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“Obama to Muslim World: I'll See Jewish Settlement Stops”
by Jerusalem Newswire - Stan Goodenough
June 6th, 2009

US President Barack Obama Thursday effectively and publicly stripped Israel of its special place in American foreign relations, marking "a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world."

Israel is to be made to pay to ensure Obama's effective "reaching out" to the planet's 1.5 billion adherents to Islam, and especially to those who are Arab.

To engage the Muslim world, the president made it clear that the United States will at least partially disengage from the Jewish world, specifically from that part that holds to the faith of its fathers.

In what was widely applauded as a momentous and historic address, the president told the cheering audience at the Cairo University - and untold millions of approving onlookers around the world - that he will "personally" see to it that the heart of the Jewish homeland is rendered Jew-free and handed to the Palestinian Arabs for the creation of a state of their own.

"The only resolution" to the Arab-Israeli conflict, he said, "is for the aspirations of both sides to be met through two states, where Israelis and Palestinians each live in peace and security."

This was "in Israel's interest, Palestine's interest, America's interest, and the world's interest. That is why I intend to personally pursue this outcome."

The American maintained that "to see this conflict only from one side or the other is to be blind to the truth."

Despite the fact that the Jews have both a biblical injunction to settle the land (Numbers 33:53) and international legal recognition of their right to do so (the Balfour Declaration and League of Nations' San Remo Conference); and despite the fact that the Geneva Conventions do NOT apply to "the occupied territories" of Judea and Samaria, Obama insisted that "the United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements."

Building these homes for Jews "violates previous agreements and undermines efforts to achieve peace," he declared.

"It is time for these settlements to stop!"

To establish some form of positive recognition of America in Muslim minds, the president sought to "dumb down" the unique and incomparable historical experience of the Jews to the level of the quite unremarkable - and certainly not unprecedented - recent experience of the Palestinian Arabs.

Obama compared 2000 years of Jewish suffering that culminated in the feeding of six million victims into the maw of the Holocaust, with the "pain of dislocation" suffered by the Palestinian Arabs who were made into refugees as a result of their own peoples' aggression against Israel, and whose leaders have preserved them in that status as pawns with which to achieve their own political and religious aspiration, which is Israel's demise.

"For decades," Obama said, "there has been a stalemate: two peoples with legitimate aspirations, each with a painful history that makes compromise elusive."

Israel's repeated willingness to compromise - to the severing of two-thirds of its promised land by the British, to the further dismemberment of that territory by the United Nations, to the further shrinkage of that territory under the Oslo Accords; and the Arab's steadfast refusal to compromise at any point over the past 100 years, was glossed over.

According to Obama, America's relationship with Israel is an "unbreakable bond." But instead of acknowledging that this bond is rooted in belief in the same God, the God of Israel, the president said it is based "upon cultural and historical ties, and the recognition that the aspiration for a Jewish homeland is rooted in a tragic history that cannot be denied."

He proceeded to parallel the Jews' millennia of yearning to return to their God-given and once gloriously independent national homeland with the Palestinian Arabs' sixty-year long hopes of establishing a homeland for the first time in history on land they have never nationally possessed.

The audience at the university, which remained unmoved when Obama mentioned Jewish suffering and Jewish hopes, burst into repeated applause at every mention of America's standing with and taking up the cause of the "Palestinians."

Obama insisted that Israel - whose 4,000-year existence has been richly recorded, both biblically and extra-biblically - must acknowledge that the Palestinian Arabs' "right to exist" as a nation, despite it having no more than six decades of history, and never having had a national homeland, a national flag or any other national symbol, to its name, "cannot be denied."

Not only must the Jews surrender their most precious national assets to Arabs, but it is also Israel's obligation, Obama continued, "to ensure that Palestinians can live, and work, and develop their society."

"Progress in the daily lives of the Palestinian people must be part of a road to peace, and Israel must take concrete steps to enable such progress," he said. Informed observers will know that Israel's repeated efforts to enable "normal Palestinian life" have always backfired at the cost of innocent Jewish lives and sometimes devastating blows to the economy of the Jewish state.

What Obama would not do, is place the onus on the Arab states - who have the land, the resources, and the moral obligation - to ensure that there is hope and a future for the "Palestinians." (En route to Cairo, Obama stopped for consultations in Saudi Arabia - the nation where Islam was spawned in the 7th Century, and with whom the United States has long had enormously lucrative oil dealings.)

Of the "six specific issues" Obama said he believes America and the Islamic world "must finally confront together" - "violent extremism," "the situation between Israelis, Palestinians and the Arab world," "the rights and responsibilities of nations on nuclear weapons," "democracy," "religious freedom," and "women's rights," - the American gave the most time to the Arab-Israeli conflict. And it was the subject focussed on most intensely and gleefully by Israel's traditional media enemies, among them CNN and the BBC.

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