’s agenda is taking America....Read on:
Washington, D.C. - On September 25th there will be a national prayer
gathering of Muslims on the west front of the U.S. Capitol Building.
They are expecting at least 50,000 to attend from mosques all across
America. They will gather to pray from 4:00 AM until 7:00 PM. The
gathering will take place by the site where U.S. Presidents have been
inaugurated since 1981. The organizers say that it was Obama’s
inauguration speech in January and his speech broadcast from EGYPT in
June that gave them the idea for this prayer gathering on Capitol Hill.
They have a website set up for this event. If you never look at another
website look at this one, especially the final words:
islamoncapitolhill.com
When one reaches a fork in the road, take it — Zer0 (Present!)
Islam is treason to the US Constitution.
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“Maybe he’s make a speech”
That’s the ticket. Maybe he can do a “ full Ginsburg” on all of the Middle East Television stations like he is doing this weekend here.
The communist President Obamanation and the democrat communist U.S. Congress are dangerous people who rob, kill and destroy all they touch.
They are children of darkness and Satan controls them.
This is like the Nazi's "bold bid" to revive a Jew-free Europe.
Maybe it's a translation problem. Maybe there is no French word for "bold". Maybe they meant "insane" or "genocidal"...
Daniel Kurtzer, a former US ambassador to both Israel and Egypt, said Obama has reached a point where he must either outline his vision for peace or settle for a more modest aim of managing the decades-old Palestinian-Israeli conflict. "He's raised expectations that the peace process is going to be important to him," Kurtzer told AFP. "The higher they get, and the longer they persist, the harder the fall is going to be. So yeah, the time has come for the president to tell us what he wants to do, and how he wants to do it," he said.Daniel Kurtzer site:freerepublic.com
I really don’t see how a Muslim day of prayer at the Capitol is a problem.
Now, if it becomes anything political... like praying for the destruction of Israel, or the overthrow of the US government and institution of sharia law.
Then I have a problem. A *BIG* problem.
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