Obama refuses to speak before the Knesset, choosing instead to speak at a hall which will be filled with the typical brand of groupthink liberals. All is done to prevent shouts of "You lie" coming from the audience. More can be found here:
HUSSEIN OF JERUSALEM
Dan Greenfield || March 15, 2013
Barack Obama met with several controversial anti-Israel Arab groups ahead of his visit to the Jewish state on March 20.
The groups included MPAC and ADC, b
oth of whom put forward proposals in support of Hamas.
Obama reportedly said, "he wanted to see what kind of concessions the Israelis are willing to make and push them in that direction, that’s why he wants to give the speech to the Israeli people,”
But Obama warned that the speech to the Israeli public might not have what the Arab participants in the meeting were looking for. “But he implored us to give them a pass on this one,” the source said.
Obama also expressed his frustrations with the lack of progress on the negotiations.
‘The only people more frustrated than me,’ Obama said, were the ‘Palestinians living in West Bank and Gaza – it’s a legitimate frustration,’” the source quoted Obama as saying.
And that "big speech", he wants a pass from Muslims on,
will not be given in the Knesset, Israel's parliament, but in a conference center.
In 2008, Bush visited Israel and addressed the Knesset, Israel’s parliament. Clinton addressed the Knesset in 1994. Even Carter did it in 1979.
Obama addressed the British Parliament on his visit. He also found the time to address the Parliament of Ghana, the Indian Parliament and the Australian Parliament…
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/I wish he would attempt to give a speech on the Temple Mount. Kind of “Listen, Oh Israel, I am your lord, I am the one”.