Obama says Palestine must be based in 1967 borders.
President Barack Obama is endorsing the Palestinians’ demand for their future state to be based on the borders that existed before the 1967 Middle East war, in a move that will likely infuriate Israel. Israel says the borders of a Palestinian state have to be determined through negotiations.
In a speech outlining U.S. policy in the Middle East and North Africa, Obama on Thursday sided with the Palestinians’ opening position a day ahead of a visit to Washington by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu is vehemently opposed to referring to the 1967 borders.
Until Thursday, the U.S. position had been that the Palestinian goal of a state based on the 1967 borders, with agreed land swaps, should be reconciled with Israel’s desire for a secure Jewish state through negotiations.
When the winds shift, he will side with his Muslim brother. We knew this day would come. Israel, welcome to Barack’s Under The Bus.
May 19, 2011 at 12:21 pm
It sickens me when I hear Obama use the term, “The United States believes (fill in the blank)” or “The United States supports a Palestinian State.” This is bullshit…he cannot speak for the entire country, he does not speak for me or half of the country for that matter.
I have no idea how anyone could not see that Obama is going to destroy Israel. The man was never a supporter of Israel, no matter how many photo-ops at the Wailing Wall. I wonder if that note he stuck in there really said, “F-U Jews-Allahu Akbar!”
May 19, 2011 at 12:58 pm
This POTUS threw Israel to the wolves imo. Wouldn’t be surprised if that was his message.
May 19, 2011 at 2:21 pm
I have no idea how anyone in this country cannot see the danger in that speech. It truly sent a cold wind toward Israel and the Jewish community in the United States….this is scary stuff. Probably the scariest thing he’s ever said or done.
May 19, 2011 at 5:19 pm
I know that this guy doesn’t care about our borders. I think Israel should be able to secure it’s borders.
May 19, 2011 at 4:05 pm
BHO has given the Israelis more money than any previous president. He has sold them better weapons than any previous president. He has wimped out every time on the illegal Israeli settlements in both Jerusalem and in Gaza, on the theft of Palestinian farmland by the illegal expansion of the “security zone”, on the theft of Palestinian water, on the illegal blockade of Gaza. He completely ignores that Israel’s nuclear weapons, estimated at some 300, are in violation of the IAEA rules he likes to yap about for everyone else.
He is not going to do anything that is not in favor of the Israelis. He. is. just. blowing. smoke.
May 19, 2011 at 4:53 pm
True. Plus, this move will be a boon to the military-industrial complex in terms of the knee-jerk reaction PR that will be and already is being generated from it. Remember, war is neck and neck with oil as being the chief source of hard currency in the Middle East…
May 19, 2011 at 5:20 pm
Well Nom, I had the link before I left work. Hamas is not happy with BO.
May 19, 2011 at 5:57 pm
No kidding. BHO is a fascist tool and he does his masters’ bidding. If Hamas ever dreamed he’d be different then they were pwned.
May 20, 2011 at 1:36 am
Poor Palestinians. Thank goodness they have HAMAS running things now. That should stabilize the region.
May 19, 2011 at 8:20 pm
Make no mistake. Anti-Zionism is nothig but anti-Semiism with a pcveneer: old, and ver sour wine in new bottles.
If Israel falls, a domino effect will result in the end of Western Civilization. What follows will mke the Dark Ages look like the Information Age.
May 31, 2011 at 5:17 pm
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2011/05/this-is-zionism_30.html
zionism is different than judaism; anti-zionism is not anti-judaism (the term anti-semitism is a false equivalence of jews and semites; arabs are also semites) else all jews would be like these, and they are thankfully not.