re: #4 Daniel Ballard

Did your friends buy into that border statement bullcrap?

For you it was bull crap, for me it wasn’t littlegreenfootballs.com

But there are a lot of other words and actions.

Obama is making a change to where the US stands in the region. No I am not saying he is standing with the Palestinians, that is silly. However, he is trying to move the US policy to the middle, to be more of a “neutral player” in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.

If you want to be in the middle, or think of yourself as neutral that is fine. In fact it plays well to the American sense of fairness. It sounds good to say “we are not taking sides and only want to help both sides.

However America long ago decided that it was not going to be neutral. To many of the Jews it is as simple as “you are either with us or against us” We have seen the effect of neutral in the past, and we didn’t like it.

The main reason for Israel is that forever more there will be at least one government what will never “be neutral”.