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Obama is no sucker
Orly Azoulay
Published: 30.09.13, 10:59
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1. please. Orly.
Bob Stein ,   Rannana   (09.30.13)
To believe that Iran, which has sold it's every last resource to build its bomb, whose citizens are starving and miserable for many years now just to make this bomb, has suddenly decided to reverse course, then you are a bigger sucker than Obama, who doesn't believe this, but, of course just couldn't give a sh!t
2. Strong but totally misdirected. Look at Egypt. Libya. He rep
Adi ,   Zurich   (09.30.13)
Strong but totally misdirected. Look at Egypt. Libya. He replaced a bad leader with a total catastrophe. Zero goodness. He is now more dangerous as he feels he needs to repair his respect
3. What planet does this author live on?
Cyberbrain ,   Israel   (09.30.13)
Iran came within hours of a strike on their #1 proxy and realized that their world nearly blew up. And they are responding to a near disaster due to their miscalculation and western willingness to use military force. ynet, please get some knowledgeable journalists and cull out your many blind ones.
4. Obama is a CRIMINAL...he is Irans friend
Chris Rettenmoser ,   Bayerisch Gmain Germ   (09.30.13)
and tries to save it's nuclear Holocaust program !
5. For Azulays of this world Obama is music, for the (sane)
tom ,   tel aviv   (09.30.13)
rest of us he is POISON!
6. really?
michel ,   Ashkelon   (09.30.13)
OK. Not been a complete idiot only underlines the bad faith he has for Israel and the Jews. This guty is a catastrophe for everybody but the despots on Earth.
7. How incredibly
Shmuel ,   Merkaz, Israel   (09.30.13)
How incredibly, pathetically, frighteningly NAIVE.....
8. You're right he's not a fool
steve from raleigh   (09.30.13)
He's a terrorist.
9. are you on drugs?
tom ,   toronto, canada   (09.30.13)
iran hasn't stopped a single centrifuge, nor has syria destroyed a single canister of nerve gas, yet the obama administration is tripping over itself to "reward" its newfound friends. in fact, both files are following the example of north korea, where the americans were suckered into lifting sanctions in exchange for unenforceable promises to stop nuclear production and long-range missile development, which have all been broken. sound familiar? vague talk about "music" and "lyrics" doesn't change facts on the ground, where obama has done nothing to prevent 100,000 civilian deaths in syria, and less than nothing to stop iran's uranium enrichment. next you'll be telling us that obama deserves the nobel prize for fostering and protecting islamist regimes throughout the middle east.
10. Netanyahu better ask himself...
Gunnar ,   Gothenburg, Sweden   (09.30.13)
...who needs who in the US-Israeli relationship. And fast!
11. sorry orly..you are the sucker
JL   (09.30.13)
12. At what cost?
David ,   Montreal, Canada   (09.30.13)
If that is Obama's strategy, the US is paying a hefty price. He might gain few infamous countries at the cost of many alies. He threw Israel few times under the bus, and he mislead France and humiliated it many times. I stoped giving him any credit a while ago.
13. learning........
Noro   (09.30.13)
The writer of this article is worse than the yeshiva rebbies in the yeshivot who don't know the real world. at leat the rabbis do not play dangerous fantacy. obama & the millions who voted form him in their ignorance do nort realize that the evil in the world are no dummies. if they are not sopped noe, the future damage will be much worse mukt0-fold. 1937 again . if obama really went to university he would know this.....
14. I, for one, am not in the ....
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (09.30.13)
..... least bit interested in Iran. I KNOW what Iran is all about. Nothing has changed. Iran remains a rogue, pariah state, with no regard for human rights. The fact that they have elected a slick-talking used car salesman (everyone else having been prohibited from running) does not impress me in the least. The fish stinks from the head. Iran stinks. Europe and the United States may be falling all over themselves with the sheer joy of an Iranian smile .... but it is no smile. It is a derisive leer. At least Israel is not fooled. But Obama and the assorted European heads of state are considerably dumber than Prime Minister Netanyahu. Gee. What a surprise. The Americans and the Europeans being duped, yet again. Who'd have thought?
15. Where'd you dig up this writer?
BUILD BABY BUILD !!! ,   United States   (09.30.13)
He neglected to say that, obama's poll #'s are the lowest ever, disapproval rating 49%, approval, 43%. The government may close due to the Democrats being MIA and wanting to stage it making the Republican's look at fault. In short, DC's is broken and the closing of the Gov. may be the only way to conserve $$ remember, the sequester was obama's idea in the first place, now he cries because the politicians might not vote a higher debt ceiling limit making the credit of the US Gov. unable to pay her bills. Whew! It's a good thing obama is such a genius and financial wizard...
16. So, how do you like obama's 'peace in the Middle East"
BUILD BABY BUILD !!! ,   United States   (09.30.13)
so far? I wonder if anyone's yet calculated how manyMuslims who've died at the hands of other Muslims, and, what roll obama had or didn't have in it? Hope that Israel stands firm and gives nothing to the pals or their representative, obama, the worst US President ever. Any less would be an insult to the alliance of both Israel and to America. BUILD MORE!! Says more than anything else.
17. Exceedingly premature praising, Azoulay
Cameron ,   USA   (09.30.13)
Nothing truly tangible or substantial has been accomplished up to this point. Real, profound results on the ground before the placing of any laurels on Obama's head.
18. Obama Is Listening To American People
World Citizen ,   the world   (09.30.13)
The people are tired of fighting proxy wars for Israel. Bibi better start listening to the American people lest they the tired of Israel and the trouble it causes the USA.
19. But he IS a sucker, ORly!
Helen ,   West Hartford USA   (09.30.13)
He is either a sucker, or a very bad man, who has denied that we are still under terrorist threat, has removed almost all reference to Islamic extremism from intelligence service training manuals, and who has inspired so much political correctness, that many of us here are incredulous!
20. Strong countries talk to their enemies
Hunt S Cross ,   England   (09.30.13)
...yes, but they also protect their interests. Has Obama done that or the opposite? And which friend has he not weakened?
21. He is a sucker
(09.30.13)
Obama sacrificed 100,000 people and made 6 million refugees to get regime change in Syria and weaken Iran. He was outsmarted by Assad so he now negotiates with Assad, and the Syrian civil war continues. Obama spent enormous political capital overthrowing Mubarak and installing the Brotherhood in Cairo. The Saudis got angry and reinstalled the corrupt Al-Sisi instead of Obama's boys. Obama did everything to suck-up to the Sultan Erdogan. Erdogan responding by buying Chinese missiles instead of American Patriots. The only thing Obama can do is push around Netanyahu and Americans.
22. Syrian resolution is a joke!
Mark ,   Lviv, Ukraine   (09.30.13)
Read the U.N. resolution on Syria. What happens if they don't comply? Nothing! There are not terms. And, Russian and China both have veto power over any U.N. sanctioned military action, so America can't attack without violating int'l law now. Obama is a sucker of the greatest magnitude.
23. Obama DOES NOT speak for
ASTRONAUT ,   SC,USA   (09.30.13)
Conservative America. First of all, Orly, get off the BL@CK president issue: it's been steamrolled for years now. The color of his skin has nothing to do with his arrogance, his divisiveness, and his deafness to We The People. American schools are a mess, our cities are gang-ruled, our borders are porous, and we're just about to declare financial default. It's time "our president" focused on AMERICA and not the 2-bit dictators of the 3rd world.
24. If the author means that the...
Gideon Reader   (09.30.13)
...President of the USA is being totally rolled by the incoming Persian Mullet who has very little work to do convincing the Moronic Giggelo John EN Kerry and the hapless, feckless and provenly stupid head of the American state of disarray, that he is a good guy with ABSOOLOOTLY n bad, no less evil intensions toward anyone.(ceptin' fer them verdampte JOOOS) The flaling American P-resident is lost on the world stage and his cue readers behind the curtin are each and every self snookered and ignorant of history/s street markers. Poor USA. Poor Israel. Poor freaaking world. Interesting times await us all.
25. "Why three or four months"
Michael Redbourn ,   Lisbon Portugal   (09.30.13)
Iran can say right now, "Come look wherever you want. We have nothing to hide. But when you find nothing then please stop the sanctions". Nothing found and everybody's happy! But Iran won't do that, and why? Because it has stuff to hide! And who are all these people that believe that Rohani is the new Messiah? Only cowardly bleeding heart Liberals!
26. A lot of people don't understand Planet Earth's
Sarah B ,   Tel Aviv/London   (09.30.13)
approach towards Iran. Iran is a signatory of the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty, it has the right under that treaty to develop a peaceful nuclear capacity to generate Electricity. The big 5 plus Germany intention is not and never has been to stop iran from being able to generate electricity using nuclear power. The concern of the International community has and is always being that enrichment of Uranium by Iran take part in a verifiable way under a system of inspection by the IAEA, Iran understandably thought that saying it wasn't pursuing nuclear weapons would be enough. Rohani has realised this and is preparing to accede to the International Communities request, the details of which are being fleshed out. Netanyahu's stance that Iran should cease all nuclear activities is not and has never been the policy of the big 5 + 1. The sooner Israelis understand this the better it will be for everyone going forward.
27. Obama is a verified pole smoker.
Dror ,   Haifa, Israel   (09.30.13)
28. On what planet
Walter E. Burke ,   U.S.   (09.30.13)
...do you spend most of your time Orly? Obama proved he was right on Syria? Really? If not for the Senate (Rand Paul-R, Ted Crus-R), Congress, and Russia's Putin Obama was going to bomb the heck out of Syria! And since we know that Iran was and currently is being ruled by the same guy named Ali Khamenei, I don't understand the excitement whatsoever. These ppl are compulsive liars just like the leaders of the Ersatz-Palestinians and play the same game called 'provide an excuse to anti-Semites for their anti-Israel stance and pro-Arab policies'.
29. OH PLEASE,,,,,
George Nemrissy ,   Seattle, Wash.   (09.30.13)
Don't try to spin this for a FAILURE and COWARD and mind you, an AFRICAN DESPOT president, the pages of history will show otherwise, the dead gassed dead children of Syria will show otherwise, the over 100,000 dead men, women and children will show otherwise, the speaking engagements Obama will speak at to console American citizens of the death of their loved ones by automatic weapons, "home grown terror" of their own at movie theaters, elementary schools, malls, churches, mosques, synagogues Navy Yards, etc. etc., the natural disasters, earthquakes, fires, Sandy Hooks, will show otherwise, with more tragedies to come ,,,,,,,, this man is a curse and all the "Noble Prizes" in the world, won't save this man's image. At one time he said and the world leaders Assad has to go, now he probably will go to Syria to shake the hands of this bloodshedding beast, return to the U.S. with these same hands and hug and kiss his family. The "Annals of History" and the "Obama Legacy",,,,,,,,,,,,, Oh Please,,, we see it every second and are frankly, we are tired of the "Photo Ops.",,,, he is not a handsome man but a beast like all his new friends,,, Rohani included. Obama and America's Karma will not be a pretty site/cite. don't try to spin this for the little black/white(no pun) boy that wanted to grow up and be president,, all of this was written, but not in the "Book of Life", "Death Rides this horse".
30. strong countries
dan ,   dc   (09.30.13)
DEFEAT their enemies. then they talk to them. from a position of strength.
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