Of the commentary I have been able to read on Obama's speech on the Middle
East yesterday, I think Caroline Glick's is the shrewdest. From a close
reading of the text of Obama's speech, Glick deduces Obama's prospective
support of the emerging jihadist political forces in Egypt and Tunisia, and
elsewhere as well.
When it comes to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs, Obama
glides over the Palestinian Arabs' comprehensive and unceasing diplomatic,
rhetorical, educational, and military rejection of the existence of Israel as
a Jewish state. Glick helpfully summarizes the express statements and the the
implications of Obama's text:
> He said Israel has to concede its right to defensible borders as a
precondition for negotiations;
>
> He didn't say he opposes the Palestinian demand for open immigration of
millions of foreign Arabs into Israel;
>
> He again ignored Bush's 2004 letter to Sharon opposing a return to the 1949
armistice lines, supporting the large settlements, defensible borders and
opposing mass Arab immigration into Israel;
>
> He said he was leaving Jerusalem out but actually brought it in by calling
for an Israeli retreat to the 1949 lines;
>
> He called for Israel to be cut ...
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