-- Obama sticks to commitment to policies that will secure Israel's future, even at the expense of opportunistic attacks and political controversy.
Obliquely and with respect to his audience, in his speech to AIPAC today, President Obama also responded to Prime Minister Netanyahu's repeated lies about what President Obama said only the day before. Just as no man is an island, no country can be either. On its present course Israel is on its way to becoming a pariah state, a status in which it cannot indefinitely or even perhaps long survive. Neither the fact that Israel faces a profound cultural animosity among the region's Arab populations nor the bad faith that often greets its actions nor even the anti-Semitism that is sometimes beneath the animus changes this essential fact. The make-up of the 21st century world is simply not compatible with a perpetual military occupation of another people, especially one that crosses a boundary of ethnicity and religion. Only the willfully oblivious can't see that. ~~ Josh Marshall More here: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2011/05/a_proud_day_for_obama.php?ref=fpblg ALSO: Israel's opposition leader, Tzipi Livni, reportedly backs Obama's rhetoric, and she chastised Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu for coming out against the Obama administration: Tzipi Livni, leader of Israel's opposition Kadima party, also backed Mr Obama's two-state solution and accused Mr Netanyahu of putting Israel at risk in order to save his right-wing coalition. "The prime minister has violated relations between Israel and the United States," she said, speaking after Mr Obama's speech but before the Oval Office meeting. "He has endangered the security of Israel and its power of deterrence." http://thinkprogress.org/2011/05/21/livni-obama-1967/
