The president of the U.S. tells hand-picked Israelis in a Jerusalem venue other than the Knesset, that
“The Palestinian people’s right to self-determination and justice must also be recognized. Put yourself in their shoes – look at the world through their eyes. It is not fair that a Palestinian child cannot grow up in a state of her own, and lives with the presence of a foreign army that controls the movements of her parents every single day. It is not just when settler violence goes unpunished. It is not right to prevent Palestinians from farming their lands; to restrict a student’s ability to move around the West Bank; or to displace Palestinian families from their home. Neither occupation nor expulsion is the answer. Just as Israelis built a state in their homeland, Palestinians have a right to be a free people in their own land.”
How about if the U.S. president put himself in an average Israeli’s shoes; maybe one who lives in Sdrot or Ashdod, within range of “Palestinian” missiles.
How about if the U.S. president REALLY looked at life for Arabs – Moslems and Christians – in Israel and compare that to life for Moslems in Jordan, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Iraq, Iran, or Saudia. Note I deliberately omitted Syria because some left wingers would claim that is unfair.
How about if the U.S. president looked at Americans living in fear in the major metro areas: New York, Miami, Los Angeles – and don’t forget his towns, Chicago and Washington D.C. When someone in mugged on a street in the U.S., unless the person is homeless or otherwise disadvantaged, the cops make an effort to locate an capture the perpetrator; sometimes the courts actually send the muggers to jail.
In Israel, not only is the average citizen a possible mugging victim, but he also is a very likely terrorist ‘s victim; large rocks thrown at passing cars, fire bombs thrown from the abomination on the Temple Mount, knife attacks, and attacks using vehicles (cars, construction equipment). Worse, at least under the previous government – and I see no reason to expect a change as long as Netanyahu remains prime minister – the cops rarely jailed a Muslim terrorists but a Jew doing the same thing – which doesn’t make the crime right – is arrested, quickly found guilty, and jailed. Even when a Muslim IS jailed, he gets an early release, along with hundreds of others – in return for a single Israeli body.
If Obama thinks there is injustice in Israel, he’s right.
The tables are stacked against the Zionists. Israelis are told to “settle the land” are then prevented from building homes or watch as the army destroys their homes; the government under the present prime minister is as two-headed as Janus. A perfect compliment to the U.S. president. Even a bill of sale will not suffice for the government and its army enforcers. Likud: Today’s Labor. Menachem Begin must be turning in his grave.
The U.S. president may PHYSICALLY be in Israel, but he is not SEEING life in Israel; not for Israeli Jews and not for Israeli Moslems, and not for Israeli Christians.
He also (apparently) is demanding of Israel what his ally, Saudia, won’t provide: freedom to its people. Granted, Israeli censorship is much more effective then in the U.S. but it compares well with England which ruled the area until partition.
Once again, the president has wasted American taxpayer dollars, and Israeli taxpayer shekels on a junket that has, save for numerous photo ops, no value to America or Israel, and little value to the Jordanians in Israel (a/k/a “Palestinians”) who are learning that his words are just so much hot air.
It used to be that “talk is cheap,” but when American pols hit the air,nothing is cheap.
