Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent, Haaretz Service and Agencies: Israel: We hope Obama speech heralds new era in Mideast
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Title: The Settlers, Obama and Peres Name: Yaakov Sullivan City: NYC State: NY
As of the comments from the peanut gallery of the colonists, what could one expect from the likes of these messianic mussolinis. They will be history soon. Obama is saying something very substantive, something that should have been said years ago and he is specific and he means what he says. His courage is admirable. Peres is speaking in platitudes which he has honed to a science. One really never knows what he is saying exactly. One knows he chooses very cunningly to couch his platitudes in general terms without commenting on the particulars being discussed at the time he makes his comments. The rhetoric from the gangs in Palestine is strident because they know their future cannot continue as it has until now. They are despeerate and israel will have to watch them carefully since desperation can lead to violence as we have seen in the occupied territories.