Obama's hard truths for Muslims?

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President Obama vowed to tell the world’s Muslims “hard truths.”  Instead, his remarks fighting extremists, equal rights for women, freedom of religion, and democracy were vague.  He omitted policy proposals that would have to be taken seriously.  

He urged them to fight Islamic terrorists without mentioning that terrorists’

”intellectual, political and monetary foundations and support come from the very mosques, politicians and regimes in Saudi Arabia and Egypt that Obama extols as moderate and responsible.”

On gender equality, he ignored common Islamic “honor killings,” female genital mutilation, and repression of women’s legal and human rights.  He compared Muslim women to discrimination against U.S. women, which is not comparable. 

He advocated religious freedom, but ignored Saudi religious repression.  He praised democracy, but overlooked Arab tyranny.

He misled people about Israel, too.  Yes, he verified the Holocaust and denounced antisemitism [again without suggesting culprits and reform].  But he also upheld the Arab view that the Jews intruded into Palestine and that Israel developed from the Holocaust.  He thus undermined the Jewish people’s age-old, historical, regional roots and the legal recognition of the right to their homeland well before the Holocaust. 

Like the Arabs, Obama called Muslim Arab terrorism against Israel, “resistance.”  He equated the Palestinian Arab struggle against Israel to the U.S. civil rights movement and slave rebellions.  That is not a hard truth, that is moral dishonesty.

He did propose some policies.  (1) End Jewish building in Judea-Samaria.  He says that would bring peace.  It cannot possibly do so.  (2) Convert Iran’s nuclear weapons development to nuclear electrical development.  He says that would prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.  It cannot possibly do so. 

[Iran has equipment and fuel for making bombs.  It could make bombs at will.  Stopping Zionist development cannot win friendship from the Islamists – too bigoted.  It would strengthen and encourage them to launch a final offensive.] 

Obama’s policy toward Israel can be explained only by hostility. His real purpose is to abandon Israel in favor of friendship with the Arab world.  His Administration harps on Jewish building but not Fatah terrorism nor on N. Korean ties to Iran and Syria.  The Israeli people realize this  (Caroline Glick in http://www.imra.org.il/ -- Independent Media Research & Analysis, 6/6). 

Obama is duplicitous, facilitates war, and endangers civilization.  He gets his lieutenants to go along with him.  How long will he be able to get away with his deceptions and failures?  How many millions will be killed, first? 

Now consider the opportunities Israel lost, by not annexing and resettling most of Judea-Samaria, to fortify its geographic position!  Israel waited, but now the U.S. government has turned harder against it than even before.  Israel was foolish not to devise its own strategy.  It didn’t have a strong enough Right wing.  

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