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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