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Obama: We'll make sure Palestinians have a state
Yitzhak Benhorin
Published: 27.07.08, 21:45
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31. He is absolutly right....
Rami ,   Nazareth, Israel   (07.28.08)
Peace with the palis will oweaken the radicals everywhere in the middle east
32. My apoligies
David ,   USA   (07.28.08)
Forgive me. I scolded the talkbackers on another article for their critical attitude of Obama. Now he says something stupid like this. I am ashamed of myself. Anyone who supports dividing Israel or Yerushalayim is your enemy.
33. NO to Islamist-Jihadist state
Brod ,   USA   (07.28.08)
They already have a state in Jordan. There is NO need to set up an Islamist-Jihadist state next to Israel. Already there are Islamist-Jihadist states-Hamastan and Hezbollahtan situated next to Israel.
34. Blah blah...Bush wants two states, so does Lieberman
Mike ,   Atlanta USA   (07.28.08)
Obama isn't saying anything interesting or new. He's repeating an official US position. Concern yourselves more with whether McCain or Obama could strong arm Israel into making concessions. I think McCain can but Obama would have no such influence over Israelis. Thus, the only choice is Obama.
35. Despied that it sounds good I'd never vote for Obama
Alex   (07.28.08)
36. Why are Ynet and J. Post protecting Livni?
Steve ,   US   (07.28.08)
I notice both sites have stories on Foreign Minister Tzippi Livni, yet not one Talkback has been posted on either site thus far. What gives?
37. #17 It's worse than that
David Hudec ,   Praha, Czech Rep   (07.28.08)
There are already 3 palestinian states. One is Jordan The other 2 are the West Bank and Gaza stan. Jordan works to some degree. And the other 2 entities are non functional. What's worse is there is no desire on the part of palestinians to make what they have work. There just isn't the will.
38. Obama sells out Israel for Arab favors
R.Alkalai ,   USA   (07.28.08)
This sums his policy up. We now know where he stands. It is obvious he will screw over Israel. Israel, throw out Kadima, and go it alone. The US is NOT your friend, They intend your destruction. They have sold you for oil and Olmert and Kadima were the brokers.
39. #15While I disagree with GW, he is NOT the first to propose
a Pali state.Do you ,   remember Clinton????   (07.28.08)
40. Well it took him a whole 3 days to show his true colors.He's
as dumb as a box of ,   rocks!Rueben, Israel   (07.28.08)
41. obama
renee friedman ,   lawrence ny   (07.28.08)
i find it shocking for Barak Obama to refer to the terrorist acts of Hamas and Hezbollah as ' mischief'. i doubt that he considers the acts of the kkk - as mischief. words are important- and he should be asked to explain why he said what he said.
42. LOSER OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT OF PAL STATE!
Dr.David Gross ,   NY, USA   (07.28.08)
Obama can help establish his Pali-State in Jordan or Iraq & move there too!
43. obama
michael horvitz ,   cincinnati ohio usa   (07.28.08)
says there will be palestinian state at what price to israel and before or after iran has the bomb
44. Christopher #11
Jane   (07.28.08)
G-d bless you, Christopher.
45. #17
Jane   (07.28.08)
And G-d bless you too, Ulrich.
46. George Sorros's puppet
pete ,   Bat Yam   (07.28.08)
The American people need to know that Hussein Obama is nothing but a front man a puppet for George SORROS AND HIS BUDDIES. Wake America before it is too late! Mc Cain may be a clone of Bush but at least Bush was a known commodity. Hussein Obama is unknown, plus he never took his senatorial duties seriously he voted so many contradictory votes and claimed oops he pushed teh wrong button by mistake. Well he has pushed teh wrong button with Israel twice, with Jerusalem and with a terrorist state in Judea and Samaria.
47. No Jews should vote for Obama!!
Jay3 ,   Israel   (07.28.08)
48. A Palestinian state should indeed become reality ...
daniel ,   switzerland   (07.28.08)
... but on very precise conditions which Israel must work out with moderate Palestinians before signing any kind of peace accord. I believe that collaboration can bring you and the Palestinian peace. It seems that some Israeli are loosing confiance in the power of deterrence which their state and army still has and can use in any case of danger or attac. So also when a new Palestinian state will exist beside Israel. Israel must set clearly the rules for the creation of a Palestinian state, together with the Palestinian counterparty, giving them, as Obama says, "a sense of hope and opportunity", in both people's interest. Only in this way you will be able to stabilise the situation on the long term. That's what we all want, for Israel first.
49. Pal. state may weaken Iran, will certainly weaken Israel!
shneerhere ,   usa   (07.28.08)
What a putz. Thinks he's a geo-strategic genius. Make peace... on the back of Israel. They're already launching rockets from Gaza and beyond. Israel, it's time to 'Germanize'. Cut the ties with USA, rearm, reclaim your lawful right to the land of your Forefathers no less than any other people does. Stop kissing America's boot, you'll only get kicked.
50. BO - something is rotten.
rh ,   Modiin Israel   (07.28.08)
This rhetoric of Barack Obama smells bad. The man clearly has not completely got rid of the drugs in his system from his youth. The root of the conflict between Islam and the world is not Israel, it is Islam. Islamic Jihad wants worldwide Sharia law and the removal of all infidels. He has not worked out by now that the Palestinian , Israel conflict is merely a front to get some sort of legitimacy in the eyes of the Left for their murderous ways . Woe unto us when this man gets the top job.
51. from a soldier serving in Iraq
redmike ,   Tel Aviv   (07.28.08)
http://yearinbrazil.com/misc/battlecaptain.txt from a soldier to a friend ..
52. Obama: We'll make sure ...."
I.Kemp ,   Nahariya Israel   (07.28.08)
Here we go ! Predictable to a "t". Israel will need to learn (and it will) survive on it's own and that could be the best thing that would happen. Just think, no more Secy of States asking and getting "painful concessions", stopping wars bedfore we have won, no Palastinian state, ending Gaza, Hezbullah, Syria , and Iran if they as much as "blink a threat"
53. May be needs may be not. Who knows?
Alex   (07.28.08)
54. "... going to make sure the Palestinians have a state..."
Raymond in DC ,   Washington, DC USA   (07.28.08)
Obama has confirmed that he's going well past Bush in *ignoring* the demands laid out in his policy statement of June, 2002. Bush outlined his expectations, reasonable baseline requirements on the part of the Palestinians - a leadership un-compromised by terrorism, democratic institutions, etc. - that would merit support for a Palestinian state. None of that apparently matters to Obama. The Palestinians can do whatever they want, stick with their "no compromise" strategy, keep killing Jews, yet *still* have people falling over themselves to give them a state. Obama has also adopted the discredited notion that resolving the Israel/Palestine question is key to stability in the Middle East. Martin Kramer recently outlined ten major issues in the region that have little or nothing to do with the I/P conflict! For someone allegedly so bright he's seriously lacking in wisdom.
55. one state solution?
Pablo ,   NYC   (07.28.08)
i was in hebron the other day(i just came back from an israel vacation)and some refugee dude said he and the people really wanted a one state solution and a democracy.i thought that was bizarre cause the news always shows a two state solution.so they say there they don't want a two state solution.
56. Obama
(07.28.08)
Now I see Obama for what he really is: stupid. Does he really think that giving the "Palestinians" a state of their own will solve the world's problems? For one thing, it would be the end of Israel. Just look at what is going on in Gaza today. They are smuggling in tons of arms there right now, and all of it to attack Israel. A whole Palestinian state would make things even worse. Obama has a lot of charisma, he should be a movie star and not President of the USA.
57. # 28 You are right ! good !
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58. A DAMAGE DONE TO OBAMA -Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz
YITZAK BEN SHLOMO   (07.28.08)
This sacrilegious action deserves sharp condemnation and represents a desecration of the holy site," said Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, who supervises the Western Wall, in a statement. He said notes are supposed to be removed twice a year, on the eve of Jewish New Year and Passover, and placed in a repository under supervision "to keep them hidden from human eyes." "Notes which are placed in the Western Wall are between the person and his Maker; Heaven forbid that one should read them or use them in any way. Obama told the reporters it was a private conversation between him and God. "Anybody who goes to the Western Wall and places a note there does so under the assumption that it's a private communication between him and God, and therefore once he has that presumption of confidentiality, there are rabbinic decrees against reading anybody else's private communications
59. What about the Indians
Mark ,   Jerusalem   (07.28.08)
Mr Obama when you give the Indians back the land that belongs to them then may be we can talk about a Palestinian state which really aready exists in Jordan already. The USA throw out the Indians just like Jordan throw out the Palestinians.
60. A liar, a fraud, & no friend of ours.
Terry ,   Eilat, Israel   (07.28.08)
The candidate of the gullible, the naive. He's been packaged & marketed like cornflakes, protected by a fawning left-wing media. Imagine Obama as president & Livni as PM here - boy, will we get screwed.
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