ISRAEL: Obama as president, peacemaker, singer and dancer

This week, Israeli lawmaker Danny Danon gave the U.S. president  an F in Middle East policy, saying he'd flunk the president for his "serious lack of knowledge and understanding on topics related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict." 

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas recently said Obama is "doing nothing for the Middle East peace process," and expressed hope the U.S. would lean on Israel to abide by international law so that the road map may be implemented.

Amid the argument over   who is to blame for the failure of the Middle East peace process and whether Obama is doing too much, as Danon charges, or too little, as Abbas contends, peace is ultimately up to the Israelis and Palestinians,  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says.  And Obama himself concedes that the U.S. underestimated the Israeli-Palestinian deadlock.

Actually, this might just be what Israelis have been waiting to hear. Most don't really want the U.S. to throw in the towel and let both sides fight.

But until  Obama succeeds in getting both sides to the table, he might have a new gig in Israel. Check out the latest in a series of conversation-piece ads for "Yes," the Israeli satellite TV company.

In it, an actress playing Michelle Obama zaps between TV channels which an actor playing Barack Obama stands nearby. 

She: "Mr. I'm-gonna-change-the-world, maybe you can start with this boring TV?" 

He: "You know what, dear? Yes, I can."

-- Batsheva Sobelman in Jerusalem

Video: TV commercial, produced by McCann Erickson in Israel. Credit: YouTube

Comments

[Yehuda]

People forget that the entire reason that the Palestinian people are displaced is that the entire Arab world declared war on Israel.
The Palestinians already have three nations - Jordan, PA, and Gaza. That they have made of sewer of the latter two (PA, GAZA) is their own fault. That they have not made a sewer of the first (Jordan) is to the credit not of the Palestinians, but of the Hashemites.

[baby crib]

This made me smile and realize that even the famous and respected people get to have these kinds of treatment.

[Meir]

Some dumb americans always cry about their "aid" to Israel. Please take your aid and shove it up your a$$. Aplly your so called aid to pay for Obama Care health plan or pay your trillions of dollars worth national debts. If China doesn't own America yet, it soon will. Stop trying to cover up your 2 mellenia old Jew hatred by your compassion and effections for "Palestinians" a people that did not even exist 62 years ago. Such people still blame Jews for killing their man-god, 2000 years ago and nothing to do about Palestinians.

[Meir]

Mr. Obama take care of your own country (economy, unemployment, healthcare, race relations, taxes etc.etc and leave Israel to the Jewish people.

[PhillipB]

Like him or not, Obama hasn't done anything to help either Israel or Palestine since he has been elected to office. He doesn't understand the situation

http://www.jcpa.org/text/proportionality.pdf

[Joe]

How ungrateful one can be by getting free handout from US and dissing her and her elected leadership at a same time.

p.s., Israel and Mexico have one thing in common alright, both got robed after stealing from others (Canaanites and Indians), thieves can't complain about getting robbed of their stolen loots :)

[BBSNews]

Morton,

Israel is illegally and belligerently occupying the West Bank, Israel's High Court says so, please do some research.

Morton, Israel's "annexation" of East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights is illegal, and null and void, see UNSCR 478 and 497, learn a bit before making stupid remarks...

Morton, Israel STILL occupies the Gaza Strip, see the final Gaza Disengagement Plan where they themselves spell out that fact, perhaps you should get out more and do some factual research?

Morton, Israel is committing an ongoing crime against humanity against the innocent civilian population of Gaza with a crippling siege, that has been clearly detailed in the Goldstone Report.

Maybe you should actually read the entire Goldstone Report, for an overview of the true situation as opposed to the hasbara fantasy view that you have presented here...

[Morton]

John -
You beat me to it. I was going to propose that Israel return on the "land' to the UK or Turks just as soon as you pull out of California and a few other Southern states, returning this stolen land back to Mexico.

By the way, the actual reason it won't be returned to the Arabs is that there never was an Arab state in what is now Israel, nor was there ever a people called Palestinians or a country call Palestine.

I lastly suggest that you go back an learn a bit before making stupid remarks.
Have a nice day

[marge]

Pres. Obama gets an F for refusing to use his leverage with Israel to stop Israel illegal settlements, which are violations of international law and a requirement to move the peace process forward. The US provides Israel with billions of US taxpayer dollars, weapons, and veto protection in the UN, which keeps Israel in existence. This aid could be tied to Israel's progress on a 2-State Solution Peace Agreement with the Palestinians, and resolve the decades old conflict between Jews and Palestinians. The US is in the driver's seat on this one.

[John Clegg]

I love how our neo-con jewish controlled media here in america and in europe calls the american-financed Israeli war against palestenians as "the middle east conflict" and often expresses "hope" for "peace in the middle east"

Since when did that 30 mile-wide insignficant swath of land that the jews/europeans stole suddenly the entire "middle east"...If an area, smaller in size (and population), than the Los Angeles metropolitan area is going to be called the middle east then why don't you people start referring to the rest of that area by another more correct name to stop (deliberately?) confusing readers?