Posted on 05/28/2011 12:00:43 PM PDT by lizol
Obama arrives in Warsaw; Polish Jews urge him to support Israel
By Scott Wilson, Published: May 27
WARSAW — Within hours of arriving Friday in this once-occupied capital, President Obama encountered the enduring emotion surrounding the state of Israel, founded as a sanctuary from the virulent anti-Semitism that wiped out much of this nation’s Jewish population during World War II.
As his first stop in a two-day visit, Obama visited the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers, then traveled to the Ghetto Heroes Memorial, where he laid a wreath at the base of the stark bronze relief commemorating the tens of thousands of Jews killed in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising of 1943.
About two dozen members of the city’s Jewish community gathered to watch the ceremony, and Obama greeted them afterward. Taking his extended hand, a woman told him, “It’s the only Jewish state we have and we trust you.”
Last week in his speech at the State Department, Obama called for Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations to begin based on the boundaries that existed on the eve of the June 1967 Arab-Israeli War.
He made clear a final agreement over territory would likely include land exchanges to accommodate Israeli settlements in the West Bank. But his proposal angered Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who called those prewar lines “indefensible.”
“I will always be there for Israel,” Obama told the woman.
To a man in a kipa, the Jewish skullcap, Obama also said, “We will always be there,” another likely reference to U.S. support for Israel. “I promise.”
The White House said the visit to the memorial, which concluded with a group photograph of Obama with the Jewish audience, had been planned well before the State Department speech. Obama promised to get the photo to all of those in it with him.
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Lech, this is Barack Obama..wait don’t hang up..we’re Nobel winners!
Boy do I wish a lot more people had the backbone of Lech and just shut this guy off. So far no one has managed to influence his actions one iota..so just ignore him. Don’t him more press coverage by meeting or talking with him. Hear that GOP?
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Did Obama remind them that his uncle helped liberate Auschwitz?
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Where’s the First Frump?
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Saturday smiles:
Mother cat hugs baby kitten (adorable:
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Phoebe Allen, the hummingbird, presently hatching her fifth clutch:
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It's unbelievably sad that American Jews don't share that urge.
it’s not what this bowing clown say’s...it’s what he does.
...last seen washing green residue off her neck and chest from cheap tangled jewelry.
:D Heh
Wasn’t it Treblinka he liberated?
Yeah, that should do it. Thanks lizol.
To a man in a kipa, the Jewish skullcap, Obama also said, “We will always be there,” another likely reference to U.S. support for Israel. “I promise.”
Do Poles have short-term memory problems or what?
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There are probably no more than 2 dozen Jews left in that country as well.
And what do you mean by this?
Arasina said that there “were two dozen pols at the ceremony” and I added my comment. IOW’s, the Nazi’s and some of the Polish survivors of WW2 killed so many Jews that there is hardly any left.
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