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Hamas released a statement following the far left president’s naive speech. The terror group will not recognize Israel under any circumstance. YNet News reported: Obama’s Mideast policy speech Thursday was a “total failure,” Hamas said Thursday evening. “The (Arab) nation does not need a lesson on democracy from Obama,” said Hamas spokesman in the Gaza Strip, Sami Abu-Zuhri. “Rather, Obama is the one who needs the lesson given his absolute endorsement of Israel’s crimes and his refusal to condemn Israel’s occupation.” “We will not recognize the Israeli occupation under any circumstances,” the Hamas spokesman said, while adding: “We object to...

I was out sick yesterday so I was unable to write today's column for the Jerusalem Post. I did manage to watch President Obama's speech on the Middle East yesterday evening. And I didn't want to wait until next week to discuss it. After all, who knows what he'll do by Tuesday? Before we get into what the speech means for Israel, it is important to consider what it means for America. Quite simply, Obama's speech represents the effective renunciation of the US's right to have and to pursue national interests. Consequently, his speech imperils the real interests that the...

Taking a brief timeout from his perennial campaign, Obama has given a big speech on the Middle East. It’s not surprising how many billions more dollars Obama wants in his quest to save the world with our money. None of that really matters, though, to the struggling American who’s out of work, on food stamps, facing double-digit inflation in every necessity of life, or fed up to his neck hearing Obama brag about getting bin Laden. Forget the speech, dear readers. I’ll give you the whole thing in a nutshell: America drowns while Obama throws our own life preserver to...

PM en route to Washington says "sometimes being right also means being smart," stresses he will bring up "principal matters" regarding Israel's existence with US president during meeting. Talkbacks (2) WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu en route to a Washington meeting Friday morning with US President Barack Obama, said "there are certain things that cannot be swept under the rug." Netanyahu was referring to a negative response Thursday to President Obama's Mideast speech. "Sometimes being right also means being smart," he said, playing on the phrase that sometimes it's better to be smart than right. He said this is...

America is on the verge of abandoning its most reliable ally in the Middle East, thanks to Barack Hussein Obama. He began his betrayal with lip service to Israel’s concerns about defending itself from the relentless jihad that has been waged against it throughout the sixty-three years of its lifetime as a sovereign state: “For the Palestinians, efforts to delegitimize Israel will end in failure. Symbolic actions to isolate Israel at the United Nations in September won’t create an independent state. Palestinian leaders will not achieve peace or prosperity if Hamas insists on a path of terror and rejection. And...

Obama has just given an eager world his fantasy answer for the last sixty years of Arab-Israel conflict. The Great One's long-awaited solution is for Israel to pull back to the cease-fire lines of the 1948 War of Independence, or what Obama, in a moment of historical amnesia, calls "the 1967 borders." People have fought and died over those borders since 1949, not 1967. Make that sixty years of regular warfare. Take a quick glance at the Green Line on the map, and see if you can honestly answer this question: "Would I want my family and children to live...

Barack Obama to Israel: Drop dead. He announced Thursday that a Palestinian state, soon to be decreed by the United Nations General Assembly, must be drawn to 1967 borders. This tells the Palestinians and their Arab allies and enablers that events do not have to have consequences. We’re not supposed to remember that the Arab states attacked Israel in 1967 (and again in 1973), betting they could crush the Jews and take the looted land. Instead they were themselves squashed like bugs. Their airmen were shot out of the skies and their soldiers, routed, threw away their shoes in the...

Congressman Allen West Response to President Barack Obama's Call for a Two State Solution in Israel -May 19 "Today's endorsement by President Barack Obama of the creation of a Hamas-led Palestinian state based on the pre-1967 borders, signals the most egregious foreign policy decision his administration has made to date, and could be the beginning of the end as we know it for the Jewish state. From the moment the modern day state of Israel declared statehood in 1948, to the end of the 1967 Six Day War, Jews were forbidden access to their holiest site, the Western Wall in...

Reporting from Washington — President Obama "has thrown Israel under the bus," potential rival Mitt Romney said in a statement responding to the president's speech on Middle East policy Thursday The former Massachusetts governor criticizes Obama for endorsing a call for Israel to withdraw to borders that were in place before the 1967 war in the interests of achieving peace. "He has disrespected Israel and undermined its ability to negotiate peace," Romney said. "He has also violated a first principle of American foreign policy, which is to stand firm by our friends." Romney was the first Republican presidential hopeful to...

Today President Obama called for any Israeli/Palestinian peace agreement to be based on the pre-June 1967 borders:(snip)Forgetting for a moment whether Obama was right or wrong for making that declaration, there is a serious problem with his statement…the pre-June 1967 borders do not exist! What President Obama refuses to admit is that there is no such thing as pre-1967 borders. That “green line” running through the West Bank is the 1949 Armistice Line.