Drunk, ignorant and racist in Israel

Tears and hard truths in Cairo
By S Abdallah Schleifer in Cairo
“One minute into his speech he won nearly every heart and mind in the great hall, announcing his pride to be carrying “the goodwill of the American people, and a greeting of peace Muslim communities use in my country: asalaamu alaikum.”

###Could feel the earth move under my feet
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Hatred and bigotry towards Obama and speech
Max Blumenthal: Feeling the Hate In Jerusalem on Eve of Obama’s Cairo Address
http://www.philipweiss.org/mon…..idc-ctools

Guarded Response
http://www.euronews.net/2009/0…..ro-speech/

We’ve asked Prof. Joel Beinin, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Middle East History at Stanford University, to give us his impression on President Obama’s speech in Cairo today. We’re sharing his response with you.
An articulate and charismatic President of the United States named Barack Hussein Obama giving a speech at Cairo University co-sponsored by al-Azhar, the most eminent institution of Muslim learning – now that’s a new picture. Its enormous symbolic value is President Obama’s biggest asset as he implements policy on the entire range of difficult issues he mentioned. The President stated, “Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail.” This is an excellent basis for resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

The President did not provide details on how the conflict should be resolved beyond general support for “two states, where Israelis and Palestinians each live in peace and security.” But the meaning of this formulation is now contested due to its empty repetition by presidents and prime ministers whose actions and inactions have undermined it. Instead President Obama emphasized U.S. rejection of “the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements,” saying nothing about the future of those settlements already existing and their nearly 500,000 inhabitants. By limiting himself to an apparently pragmatic “first step,” President Obama may have made his task harder. If he does not produce concrete results very soon on this limited, albeit it absolutely necessary, measure, then the potential value of his fine words in Cairo will soon diminish.

Joel Beinin

June 4, 2009
Stanford, CA

Instead the OBama administration is sending troops and drones into Afghanistan, drones into Pakistan killing many innocent people.

Now Obama can tell the Iraqi people they are better off now than when Saddam was alive and in control (which he did). But I would suggest he might want to take into account what they think and have to say. He might start by talking to some of the 5 million displaced Iraqi people. Or he can try to roll over all of the dead bodies and blood in the streets. But the smell of those dead bodies permeates the air.
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Obama should apologise for Iraq war: Tutu

Feb 19, 2009

LONDON (AFP) — Archbishop Desmond Tutu warned Thursday that US President Barack Obama risks squandering goodwill from around the world if he fails to take concrete steps such as apologising for the Iraq war.

Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and retired archbishop of Cape Town, urged Obama to support the International Criminal Court (ICC) and “come down hard” on African dictators.

The 77-year-old anti-apartheid icon said that when Obama was elected in November last year, “I wanted to jump and dance and shout” as he had done after voting in his homeland for the first time in 1994.
http://www.google.com/hostedne…..55VofSPAFg

Thank god we have Roger Freaking Simon to parse it all out for us eh?

well, if you’re gonna go all “Obamanical” on us, we need somebody else to pop our happy ballon

Nice thread. Cheers to you for a positive take. I’m personally thrilled, I really think this was a huge step forward.

http://www.politico.com/news/s…..23338.html