Barack snubs Israel by making first call to Palestinians' Abbas
I hope this was an intentional snub and not a gaffe. It's going to be noticed, and not just on this site!
Whether it's a good idea in substance or not, I'd rather he were signalling something than mucking about.
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2009/01/obama_vows_to_seek_durable_mideast_peace_in_abbas.php
AFP: "This is my first phone call to a foreign leader and I'm making it only hours after I took office," [Abbas spokesman Nabil Abu] Rudeina quoted Obama as telling Abbas.
To me, this is *wild.* "Sense of entitlement" getting itself a rude surprise, if accurate. Maybe more change has come that we reckoned on!





On the other hand, he didn't need to pick up the phone to talk to Rahm...
Hopefully it's a good sign though.
January 21, 2009 6:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
I am wondering if it is related to comment in inaugural speech to change relationships w/Muslim world.
Seems quite bold, in the world of tea-leaves and nuances of nuances.
January 21, 2009 9:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Occupying Gaza?
Regarding Mrs. Klein anti-Israeli article
The occupying Gaza that was mentioned in the article on the 10.1.09, Klein mentioned
That all the world should boycott Israel.
Three years ago that you all might be busy in the daily news, the Israeli government decided that she is tired from getting to any agreement with
The divided Palestinian people, and decided a one side decision that it is going to get out of Gaza and clear all the settlements around it.
You can google it - the disengagement - it really happened.
You all must be asking yourself, why, is so, the Palestinian people did not do anything to build them self their own economy? good question. the answer is that the terror leadership of the Palestinian preferred to invest all its resources and time in arming and shooting Israel. not attacks over soldiers or settlements since they are not around but only on civilians - regular villages. amazing news not?
For 15 years Israel is trying to find a arrangement with the Palestinian people, in 2000 Yaser Arafet got a proposal that "he can't refuse" a proposal that gives him more than 90% of the land of east Jerusalem! his reaction was the second Intifada, of course.
The Palestinian people suffer greatly, all will agree. but the occupation - that is a result of the historian attack on the '67 borders of Israel - as very little to do with it.
The bad lack of the Palestinian is that every time that are been lead by leaders that are thirsty for blood and money from Iran.
These people that without thinking twice, killing their own people if they try to resist their own leaders - that were been selected "democratically". their terror crimes upon Israel include only by killing civil ans and in schools, teenagers parties, restaurants, busesץ When the Hamas took over Gaza it killed more than 600 Palestinian, and guess what? the Al-Jazeera news station was not there.
Moreover, the Hamas is not ashamed to say and publicly that their cause is holy - to erase Israel from the map, that no Jew will no longer pollute the air, you better google them also? highly recommended.
The War in Gaza is not against the Palestinian but rather only on the Hamas!it is not a simple problem specially because that the Hamas people chose hospitals and schools as their hiding places. but since that the Hamas is shooting on Israel for years not, and killing children, women and men, the Israeli government had to agree on a very hard decision - the war on Gaza. but the Israeli government should spare on the Palestinian people more than its own people?
The Hamas, refused in all the last there years, for a one sided cease-fire - he wants to continue the killing and the missiles launching, interesting what would you do in this situation? just stand and wait for them to kill you? is this is the solution that you are trying to achieve by boycott Israel?
Could be that you ask yourself why no one is talking or writing about these things?
the answer is for Mrs Klein especially, the answer is really sad but real. that although Israel has extremely well high-tech skills, and dozens of novel prizes, its public relation, is not getting even 1% of recognition. Israel is a failure when it has to explain it self.
But on the other side Mrs. Klein is wizard in public relation, for your new book that is coming out, you are choosing to avoid the clear facts, and show a clear ignorant. will you do to recognize your new book with these popular, opinions that are antisemitism?
I do not recall you or any one saying boycott Russia, Georgia or boycott USA for invading Iraq.
Mrs. Klein is the one who support terror that slanderer Israel with her article.
In the Israeli people things that people who writes about things they do not have any understanding, should be boycott because you Mrs. Klein support Terror.
Lilach Sigan,
Globes Newspaper.
here is another link to look and understand:
http://www.bicom.org.uk/news/operation-cast-lead/videos/bbc-news--military-analysis
February 7, 2009 4:23 AM | Reply | Permalink