Will Obama's "1967 borders" for Israel comment hurt him with Jewish voters?

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Originally Posted by Antitrust32

We have to show some kind of fairness for the Middle Eastern non-Israel regions to have any kind of respect for us.

We are so lopsided in our support for Israel, it doesnt even make sense to me. And its the main reason we are in the mess we are in now. When Bin Laden announced his jihad against America, it was not about the Muslim religion (that was a tool he used to recruit weak minded impoverished people). Bin Laden made it clear that his beef with America was about our foreign policy with regards to Israel.

Why must we blindly back everything Israel wants to do, without showing any type of fairness or compassion to the Palestinians?

Obama impressed me with his stance, and I agree with him completely and think its the best way to ever promote any type of peace in the region. How can we promote peace when we are not treating both sides fairly?

As long as we blindly support Israel, we will always have a violent problem with the other Middle Eastern regions. And I certainly dont want to throw Israel under a bus by any means, but we should have a little fairness in our foreign views.

Is it that difficult to understand the Paletinians position of being pissed off that they were kicked off their land?

I'm becoming more and more impressed with Obama's foreign policy and role as commander in chief by the minute.

And Dell, whats so wrong about praising Muslim accomplishments and music? Since when do we have to be haters of all things Muslim? I've made my stance very clear, I have no respect at all for the 10% of Muslims that are extremists that follow Sharia Law. I think they are despicable. But that doesnt mean we have to be dismissive of the other 90%.

I think you are making the mistake of simplifying the situation due to your lack of knowledge about the events that led to the current borders.

Just 5 or 6 years ago Israel pulled out of the Gaza strip to cede control back to the Palestinians and soon as they left, Hamas, a terrorist organization took control of the territory.

The idea that Islamic terrorists attack us because of support of Israel is foolish. It is simply political rhetoric middle eastern style.

The Palestinians have been treated like **** by Arabs for far longer than the US has been around. Don't forget that the entire country of Jordan was at one time considered Palestinian territory and I don't see them opening their borders. Egypt pimped the Palestinians after the creation of the state of Israel and don't forget that the territories that we are speaking about when talking of the 1967 borders were not in control of the Palestinians then and it is a joke to think that had the 6 day War not occurred that they would be in control of them now.

It is really a sad indication of how uneducated the US general public is on this area of the world when anyone can possibly bring up words like fairness and compassion considering how Israel is treated by its neighbors in the region.