With his two years as a JR senator, and his EXTENSIVE foreign policy experience, not to mention the huge administrative/management experience senators have, he'll solve the world's problems in about what, two days? This man's resume wouldn't get him a job as the CEO for any Fortune 400 firm, yet you think he's qualified to run the US Government and Armed Forces, and the Free World. Pander and the Dem Jews allow their idealogy trump reality. Sad, since everyone seems to think that American Jews only care about what a candidate SAYS about Israel, when, in reality, 75% haven't even visited, and treat the conflict there like some philosophical exercise to be debated in the Sorbonne.

what mainstream politicl hack seeking national office is going to say anything bad about israel? Puleeese!

Obama might be a nice guy, but there is no basis for trust in Obamas' words because he has no track record and very little experience. All we really know about him is that he gives good speeches, and he is likeable. What that will mean, especially outside the US, is anyones guess. I would rather choose an experienced crisis tested and successful leader like New Yorker RUDY GIULIANI, who the record shows, DOES WHAT HE SAYS. He is friend of the Jew and GOOD FOR YOU !

nowadays you are preferred to run this country if you are unsuccessful to be anything else.

Does anyone remember the wise philosopher named Rod Stewart? "If I listened long enough to you, I'd find a way to believe that it's all true. Knowing that you lied straight-faced while I cried, still I look to find a reason to believe . . . If you listen long enough, Yisrael . . . Barack Obama's is not the voice we need to sh'ma

Is YNET endorsing this guy for 2008 or what? How about an article about Rudy Giuliani, maybe the one about him kicking Arafat out of Lincoln Center on his tuchas...

Israel needs to realise that American policy in the Meast will be changed to a more reconciliatory tone for the future ...even handed ............... kyriate shmona 's house ...versus the whole south lebanon and the cluster bombs and the level of distruction .......he is very irrelevent as well any candidate when it comes to the pales-israeli issues ..at the end of the day ....Obama will never change the outcome of your summer Humiliation ....by the part time fighters ....and i am sure will do it again .

it will be Mcain-Guiliani look for them to boycott saudi oil (or use threat as political weapon)

Obama sounds wonderful! I'm an Israeli and I would most definitely vote for him! His rational, liberal thinking is exactly what America needs to help heal the aftermath of the sloppy and destrcutive Bush admin

In the Book of Judges Barak was a Judge with Deborah. Will HaShem give to Osama Barack the wisdom of the Judges. The State Department has a history of anti-semitism. Will Osama Barack change this Department that has been around for a long time with its entrenched anti-semetic ways. shanatova

what did he do to merit the bombastic title "genuine friend of Israel" ? same people call Clinton similarly. All he did had terrible results for Israel.

Obama has always had a very good relationship with his local Jewish community, and I believe that he is also a warm friend of Israel. However, I don't think he has the experience to be president of the United States in this very troubled time. He has never wielded large-scale executive authority, which is quite a different thing from the shared, slower-paced authority of the Senate. I cannot see him (yet) handling a fast-paced military crisis involving Iranian nuclear weapons, for example. (For the record, I thought George W Bush would do a terrible job in the foreign policy arena, too, but from the beginning, Bush consistently underperformed even my lowest expectations). HOWEVER, I wish Obama long and continued success - in the Senate, maybe some day as Illinois governor, and maybe after that as president - and I wish him a strong and enduring friendship with the Jewish people.

or should I say DECEPTION

YNet wrote: "During the speech, Barack Obama recounted a visit to Israel in 2006, and described the damage he saw caused to a home in Kiryat Shmona by a Hizbullah rocket before the Lebanon war." I'm a Repubican. Bush and the Republicans have let us down. Bush has betrayed Israel in order to appease his Saudi friends. But isn't Obama looking for Jewish votes and support. If he thought he could get more support from Arab Americans would he be talking about Israel's "crimes" in Lebanon last summer? Why should we trust this politician?

He is courting the Jewish vote by telling them exactly what they want to hear. As soon as he gets into office, his true feelings will come out.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6619.shtml

The Jews whom support Rudy Giuliani are Israeli friends and I believe Rudy will be the next President of US because he is going to have support of majority evangelical and also some democrat too, Rudy has proved himself to us

They said the same things about Jimmy Carter....see what we 'got' for that?

We need Rudy!

It's a shame that Israel's only worry is if the American president will be pro-zionist. Yes Israel, we love you too.

Hey buddie, don't call all the american jews stupid. You're reading what the filthy liar liberals want you to know. Most of the american jews support the current administration, are for our christian friends and for Israel. Don't misunderstand the reality, the idiot who wrote this second article about Usama/Obama is part of that liberal media that spoil our newspapers and TV in the US and Israel. They love Europe, they understand the hardship of the pals and arabs, they are for open borders and love the minorities in our countries but not in the filthy countries, they defend the barbarians whenever they can, hey guys, you seem to have your own New York Times, LA times, W Post and main networks..Good luck!

u're talking about the same israelis who voted for olmert? the douche who has an approval rate of 2% now?! lol