The following schedule is from Ynet. Note Obama will discuss Jonathan Pollard and “lay a wreath on Herzl’s tomb as a gesture to Zionism” before spending a morning in Ramallah:
Obama is scheduled to land in Ben Gurion International Airport around noon on Wednesday, March 20.
He will be welcomed by a State reception which will include speeches by President Shimon Peres, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and by the American president himself.
Obama will then fly to Jerusalem directly to Peres’ residence where he’ll again be ceremoniously received.
He will continue with Peres and Netanyahu to Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum, where he will lay a wreath in the Hall of Remembrance.
The next stop will be Mount Herzl, where Obama will lay a wreath on Herzl’s tomb as a gesture to Zionism. Obama will continue to Yitzhak Rabin’s tomb, laying a wreath there as well.
In the afternoon the entourage will arrive at the prime minister’s house, where Netanyahu and Obama will meet with small delegations to discuss issues such as Iran, Syria, the peace process and Jonathan Pollard.
Following the meeting a joint press conference will be held, after which the two and their staff will dine together.
The following morning Obama will depart for Ramallah to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Obama will return to Jerusalem by noon, when he will be taken by Netanyahu to examine a model of Second Temple Period Jerusalem.
They will continue to the Shrine of the Book, where Netanyahu will show him the Dead Sea Scrolls.
The American President will continue to see an exhibition in the Israel Museum, which will show Israel’s latest developments in high-tech, bio-tech, nanotechnology and agriculture.
In the afternoon Obama will address Israelis in a public speech in the Israel Museum or in the International Convention Center in Jerusalem. The Americans have requested the presence of at least 1,000 Israelis.
Later, Obama will be hosted for a ceremonial dinner by Peres.
Friday, March 22, Obama will breakfast with Netanyahu in his home or in King David Hotel.
The two will go to visit an Iron Dome battery, where Obama will meet with the soldiers manning the battery.
At 13:00 a farewell ceremony will take place in the International Airport, from which the president will depart to meet King Abdullah in Jordan.
Correction : Obama’s 2-day schedule in Israel/Palestine: 3 hours in Ramallah, 45 hours keeping Palestine hidden from Oboma
An itinerary most of which could have been lifted from the Birthright tour organizers. At least, please let him experience the Qalandia checkpoint on his way to Ramallah, and by all means let President Obama meet some of the fine young Israelis that Max Blumenthal interviewed in Tel Aviv in 2009.
At what point does Netanyahu bring out the donkey?? Because it seems to be the only thing missing.
Looks like they forgot to schedule time for donkey-fellating. Unless that’s part of being “ceremoniously received” at Peres’ house… ;-)
>> He will continue with Peres and Netanyahu to Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum, where he will lay a wreath in the Hall of Remembrance.
Ah, yes, he shouldn’t be permitted to forget to “Remember the Holocaust!”™
● RE: “Obama will . . . ‘lay a wreath on Herzl’s tomb as a gesture to Zionism’ . . .” ~ Adam Horowitz
● MY COMMENT: What?!?! I can’t believe that Obama will not also have a wreath for the grave of Vladimir (Ze’ev) Jabotinsky at Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl Cemetery! That’s outrageous! ! ! What an unforgivable insult to Revisionist Zionism and the Likud (or Likud-Yisrael Beiteinu) party!
The Secret Service had better be on high alert!
● FROM WIKIPEDIA [Betar]:
SOURCE – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betar
● ALSO SEE: “The Hidden History of Zionism”, Chapter 6, by Ralph Schoenman
SOURCE – http://www.marxists.de/middleast/schoenman/ch06.htm
● P.S. RE: “Mussolini set up squadrons of the Revisionist Zionist youth movement, Betar, in black shirts in emulation of his own Fascist bands.” ~ from the Wikipedia excerpt above
• SEE WIKIPEDIA [Blackshirts] – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackshirts
• AND SEE THIS VIDEO – Mussolini in Color : The Blackshirts [VIDEO, 02:24] – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97nSCWU_hXQ
● AND RE: “When Menachem Begin became chief of Betar, he preferred the brown shirts of the Hitler gangs [the Sturmabteilung(SA) – J.L.D.]” ~ Schoenman (from above)
• SEE WIKIPEDIA [Sturmabteilung] – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung
• AND SEE THIS VIDEO: Rise of the Nazis, DiscoveryTV [VIDEO, 04:15] – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2YEUhHFMHY
• AND SEE THIS VIDEO: The Night of the Long Knives [VIDEO, 04:45] – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mci4fAV1Wto
• AND SEE THIS PHOTO: Hitler and Hermann Göring with SA stormtroopers at Nuremberg in 1928.- http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cc/Hitler_1928_crop.jpg
• AND SEE THIS PHOTO: The SA not only instigated street violence against Jews, Communists and Socialists, it also enforced boycotts against Jewish-owned business, such as this one in Berlin on 1 April 1933.- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-14468,_Berlin,_NS-Boykott_gegen_j%C3%BCdische_Gesch%C3%A4fte_crop.jpg