Monday, June 08, 2009
The Cairo Speech: A Slap in the Face to the Jewish People   Anne Bayefsky
President Obama's Cairo speech was nothing short of an earthquake - a distortion of history, an insult to the Jewish people, and an abandonment of very real human-rights victims in the Arab and Muslim worlds. It is not surprising that Arabs and Muslims in a position to speak were enthusiastic. It is more surprising that American commentators are praising the speech for its political craftiness, rather than decrying its treachery of historic proportions.