"Obama also remains concerned about Israel's right to exist but not that of the Palestinians. He declared,without irony, in reference to Hamas: "How can one negotiate with a party that has shown itself unwilling to recognise your right to exist?" After all, the Palestinians have been negotiating for two decades with Israel, which refuses insistently to recognise the Palestinians' right to exist in a state of their own.
If Harold Macmillan's speech in 1960 urged the South Africans to abandon apartheid, Obama's in 2011 insists that the Palestinians must recognise Israel's right to continue to be a racist state.
When Obama speaks of how America's "short-term interests" in the region, at times, "don't align perfectly with our long-term vision for the region", he is peddling the biggest imperial lie of all. America's short- and long-term interests in the region have always been control of oil resources, securing US profits, and defending Israel. Until "winds of change" blow on these interests, the position of the United States as the most powerful anti-democratic force in the Arab World will remain the same, Emperor Obama's speeches notwithstanding."
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