Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Narcissistic speech at U.N. unpresidential and "put Israel on the chopping block"

http://tinyurl.com/mcpaxq
Bolton: Obama Speech Puts Israel on 'Chopping Block'By: Jim Meyers
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said President Barack Obama's address to the U.N. was "unprecedented" and "unpresidential"...
Bolton thinks this the most anti-Israel speech ever made by an American President. Obama has prejudged the outcome of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations by calling for a "contiguous Palestinian state" :(1) Gaza and the West Bank were never contiguous; (2) A simple look at the map shows that a contiguous Palestinian state means a non-contiguous Israel. The Palestinians have to concede nothing since Obama will negotiate for them. For the first time, an American President called for the restoration of "occupied lands, occupied since 1967." This is out of the Jimmy Carter playbook where JC explicitly changed the wording of Resolution 242 claiming that it said "THE territories..." whereas it explicitly, after much discussion and negotiation, called only for "...territories..." without the definite article. Obama also explicitly said the U.S. doesn't recognize "continuing Israeli settlements" rather than "new" Israeli settlements.

from WSJ Best of the Web: Hey Mr. President, There's No 'I' In 'USA' "For those who question the character and cause of my nation, I ask you to look at the concrete actions we have taken in just nine months."--President Obama at the U.N., Sept. 23

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