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Obama says wants to connect directly to Israelis
Yitzhak Benhorin
Published: 08.03.13, 00:34
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1. PLEASE, PLEASE
DAVID ,   JUDEA   (03.08.13)
Don't come stay in your whitehouse and take care of your own people they deserve it. Many of us really do not want to connect with you, save the tax money and spend it on your own people.
2. Please please
Mike the Pal ,   Nablus Palestine   (03.08.13)
Come over and bring a just resolution to the Palestinian people. We have waited for toooo long under a humiliating occupation
3. Connect? Forget it, you got 'em too thoroughly spooked.
Cameron ,   USA   (03.08.13)
This visit should be quite the spectacle.
4. #2 mike the pally
Jerome ,   Basalt, Colorado   (03.08.13)
The Palestinians should feel humiliated. It has been self inflicted bad fanatic choices over and over again by your clueless leaders. Your people have had FOUR chances to not be occupied. Now you are just occupying Israe's land and you are lucky to do that !
5. #2 Occupation?
Dan ,   Florida - Tel Aviv   (03.08.13)
When Jordan ruled the West bank you were not "occupied" and today you are still NOT occupied. You are just an ignorant brainwashed fool. Obama is going to tell you to get back to Jordan or accept that you live in ignorance.
6. # 2
Jules   (03.08.13)
Why don't you just ask for a place in a large Arab country ? The Arab countries occupy 99.9% of the whole Middle East. Why don't they just allow your people to resettle in your Motherland, i.e.: on the Arab Peninsular ?
7. #2
Israeli ,   Haifa   (03.08.13)
Yes, you need a just solution, and so far, the reason you have not found any solution, is because the way you seek it is unjust. You could have established a state here before 1948. Second, your "humiliating occupation" was first established by Egypt, and now you are being occupied by self seeking leaders who care nothing about you. Your leaders exploit you for their own selfish gain.
8. Cut off Israeli aid to "Palestinians". Pay them to leave.
Chaim ,   Israel   (03.08.13)
The solution is very simple. Israel simply needs to stop being the only state, in human history, dumb enough to support its enemies. Cut off all Israeli aid to "Palestinians". No money. No electricity. No materials. Nothing for them. Instead, offer "Palestinians" money to leave our land forever.
9. It could be interesting to poll Israelis on the question:"do
tom ,   tel aviv   (03.08.13)
you really want Obama to visit ?" Maybe it's already been done...?!
10. Mike the Pal Nablus,
Rosenvald ,   Brasil   (03.08.13)
Jordan is your country. Before 1967,no one spoke about falestinians.
11. Let us hope Obama's visit will include an apology to us,
Jehudah Ben-Israel ,   Qatzrin, Israel   (03.08.13)
Jews, for: 1) Justifying our right to sovereignty in Israel to the Jewish Holocaust rather than to our 4,000 years of continuous presence in our ancestral homeland. 2) Demanding us, Jews, to refrain from dwelling in parts of earth, only because we are Jewish - clearly, an act of anti-Jewish racism!! - and double the insult by expecting us not to move and live in parts of our homeland, despite the fact that ethically and legally we are entitled to do so. 3) Demanding of us, Jews, contrary to international law, to retreat to the 1949 armistice lines thus place our children, women, men, the elderly and the disabled in harm's way..., in the way of individual and collective death! Will you, Mr. Obama....??
12. To: No. 2
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (03.08.13)
Should have taken the deal in 1947. But you didn't .... and the rest is history. Has it occurred to you that people who start -- and lose -- six wars and engage in seven decades of unremitting terror really don't have the right to complain about anything? Stop whining. The ersatz "Palestinians" are the architects of their situation. When do you people plan on ever taking responsibility for the choices you have made? There are consequences to the choices you have made. They are not always going to be pleasant. But they were YOUR choices and, having sown the wind, you lose the right to complain about reaping the whirlwind.
13. So you can be ruled by Arab despots?
Sam ,   Texas   (03.08.13)
Who slaughter you?
14. Obama wants to connect Israelis
Sam ,   Texas   (03.08.13)
to old sparky. That is the only connection he cares about for Jews.
15. Obama cannot connect to Israelis unless he addresses Knesset
Cipora Julianna Kohn ,   Z   (03.08.13)
obama mus think that israelis are completely naive and lacking in self respect. obama's refusal to accept an invitation to address the knesset, israel's parliament, is an insult to all israelis. obama's attempt to sideline the representatives of the people of israel smacks of direct inerference in israel's internal affairs.
16. the little emperor is up to his old games
Cipora Julianna Kohn ,   Z   (03.08.13)
obama's choice of venue to give a speech to israelis tells the entire world that he does not fully recognise israel's legitimacy. obama is a master of demagogic symbolisms and mass psychology. what obama does not realise is that his little charades are well understood by the entire world.
17. to 2
Jennie ,   Israel/US   (03.08.13)
Did you think for a second, that you are writing to the Messiah ? Obama is definitely not one...And at the "end of the day", a just resolution will only come during a long term dialoge between your people and Israel. Peace will be possible only when the terror and kassams will cease to repeat and tolerance and acceptance will take place..
18. Strange?
Joe Asfoor ,   Burke, USA   (03.08.13)
Why does the American president meet with American Jewish leaders before a "useless" trip.Incidentally, does he meet with representatives of other ethnic groups before visiting their mother country?
19. Zero hour is upon us.
John Prophet   (03.08.13)
It's now time to act. Has bravery and the quest for freedom be stolen from men's souls? Has evil blinded the leaders of Western Civilization and weakened their resolve? Evil, in the form of Hitler and the Nazis nearly controlled the world. Evil has retuned today in the form of radical Islam and its aim is clear for all who care to see. It's now time to be resolute, to take a stand against what's been foretold. It is written!
20. please #2
yosef, phd ,   usa-israel   (03.08.13)
Like childre, you palis still expect someone to deliver a solution to your problem of "humiliating occupation". The real problem is that there was not, is not and never will be a phalastyn "nation" - no documented history, currency, art, literature, science, art - NOTHING, except wholesale mayham and finger pointing.
21. those present at the meeting
C   (03.08.13)
representatives of the left wing of major american jewish organisations. obama, valerie jarette, ben rhodes. the dog groomer was left out.
22. As regarding the so called Palestinians -
Arn. ,   Sweden.   (03.08.13)
- Obama the blabbermouth. Seems to be an Usefull Idiot desease. Arn.Sweden.
23. obama is malicious
david ,   new york   (03.08.13)
read:"connect with israelis" as "try and make their elected officials look like idiots to their own people so that he can pressure israel's government to throw itself under the bus" he's another mousellini
24. Connecting
Steve Grumman ,   Tucson, AZ, USA   (03.08.13)
One thing President Obama should do is show publicly his disdain for Netanyahu and the Israeli right-wing. Netanyahu and his war-mongering clique crossed the line in very openly supporting President Obama's opponent last November. It's time to return the compliment and take the case directly to the Israeli people.
25. #24 Steve
frank ,   rehovot   (03.08.13)
you sound like a liberal self-hating jew who loves the taste of liberal kool aid. if your white guilt elected an affirmative action president, good on you. You have succeeded in righting the wrong your ancestors probably didn't do as they probably weren't even in the country at that point, but you have righted that wrong. Now you have a do nothing president, with a do nothing agenda. Basically he because president the same way he won the nobel peace prize but we won't let that stop you from ranting about how we are to blame for situational lies that your great white hope continues to blather. Frankly I simply wish he would stay home as the US has a lot more problems then we have....oh and steve, we live with war each and every day from your arab friends and their allies, so war-mongering is not an attitude but rather a reality....
26. Remember when everybody was so upset
Devorah   (03.08.13)
because Obama didn't visit Israel? It wasn't that long ago, and they are already the good old days.
27. please please
DANNY TAWIL ,   ENGLAND   (03.08.13)
TO NO 2 MIKE WHO,S FAULT IS THAT. NO SUCH PLACE AS PALESTINE.
28. Endtime news says BHO is going to demand withdrawal plans
Rivkah   (03.08.13)
from PM Netanyahu for the West Bank. He wants Palestinian State there, you know, the three State solution. He cut Israeli aid by $150million but is sending $300 million to Egypt that has a jihadist leader from the Muslim Brotherhood. The Jews must cry out to Yahweh-Yehoshua to deliver them. They must call on Him by name for him to return.
29. Obama did a great job in Cairo - Israel is next
Rafael ,   Sydney, Australia   (03.08.13)
What a great result from Obama's first term speech in Cairo! Now Israel is next - Beware! No good will come of it. I'd suggest turn off the theatre lights and let Obama watch TV reruns of himself with Oprah.
30. He comes
Cameron ,   USA   (03.08.13)
He comes bearing plans & ambitions.
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