Charles Krauthammer
“I honestly believe that if any Israeli parent sat down with those [Palestinian] kids, they’d say, ‘I want these kids to succeed.’ ”
— Barack Obama, in Jerusalem,March 21
"Very true. But how does the other side feel about Israeli kids?
"Consider that the most revered parent in Palestinian society is Mariam Farhat of Gaza. Her distinction? Three of her sons died in various stages of trying to kill Israelis — one in a suicide attack, shooting up and hurling grenades in a room full of Jewish students.
"She gloried in her “martyr” sons, wishing only that she had 100 boys like her schoolroom suicide attacker to “sacrifice . . . for the sake of God.” And for that she was venerated as “mother of the struggle,” elected to parliament and widely mourned upon her recent passing."
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Obama knows nothing of business but lays oppressive burdens upon businessmen; he knows nothing about fighting forces, yet uses them for his social engineering. Knowing nothing of the dangers Israel faces, Obama demands ridiculous concessions of our only civilized ally in that region.
Obama is, in fact, worse than nothing as Dr. Krauthammer lays out for us here.
Foreign Policy Magazine; Let's hold the applause. Obama's trip to Israel was nothing new. "As it stands now, in addition to Syria, Obama could be the president on whose watch two catastrophes befall the region. First, Iran could get the bomb, or he could go to war to stop it. Second, the window for a two-state solution to the Palestinian issue could slam shut."
“I honestly believe that if any Israeli parent sat down with those [Palestinian] kids, they’d say, ‘I want these kids to succeed.’ ”
— Barack Obama, in Jerusalem,March 21
"Very true. But how does the other side feel about Israeli kids?
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| Mariam Farhat |
"She gloried in her “martyr” sons, wishing only that she had 100 boys like her schoolroom suicide attacker to “sacrifice . . . for the sake of God.” And for that she was venerated as “mother of the struggle,” elected to parliament and widely mourned upon her recent passing."
....
Obama knows nothing of business but lays oppressive burdens upon businessmen; he knows nothing about fighting forces, yet uses them for his social engineering. Knowing nothing of the dangers Israel faces, Obama demands ridiculous concessions of our only civilized ally in that region.
Obama is, in fact, worse than nothing as Dr. Krauthammer lays out for us here.
In the Palestinian territories, streets, public squares, summer camps, high schools, even a kindergarten are named after suicide bombers and other mass murderers. So much for the notion that if only Israelis would care about Arab kids, peace would be possible.
That hasn’t exactly been the problem. Israelis have wanted nothing more than peace and security for all the children. That’s why they accepted the 1947 U.N. partition of British Palestine into a Jewish and Arab state. Unfortunately — another asymmetry — the Arabs said no. To this day, the Palestinians have rejected every peace offer that leaves a Jewish state standing.
