Power Line - Friends and enemies

Power Line - Friends and enemies Of the commentary I have been able to read on Obama's speech on the Middle East yesterday, I think Caroline Glick's is the shrewdest. From a close reading of the text of Obama's speech, Glick deduces Obama's prospective support of the emerging jihadist political forces in Egypt and Tunisia, and elsewhere as well.

He said Israel has to concede its right to defensible borders as a precondition for negotiations;

He didn't say he opposes the Palestinian demand for open immigration of millions of foreign Arabs into Israel;

He again ignored Bush's 2004 letter to Sharon opposing a return to the 1949 armistice lines, supporting the large settlements, defensible borders and opposing mass Arab immigration into Israel;

He said he was leaving Jerusalem out but actually brought it in by calling for an Israeli retreat to the 1949 lines;

He called for Israel to be cut in two when he called for the Palestinians state to be contiguous;

He called for Israel to withdraw from the Jordan Valley - without which it is powerless against invasion - by saying that the Palestinian State will have an international border with Jordan.