Några kommentarer till Obamas tal

Diplomacy: Out of Egypt
Herb Keinon:
"THE TRAUMA that gripped Jerusalem this week, however, was not relegated to the settlement issue. It had to do with something much more fundamental: whether the Obama administration felt bound by commitments the Bush administration made to Ariel Sharon in April 2004, including support for Israel's position that there would not be a withdrawal to the 1967 armistice lines, that Israel would not be asked to take in Palestinian refugees and that the US would ensure Israel could defend itself - by itself - against any threat or combination of threats.
This letter, or premises contained within and assumed even before the letter was written, have been a central pillar of Israel's strategic thinking over the last number of years - thinking that guided Israel's acceptance of the road map in 2003, as well as disengaging from the Gaza Strip in 2005. If that pillar is now being shaken, as was feared in Jerusalem, the US-Israel relationship was headed for some major changes. "

Analysis: What Obama failed to understand, or refused to publicly identify
Dr. Efraim Zuroff :
"By ignoring three thousand years of Jewish history, by neglecting to even mention the unbreakable link, started long before the advent of Islam, between the Jewish people and Eretz Yisrael, Obama totally failed to deliver what should have been one of his most important messages to the Arab world.
The major problem of the Arab-Israeli conflict and the tensions between Jews and Muslims all over the world is not Holocaust denial. As irritating and disgusting as that phenomenon undoubtedly is, it is merely a symptom of something much deeper, which Obama either failed to understand or refused to publicly identify. And that is the basic refusal of the overwhelming majority of the Muslim world to accept the legitimacy of a Jewish state in the Dar-al-Islam, the Islamic expanse. "