Michael Dinowitz <[email protected]> wrote: > > If Palin is the Republican candidate the chances of me voting Obama is > actually rather high. That should say something. >
Ha! well ... it does. I agree about the mutual (codependent?) relationship between the US and Israel and I think Obama does too since he said, "the commitment of the United States to the security of Israel is ironclad" I think the timing of it was to get in front of Netanyahu's speech to Congress today and thus set policy first (with the "Arab Spring" motivations secondary). And his policy goal seems to be putting the US in front. If that's true, then yes I can see how some in Israel would be pissed, but the reaction has been rather mild and I've read that there are many Jewish groups supporting it. There seem to be 3 good things from the speech: (1.) The US is firmly opposed to Hamas no matter what its relationship to the Palestinian Authority is. (2.) The US doesn't expect Israel to negotiate with anybody pledged to destroy Israel. (3.) Without a peace deal the US will object to any vote to recognize a PA state at the UN this September ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:338271 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
