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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And what, praytell, gives Obama or any other US official the right to tell a foreign nation what it should do? Everyone is worried about too much Israeli pull in US policy, I’m starting to think it’s the other way around.
And growing majority of Israelis do not recognize the “legitimacy” of Barry....
You might be on to something there.....
It is frightening to watch. However, I don’t think we can say Obama is singlehandly doing this because unfortunately a lot of Americans voted for him. We know the saying, all it takes for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing. Hopefully these tea parties are a sign that those days are finally over!!
“Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad.”
At the risk of sounding pagan, this is a profound statement. The world has gone mad.
What we are witnessing is a pandemic of insanity worse than any plague that ever came before.
Fear of organized groups motivated by other faiths is thus deeply ingrained. Add in contemporary notions of what is fashionable intellectually, and you get an indiscriminate mixture of revulsion and prejudice against Christians.
And let me tell you from personal experience, my "stiff necked" co-religionists are immune to fact and reason in this area.
Yo!
Yep. And they need to wake up and smell the roses.
I’m sure that’s true. Jews had a RIGHT to that land and they made the desert bloom. I was raised to LOVE Israel, and I always will.
Regards!
This is a ping for me.
I love your tag line by the way.
I can’t imagine how anyone who cares about Israel voted for Obama.
And many people question Obama’s legitimacy also. :)
“Good grief. Almost 75% of American Jews voted for him. “
That’s only if you define Ira Forman’s National “Jewish” “Democratic” Committee as Jewish.
You could build and inter-dimensional transporter to beam all of the Israeli’s and their settlement buildings into a parallel Earth where mankind doesn’t exist and the Palestinians would be blowing up the people who invented the transporter.
Here’s what their response should be: “We don’t recongize US recognition as a requirement to defend our land!”
You got that right. One of my friends works with a lot of Jewish people. She said they care more about far left social issues and they don’t really care what happens to Israel.
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