Obama Israel Trip Destroyed Any Pretense U.S. Can Be 'Honest Broker'

[Purveyor]

Catching up on some of the news stories I missed about President Barack Obama's visit to Israel and Ramallah, it struck me how offensive his words and gestures must have been to Palestinians.

At every stop, he made clear that the United States is 100 percent on Israel's side. Almost in so many words, he said that the United States and Israel are one.

Just read what Obama said upon his arrival in Israel last Wednesday. This is no mere statement of U.S. policy; it is America's embrace of the Zionist narrative, right down to the references to the Biblical Abraham and his Israeli progeny (via his wife Sara), without reference to the Arabs who the same Bible tells us descended from Abraham (via his other wife, Hagar).

More than 3,000 years ago, the Jewish people lived here, tended the land here, prayed to God here. And after centuries of exile and persecution, unparalleled in the history of man, the founding of the Jewish State of Israel was a rebirth, a redemption unlike any in history.
Today, the sons of Abraham and the daughters of Sarah are fulfilling the dream of the ages -- to be "masters of their own fate" in "their own sovereign state." And just as we have for these past 65 years, the United States is proud to stand with you as your strongest ally and your greatest friend.

This except was no more effusively pro-Israel than any other Obama remark or gesture doing the trip, whether at Herzl's tomb, or Yad Vashem, at the dinner hosted by President Shimon Peres or anywhere else he spoke. Yes, as I noted in an earlier piece about the trip, there were also strong references to the necessity of establishing a Palestinian state and even to the legitimacy of non-violent protest against the occupation, but, looking back, it is clear that these were drowned out by the overall tone of the trip.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mj-rosenberg/obama-israel-trip-destroy_b_2962923.html

[99Forever]

1. Gotta work up a good froth so...

... we can justify slaughtering some more people, doncha know? The War Machine is hungry and WILL be fed.

[still_one]

2. I disagree. He said to an Israeli audience that Palestinians Must have a state

He told Netenyahu(sic) to call Turkey and apologize for the flotilla death

It has to start somewhere, and everyone jumps on Obama what he should have done

How about seeing what happens

8 years of bush did tremendous damage to the whole region

The administration also is working to have a dialogue with Iran

Is the glass half empty or half full

The critics slamming him cause he did no do anything regarding the Israelli Palestinian issue the first term, however he actually started the work, bye bing us out of Iraq, and is currently in the process of doing the same in Afghanistan

The media and the repukes have disrespected this president since the start, and yes it is racial, they do not like the fact that the "help" is starting to undo the damage done by them

[KoKo]

3. The speeches were very popular here....n/t

[Mosby]

4. the IP exception for GD has been removed

This should be posted in the IP group.