voices.washingtonpost.com - 6/3/2009
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By Dan Balz President Obama has set a high bar for his trip to the Middle East and Europe this week. By his own description, he is on a truth-telling mission. The challenges are clear: Can he successfully reach out to the Muslim world without offending Israel? Can words move either side to do ...
hotair.com - 6/4/2009
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hotair.com —
I didn’t get the chance to watch Barack
Obama’s Cairo speech live, although I’m sure that it...
will be chopped up on YouTube within the next couple of hours. Instead, I read the full text posted by Andrew Malcolm , as well as ...
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Obama’s Cairo speech: Surprisingly good
commentarymagazine.com - 6/4/2009
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commentarymagazine.com —
Having just read Obama’s Cairo speech, my reaction
is: Not bad. It could have been better. But...
it also could have been a lot worse. Steve Hayes is right in noting that Obama could have talked more pointedly about the relative success of Iraqi ...
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Obama in Cairo
usatoday.com - 6/4/2009
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usatoday.com —
I am honored to be in the timeless
city of Cairo, and to be hosted by two...
remarkable institutions. For over a thousand years, Al-Azhar has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning, and for over a century, Cairo University has been a source of Egypt's ...
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President Obama's Cairo speech text
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The questionable centrality of Palestine
Yourish.com —
... would be good if Mr. Obama vowed to support democracy and human rights.”
Now I realize that 7 individuals hardly constitute a significant sample of population of one billion, but given the MSM’s obsession with President Obama’s speech being about the peace process, it’s more than a little odd that the Times didn’t find a single writer who mentioned “justice for Palestine” as a major point that the President must address.
The prevailing MSM wisdom is expressed here:
Obama was pressed by NPR’s ...
Israel, Just How It Reads
BAGnewsNotes —
... This image -- in its attitude as much as its specifics -- represents one of Obama's biggest obstacles as he attempts to reach out to the Arab world today. ...
But Why Has Oceania Always Been At War With Eastasia?
JustOneMinute —
... has a twenty minute chat with Obama about his upcoming trip to the Middle East and gets a column; we get a chance to scratch our heads: A key part of his message, he said, will be: “Stop saying one thing behind closed doors and saying something else publicly.” He then explained: “There are a lot of Arab countries more concerned about Iran developing a nuclear weapon than the ‘threat’ from Israel, but won’t admit it.” There are a lot of Israelis, “who recognize that their current path is unsustainable, and they need to make some tough choices on settlements to achieve a ...
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Obama’s Cairo Speech
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Obama in Cairo
spectator.co.uk 6/4/2009 — I have no doubt that Barack Obama's speech in Cairo today will not have gone down well amongst American conservatives. In fact many of them will be appalled by it. How long before someone in the right-wing blogosphere writes something about how ...
VIDEO: Obama’s Cairo Speech
njdc.org 6/5/2009 — Click here for the text of President Barack Obama’s speech and here for NJDC’s statement.
Here’s the video:
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Reaction: Obama's Cairo speech
news.bbc.co.uk 6/4/2009 — US President Barack Obama urged an end to suspicion and discord between America and the Muslim world when he delivered a speech in the Egyptian capital Cairo on 4 June 2009. Here is some international reaction. The government of Israel expresses its ...
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guardian.co.uk 6/4/2009 — President Barack Obama speaks in the Grand Hall of Cairo University in Cairo President Barack Obama speaks in the Grand Hall of Cairo University. Photograph: Larry Downing/Reuters
The Cairo speech
pajamasmedia.com 6/5/2009 — The Christian Science Monitor describes the intent of Barack Obama’s speech at Cairo as an effort “to hold the mirror up to all of the communities with whom he was speaking”. President described the dramatis personae on the Middle ...
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