Weekly Question: Did President Obama Say Enough to Calm Israeli Fears Over Iran In His Speech to AIPAC?
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March 6, 2012
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Mar 06, 2012
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Jerry Houtart
7:12 pm
Mar 06, 2012
Obama prioretise his reelection
It’s a telepronter speach
I can’t talk for Hussein Obama but I would say Americans are supporting Israel
Hussein is the worst President we ever had to comit to make America great
he don’t want to heart the feeling of the Muslim Nations It’s not difficult to find on what side is on.
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Bernard Braginsky
6:01 pm
Mar 06, 2012
Are you kidding? When has that lowlife in the oval office ever kept a promise? Bibi knows him for the swine that he is, but has to keep up a front of friendliness for the left wing media, which means about 99 per cent of all the media. You can imagine what Bibi says privately about this piece of offal.
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harry traub
6:09 pm
Mar 06, 2012
Obama is in reelection mode and will say and do anything to achieve that goal. He made a lot of promises during the previous election race also. He now has a 3 year record to look at on Israel….that is a better indicator of his likely positions.
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Jan Freed
6:14 pm
Mar 06, 2012
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Stanley Tee
6:23 pm
Mar 06, 2012
No, his commitment was not “unequivocal”. He allowed himself plenty of room to weasel out of it by saying that he firmly believes there is still time for diplomacy, for sanctions to work. Given the man’s record of saying one thing and doing another, he is not to be believed for one minute. Heaven help both Israel and the US if he is reelected.
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Michael Rochester
6:15 pm
Mar 06, 2012
Unortunately on. The only thing that would have calmed some of the Obama opponents and the ultra right wingers would havebeen Obama stating that the bombers are on the way to Iran.
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Yaakov Zelig
6:24 pm
Mar 06, 2012
Obama is a phony. After the election, if he wins, you will see his true face and it wo’t be pleasant.Jew’s are, for the most part,knee jerk liberals. The majority of Jew’s would vote for Hitler, if were alive and ran as a Democrat.
The Democrats needthe Jew’s money, so they will lie and sycophant Jew’s will bow down.
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Eli Levanoni
6:27 pm
Mar 06, 2012
It does not matter what president Obama or any president before him says or said, The fact is that in i967, just before the six days war, Israeli foriegn minister travelled around the globe calling on the so called Westren Supper powers to act according to the promisses they gave Israel to protect her. Those powers sat on their bjhinds and did nothing, so israel had to act alone to protect itself. Seems to me that it is all over again. Words are just words Only actions count and I do not think that the u.s. is able and willing to take real actions.
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Reuven (Robbie) Ofir
6:29 pm
Mar 06, 2012
Yaacov Zelig and Bernard:
You do not further your/our cause by being uncivil – hate begets hate. Hate is the language and conduct of radical Muslims. As for Obama – I’d wait and see what he does rather than listen to what he says.
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Bea T.
7:17 pm
Mar 06, 2012
That is exactly the response our people gave in Germany and Poland and Russia and everywhere else they have been tortured and murdered. One does not engage in “hate” when one defends their families and their homeland. Israel was NOT built on hate – but rather as a response to hate.
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Frank Adam
6:29 pm
Mar 06, 2012
It was Palmerston, Britain’s gung ho 19th century foreign secretary who first said, now repeated by US sidekicks, that Britain had no permanent friends nor enemies only permanent interests.
Well the foreseeably permanent US interest in the Middle East is not to let a hostile power occupy, nor control the export of the main oil supply to US economy and the economy of its European allies and biggest trade partners.
Iran is self proclaimed hostile to the US and has already threatened to close the Straits of Hormuz should it feel necessary. That means it is in US interests to support Israel as one of its allies in any stand off with the present Iranian apology for government.
More pertinently the Obama admin fell for the Arab “shooting a line” that Palestine is key to a balance of power stability and friendship in the Middle East, and that stopping Israeli settlement is the key to Palestine talks. However these twelve months of intra-Arab violence as clerical fascists took over blew the first story and the forcing on Israael of a ten month moratorium on settlement development to no result torpedoed the second story.
Obama is another outsider to the Arab World who was a bit too overconfident in his power and his opposite number’s honesty. Like Chamberlain out of Birmingham mayorality where nobody broke with the mayor falling for Little Adolf ultimate cynicism of the survivor of hell.
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Florette Small
6:36 pm
Mar 06, 2012
President Obama is a nice guy. A President needs to be a nice guy to get elected…but nice guys are ineffective Presidents. They want all the gang-banger Presidents and Premiers to like them and to stop being ‘creeps’ because they should want to be a nice guy like him. IT DOESN’T WORK! We are all going to get ‘nuked’ unless we get a strong President.
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Jetta J. Cooper
6:46 pm
Mar 06, 2012
As we have seen, to our dismay, Obama’s promises come with expiration dates. There is no way on earth that any thinking party would regard Obama’s promises to “have Israel’s back” as having
a permanent meaning. He will do whatever he needs to do to be reelected, but don’t count on Obama’s support after Jewish votes have been counted.
After a lifelong “social justice” Democratic bent, I have embraced Independence. Democrats today are not the Democrats of yesteryear. My father was jailed for having the impudence to found a union in the 30′s. His heart would bleed to see what the unions have become.
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Anita C
6:51 pm
Mar 06, 2012
If Obama “had my back” I’d make sure my bullet proof vest was on backwards. What he says and what he does are incompatible. Remember when he showed Netanyahu out the back door like a servant and called him a liar. That is the true Obama.
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Alblank
7:24 pm
Mar 06, 2012
I don’t believe one word of what Obama says!
I think his devious plan is to lull Israel to sleep for long enough so that Iran has the time it needs to finish the bomb and try to carry out their threat to annihilate Israel.
He was born into Islam with an Islamic father and stepfather, and associated with those who hated Jews and America all his life. I believe he’s the proverbial ‘wolf in sheeps’ clothing’, with the not so hidden agenda of destroying our US capitalist society, and bringing utter, bloody, chaos and destruction down on Israel, and eventually the USA!
As long as Bibi sticks to his guns, and protects Israel regardless, she may come out of this okay. But any long delay……may mean curtains for the Jewish State.
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Gary Sheinfeld
7:29 pm
Mar 06, 2012
Anyone who believes anything obama (lower case on purpose as a total insult) says is out of their mind.
The real question is, “Why would this Kenyan born Muslim, back Israel?”
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Viviane
7:36 pm
Mar 06, 2012
Netanyahu speach to AIPAC: He spoke about WWII, and when the Jews asked the US to go and bomb the concentration camps, they answered that it would take too many bombers to do that.
Now BIBI had the same answer from Obama. Then it is the same thing. Let Israel take care of itself.
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Monty Pogoda
8:14 pm
Mar 06, 2012
Obama is a lily livered, cowardly, bulldusting snake. He is a liar, an idiot, and knows nothing, absolutely nothing, about islamist thinking. I would not trust him even as far as I could throw him, and I would like to do just that. Off a cliff.
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Monty Pogoda
8:16 pm
Mar 06, 2012
obama? can’t stand him.
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Mimi
8:17 pm
Mar 06, 2012
I don’t believe anything Obama says in support of Israel. His actions have been mostly against Israel’s interests. The only time he says things in support of Israel is when he’s on the campaign trail. Remember how he said in 2008 if someone were bombing his house (such as in Sderot) he’d do everything he could to protect them and understood Israel doing everything to protect herself. Since then he has snubbed, ignored and pressuredNetanyahu and pursued policies that make Israel less safe. He has also favored and coddled Muslims at every turn.
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Margaret Sadoc
8:26 pm
Mar 06, 2012
How many ‘friends’ does Israel really have? As this has been mentioned in a few of the comments, e.g the ‘six day war’, Israel really had to stand alone and won (most definately by divine intervention). Now also it seems leaders are ‘watching their own backs’, in other words their own vested interests. How much reaction does one really see when innocent Jews are victims of attacks by those who are their sworn enemies? Will Iran blow the trumpet when it produces nuclear weapons, won’t it be top secret? Then won’t it be too late to defend Israel or the US for that matter….. This dangereous policy of ‘lets wait and see’ by the US must sound like music to the Iranian regime.
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Abu Nudnik
8:28 pm
Mar 06, 2012
Land for peace! Apples for oranges would make more sense: they’re both fruits. The author of The Independent piece is, on the other hand, nuts.
But look at the articles beside his on The Independent! “Deborah Ross: Thank you, New Testament, for letting me beat my slaves,” for example. And another: “Rhodri Marsden: Symptoms of living alone may include smelling one’s telephone.”
They also print Robert Fisk.
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