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Obama's Pro-Israel, Pro-Palestinian Positions | 126 comments (126 topical)
I am too (5.00 / 1) (#48)
by tree on Fri Apr 11, 2008 at 04:50:33 AM EST
and if I thought that Obama was going to be more even-handed in dealing with Israel it probably would have been enough to make me an Obama supporter, despite my other misgivings about him. But everything that he has done since reaching the US Senate and running for President indicates to me that, just as Stellaa said, he's thrown the Palestinians under the bus in his quest for higher office. He's tried to position himself to the right of Clinton on Israel and there's no indication that he will change his stripes if he gets elected. He knows he'll face a lot of opposition if he tries to push Israel for some equity, or if he tries to withhold US aid, or even threaten such an act, to get Israel to end the 40 year long occupation, or even to stop the continual settlement building. He won't buck the status quo, sad to say.

 He's obviously learned the lesson of Howard Dean, who called for the US to be "even-handed" and was nearly universally condemned by every other politician. Its a very sad fact of US politics, but there it is.

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Obama's Pro-Israel, Pro-Palestinian Positions | 126 comments (126 topical)

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