Some quotes...
The tracked his plane as if it was an Apollo launch.
As Irit Linor said on Army Radio, discussing 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? WOW !! ??
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Or if not at “Shalom,” then 33 words later when he said in Hebrew, “Tov lihiyot shuv ba’aretz” (It’s 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 – lanetzah.” Again, he used Hebrew. We swooned
And.....
Living in a neighborhood, and even in a world, in which there are those who have not exactly accepted our right or legitimacy to be here, having the most powerful man in the world come and give us a public bear hug is very important.
And Obama gave us that. He gave it at the airport when he said that the Jewish people “tended the land here, prayed to God here,” and when he said that “the founding of the Jewish State of Israel was a rebirth, a redemption unlike any in history.” He gave it at the President’s Residence when he quoted from the Talmud and said Israel had no better friend in the world than the US.
My comment:
Apparently.........Obama's trip meant MORE TO ISRAEL.....than it seemed to mean to even us who were watching so very closely.
TICK TOCK....YFIC,RAndy
PS.....I think it IS fair to say, Israel does NOT get "enough love" from anywhere in the world.....so, from their perspective......it was very good to have the President of the Most Powerful Nation in the world come to Israel....and say what he did.
Is there a deeper meaning to what Obama said? We shall see.....tick tock!