◼ Obama makes nice speech in Israel.. Why it won't help - Jennifer Rubin/Washington Post
Upon arriving in Israel on Wednesday, President Obama immediately corrected his 2009 Cairo gaffe, in which he skipped over a few thousand years of Jewish history and tied Israel’s existence to the Holocaust.
That was on Arab soil; on Israeli soil, he now declares:
I know that in stepping foot on this land, I walk with you on the historic homeland of the Jewish people. More than 3,000 years ago, the Jewish people lived here, tended the land here, prayed to God here. And after centuries of exile and persecution, unparalleled in the history of man, the founding of the Jewish State of Israel was a rebirth, a redemption unlike any in history. Today, the sons of Abraham and the daughters of Sarah are fulfilling the dream of the ages — to be “masters of their own fate” in “their own sovereign state.”It took four years, but his speechwriters finally got it right. Too bad he does not repeat that affirmation in front of Arab audiences.
◼ GLOBAL COOLING: Bethlehem rioters set fire to pictures of Obama - KHALED ABU TOAMEH/Jerusalem Post
◼ WH map 'erases' Jerusalem - WND
◼ Obama, Netanyahu trade banter as they tread a new 'red line' - Reuters
◼ LIMO BREAKS DOWN IN ISRAEL - Guardian
◼ PALESTINIANS REMOVE BETHLEHEM MONUMENT ERASING ISRAEL’S EXISTENCE SO OBAMA WON’T SEE IT - The Blaze
◼ Obama’s Israel trip a peacekeeping mission — with Netanyahu - Le-gal In-sur-rec-tion
