Obama: We’ll make sure Palestinians have a state
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WASHINGTON
“The Palestinian people are having a very tough time right now economically, and it is in US interests to make sure that they have a sense of hope and opportunity and a Palestinian state. I think it’s in Israelis’ interest as well,” US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama told NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday on the heels of his Mideast tour.
“What I’ve said is that we’re going to make sure that the Palestinians have a state that allows them to prosper as long as we also have certainty that Israel’s security is not being compromised. I think it’s in the interest of both parties, but we are the critical ingredient in terms of making sure that a deal actually gets done,” he said.
“I give the Bush administration credit that the Annapolis process has gotten Prime Minister (Ehud) Olmert in Israel and President (Mahmoud) Abbas in the Palestinian territories to have very serious and frank discussions. I think they have moved the ball forward. They may not be able to finish the job. They certainly can’t finish it without serious participation by the next administration, and we’ve got to start early”.
According to Obama, if the US can “solve” the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, “then that will make it easier for Arab states and the Gulf States to support us when it comes to issues like Iraq and Afghanistan.
“It will also weaken Iran, which has been using Hamas and Hizbullah as a way to stir up mischief in the region,” he said, “if we’ve gotten an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal, maybe at the same time peeling Syria out of the Iranian orbit, that makes it easier to isolate Iran so that they have a tougher time developing a nuclear weapon.”
Responding to Meet the Press’ Tom Brokow’s remark that “anytime an American goes to the Middle East, goes to an Arab capital, on the street or in a corridors of power, they say, ‘You just do whatever the Israelis want you to do, and the politicians come out here looking for Jewish votes’,”
Obama said, “I don’t think that’s entirely fair. This is my second trip to Israel and the West Bank. And the first time that I went, I did meet with Palestinian businessmen, I did talk to Palestinian students in Ramallah.
“When you’re in a region for a day, you’ve got a lot of boxes that you’ve got to check. And in Israel in particular, a big chunk of our day was meeting with not only the current prime minister, but former prime ministers and a whole bunch of people who intend to be prime minister. And it was important for us to make sure that we had covered our bases there,” said the presidential hopeful.
Wild Thing’s comment…….
Hey Obama, they don’t want a state. They want Israel pushed into the sea so they can turn the land into a garbage heap like everywhere else they reside.
“we’re going to make sure that the Palestinians have a state that allows them to prosper “
Gosh, I didn’t realize that the Israeli/Palestinian problem was all about economics. Just give those poor peeps jobs and they’ll put down their weapons. Just like in South Chicago, eh Obama?
“…hope and opportunity…”
The Palestinians hope they have opportunity to wipe Israel off the map.
“Iran, which has been using Hamas and Hizbullah as a way to stir up mischief”
Stir up mischief, well that is one way to put bombing, and and killing innocent people and cutting off their heads.
…And the skies will clear, the sun will forever shine and there will be much joy and celebrating within all the lands…when I’m president! Of The World!!!
Obamessiah also thought it was economics that caused 9/11. Just give the terrorists a good education and everyone a good living and there would be no more strife. They’re just angry because they are poor.
Ummm ~ weren’t they mostly well off and educated??
“There were no such thing as Palestinians. When was there an independent Palestinian people with a Palestinian state? It was either southern Syria before the First World War, and then it was a Palestine including Jordan. It was not as though there was a Palestinian people in Palestine considering itself as a Palestinian people and we came and threw them out and took their country away from them. They did not exist.” Golda Meir.
So what is Obama talking about. It would be easy for Jordan or even Saudi Arabia to give the Palestinians a chunk of land for there own, if indeed that is what they want. But we all know, with the exception of Jimmi Carter and Hussein Obama, that the palestinians don’t really want a homeland they want the total destruction of Israel.
Benjamin Netanyahu was interviewed by Glen Beck. Beck ask, the PM why did Liberal Jews always vote for Liberal democrats considering their track record with Israel and the Palestinians, the PM changed the subject. Nobody seems to be able to answer this question. Unless it is the head in the sand solution to all the problems of Israel, if they don’t look for a problem, then none exist.
As it is, in 2004 Bush only got 34 percent of the Jewish vote,. Why would a Jew vote for a democrat, which was high for a Republican, it is almost like signing a death sentence for Israel.
Obama is running around trying to make ‘peace’ with the palestinians and the Jews while talking out both sides of his mouth with promises he can’t keep and doesn’t intend to keep.
The Israelis are stuck to go it alone once again, hopefully we will be there for them.
OBAMA IS AN IDIOT! I DON’T SEE ONE REDEEMING QUALITY HE HAS TO OFFER- NOT ONE– HE IS ALL BLUSTER AND BS- THE MSM HAS IS A SORRY BUNCH OF CRAP FOR PUSHING THIS MORONS AGENDA- I HOPE THEY ALL GET CANNED!!
Obama’s foreign policy ideas really concern me.
Smooth talk, nice sound bites, hope raising answers. But also, completely erroneous and unrealistic. DisneyLand is more realistic than Obama’s ideas.
Like you said WT. If you want a quick history lesson of Obama’s (un)accomplishments just look at South Chicago.
Isralies have told me that when the zionist movement started, the land currently known as Isreal and Palisinien territaries were occupied pirmarily by nomads. The Jews bought land, mostly unwanted swamp land and built citeis and developed farming and eventually an self suffecent industrial nation. Those ‘palistinins’ there now went to those cities, built by the jews, begging for jobs — jobs which they were incapable of provideing for themselfs.
Sorry, you already know that, but any thing I have to add has already been written.
My Isreali friends tell me that when the zionest movement started and Jews started going to the promist land, there we few if any and no large settlements and the local people were nomads. They bought (to buy for money, not stole) land for their settlements. The only land they could get was swamps. They developed towns, agraculter, industry and a modern state. These who now call themselfs palistinians migrated to the jewist towns looking for jobs, which they could not provide for themselfs.
Yankeemom, yes and he will save us all. hahahaha What a clown a dangerous one but still a clown he is.
Mark, thank you soooo much for othe Golda Meir quote and she is right.
I agree Mark, I hope we stand with Israel always.
Cheryl, I do too, I would love to have them all gone. I agree too that Obama has zero redeeming qualities. Not one!
Jack, me too, if he wins, our country will face some terrible times and this is one of them with the things he will want to do.
Tom, that is a great way to put it……”DisneyLand is more realistic than Obama’s ideas”.
Odin, I am glad you shared about that, it can never be told enough times. The Jews made everything there beautiful, and the Palisiniens only destory things.
Odin, your right. Rememebr when the Jews were forcved to leave Gaza? They left behind all these beautiful hot houses of plants and veggies and other things. One of the first things the terrorists did when they were handed Gaza was to go and destroy the hot hoouses. Not only is that destructive but stupid too. They could have used them and kept them going, but their hate for Jews is so strong they had to destroy all the felt the Jews touched. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
The Palestinians don’t need any more land that they aren’t willing to share with others. Funny how the Israelis and the Palestinians are one in the same. If you read your old testament, they are of two brothers who tricked their dying father into a birthrite because of their mother, who favored the younger child.
If we are to have a one world order, we have to learn to get along with each other and well…that ain’t happening, Cap’n.