Ben Smith over at the Politco wrote a good article Obama's Rhetoric Chills Some Supporters of Israel.
I think Sen. Obama needs to begin to start working on his wording of what he says. According to his voting record, Sen. Obama has always supported the American-Israel strategic alliance.
I do believe however he needs start thinking about what he says, the pro-Israel community is a strong voting body as well as a strong financial group and most candidates would not like to lose that support. As well if a candidate loses the support of the pro-Israel community, it is likely to lead to the loss of the majority of the Jewish community.
Obama's comments, including "nobody is suffering more than the Palestinian people" as a result of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, in the Des Moines Register. Have really hurt the senator, he needs to begin recognizing the fact that the citizens of Israel are not living in peace and prosperity. Those in the north continue to rebuild, after thousand of rockets destroyed homes that were standing centuries, citizen riding buses to work continue to question if they will make it home at the end of the day.
Anybody who can confidently say that the Palestinian people are suffering more than Israeli is blind to the facts. Both groups are not gaining from this conflict they are both suffering. The problem is that the suffering of the Palestinians is due to the Palestinian government lack of control of its own people.
You cannot blame Israel for the fact that millions of dollars in aide was held back by Yassar Arafat from his own people. The Palestinian government has kept their people in "refugee" camps since the state of Israel was created because it make them look like victims. They are no longer victims. Keeping them in refugee camps enables the Palestinian Authority to continue to blame Israel for the problems of the Palestinian people.
Billion of dollars in foreign aide continues to be kept from the Palestinian government in order to get them to stop working with terrorists groups, like Hamas. The new "unity" government is not going to do anything. Any government that includes a terrorist group, or calls for the destruction of another sovereign state, should not receive aide from other nations.
What do you think?
I think Sen. Obama needs to begin to start working on his wording of what he says. According to his voting record, Sen. Obama has always supported the American-Israel strategic alliance.
I do believe however he needs start thinking about what he says, the pro-Israel community is a strong voting body as well as a strong financial group and most candidates would not like to lose that support. As well if a candidate loses the support of the pro-Israel community, it is likely to lead to the loss of the majority of the Jewish community.
Obama's comments, including "nobody is suffering more than the Palestinian people" as a result of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, in the Des Moines Register. Have really hurt the senator, he needs to begin recognizing the fact that the citizens of Israel are not living in peace and prosperity. Those in the north continue to rebuild, after thousand of rockets destroyed homes that were standing centuries, citizen riding buses to work continue to question if they will make it home at the end of the day.
Anybody who can confidently say that the Palestinian people are suffering more than Israeli is blind to the facts. Both groups are not gaining from this conflict they are both suffering. The problem is that the suffering of the Palestinians is due to the Palestinian government lack of control of its own people.
You cannot blame Israel for the fact that millions of dollars in aide was held back by Yassar Arafat from his own people. The Palestinian government has kept their people in "refugee" camps since the state of Israel was created because it make them look like victims. They are no longer victims. Keeping them in refugee camps enables the Palestinian Authority to continue to blame Israel for the problems of the Palestinian people.
Billion of dollars in foreign aide continues to be kept from the Palestinian government in order to get them to stop working with terrorists groups, like Hamas. The new "unity" government is not going to do anything. Any government that includes a terrorist group, or calls for the destruction of another sovereign state, should not receive aide from other nations.
What do you think?
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