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Will Obama's Cairo speech motivate a new set of terror attacks in the ME?

Will Obama's cairo speech motivate a new set of terror attacks in the ME?

  • Yes

    Votes: 3 11.5%
  • No

    Votes: 23 88.5%

  • Total voters
    26
  • Poll closed .
Israel would be isolated over that and much more
Who do you have?
Europe? Hell no. They have been your biggest critic
Asia? Nope.
Africa? Not a hope in hell.

Israel would be nothing if it didn't have US.
It is US that protects Israel and makes it slightly relevant to the International Community ... let's be serious.
If US didn't veto, where would Israel be? The amount of resolutions that would have passed would be huge
We can always become Communist.
The Kibbutz' system is very similar to communism anyway.
 
If the Palestinians can't live with Jews, it's their xenophobic problem.
We lived with Arabs in our lands 61 years so far, and it wasn't a problem at all.
They can do whatever they wish to with the settlers, they're not Israeli citizens anyway.

Nope, not me.
Yes they do, but it seems nothing is being done.
I just read some person was threatening one your generals. People go to jail for that over here.

Arabs and Muslims have lived with Jews for hundreds of years/thousand years, it has nothing to do with any inherent issue.
 
Nope, not me.
Yes they do, but it seems nothing is being done.
I just read some person was threatening one your generals. People go to jail for that over here.
Who says he wouldn't go to jail?
Again, settlers have radicals, it's no secret.
Arabs and Muslims have lived with Jews for hundreds of years/thousand years, it has nothing to do with any inherent issue.
Indeed that has nothing to do with it.
But it's quite absurd that the Palestinians won't take Jews into their country.
 
Indeed that has nothing to do with it.
But it's quite absurd that the Palestinians won't take Jews into their country.

I don't think Jews want to be with Palestinians.
It seems to me to be mutual distrust that is the problem. For too long both sides have seen one another as the enemy and dehumanized them for decades, it'll take time to get over that
 
Well it depends. If he tells Israel harshly to stop the settlements and Israeli ignores him and we continue to support Israel (which we will) they'll soon realize he's full of empty platitudes.

I remember Bush talking about how the settlements were an impediment to peace or progress. I don't recall him saying they were unacceptable or being so harsh publicly.

I'm not sure that was a good idea.

As long as he continues to pressure Israel over the settlements he will have their support. The problem is that the settlements will never be pulled-back. They will grow internally, but if they spread any further than they can no longer demand expect U.S. support, for they will be shattering any possible peace solution.
 
This ain't a one-sided alliance.
US wants Israel's support as well, it wouldn't give it away because the Israeli government is pro-settlements.
By the way the aid money mainly goes to US weapons and technologies, and to Israeli researches that develop new technologies given later to the US. (The Arrow system, for example)

The aid also makes a bit less than 1/6th of Israel's military budget.

You are right, it's not a one way street, but it is a seriously slanted street. We give much more than we get, and we can easily live without Israel.
 
You are right, it's not a one way street, but it is a seriously slanted street. We give much more than we get, and we can easily live without Israel.
The lion can live without the lioness, but as long as it gets it food it has no reason to depart.
 
Way to have an optimistic outlook. :roll:

Is it also not possible that his speech could have some positive effects or is Obama incapable of doing any good in your eyes?

Im pro-Obama but this guy has a point. If Obama adresses the muslim world to try and mend ties and bring the two closer together, the terrorists will likely up there propaganda and attacks on westerners to severe ties further between the two because thats what suits them. They want us to hate them, and they want them to hate us.
 
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Im pro-Obama but this guy has a point. If Obama adresses the muslim world to try and mend ties and bring the two closer together, the terrorists will likely up there propaganda and attacks on westerners to severe ties further between the two worlds because thats what suits them.
According to Obama, there is no terrorism.
He hasn't used the word terror even once during his speech.
Instead, he used the word 'violence', as to not to anger the Muslim world.
 
According to Obama, there is no terrorism.
He hasn't used the word terror even once during his speech.
Instead, he used the word 'violence', as to not to anger the Muslim world.

Why would the use of the word terrorism anger the muslim world? Its happening isnt it? Its a reality, is it not?
 
Why would the use of the word terrorism anger the muslim world? Its happening isnt it? Its a reality, is it not?
Some of them like to deny it, and some of them refer to it as 'a legitimate resistance to the western control and intervention in Muslim lands'.
 
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It wouldn't anger Muslims to speak reality
Why the silence then? Why did the crowd only clap when Obama spoke in favor of Islam?
 
Why the silence then? Why did the crowd only clap when Obama spoke in favor of Islam?

What? Did you expect them to clap criticism?
 
According to Obama, there is no terrorism.
He hasn't used the word terror even once during his speech.
Instead, he used the word 'violence', as to not to anger the Muslim world.

From President Obama's speech:

Violent extremists have exploited these tensions in a small but potent minority of Muslims.

This is somehow weaker because he did not use the word "terrorist"?
 
The lion can live without the lioness, but as long as it gets it food it has no reason to depart.

I do not know what you are saying, but the US can live long, fruitfully and happily without Israel. Israel needs us, we do not need them.
 
From President Obama's speech:



This is somehow weaker because he did not use the word "terrorist"?
Yes it is weaker.
Terror is a stronger word than violence, and killing people just because they belong to a certain nation or culture(the west) is not simply violence.
You're American. Was 9/11 simply violence for you?
 
Why the silence then? Why did the crowd only clap when Obama spoke in favor of Islam?

You are surprised that a crowd would respond when some one says something positive about them? I am a fan of pro wrestling, and there is a term in wrestling called "cheap pop". That is getting applause by saying something good about the local city or sports team. People react to things like that, and there is nothing wrong with that,
 
Yes it is weaker.
Terror is a stronger word than violence, and killing people just because they belong to a certain nation or culture(the west) is not simply violence.
You're American. Was 9/11 simply violence for you?

You are way to set in your own worldview. The statement I quoted was incredibly strong, and was so without the word "terror".
 
I do not know what you are saying, but the US can live long, fruitfully and happily without Israel. Israel needs us, we do not need them.
If you really didn't need Israel you wouldn't be in an alliance with it.
You're simply calling your leaders fools.
What I've meant with that line was that the US may be able to live without Israel, but that doesn't mean they don't need Israel.
 
If you really didn't need Israel you wouldn't be in an alliance with it.
You're simply calling your leaders fools.
What I've meant with that line was that the US may be able to live without Israel, but that doesn't mean they don't need Israel.

Wrong, we just have never pushed away, for political and other reasons.

Yes, I am calling them fools.

Wrong, we do not need Israel.
 
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