Obama hows emotional and political intelligence with Jerusalem speech,US president appeals to Israeli emotions with talk of persecution and pioneers – but critics accuse him of lacking substance, the Guardian reports.
Barack Obama pulled off quite a trick in his Jerusalem speech – appealing to ordinary Israelis over the heads of their political leaders and cleverly borrowing a line from their national anthem to explain why Palestinians also deserve to be “free people in their own land”.
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ReadandSeed Layla / March 22, 2013
What Hogwash! What the Germans did to the Israelis, are being done by the Israelis to the Palestinians. It is racism and land grabbing at it’s best, with no shame or accountability! THe ISraelis use the sympathy, we felt for them after the second world war, as a tool to hide behind all the atrocities they commit to others.And the USA is their faithful pet. Iran situation was brought about purely by the USA when they put their puppet on the throne, and funded his death squads against the people, who were in abject poverty, thanks to the Shahs devotion to an extravagant life style and apathy. USA is behind most of the chaos in the world. Tell me one country that is in tact after they got involved in the pretext of human rights? From Vietnam to Afganistan to Iraq to Latin America, and many more in between, they have aided and abetted many death squads and insurgencies , purely for gain
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Lester / March 22, 2013
The Palestinians should not complain. They lost the 6-Day War to Israel. They wanted to put Israel out of permanent existence. Now they (Palestinians) are begging the world for sympathy?
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Jamal / March 22, 2013
Sorry begging not for sympathy but JUSTICE!! Of course Lester the Zionist is so blinded for his congenital hatred towards Arabs, Islam and Muslims that sympathy and Justice is the sole prerogative of the chosen race the Jews. Shylock demanding a pound of flesh!!!
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Lester / March 22, 2013
We all know what would have happened to the Jews if the Arabs had won the 6-Day War.
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