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3 June 2009
President Obama says he wanted to seek the counsel of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah as he begins a major initiative to address many of the thorny issues that confront U.S. relations in the Middle East and with the Muslim world.
"I'm confident that working together the United States and Saudi Arabia can make progress on a whole host of issues and mutual interests," Obama said June 3 before a private meeting with King Abdullah at the king's Royal Farm in Riyadh.
The centerpiece of President Obama's five-day visit to the Middle East and Europe will be his speech June 4 at Cairo University on U.S. relations with the Muslim world, White House advisers said.
"President Obama's speech will be an important part of this engagement with the Muslim world, which began in his inaugural [speech] and has continued through venues such as his interview with Al Arabiya, his Nowruz [Persian New Year] message, and his speech and town hall [meeting] in Turkey," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said.
Gibbs cautioned that a single speech will not change everything. "I think it will take a sustained effort, and that's what the president is in for," he said. The Cairo speech is not expected to offer new policies, White House advisers told reporters in a pre-trip teleconference, though the president will address difficult topics.
The meeting between the Saudi monarch and Obama is the president's second in three months. Obama met at length with King Abdullah during the G20 Financial Summit in London in early April.
"As I take this trip and we'll be visiting Cairo tomorrow [June 4], I thought it was very important to come to the place where Islam began and to seek his majesty's counsel and to discuss with him many of the issues that we confront in the Middle East," Obama said. The president arrived in Riyadh overnight from Washington and was given a state welcome by King Abdullah.
The talks are expected to range from the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations to oil prices, which have been rising in recent weeks, to Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
"I am not surprised, given the historic and strategic ties between our two countries, I believe that go back to the time of the meeting between the late [President] Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the late [Saudi] King Abdul-Aziz," King Abdullah said.
After their meeting in Riyadh, Obama travels to Cairo June 4 for private consultations with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and then gives his much anticipated speech on the campus of Cairo University. The speech is being co-hosted by Al Azhar University.
The president then travels to Dresden, Germany, on June 5 for talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel along with several other visits in Germany, before wrapping up his trip June 6 in France with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and ceremonial events to mark the 65th anniversary of the World War II D-Day landings by Allied forces.
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President Obama quoted the Qur'an "Be conscious of God and speak always the truth." God is against abortion, ho-mo-s-exual relationships, women seeking riches and honor instead of being home with families, debt, insurance and more. President Obama honors the progress of gay, lesbian, bi-s-exuals, abortion rights, same gender marriages, and has endorsed and uplifted human rights above God's word. Truth is not what he lives. There will be no change in US-Muslim relationships. Radical Islamist are fighting to keep those things out of their countries.
When he refuses to show his identity records to show he is eligible to be president, in spite of many lawsuits and costs, truth and transparency are words used to deceive. It is too bad because he is a great speaker and has great charm; we need more truth.
I posted a previous comment regarding my pride in Mr. Obama and the beautiful speech he gave in Cairo, Egypt. I also spoke at length with regard to international Jewry and the racism that is inherent in the religious teachings of one specific group of Jews -- the Ashkenazim (Jews of German/Eastern European descent).
Do you remember Philip Berg? Philip Berg is the German-Jewish attorney who started the lawsuit against Mr. Obama regarding his citizenship. Do you think that that Mr. Berg's lawsuit against Mr. Obama and his religion's racist beliefs are coincidence?
More facts (see http://www.africandiasporalenterprises.com/curse_of_black_skin.html for more details):
1) Artsot Ha Hayyim, pages 52a/52b: "... Abraham Lincoln was killed was because he freed the blacks. This is also the reason why Kennedy was killed, i.e. because he was good to the blacks...this will be the fate of any who adopt a progressive attitude towards blacks, because they are meant to be enslaved. His source for this is Ham's curse."
Midrash Rabbah (Soncino) Vol. 1, p. 293: "AND HE SAID: CURSED BE CANAAN (Breishit 9:25)...You [i.e. Noah is speaking to Ham) have prevented me from doing something in the dark [i.e. cohabiting with his wife], therefore your seed will be ugly and dark-skinned. R. Chiyya said: Ham and the dog copulated in the Ark, therefore Ham came forth black-skinned while the dog publicly exposed its copulation."
2) Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 108b: "Our Rabbis taught: Three copulated in the ark, and they were all punished - the dog, the raven and Ham. The dog was doomed to be tied, the raven expectorates [his seed into his mate's mouth], and Ham was smitten in his skin." (This is footnoted and the footnote reads: "I.e., from him was descended Cush (the Negro), who is black-skinned."
3) The Torah Anthology, Vol. 1, p. 392-393: "Ham received five punishments: 1. Because he looked at his naked father, his eyes became red, always appearing bloodshot. 2. Because he mocking told his brothers about his father's condition, his lips were made thick and gross, like those of a Negro. 3. Because he turned his head to see his father, the hair of his head and beard became kinky. 4. Because he did not cover his father, it was decreed that he always go naked.
Philip Berg, the lawyer who challenged Mr. Obama's nationality is an Ashkenazi.
Doron Braunshstein, the street peddler who made a "fashion statement" with his stupid "Obama is my statement" is also an Ashkenazi.
Jackie Mason (born Yacov Moshe Maza/Jacob Moses Maza) is an Ashkenazi whose father was a rabbi.
Although I do not mean to imply that all Ashkenazim ascribe to the racist beliefs espoused by Ashkenazic books like Midrash Rabbah, Legends of the Jews and the Torah Anthology, if the Ashkenazim community can accuse Minister Farrakhan of anti-Semitism based on what they believe to be anti-Semitic remarks, does it not stand to reason that others should be able to ascribe anti-dark-skin racism to members of the Ashkenazim, since there is irrefutable proof that some Ashkenazic religious books actually teach anti-dark-skin racism???
I saw Mr. Obama's speech in Cairo. It was fantastic! Although I am not Muslim, I applaud Mr. Obama's placement of Islam and Muslims on a level of international respect that it, like other religions, deserves.
I am glad that Mr. Obama, while acknowledging America's commitment to Israel, did not exclude Palestinian people's right to a land of their own. Obama's speech was a call to lovers of justice that we do not have to adopt the racist, Ashkenazim, anti-dark-skin culture that is taught in the Talmud's Sanhedrin 108b and footnote 34 (http://www.come-and-hear.com/sanhedrin/sanhedrin_108.html; http://www.come-and-hear.com/sanhedrin/sanhedrin_108.html#108b_34).
Wikipedia.org shows that there are many groups of Jews all over the world (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews for more information):
1) Ashkenazim (German/Yiddish-speaking Jews of Eastern Europe); 2) Sephardim (Jews from Spain and Portugal); 3) Mizrahim (from North African and Middle East); 4) Cochin, Bene Ephraim, Bene Israel, Baghdadi and Bnei Menashe (Indian Jews); 5) Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews); 6) Lemba (Southern African Jews); 7) Igbo, Annang, Efik Jews of Nigeria (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igbo_Jews); 8) Rusape of Zimbabwe(http://www.mindspring.com/~jaypsand/what.htm9) Abayudaya Jews of Uganda (http://www.mindspring.com/~jaypsand/abayudaya.htm)
Like the Palestinians, darker-skinned Jews in Israel are also victims of discrimination by their white-skinned distant relatives, the Ashkenazim:
1) Reuven Abargel, Mizrahi Jewish, Member of Israel's Former Black Panther Party: "The Mizrahim in Israel went through a sophisticated process of oppression under the guise of slogans such as “we are all brothers,” and “we are all Jews.” While the Ashkenazi establishment beamed with “solidarity” toward us, it committed crimes against us such as medical experiments in radioactive radiation of about 100,000 children, almost all of whom immigrants from North Africa, kidnapping children from large Mizrahi families and transferring them to childless European Jewish couples, and the exclusion of Mizrahi Jews from Israel’s educational institutions and centers of influence." (for more information see http://boycott-occupation.mahost.org/?q=node/19)
2) Ethiopian Community Hit Hard By Racism (Y.Net.com): "In a move more reminiscent of apartheid era South Africa than modern day Israel, four Ethiopian students at the Lamerchav Elementary School in Petah Tikva were segregated in a separate classroom because they were 'not observant enough'. Shocked father states: ‘We are being discriminated against for being black and powerless’" (http://www.ynet.co.il/english/articles/0,7340,L-3480010,00.html).
The world needs to see that the Ashkenazim's habit of using the word "anti-Semitic" is disingenuous and blatantly dishonest. The racist religious doctrine that denigrates dark-skinned individuals is not specific to Jews -- it is specific to the Ashkenazim. President Obama broken new ground by letting the Ashkenazim-led Israeli government know in no uncertain term that America will no longer bow to the Israeli government's desire to subjugate dark-skinned people -- whether it be dark-skinned Jews or dark-skinned Gentiles.
Because no matter what religion a racist uses to hide racism -- a racist is a racist. And America does not support racists.
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Way to go president B.H. OBAMA !!!!!!!!!!! WE ARE TOLD THAT THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE. FOR TOO LONG , THE TRUTH ABOUT THE CONFLICT IN THE MIDDLE EAST PARTICULARLY BETWEEN PALESTAN AND ISRAEL HAS NOT BEEN TOLD. OBAMA, YOU ARE NOT JUST THE PRESIDENT OF THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD , BUT THE WORLD NOW SEES A JESUS-LIKE PRESIDENT WHO HAS COME TO SET THE WORLD FREE. THANK YOU PAPA OBAMA. LARRY E. PUTU, PHILADELPHIA , USA
American (?) President Barack Hussein Obama has said he was raised as a Muslim. But, he is a Christian. Q. Doesn't Islamic Religion teach converters from Muslim belief/Islamic Religion say the price of converting is death? If so, why is President Obama excepted in Islamic/Muslim Countries?
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