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Majority of the speech just same old fluff to get it pats on the back and get the croawd in a favourable mood. America good good, very awesome, Israel also very good very awesome. Iran, bad, very baaad ! Iran very very bad.

FInally starts to talk about the real issues in the last third, sigh ! Nothing like throwing in a few biblical references to appease the bible thumpers, would be also great if he stopped acting like if the torah was valid and legal land deed.

Made some very good talk about peace and the need for a two state solution for a moment there I actually started to believe he was serious, but instantly turned into a farce with statements like, we helped on our side, we've helped the palestenian economic growth, the palestenian ecomony is booming etc etc, more passing blame and droning about the same old rethoric of Israels right to exist etc etc. Going back to Israel very good, palestenian very very bad. We love peace, they hate us

In the end we are not giving up Jurusalem and a big F^%K you to Obama about his 1967 lines speech

I could imagine the reaction back in Bush days if a foriegn leader got so many standing ovations, guess nothing is going to change after all. As predicted.

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-- Thu May 26, 2011 6:39 am --

On a more serious note, here's what Haaretz has to say about the 'facts and fiction' in the speech (excerpt below):

Here is some of what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Congress on Tuesday - and what he failed to mention:

Netanyahu to Congress: "The vast majority of the 650,000 Israelis who live beyond the 1967 lines reside in neighborhoods and suburbs of Jerusalem and Greater Tel Aviv."


Netanyahu presented a figure to Congress, according to which 650 thousand Israelis live over the Green Line (1967 borders). This is an inflated figure, based on a report published by the Israeli Civil Administration on June 30, 2009, at the height of the settlement freeze.

In reality, 304,569 people live in West Bank settlements. Netanyahu himself admitted in his speech that this inflationary figure includes suburbs of Jerusalem that are over the Green Line.

Seeing as the prime minster chose to include these suburbs as part of his "over-the-Green-Line" census, the Palestinians could conceivably demand that Israel freeze construction in these neighborhoods as well.


"Of the 300 million Arabs in the Middle East and North Africa, only Israel's Arab citizens enjoy real democratic rights."


When making this claim, Netanyahu failed to mention the "loyalty oath" blitz of Yisrael Beiteinu, that afforded preferential admission to civil service positions for those who served in the Israel Defense Forces and demanded that those seeking citizenship pledge allegiance to a "Jewish democratic" state. What about the law granting town councils the prerogative to selectively admit members into their communities?

These examples all appear in a report compiled by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel that deemed the current Knesset "the most racist in state history"

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http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-d ... s-1.363976