Obama’s Cairo Talk a Tragedy [**UPDATED**]

[**UPDATED**] The day of Obama’s Cairo speech, and shortly after telling the world that:America: “is not a Christian nation, nor a Jewish nation, not even a pluralistic nation, but “one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.“Obama put on the White House Web Site that he has three Muslims on staff in our government.  AMERICAN THINKER reports that these are activists – not just employees.

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The End of America’s Strategic Alliance with Israel?

Caroline Glick at National Review OnLine gives the Conservative Israeli view of Obama’s speech.

It is amazing to see her analysis compared to the fawning media coverage.

Here are some quotes:

From an Israeli perspective, Pres. Barack Obama’s speech today in Cairo was deeply disturbing. Both rhetorically and programmatically, Obama’s speech was a renunciation of America’s strategic alliance with Israel.

Rhetorically, Obama’s sugar coated the pathologies of the Islamic world — from the tyranny that characterizes its regimes, to the misogyny, xenophobia, Jew hatred, and general intolerance that characterizes its societies. In so doing he made clear that his idea of pressing the restart button with the Islamic world involves erasing the moral distinctions between the Islamic world and the free world.

In contrast, Obama’s perverse characterization of Israel — of the sources of its legitimacy and of its behavior — made clear that he shares the Arab world’s view that there is something basically illegitimate about the Jewish state.

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In addition to his morally outrageous characterization of Israel and factually inaccurate account of its foundations, Obama struck out at the Jewish state through the two policies he outlined in his address. His first policy involves coercing Israel into barring all Jewish construction in Judea and Samaria (otherwise known as the West Bank), and Jerusalem.

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After all, why would the Palestinians make a deal with Israel when they know that Obama will blame Israel for the absence of a peace agreement?

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Obama has overplayed his hand. Far from bending to his will, a large majority of Israelis perceives Obama as a hostile force and has rallied in support of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu against the administration. This public support gives Netanyahu the maneuver room he needs to take the actions that Israel needs to take to defend against the prospect of a nuclear armed Iran and to assert its national rights and to defend itself against Palestinian terrorists and other Arab and non-Arab anti-Semites who wish it ill.

American Christians and Jews — we must be aware that our friend Israel is being betrayed — and just as the Bible says will happen in the last days, Jerusalem will be surrounded and attacked by the world.

The tine is now to tell our unbelieving friends and neighbors about salvation in Jesus Christ and Him alone.

How to have the Gift of Heaven — the Peace that passes all understanding..