Lest you had any doubt about what Obama's speech in Cairo meant, a poll conducted by a thinktank connected to the Egyptian Prime Minister's office finds that 48 percent of Egyptians thought the speech was focused on Israel/Palestine, with 22 percent finding that it was about U.S. relations with the Muslim world. And overwhelmingly the Egyptians had a positive view of the speech.
The poll underscores my feeling in Cairo that Egyptians regard the speech as a commitment to end the Israel/Palestine grievance so as to remake relations between east and west. And I believe that Obama shares this understanding. What a moment.
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It was beautiful and represented a fundamental change in US attitude, policy, behavior. It was clear, inviting, realistic.
You really haven't got a clue, Richard Witty….
it was "beautiful", his words were like music. Obama is like an angel come down to earth. stevieb, you are just a hater.
At the very least it was more like a violin than Shrub's bugle blast.
We're back to the false attribution game again. Who is it that posted the last one under Richard Witty1? Many a truth in jest though.
Phil, time for you to post a reconsideration of your B+ grade on Obama's speech. Being there must have been amazing. But now you have some distance, some context. What is your takeaway now?
Israel-Palestine was around 5 minutes, if that, of a 55-minute speech. What this proves is that Egyptians, like many Arabs apparently, care much more about Israel than their own countries.