In three words of a belligerent, hateful speech riddled with Dennis Ross-ian untruths & fear-mongering, Barack Obama revealed to AIPAC conference goers that he intends to channel and support the most extremely hawkish and bitterly divisive positions on the Israeli -Palestinian issue.
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“Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided.”
The US presidential campaign is over. No matter who is elected the results will be the same. Town hall meetings between John McCain and Barack Obama may now be orchestrated not to flesh out their differences on the issues – measured in favours not sense – but to determine which empty suit will look best driving yesterday’s bloody agendas into the wastelands of tomorrow.
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat on Obama’s remark’s re Jerusalem: “This is the worst thing to happen to us since 1967…He has given ammunition to extremists across the region.”
[Al Jazeera]
I believe if Obama becomes president he will be worse for Palestine than McCain. Why? Because Obama has to lean over backwards to assure the Zionist part of the electorate that he is sufficiently pro-Israel. McCain has nothing to prove. Everybody knows he is.
In his AIPAC speech, Obama has already made a sharp right turn re Iran. Look for more of the same in the coming months. I share the fears of the Palestinians.