Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Analysis: Obama, he had us at 'Shalom'

He had us at the word “Shalom," US President Barack Obama did on the tamarack at Ben-Gurion Airport.
Or if not at “Shalom," then 33 words later when he said in Hebrew, “tov lihiyot shuv ba’aretz” (It is good to be back in Israel). And if not then, well at least at the end of his brief welcoming speech when he said “I’m confident in declaring that our alliance is eternal, it is forever – lanetzach.”
Again, he used Hebrew. We swooned
And if he did not have us all, at least he had some of the country’s media stars broadcasting from the airport who gushed superlatives as Air Force One was seen entering Israeli airspace, tracked as if it was an Apollo flight re-entering the earth’s orbit. As Irit Linor said on Army Radio, talking about what she deemed the over-the-top Obama Madness that gripped the nation, if this is the way the country greeted Obama, what’s left to greet the Messiah. full article: http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Analysis-Obama-finally-showing-the-love-307149

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