Actually, if it comes to this, it is fairly clear which one Obama would choose.
"'Obama must choose - Israel or Iran,'" from the Jerusalem Post, November 11 (thanks to Sr. Soph):
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on the US to choose between Israel and Iran on Tuesday night, according to Iranian state media.Ahmadinejad said that for a real change in relations to take place, a choice must be made.
Speaking in Istanbul at the 25th Session of the Standing Committee for Economic and Commercial Cooperation (COMCEC) of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, the Iranian president said that it was up to US President Barack Obmaa to illustrate his motto of "Change."
Remember: Obama wants to explore "areas of cooperation" with the OIC.
"The support of both Israel and Iran can't go hand in hand," he was quoted as saying by IRNA. "No change is made unless great choices are made.""We would welcome the changes, and wait for big and correct decisions to be made... We will clasp any hand that is extended sincerely toward us, but changes should be made in practice."
Addressing the same conference a day earlier, Ahmadinejad said that capitalist excesses caused the global economic meltdown and are un-Islamic, as leaders at a Muslim forum touted their religion's banking system a way to revive battered economies.
He also slammed investments that pay interest, deemed usury by Muslims, and said they had contributed to financial and social problems such as homelessness.
"Usury, which is entrenched in the capitalist system, is perhaps the main reason why the system has gone bankrupt," Ahmadinejad said. "It is a way of accumulating capital without working. Usury, according to the Koran, is fighting with Allah."...
Will Honest Ibe Hooper and Brave Ahmed Rehab of CAIR please explain to the Thug In Chief how he is Misunderstanding Islam and the Koran?
Thug In Chief: Obama must choose between Israel and Iran
.................................
Let's see—shall we support a vibrant democracy and staunch ally, or shall we support a regime that screams for our death, that wants to see neighboring nations "wiped off the map", that kicked off its reign by kidnapping our Embassy staff and holding them hostage for 444 days, that sanctions stoning women and hanging gays, just ran a fraudulent election, and crushed what should have been lawful dissent among their own people?
Decisions, decisions...
And yet—with Obama—the choice he will make is by no means clear.
"Ahmadinejad said that for a real change in relations to take place, a choice must be made."
Does he want to go from hand holding straight to heavy petting?
President Obama dare not even query such a question from Amadnutjob when it comes to our staunch little ally of Israel.
It is already difficult enough to stomach his appeasing speeches made to OIC countries.
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=tCAffMSWSzY#t=28
Another "Give them an inch" alert.
"The Audacity of Hope", page 261:
Supporting the civil rights of 'unpopular' minorities or the rights and securities of groups seen as suspect should be what the United States does, agreed. Many of us stand with this principle. However, the crux of the matter rests in 'to what degree' and 'under which circumstances' our president would give complete support. And indeed, some would ask 'to what end' as well.
This is going to be a really tough question for Obama to answer. He may not be able or willing to give an honest answer so it looks like he will vote-present. Like a Coma Patient.
In which country, Iran or Israel, could a woman be "torn between two lovers" and get away with it?
'Usury, which is entrenched in the capitalist system, is perhaps the main reason why the system has gone bankrupt," Ahmadinejad said. "It is a way of accumulating capital without working."'
This is funny. The Islamic "solution" in Shariah banking merely relabels it and calls it something else. Same thing by another name.
Why is A'jad complaining about "accumulating capital without working?" Isn't this what old Mo did during his raiding parties to gather booty and slaves? And since he is the perfect model for man, isn't this the preferred way of operating? Isn't this the primary way that Islam spread, by "accumulating capital," both territorial and intellectual, in lands they conquered?
O.T. The dangers of eating...salami:
Parents have removed their children from a Sydney primary school claiming their son was bullied by Muslim students for eating salami during Ramadan.
News Limited reports Andrew Grigoriou said he complained to the school and police after his son Antonios was allegedly assaulted by Muslim students at Punchbowl Public School.
The family claims Antonios, a Year 5 student of Greek-Australian background, was chased and assaulted after a conversation about his school lunch.
The boy was confronted about why he was eating "ham" during Ramadan.
Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar where followers fast during sunrise and sunset.
Mr Grigoriou told the Daily Telegraph he removed his son and a younger child from the school on Tuesday.
It is alleged Antonios was punched in the eye and kicked in the legs by a Muslim student.
"It has broken my heart to see this happening to my boy," Mr Grigoriou said.
fightback - that is awful. Absolutely typical Muslim behaviour, of course: gang up on non-Muslims for a ridiculous trumped-up 'reason', and bully and bash and taunt.
I'm not surprised the Muslims picked particularly on an Aussie boy of visibly Greek ancestry and name: the Greeks were dhimmis inside the ghastly Predator Pit that is dar al Islam, for centuries, until by dint of sheer guts and persistence (and a bit of help from outside, not half the amount they should have got), they threw off the iron Muslim yoke and gained their freedom (and booted most of the Occupying Muslims out of Greece, just like the Spaniards and Portuguese booted the Occupying Muslims out of Iberia).
These Muslims may well be aware of the fact that Greek Christians used to be their slaves - but rebelled, and went free - so are attacking these Greek-Australian schoolkids by way of REVENGE. Utterly disgusting.
Anyway, what baffles me about the whole story is this: why did not the Principal expel the MUSLIM kids from the school? *They* started the trouble. *They* unleashed a barrage of terrifying verbal and physical assaults upon the non-Muslim kids. OUT WITH THEM. (In the old days, a thorough caning might have done some good).
The non-Muslim kids should not be the ones forced out. Every non-Muslim parent who still has a kid in that school should be up in arms and kicking up an enormous stink - all the way to the Education Ministers, State and Federal, the Premier and the Prime Minister.
You could always write a letter to the school principal and to the NSW Education Department pointing this out; and a letter to Fred Nile, enclosing a copy of the newspaper reports on this Muslim playground jihad against Greek-Australian Christian families (which ended, for the moment, with the mini-jihad triumphant: non-Muslim kids leaving the school, Muslim bullies strutting about dominating the playground) and asking for action, might be worth a try. Also write to Federal Senator Brett Mason and Federal MP Luke Simpkins. They know what Islam is and does.