Posted on 09/23/2009 10:49:53 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
In declaring that it is time for Middle East peace "without preconditions," President Obama used his speech to the U.N. General Assembly Wednesday to fire a warning at Israel that "America does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements."
Obama's stark declaration, which drew applause, was coupled with a call for Palestinians to end their "incitement of Israel."
But it was the use of the U.N. forum to carry the settlement message to Israel that drew the most enthusiastic response on the floor -- and incredulous reaction outside its walls.
Obama just put Israel "on the chopping block," said former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton.
Obama said he met Tuesday with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was not in attendance at the speech, and agreed that the two have made some progress in both strengthening security and facilitating freedom of movement, which have allowed the economy in the West Bank to grow.
But more progress is needed, he said.
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You're hoping for the same thing I am.
Bibi...we the citizens of the United States support you.
To the Manchurian Candidate in the White House, we abhor you and your communistic/marxist/socialist policies and beliefs...and we will remove you from your position.
Again (and again and again)....at this pace, this warp-speed drive to communism....what makes you think we'll last until 2010, much less get another valid election? These are not the actions of someone who intends to give We, the People another choice.
He also doesn’t accept the legitimacy of a private contract between myself and my health insurance company. In both cases, who asked him for his permission?
he could’ve been the reason why Jews rejected the GOP as friend of Israel. Everyone supported Reagan and HW Bush botched everything up.
Make that a double WTF?
“Re: Obama is going to set himself up for life”
Nope, we have too many Patriots in the Military to let that happen.
BINGO.
These are the same clowns who argue that people such as Rush and Hannity "incite" violence by discussing ideas with their peers (fellow Americans) in the public square of talk radio.
Yet this man with the full authority and mantle of the President of the United States steps up to the podium in a world body and does actually incite violence against Israel.
WTH?
There are a lot of American Jews who don’t give a rip about Israel. They’re JINOs, I guess.
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Except that younger people today forget that not every jew thought that putting the Jewish homeland right in the face of the arabs was a good idea, so Jewish support has never been 100%.
Nowhere in the Bible is this country mentioned, much less as a friend of Israel. I think we'll either be fighting against Israel under Zero and his Marxist Muslim buds, or we'll no longer be in existence. Either way, we're toast.
Now you see, Lone Starr, that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.
Dark Helmet, Spaceballs
Well said. And I second everything you said.
Exactly.
Regardless of their position on Israel, thinking people must realize that when the President of the United States comes out and condemns one side's actions in a dispute, he is giving license to the other side to ramp up its aggression.
That aggression will not be aimed solely at Israel. It will seep out against the entire western world, including, yes, NYC.
If you truly HEART NYC, you ought to HEART Israel as well.
Joooooooooo Ping
But Obama does recognize the continued settlements in Texas, Arizona and New Mexico (which were also taken through war).
Because they’re our settlements.
Now come on he DID say that the Palestinians should stop their "incitement" of Israel, failing to define those incitements as mortar attacks, homicidal bombers and all other terrorist attacks. /sarc
And pigs could fly.
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