blogs.wsj.com - 6/5/2009
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President Barack Obama called “for all of us to redouble our efforts” toward separate Israeli and Palestinian states. Alongside German Chancellor Angela Merkel one day after his trip to the Middle East, Obama said: “The United States can’t force peace upon the parties.” But he said America has “at least created the space, the atmosphere, in which talks can restart.” Here, the remarks from their news conference in Dresden.
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corner.nationalreview.com - 6/5/2009
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corner.nationalreview.com —
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 ...
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The End of America's Strategic Alliance with Israel?
gainesville.com - 6/5/2009
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gainesville.com —
A rift has quietly opened up between Germany
and the United States, marked by official statements of...
harmony and private grumbling. It is not an outright crisis in relations, but there are underlying tensions and disagreements on matters ranging from ...
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Rift With Germany Is Next on Diplomatic Agenda | ...
nytimes.com - 6/5/2009
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nytimes.com —
When President Bush spoke in the months and
years after Sept. 11, 2001, we often chillingly...
felt as if we didn’t recognize the United States. His vision was of a country racked with fear and bent on vengeance, one that imposed invidious choices on ...
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Editorial - The Cairo Speech
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"Incitement Issues"
Weekly Standard Blog —
... At a joint press conference with Angela Merkel in Dresden today, Barack Obama spoke of many things, like “why the sea is boiling hot” (“In terms of climate change . . . We’re going to have to make some tough decisions and take concrete actions if we are going to deal with a potentially cataclysmic disaster”) and “whether pigs have wings” (“We have spoken to the European Union about the possibilities of working with us and helping us in managing the closure of Guantanamo”) . ...
Obama: Global Warming Is A ‘Potentially Cataclysmic Disaster’
Wonk Room —
... before traveling to the Buchenwald concentration camp. Obama made it clear he believes the Waxman-Markey clean energy legislation will allow the United States to to retake the lead on global warming: ...
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Yet another moral equivalence —
Israel Matzav
Just in case any of you thought that President Obumbler didn't draw a moral equivalence between the Holocaust victims and 'ordinary Germans' when he was in Dresden last Friday, he did. It just wasn't spoken. Dresden is, as Angela Merkel put it in her joint press conference with Obama on Friday ...
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