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Obama lays out plan for confronting Iran
Orly Azoulay
Published: 29.02.08, 08:21
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1. this guy has no idea of what it means to be president of usa
(02.29.08)
2. Obama is a question mark Mccain is a sure bet
Zionoid ,   Occupied Toronto   (02.29.08)
One thing is for sure John Mccain loves israel and wants to deal with the Iranian threat. Obama wants to work through the UN. Need I say more?
3. Let's see the proof...
The Doc ,   Haifa, Israel   (02.29.08)
I'd like to see a proven list of Hussein Obama's claim to have a "strong record of supporting Israel in every office I have ever held". Until that happens, these are mere words - just as his "change" and "future" slogans.
4. I have a plan for Iran.
Terry ,   Eilat, Israel   (02.29.08)
I'll give you a hint - It does not involve talking. Talking is a code-word for stalling, for not taking action, the result of which will be to allow the time for Iran to go nuclear. The time for talking is long past. The time for action is now.
5. O-Blah-Blah-bama
Dr. Dave ,   NYC   (02.29.08)
Nothing he says can change his stripes. He's a FAR Left-wing Liberal and we all know by now what that means for Israel.
6. Obama you are worth being a President!
Tity ,   Athens,Greece   (02.29.08)
Obama is and should be the next President of the US..he is the best and he deserves to become President! What a huge difference between Bush that cant even utter a word and Obama that is so transparent in his views and proposals! Go on! the victory is yours and you can do loads of things for the US and for Israel and the ME.. Israel will have peace with its neighbours during your term! Just never forget your promises!
7. Obama lays out plan for confronting Iran
Joel Kahn ,   Raanana, Israel.   (02.29.08)
Someone should inform Obama that Olmert was never "elected" by the Israeli public. It makes one wonder how familiar he is with Israeli and middle east politics.
8. Good plan
Modestus Ons   (02.29.08)
I''ll give it to Obama, as he potrays a good sense of international relationship. He first prefers persuation before force. thats maturity, and calculative, this surely will better America.
9. He's already getting his facts wrong..
Dov ,   Israel   (02.29.08)
He says: "I know that Prime Minister Olmert was elected with a mandate to pursue it (peace)". WRONG! Olmert was NEVER elected by the people of Israel to be PM. The Israeli people happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time, that's all. Mr. Obama, please get your facts straight. Vote for McCain (or Hillary if you are not Republican).
10. First it is important to establish the facts:
Eli ,   Budapest   (02.29.08)
"First it is important to establish the facts: I took my oath of office on our family Bible. " Is that bible any less antisemitic than the koran? As far as I know it's even more...
11. change of rhetoric
daniel ,   montreal   (02.29.08)
I like Obama and think he deserves the presidency. I would like to see however, a change in rhetoric from forging peace with the palestinians to peace with the Arabs. Let us not forget the started out as an Arab-Israeli conflict. When Arabs failed by means of war and by diplomacy they created the distraction of the palestinians. Peace with the palestinians comes only with a greater Arab-Israeli peace.
12. OBAMA NOT GUILTY OF MEING A MUSLIM
CHOSEN WORLD ,   TORONTO CANADA   (02.29.08)
Hey! Obama has pledged fealty to Israel as have Clinton and McCain. He has also repudiated the horrible condition of being Islamic. He has declared he is not guilty of the crime of being a Muslim.' Israel has already made that a crime in the USI.
13. daniel pipes disagrees with Barak Obama
alan ,   cape lookout   (02.29.08)
Read this which cites published sources that are contrary to Barak Obama's written replies to the editor. http://www.danielpipes.org/article/5354 Was it Barak Obama or one of his handlers who wrote these replies?
14. third contradiction
alan ,   cape lookout   (02.29.08)
In Obama's responses here, he claims that in Indonesia " I attended secular schools." Yet in the CNN article cited on Obama's own web site, on Jan 23, 2008, Obama has a CNN article which summarizes Obama's books and this summary his quoted here: "Obama has noted in his two books, "Dreams From My Father" and "The Audacity of Hope," that he spent two years in a Muslim school and another two years in a Catholic school while living in Indonesia from age 6 to 10." So if Obama states in his books that he attended a Muslim school and on Ynet states he attended a public school, he is either lying or constructing a straw man. The straw man is that he never attended a Madrasa. No one accused him of doing so but the trust of his web site defense is that he did not attend a Madrassa. But he did attend a Muslim school and it appears that in this interview lied about whether he attended a Muslim school by saying it was a public school.
15. What's Obama's guarantee worth?
eh-oop ,   UK   (02.29.08)
"Guarantee" is clearly one of his favourite words, but guarantees have a habit of falling victim to expediency. Obama has foreign policy advisers who have an established anti-Israel track record, and he is a member of a Christian church with links to a notorious antisemitc rabble-rouser. He may believe his own rhetoric, but how can one regard his talk of guarantees as anything but talk? Israel must be strong enough to defend itself and not compromise its position in the remaining months of the Olmert premiership. And why does a self-respecting newspaper bother with soft interviews?
16. Nuclear Iran.
Jean Van Daem ,   Metula   (02.29.08)
Nuclearization of Iran must be discussed in the context of the Islamic Revolution, which was dubbed by Ayatollah Khomeini not merely as a domestic anti-Shah upheaval in Iran, but as a global Islamic movement designed to extricate Islam from its submissive torpor and launch it to prominence as a world power. In this pursuit, Iran has become one of Israel’s most vehement enemies, framing its grievances around religious doctrine and anti-Semitic invective, making conflict with the Jewish state all the more insoluble. Indeed, injecting these elements into an already difficult political situation makes finding solutions seemingly impossible due the absolute demands made by defenders of their faith who refuse to negotiate or compromise as described at : http://israelagainstterror.blogspot.com/2008/01/nuclear-power-and-anti-semitism.html
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hadia ,   silwan   (02.29.08)
if obama is moslem he will add nothing to islam .and if he will divorce the christanity .. cristanity will loos nothing .. but if he want to be a jew he will not be worse than olmert // becouse of that ya aske him these question .. i think its religion is to be presedent at least these days .and thinks these replies will help // iam honest in my post more than him becouse i do not want any thing only to tell what i think
18. Barak Hussein Obama is a liar. Beware of him. He said he
Rivkah   (02.29.08)
did not go to a Madrassa Moslem school in Indonesia and he lied. He went to a Catholic school AND a moslem school according to David Meyer's research in The Last Trumpet newsletter for March 2008. David Meyer's thinks Obama is a closet Moslem. His mother divorced the Kenyan Moslem father when Barak was two years old, then married a radical hahabi Moslem from Indonesia. The madrassa school in Jakarta young Barak went to was Wahabi. Wahabism is a radical teaching embraced by Moslem terrorists waging their holy war against the Untied States. David Meyer believes Obama's membership in the United Church of Christ is nothing more than a ruse. Remember that the radical Moslems have continually stated that they will destroy the United States from within.
19. Obama's Iran Plan
Brod ,   USA   (02.29.08)
is like a stupid person who does not listen to advice and plans to jump into a fast flowing river full of crocodiles.
20. THE IRANIAN BUTCHERS WILL SLEEP WELL WITH HUSSEIN OBAMA
(02.29.08)
21. check ur sources
Dovid Levine ,   NJ, USA   (02.29.08)
So at first, i thought Obama was bsing, (via the all the sources you guys brought down), but it turns out that by reading journal responses to them, and the sources they themselves are responding to, it becomes obvious that this is all a spin. That 'muslim' school? a public school with a majority of muslims (most the christians attended the catholic school).. its like saying that a public school in Harlem, NY is segregated. McCain's too similar to Bush to make me feel comfortable, and Hilary's too left, and conceals her agenda - contrary to Obama, who seems pretty open about everything.
22. The Facts Don't Lie But Obama Does For The Jewish Vote
Not Jewish ,   USA   (02.29.08)
Barack Hussein Obama's spiritual mentor and pastor for twenty years is the pro-Palestinian Rev.Jeremiah Wright who has called for his and Obama's church congregation to divest in Israel. Wright gave his lifetime achievement award to nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. Wright also flew with Farrakhan to Tripoli to visit Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi in 1984. Obama's team if he is elected is a list of Jew haters. Some of Obama's people are Samantha Power, Robert Malley, Zbigniew Brzezinski,Susan Rice who advised John Kerry to propose former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker as Middle East envoys, etc. On Obama's Kenyan connection, read this: Barack Hussein Obama flew to Kenya and campaigned for his cousin, Raila Odinga who has signed a pact with the Islamics there to institute sharia law when he takes power after the current bloody coup that Odinga is masterminding. Obama's cousin Odinga lost the recent presidential election so Odinga started the bloody coup to overthrow the democratic elected Kenyan President. Odinga's Muslim goons have burned Christian Kenyans alive in their churches and chopped Christians to death with machetes and axes in their quest to take over Kenya and impose sharia law. Hundreds of Christians have been killed. The Kenyan President filed a protest with the US state department saying in effect that Barack Hussein Obama was interfering with Kenyan politics. The Kenyan President also publicly called Barack Hussein Obama a stooge for Obama's support for Obama's cousin, the murderous Odinga. Barack Hussein Obama's Kenyan brother,Abongo "Roy" Obama is a militant Muslim who preaches that the black man must liberate himself from the poisoning influences of European/Western culture. Abongo Obama is preaching Islamic jihad. Be Informed on Barack Hussein Obama. This web site below has the facts. Keep it for future reference. http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/01/obamas-man-in-k.html
23. Barrack Room Lawyer
steve ,   londonj, england   (02.29.08)
Whatever Mr. Obama has said in this interview is well crafted and politically correct. But this is not the script of a dress rehearsal for a school pantomime being auditioned. It is merely politically correct speak on the part of a man running for elected office. The most powerful governemt seat in the world. Mr.Obama wants to write a statement of change in America’s performance at home and in the world. Well, as we all know whoever sits in that Oval Office will have to act for real not pretend it is all talk. How much longer can America’s leaders pretend that the seat of world power is in Washington? Sure there is plenty of financial muscle and military clout handled from there. But the world needs to determine its own exercise of governmental power and authority. In its own image. Not in America’s image. Not in consequence of whatever America HAS TO DO or CHOOSES TO DO to keep the peace in the world. But in consequence of what America CAN DO to help the maintenance of peace in the world. This means American leaders must encourage nation States to develop their imagination of the world in full view of the United Nations Organization. The UN was established to be a center for the harmonization of relations and as a source of expertise for the physical and humanitarian and intelectual development of the world. This is not happening with any measure of qualitative or quantitative success. Why? Because the UN Organization is not covered by journalists closely enough. Because the Oval Office has become the fount of global wisdom. Mr. Obama, if you get to the Oval Office you must motivate the world’s journalists to get to grips with the entire spectrum of activities attended by the Unuited Nations Organization. The world can change for the better, and non-violently, only where and when it knows how to articulate change intelligently. Let the truths of change be held self evident ……… in the world’s imagination of itself.
24. Some people forget Obama was not a senator in 2003
Jake   (02.29.08)
when the decision was made to go to war against Saddam. Obama was not a senator until January, 2005. The Senate voted to authorize force against Saddam in late 2002. Obama only spoke against the war in rallies, but was not in a position to vote for or against it. Had Obama been among the Senate Democrats, like Clinton and Kerry, he may very well have sung a different tune than when doing one of his usual stump speeches. It is advised not to take Obama at his word. http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2006/11/obama_flexes_an.html
25. To my good old friend, Tity from Athens, #6
Jake   (02.29.08)
I remember your blistering criticisms of Israel and their ill treatment of the poor Palestinians and your praises of the Arabs, and how it reminded of the traditional position of Greece (a country I otherwise admire) in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Then I remembered the Greek fires of 2007, and how upon a Greek request for assistance, Israel sent a team 55 firefighters to battle fires near Olympia on the ground, and prepared firefighting aircraft and specialized burn units. The entire Arab world provided not a drop of water. Aside from one aircraft from neighboring Turkey, the entire Moslem world provided no assistance. I thought of all that, and then I remembered you.
26. Choise dictated by Zionist Press of USA:Barak or Clinton?
Tayfun_Turkey ,   Istanbul   (02.29.08)
Democrats are proved to be most FOOLISH mass of people. They did not chooes their Candidates, Both Zionrist Puppets, Barak and Clinton Dictated by US Zionist Controlled Press even before vote for canditates started. So now Democrats will choose their LOSER against Republicians, otherwise iut would be an absolute result was Republicians will not be eleceted again, Let me adapt Abraham Lincoln's words to democrats "You can fool all of the men some of the time, you can fool some of the men all of the time but you cant not fool all of the men all of the time, except for Democrat morons who may be fooled forever"
27. Tell them what they like to hear, Barak.
Persisan CAT   (02.29.08)
28. EVEN DEMS WILL VOTE FOR MCCAIN
petra ,   usa   (02.29.08)
I KNOW, I'M ONE. Obamas a closet JEW hater. His church is being investigated by the IRS according to CNN two days ago.( re: their tax exempt status) Some lawyer he is,walks right into a political speech from the pulpit that was being monitored for this illegal use of a 'church' for political purposes. What a monumential blunder. He's become convinced that he is indestructable. He will be called on as a witness and his 'church' who praises a reknown anti semite, Louis Farrakhan, will lose its tax exempt status. Fabulous! ' Couldn't write a better script myself. Wonder if they'll make a movie of the week for this brainiacs booboo. Aint it grand?
29. Hadia, #17, what do you mean?
Jake   (02.29.08)
I do not understand what you wrote.
30. Obama was a fundraiser for Palestinians
Gershon ,   US   (02.29.08)
Obama raised money for Palestinian groups during the time of the Intifada. That money went to suicide bombers who killed Israelis. Why doesn't YNet ask him about that? Ask him about Edward Said, Ali Abuminah, Rashid Khalidi. What about Obama's support for his distant relative Raila Odinga who is anti-Israel and wants Kenya to be under Islamic law. And isn't it convenient for Obama that his Israel-hating/Farrakhan-loving mentor Rev. Wright just announced he is retiring from the church?
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