Comments on: Obama in Cairo

By: David All

David All — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:02:57 +0000

Agree with you 100%, kmag. What Brokaw said was an obsencity of the worst sort. How did Obama respond?

By: kmag

kmag — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:23:13 +0000

Why I hate the media:

TOM BROKAW: What can the Israelis learn from your [Obama] visit to Buchenwald? And what should they be thinking about their treatment of Palestinians?

By: John P.

John P. — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:44:07 +0000

JP,

be honest, little of short of Obama promising to nuke much of the Middle East, etc would have pleased you? would it?

Don ‘t know ’bout you, but I,ve got better things to do with my plutonium.

I suggest we responsabilise the Islamic world, by ceasing to feed it.

The Islamic world, because of its outrageous birthrate due largely to a dearth of women’s rights, can no longer produce enough food to feed itself.

Yet we continue to give it billions in aid every year which just compounds the probleme and the dependancy. There’s nothing like a little tough-love hunger to trigger some honest introspection and self-examination, something the islamic brat lacks.

Now I’ll just take my plutonium rods and go fission.

By: Old Peculier

Old Peculier — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:19:20 +0000

So for Harry’s Place, as for Obama, women’s rights are to be sacrificed on the altar of multiculturalism?

No wonder you have only a tiny handful of female commenters.

Goodbye.

By: Mittwoch

Mittwoch — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:48:12 +0000

It may have been brave of Obama to go to Cairo and try to teach the Muslim world something new with a package of smooth words, but surely they can work most of what he said out for themselves. Or do they have a different mental process?

It will be interesting the see the subsequent impact on their lives – and ours – when the wisdom sinks in.

By: SueR

SueR — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:21:47 +0000

He’s wrong by the way, it’s not non-Muslims who think that women are less equal to men; it’s Muslims who hold that belief.

By: Roddy Frankel

Roddy Frankel — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 06:18:52 +0000

RE: Those “settlements.”

“The United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements. This construction violates previous agreements and undermines efforts to achieve peace. It is time for these settlements to stop.”

Does he mean “to stop growing” or “to stop existing?” The wording is purposely ambiguous since he knows his audience prefers the later interpretation.

Also, what about the Arab settlements? Are there any restrictions being place on them?

Finally, what about the Christian community in the West Bank town of Bethlehem? Does it’s existence also “undermine efforts to achieve peace?”

We have heard about the tolerance of the Muslim world toward Jews, but what about the tolerance of the White House?

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:26:37 +0000

…-in a recent interview Abbas said that Olmert had offered him 97% of the WB just last year, and even offered the controversial right of return for refugees! Abbas declined the offer, obviously.

Israelinurse 5 June 2009, 12:07 am

It seems to me that Israeli leaders try to define the legacy by trying at all cost to be recorded as the peacemaker. On the other hand, Palestinian leadership actively seek to be defined by the steadfastness in saying “NO”.

By: cominganarchy

cominganarchy — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:05:21 +0000

To quote from another speech by Obama: these are “just words”. Of course, to Obama worshippers and, likely, to Obama himself, with every speech he makes, the world is transformed a little more. I haven’t seen so much mindless idolizing of a person since I was a teenager.
With regard to the settlements: I always thought that entangling Israelis with Palestinians is a bad idea that is going to undermine the Jewish nature of of the State of Israel, but I agree with Israelinurse: the lack of peace in the ME has very little to do with Israeli settlement activity and a lot to do with Arab inability or unwillingness to accept the existance of a Jewish state in the Middle East. Without their willingness to MOVE ON WITH THEIR LIVES and accept reality as painful is it might be, they are going to be stuck in their miserable situation, and no amount of speeches by Obama is going to change this.

By: kmag

kmag — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 02:07:08 +0000

When have they ever honored a treaty?????? Open up your eyes.

That’s why the United States government has gone to court to protect the right of women and girls to wear the hijab and to punish those who would deny it.

What choice do women in Saudi Arabia have regarding whether to wear or not wear the hijab? The choice to get flogged if they don’t? Is he so dense that he doesn’t realize most muslim women in the mideast have no choice and no rights?