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Israeli media have mixed reactions to Obama's Cairo speech

2009-06-05 (Friday), People's Daily Online
There were divided opinions in the Israeli media about U.S. President Barack Obama's speech in Cairo on Thursday. What all media outlets, including the printed and the electronic, did unitedly was the blanket coverage given to the address.

The event was broadcast live on radio and television, and newspaper websites updated it throughout the hour-long speech.

The prime time news shows gave most of their schedules over to Obama -- with clips from the speech, in-house analyses and interviews with government ministers.

"If Obama doesn't just make do with words and is actually bound by all these principles, there's no doubt it's going to be a stormy period between Israel and the United States," the veteran anchor of the independent Channel 10 news Jacob Eilon summarized.

Always looking for the sensational, the Israeli journalists hyped the negatives of Obama's speech, as many Israelis would see them.

Obama spoke of a total end to Israel's settlement activity in the West Bank, the need to cease its stranglehold on the occupied territories and most worryingly, according to some media pundits, the green light for a civilian nuclear program in Iran.

"He didn't even try to be balanced," said Eilon from his perch above the River Nile in the Egyptian capital.

Yet just along Cairo's corniche, a rival reporter from Israel's oldest independent TV station, Channel 2, was offering a different take.

"There were many potential traps in my opinion and (Omaba) didn't fall into any of them," said Arad Nir.

The state-owned Channel 1 offered less analysis and more facts -- informing the public that Israel's Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Yaalon will be heading for Washington over the weekend, while U.S. special envoy George Mitchell is traveling in the opposite direction.

The channel also offered detailed reportage on coverage of the speech in the Arab world. The station's Arab affairs analyst Oded Granot pointed out that while most of the Arab world broadcast the speech in real time, Qatar and Syria chose not to.

The fact that the speech was given in the middle of the working day guaranteed high ratings for the main TV news shows on Thursday evening, as viewers wanted to play catch-up. The channels were out to impress offering as many reporters and analysts from as many locations as possible.

However, in Israel, the newspapers still lead the way in setting the agenda. Friday is the day the weekend editions are published and Israelis lap up column inches of political comment.

In its editorial, the high-brow daily Ha'aretz said a historical mistake will be made if Obama's rhetoric is allowed to be forgotten, "because not only for the Islamic world and the West, but also, and perhaps in particular, for Israel, the Palestinians and the Arabs in general, the chance for a fresh start was laid out in Cairo yesterday."

It was an opportunity that was presented "without threats and without coercion," the paper continued, "but with a promise of an American commitment to work like a pillar of fire that will guide, encourage and nurture the diplomatic process."

Israel and the Palestinian National Authority have no right to ignore the chance presented to them. If they do the price will not be poor relations with Washington but rather the loss of human life, the paper warned.

As in many countries, in Israel it is the populist tabloid press that sells most copies. Israel's leading paper is Yedioth Ahronoth.

In a column entitled "Bibi, wake up" (Bibi is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's nickname), in-house writer Atilla Somfalvi suggested Obama's words were nothing less than "a terribly loud bell ringing through the corridors of Israel's political establishment."

The era in which Israel used trickery and other tactics to gradually annex the West Bank is over, he wrote. "Ever since Obama's election, officials in Jerusalem have sought ways to explain, interpret, and circumvent what has been obvious for a while now. With arrogance and contempt, officials here attempted to downplay the tension vis-a-vis the Americans, blur the disagreements, and hide behind various 'natural growth' arguments."

Ben Caspit, a senior writer in Israel's third popular daily, Maariv, titled his contribution: the negotiator's dream: Bibi's nightmare.

"On Thursday we were treated to the world according to Obama," he wrote, pointing out that the real world as it stands today is very different from the vision of the new U.S. president.

It will be fascinating to see which of Obama's dreams comes to fruition and which disappears in a puff of smoke, Caspit pondered. Given that the dreamer is none other than the world's most powerful man, perhaps his vision should not be dismissed too quickly. Netanyahu will soon have to decide whether to say yes or no to Obama -- either way, he is in for a tough political ride.

Israel's traditional window to the outside world is The Jerusalem Post, with a tiny readership of its print version but a large international following of its Internet site. The paper's leader writer pointed to the "disconcerting" moral equivalency provided by Obama.

The president juxtaposed the Jewish suffering in the Holocaust to that of the Palestinians since Israel's creation -- something all Israeli Jews find unacceptable.

"We cringed when he associated the Palestinian struggle with the U.S. civil rights movement and with the campaign for majority rule in South Africa -- even if the punch-line of this false analogy was: terrorism is always unjustifiable," the paper said.

All of the Israeli coverage sought out what would make for good talking points at home. One that many picked up on was the way the audience applauded every time Obama referred to the Koran and Muslim values, or threw in a word in poorly pronounced Arabic. At the same time the highly-educated gathering did not clap when Obama urged them to recognize Israel and to reject Holocaust denial.

These are highly sensitive issues in Israel and the opinion formers here say as a collective the Arab world must address these issues early on if it expects Israel to rejoin the peace process.

Source:Xinhua



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2009-06-12Carter in Lebanon
2009-05-22Averting Abuse of Universal Jurisdiction
2009-05-22The New Old-Time Geography of Conflict
2009-06-07Obama in Cairo -- What Are We to Make of His Speech?
2009-07-07Aluf Benn / Netanyahu must remember U.S. is stronger than Israel
2009-06-17The narrow strategic thinking of pro-Ahmadinejad Israelis
2009-06-28Israel, Egypt negotiate terms of new Gaza truce
2007-05-22Statements made by Democratic leaders about Saddam Hussein's acquisition or possession of WMD
2007-05-30Meet the Press [NBC] Interview With Prince Bandar
2007-05-16Reality Overtakes the Illusion of Unity in Gaza
2007-06-11Permission -- The Guidebook for Taking a Life
2007-06-08Race and Slavery in the Middle East
2007-06-06Nato’s Islamists
2007-06-12Singing CAIR’s Tune, On Your Dime
2007-06-04Obstacles to peace: Borders and settlements
2007-06-19George Soros – Bush America needs de-Nazification
2007-06-18Dr Ahmad Fatfat on the Middle East conflict
2007-06-18Israel-Lebanon conflict - timeline of events
2007-06-19Syria: No secret peace talks with Israel
2007-06-20"Hurray! We're Capitulating!"
2007-06-20Rotten Judgment in the State of Denmark -- CARTOON JIHAD
2007-06-21Jimmy Carter says U.S. aims to split Palestinians
2007-06-17Gen. Wesley Clark Weighs Presidential Bid: "I Think About It Everyday
2007-06-17Welcome to 'Palestine'
2007-06-16The Osama Files
2007-07-01Why the Future May Not Belong to Islam
2007-06-25What's Behind the Arab-Israel Summit
2007-07-10Tariq Ramadan Has an Identity Issue
2007-07-08Bin Laden's Fatwa
2007-07-09Interview transcript: David Miliband
2007-07-09Her Jewish State
2007-07-04Renewing American Leadership