Obama's Eloquence on Israel Pales Beside Iran's Dreams of a Final Solution

where did this whole blood feud start anyway

Apparently these folks in the Middle East don't like each other much. As the author sees it the Muslims want to exterminate the Jewish people and we see this supported by the multiple wars, rocket fire, and Iranian President's ignorant/racist comments. We get the idea that the Jewish people simply want to live in peace but we see them also start wars, take out enemy leaders with missles from afar, and hint that nuclear destruction of its enemies will occur if Isreal is threatened with defeat.´

Can someone please point us to literature that explains where all this insanity began? No not the post WW2 creation of the Jewish state as it seems to go back further than that time point.

TO: Hysteria

What do you mean by saying:

"Is there anti-Semitism in the Muslim world? Sure, but about as much racial hatred as you would expect after sixty years of having your face shoved in the dirt on the very basis of your race.

Can Israel and its supporters even for a moment admit the racialist nature of the state of Israel and why that would garner the response it has?"

First of all, have you ever been to ISRAEL? It is NOT Palestine anymore...Palestine mandate is over (look-up history).

Second, you claim it is a racist country...how? there are Palestinian Israelis, Latin Israelis, Asian Israelis, American Israelis, European Israelis, African Israelis...of course you get racism in EVERY country, unfortunately it is a problem for many people. However, there are Arab Christians, Muslims AND JEWS...so how are they racist?? You mean prejudice, against Muslims? No, many Israelis do not trust easily a Muslim, and why? Because they use their citizens to fight!! Do you know Israeli citizens additionally pay WELFARE to Palestinians=food, electricity, and water??

The state of Israel had offered citizenships to Palestinians...many did not accept, many did...the ones who did work, live and are happy in Israel...the ones who did not are angry that they are stuck inside the walls of their choice and have no jobs but the welfare money from Israel and from outside relatives...

Who gets blamed for all of their issues and choices?? ISRAEL...

so how is it there fault? How are they racist? Israel has a right to defend its 7 MILLION population of MUSLIMS, CHRISTIANS, AND JEWS.

Stop the lies...please, people should see a little better than this now.

Hysteria

This is such a hysterical and ahistorical article. I am afraid the author is entrenched in a caricature that unfortunately is not so relevant to the situation. Muslims and Jews live together and work on interfaith matters and so forth in the United States and elsewhere. Even in Palestine itself there are a number of peace groups that see Palestinians and Israelis working together.

The problem, and the one that this author and so many of the other Israel-firsters in this country so assiduously avoid discussing, is occupation. Is there anti-Semitism in the Muslim world? Sure, but about as much racial hatred as you would expect after sixty years of having your face shoved in the dirt on the very basis of your race.

Can Israel and its supporters even for a moment admit the racialist nature of the state of Israel and why that would garner the response it has?

How Many Lives?

It comes down to how many wars can we fight? Must we eventually take out all of the Middle eastern countries one by one and decimate their populations in order to assure Israel their tiny nation?

I am not a proponent of Islam either, but let's face it, this is now one fifth of the world and growing rapidly. Religion in general, instead of increasing enlightenment, is driving this world toward total destruction. Personally, I know I am not alone when I say I would like to live in peace and see my grandchildren do the same.

Let's transplant Israel here, and give the Israelis a big tract of land to build on all they want. We have Utah, and it seems to work out pretty well for the Mormons. Maybe Wyoming would do.

This author would have Obama START

by "taking out" Iran's nuclear capabilities.

If that was such a hot idea, I can assure you that Bush/Cheney and Israel together would have already done it.

Obama hopes to turn the rest of Islam against Iran. Naive to a fault, maybe, but the notion that bombing something bigtime in Iran (AS OBAMA'S STARTING PLACE) is going to make the 1.3 billion Muslims (including in places like Pakistan that already have nukes) turn friendly to the West is even more naive.

I am no fan of Islam, rather believing that Jesus Christ is the finished work of God--not some other prophet 600 years later.

But the Muslims DO exist, and to say we worship Christ, we MUST reach out to them.

OBAMA AND JIMMY CARTER

Both affected with a messiah complex - Neither understanding the corrosive darkness of Islam.