There were two words notably absent from President Barack Obama's speech to a prominent pro-Israel lobby group on Sunday, two words without which it is impossible to understand the discussion about Iran's nuclear programme. Those words are "settlements" and "Iraq". Not once in his address to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac), the largest pro-Israel lobby in the United States, did Mr Obama mention either the Israeli occupation or the Iraq war, although he mentioned Iran 40 times.
...Mr Obama talked of pursuing peace in Palestine, but did not mention the illegal settlements that crowd the West Bank. These settlements are the core of Israel's occupation; their endless expansion, in the face of international and even US condemnation, are the reason for the continued hostilities and for Israel's isolation.
Mr Obama's failure to mention settlements demonstrates how skewed the debate is about Israel and Palestine in the United States, where Palestinians lack the influence that Aipac and other advocates of Israel have with Washington. Without addressing the settlement issue, there is no chance of a lasting peace between Israel and its neighbours...
He displays the Arab disconnect with political reality as well as misrepresenting the issue of Jewish residency rights in their national homeland. He ignores the overwhelming American people's support for Israel. He ignores the inherent errors of the Arabs and the ideology of the Arabs of the former territory of the Palestine Mandate who foremost wanted not a state but to deny the Jews one and secondly, simply sought to kill Jews, using terror not as a weapon of tactics but adopting murder as an expression of the false nationalist aspirations.
Comforting to know our enemies, who espouse a "Palestinianism", that invented model of nationalism, so misunderstand the issues.
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