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Obama Delivers Strong Attack On Israel In Speech To Muslim World



Jun 4, 2009 32 Comments ›› Erik Wong

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Times Online:

Barack Obama today delivered one of the strongest condemnations by an American president of Israeli settlement building and made a startling admission of past US foreign policy mistakes.

In an audacious speech at Al-Azhar university in Cairo to a worldwide audience of 1.5 billion Muslims, Mr Obama told the Israeli government that continuing to construct new Jewish homes in the occupied Palestinian territories was unacceptable and must stop.

Mr Obama went further than any US President in recent memory in conceding that America had sometimes been wrong, citing its policies towards Iran and in its reactions after the 911 terror atrocity. He implied that the invasion of Iraq had been a mistake.

He also made thinly-veiled criticisms of the regimes in Middle Eastern countries to which America has in the past appeared uncritically supportive.

But perhaps his toughest words, and one of the most warmly received sections of the speech, were his rebuke for Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, who has refused to halt West Bank settlement expansion.

“The United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements,” said Mr Obama.

“This construction violates previous agreements and undermines efforts to achieve peace. It is time for these settlements to stop.”

Mr Obama did say that the US bond with Israel, the source of much Arab distrust of the United States, was unbreakable, and he rejected “ignorant” rants by those who deny the Nazi Holocaust.

FULL TEXT OF THE SPEECH HERE


  • Cridhe Saorsa

    THe Arabian Candidate

    • prestonbrooks

      :arrow: Indeed. Why are we trying to placate a bunch of pagans?

  • GRIZZ

    Israel needs to strike now!

  • Cridhe Saorsa

    Mark my words. The day will come when no one except a baffoon would admit they actually voted for this fool. Given this speech, that day may come much sooner that we think.

  • WestCoastGirl

    This US girl accepts Israeli settlements. Don’t know who that dumb ass is speaking for, but it sure isn’t me, my family, or friends.

    • QuakerGirl

      Israeli settlements are counter to peace, and certainly not in the interest of US policy. Why do people think that EUROPEAN atrocities against Jews demand solutions in Palestine? It was the US that never allowed Jews to settle post WWII… check out the laws that were passed and what Truman said… This is not a problem of religion, or endemic hate with a thousand-year-old conflict: this is a problem of subjecting Palestinians to the same atrocities Jews were subjected to in Europe: ghettoization, removal of all economic opportunities, forcible removal of people from their homes. No sane person can actually look at this and feel anything but REPULSION for settlements.

    • http://www.twitter.com/Archinfidel ArchInfidel

      BULL SHIT Quaker!!

      Come out and say it, you hate Jews, dont be afraid to hide it. YOU are antisemitic. plain and simple!

      But yeah, the Jews protecting themselves and giving the arabs more rights than in any other nation in the middle east, Israel is the oppressor right??

      There was not Palestine before Israel, LOOK IT UP. the palestinians are a group of backward militants that will never stop until every jew is dead.

      And one more thing for you to look up, the connection between the arabs and the nazi’s antisemitism was there common bond and they were ALLIES!!!!

      ISRAEL is a nation, get over it!!!!! They have a right to survive and defend themselves!

    • aboutTObegin

      I smell a closet libertarded lurker! this quaker chick doesn’t even acknowledge the Israeli aspect on the whole deal…she or he is demonizing Israel by saying that they are the perpetrators…what a fool. Listen, libertard, if you are going to preach the entire truth to the scenarion, begin with the holocaust and don’t tell me that has nothing to do with it. I am SO sick of libertarded idiots, send them all to Kenya!!! get rid of them and lets get America back on the right track!!!!!!! Time to act is now!

      -aTb

    • Bill

      There is no “Palestinian State”…..the assholes have their own country, it’s called Jordan.

    • http://earthlink nomee 1

      :arrow: wrong quaker girl full settlement is needed at once to claim unused land or sand that no one else wanted untill now.

  • http://earthlink nomee 1

    obambi isnt speaking for me eather, or my freinds and family

  • Cooper

    Bash Israel, Bash America, everything America did before hussein was evil and wrong. In the meantime, jihadis still hate us and plot against us, Iran is still pursuing a bomb to kill millions with, and Pakistan is a mess. Hussein is such an apologist pussy, I doubt he would even take action if Iran or N. Korea committed a nuclear attack…he would just blame it on a “rouge extremist” who was bitter about Bush policy.

  • Specter

    Same shit as the old shit. :mad:

  • TennesseeVolunteer

    As he promised all of these great things I wondered why we don’t have them:
    free speech; DHS is watching all of us on the internet for any things we say that disagree with the administration
    entrepreneurship; we are being overtaxed and over manipulated
    rule of law; trampled in the GM and Chrysler takeovers

    Maybe we should see if we will be able to live in one of those great Islamic countries where he is giving them every right that is being taken away from us?

    • aboutTObegin

      fuck that…and I disagree with EVERYTHING this idiotic administration is doing!!!! the cowards in Government are not even standing up to protect the Constitution!!! I am still waiting on the most critical issue that will negate all of the idiot usurpers appointments and policies……wheres the BIRTH CERTIFICATE!!!!! and if I smell a hint that you don’t have one, I hope the people hold you and all those that support(ed) you accountable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      -aTb

      NEVER FORGET 9/11 and ALL of the ATROCITIES these MUSLIMS have done to the US! To include the USS COLE!

      NEVER FORGET!

  • PatriotofPast(Thomas)

    Hey everybody :smile: …
    I had this thought & maybe you all could Help?
    This Obama/Soetoro Birth Certificate issue is going to be around a long time, UNLESS:
    The way Obama is Pissing Off Israel, and Great Britian. Do you think The Masad (think thats it) or MI6 (help me out here lol)Would,Could come up with Soetoros Past?
    I mean thats what they do right?
    And the way he treated The Queen!! Disgusting! And in 1961 Kenya was a British Colony, so they gotta have some Old Records? As for the Masad, I just bet they could find away into the Occidental College Safe? So, what do you think?

    • Specter

      No matter where it takes hold, government of the people and by the people sets a single standard for all who hold power: you must maintain your power through consent, not coercion;

      I hope these words he spoke bite the fucked-up One’s head off.

    • GRIZZ

      When your born of a jackal,getting a birth certificate……….

  • tarantula

    There will never be another Masada.

    He, and apparently most of America, do not KNOW that in 1948 the UN voted to create Israel AND a Palestinian state across the river Jordan. The Middle East blocked the proposal of a Palestinian state … now a f**king skinny is doing this shit.

    Again, there will never be another Masada.

    • Specter

      True that

      It seems most people assume they know the history behind the Palestinians.

  • bill-tb

    Still haven’t gotten past the oddity of addressing a religion.

    • MinneSoCold

      Bingo! Did he ask for Muslim religious symbols to be covered for this speech?

  • CPLViper

    What a total idiot. I wonder if he will condemn the attacks on the those Israeli settlements he doesn’t recognize. I wonder if he is going to condemn all the death that his speak is going to ‘allow’.

    If any Jew voted for this idiot, I think they need to search their soul on their choice of political party affiliation.

    • Bill

      Sadly, a majority of jews voted for him.

  • PatriotofPast(Thomas)

    A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN… In his speech he admitted he was not!!!
    When he brought up his Father, the Muslim, being “Accepted” by America?
    The Definition of Natural Born is :
    Mother American Citizen
    Father American Citizen
    Well, that kinda settles it right there, HIS FATHER WAS NOT AN AMERICAN CITIZEN! :gun: :gun:
    Just watch the Influx of Arabs/Muslims into this Country, The U.S. Constitution still has to mean something, doesnt it?

  • Granny

    And then there are the “good” parts. It seems that The Won will insure that we fund a huge polio vaccination effort, that we will fund and open science centers on every continent and that we will make many more scholarships available to muslim students for study here in the US.

    Well, let me tell you a few things:

    1. The polio vaccine was funded by the children and mothers of the United States of America in the very first March of Dimes. My mother and I participated in that effort. Ever since the people of the United States of America have made the polio vaccine available at low or no cost to the children of every nation in the world and it is we who primarily fund the UN vaccination program – which the muslims themselves REFUSE. Why should we pay yet again?

    2. The OIC nations – islamic every one – have received literally trillions of US dollars from us over the years, not counting the initial investments by US oil companies. These are wealthy nations. If they choose to hoard the wealth they have received from us in the hands of a few, then they need to answer to their own people. Meanwhile, they have billions upon billions of dollars to fund science centers all by themselves thank you. They have preferred to fund things like diamond encrusted luxury automobiles and indoor ski areas in the middle of a desert. NOT ONE MORE DIME, OBAMA!

    3. These same OIC nations have plenty of money to send students to the US to study. Meanwhile, our own students here in the United States of America are funding their college education with student loans that often end up totaling the purchase price of a house for a four year degree. If we the American People are going to be funding more scholarships for more students in these devastating financial times, then that money needs to go to students that are citizens of the United States of America.

    Not another dime, Obama. You have emptied our treasury and sold off our assets at a phenomenal rate. If the Egyptians want to send more students to the US to study then they can use some of the $50 billion in foreign aid that we have paid them over the last 35 years or so. NOT ONE MORE DIME!

    • Evestay

      Very nice points Granny, thanks for the information.

  • FIU Alum

    83% of Jewish voters voted for this guy. Assholes like Sarah Silverman and Stevie Speilberg

    • http://www.twitter.com/Archinfidel ArchInfidel

      Self hating white guilt Jews voted for the muzzie in chief.

  • ALPHA

    Doesn’t speak for me either. In fact the more he opens his mouth the more the world is coming to grips with who he really is and it will ultimately be to his demise. Proverbs 17:27-28

    • http://www.twitter.com/Archinfidel ArchInfidel

      And a fool he is

  • Josephus

    You know, I used to side with these people thinking that Israel was responsible for its own pain.

    And then Palestine had a chance to elect themselves a normal government. They had a chance to have billions and billions of dollars to flow in and help them build a legitimate, friendly state that would’ve gotten a lot of sympathy, support and international recognition.

    Instead they chose Hamas and their hate for Israel over statehood.

    I then understood the Israeli side of things and I’ve come to support their position.

    Let’s sum it up this way: They take down Israel, all the focus goes to Western Europe and the United States.

    They want a Muslim world living under Sharia Law. They don’t want converts. They just want a Muslim world. Period.

    The way things are going…read Mark Steyn’s “America Alone”. It’s chilling. It’s real. Statistically, culturally and demographically, Western Europe and Great Britain are societal corpses. They are walking dead; it just hasn’t registered with their brains yet.