Comments on: Obama’s Audience in Cairo http://blog.z-word.com/2009/06/obamas-audience-in-cairo/ Commentary about Zionism, anti-Zionism, antisemitism and the conflict in the Middle East Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:06:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5-RC1.1 By: Md Salahuddin Khan http://blog.z-word.com/2009/06/obamas-audience-in-cairo/#comment-5345 Md Salahuddin Khan Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:48:42 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=1299#comment-5345 Obama's speech was a galvanising initiative between the Muslim world and America after 8 years highly strained relation during Bush period. However, the most contentious issue is to solve the Palestinian problem. Uprooted & slaughtered in Europe and as such, Jewish people have right to uproot and slaughter the Palestinians in the name of safeguarding the existence of Israel is only aggravating the danager and weakening the logic to the existence of Israel. If Obama's appeal prevails and Israeli leadership leaves the path of anti-human activities, it would better for Israel itself. Obama’s speech was a galvanising initiative between the Muslim world and America after 8 years highly strained relation during Bush period. However, the most contentious issue is to solve the Palestinian problem. Uprooted & slaughtered in Europe and as such, Jewish people have right to uproot and slaughter the Palestinians in the name of safeguarding the existence of Israel is only aggravating the danager and weakening the logic to the existence of Israel. If Obama’s appeal prevails and Israeli leadership leaves the path of anti-human activities, it would better for Israel itself.

]]> By: ganselmi http://blog.z-word.com/2009/06/obamas-audience-in-cairo/#comment-5304 ganselmi Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:38:04 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=1299#comment-5304 Modernity Blog[ger], I'm willing to accept your interpretation. And like I said, I think this was a powerful speech. Modernity Blog[ger],

I’m willing to accept your interpretation. And like I said, I think this was a powerful speech.

]]> By: modernityblog http://blog.z-word.com/2009/06/obamas-audience-in-cairo/#comment-5295 modernityblog Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:32:36 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=1299#comment-5295 I think he wasn't so much comparing slavery with the Palestinians, rather pointing out that violence did not achieve the end of slavery, nor could it. Obama is making the point that violence for political purposes doesn't work, and certainly won't work in the long run in the Middle East. That's what I suspect he was getting at. I think he wasn’t so much comparing slavery with the Palestinians, rather pointing out that violence did not achieve the end of slavery, nor could it.

Obama is making the point that violence for political purposes doesn’t work, and certainly won’t work in the long run in the Middle East.

That’s what I suspect he was getting at.

]]> By: ganselmi2003 http://blog.z-word.com/2009/06/obamas-audience-in-cairo/#comment-5292 ganselmi2003 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:41:59 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=1299#comment-5292 Also... Did President Obama draw a parallel between African American slavery and Palestinian life under occupation? I hope not. Overall however, I was very impressed by this speech. I was not expecting him to address democracy, religious freedom, or women's rights. But he did and did so eloquently. Sure, he was clearly balancing these issues against Muslim sensitivities. But he spoke out about them quite honestly. Still, I find it irritating that he continues to call Iran, the Islamic Republic of Iran to ensure the Mullahs that regime change is completely off the table. Also… Did President Obama draw a parallel between African American slavery and Palestinian life under occupation? I hope not.

Overall however, I was very impressed by this speech. I was not expecting him to address democracy, religious freedom, or women’s rights. But he did and did so eloquently. Sure, he was clearly balancing these issues against Muslim sensitivities. But he spoke out about them quite honestly.

Still, I find it irritating that he continues to call Iran, the Islamic Republic of Iran to ensure the Mullahs that regime change is completely off the table.

]]> By: ganselmi http://blog.z-word.com/2009/06/obamas-audience-in-cairo/#comment-5288 ganselmi Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:57:26 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=1299#comment-5288 "By my count, the President received applause on forty-two separate occasions during his speech. The passage above wasn’t one of them." And that is a truly a shame -- the ugly fruit born of the decades-long effort by Muslim leaders to whip their populations into an anti-semitic frenzy, either out of their own hatefulness or to deflect attention away from their own failures. “By my count, the President received applause on forty-two separate occasions during his speech. The passage above wasn’t one of them.”

And that is a truly a shame — the ugly fruit born of the decades-long effort by Muslim leaders to whip their populations into an anti-semitic frenzy, either out of their own hatefulness or to deflect attention away from their own failures.

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