He will say anyone in opposition actually is a supporter of Likud and not peace for Israel
TIMES UK:
President Obama placed the Middle East at the forefront of his first hours in office yesterday as he sought to make good on his promise of "ushering in a new era of peace".
In a flurry of telephone calls from the Oval Office, he reached out to leaders in the region and vowed to engage immediately in pursuit of a permanent Arab-Israeli settlement.
The spokesman for President Abbas revealed that Mr Obama had told the Palestinian leader that their conversation was his first with a foreign statesman since taking office. Mr Obama also spoke to President Mubarak of Egypt, Ehud Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister, and King Abdullah of Jordan.
Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, said that the talks with Middle East leaders underlined a "commitment to active engagement in pursuit of Arab-Israeli peace from the beginning of his term". He added: "In the aftermath of the Gaza conflict, he emphasised his determination to work to help consolidate the ceasefire by establishing an effective anti-smuggling regime to prevent Hamas from rearming, and facilitating, in partnership with the Palestinian Authority, a major reconstruction effort."
In the next few days Mr Obama is expected to appoint a Middle East peace envoy, widely thought to be the former senator George Mitchell, who performed a similar role in Ireland under President Clinton.
Of course the catholics held no belief from a perfect god who gave them a perfect document demanding dominance over protestants in an Ireland consecrated to them by god.
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Well, it looks like we're seeing the beginning of what we feared.
I hope (operative word) he is really gonna try to bring in other players, lots of em, to pressure Abas to get rid of Hamas.
I'm not sure there is enough pressure
Perhaps he could bargain them down into accepting a half a genocide? I'm sure there is an acceptable compromise.
As a British subject it is not for me to comment on American policy, but I hope that the new president knows something about Dane-Geld.
"And that is called paying the Dane-geld
But we've proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.
It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
For fear they should succumb and go astray;
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say: --
We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that pays it is lost!"
(Kipling - last three verses)
WiseOwl,
That's very good. Was Kipling motivated by piracy when he wrote that, or what?
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