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Originally Posted by janmcn
President Obama visited Irael as candidate Obama in 2008. When he returns next year after winning reelection, Obama will not criticize the culture of the Palestinians because he knows it takes two to negotiate peace in the middle east.....something Mitt Romney never considered.
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awe gee! i can't agree with your prediction. in order to go back - someone would have to invite him! and i can't even come up with a short list of who might do that!
here's a little history from the days before the senator became president [and there are lots of similar articles if you want to search out obama israel 2008]:
Barack Obama visits Israel - Telegraph
Barack Obama visits Israel
Senator Barack Obama has flown into Israel vowing that if he wins the presidential election he will work towards ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict "from the minute I'm sworn into office".
...this sure makes it look like another campaign promise was broken! do you think it might be the reason that he has not been back there as president. and if he did get re-elected and went back, would it be to apologize? i think NOT!
Candidate Obama Also Called Jerusalem Israel
Candidate Obama Also Called Jerusalem Israel’s Capital, Then Backtracked
from the article:
1] "Any negotiated agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, he [obama] said, “must preserve Israel’s identity as a Jewish state with secure, recognized, defensible borders. And Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel and it must remain undivided.”"
...he said, not knowing or disregarding the diplomatic relations dilemma this issue has been for years...or...spoken just like a candidate!
2] "“The whole world knows that holy Jerusalem was occupied in 1967 and we will not accept a Palestinian state without having Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state,”
P.A. chairman Mahmoud Abbas told reporters in Ramallah."
...the candidate sure didn't make mahmoud abbas happy - did he!
3] "Hours later, the senator for Illinois[obama] told CNN, “Well, obviously, it’s going to be up to the parties to negotiate a range of these issues. And Jerusalem will be part of those negotiations.” A spokesman for his campaign sought to explain that what Obama opposed was a return to a city divided by “barbed wire and checkpoints as it was in 1948-67.”"
...obama needed a spokesman way back then to tell us what the candidate REALLY meant! years later such backtracking would be referred to as a 'corey booker'!