President Obama cites Northern Ireland as example to Middle East in UN Speech

Interesting analogy of President Obama; but every analogy limps. In Ireland, both parties knew all along from their shared Christian-based morality (even if only as a vague memory), that unequal rights for Catholics was a travesty. In the Middle East, no matter how long populations (e.g., Jews and Christians) were there prior to Islam, Muslim theology and the Koran divide people into the House of Submission/Peace (Islam), and the House of War. If indigenous non-Muslims continue to live in Muslim majority-ruled countries, they must: either convert voluntarily to Islam; or pay punitive taxes and be excluded from many professions; or be coerced into conversion by threats of death for oneself and/or family members. Freedoms of expression, conscience and religion and equal protection under law for women are not yet part of the scenario of the Arab Spring, nor for Palestine. Neither Hamas nor FATAH has agreed yet to a Two-State solution in which Israel can exist as an autonomous Jewish State with the rights it now recognizes for all its citizens. Why not make Palestine agree to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a condition for U.N. membership?

Towngate, I find myself agreeing with you. Obama's performance on the question of freedom for the Palestinians has been deplorable. The whole world is sickened by his hypocrisy--witness the freeze-out Obama received at the UN. He kowtows to the Israelis--add this to the long list of kowtowing to the Republicans on the economy. He doesn't deserve re-election--progressives such as myself have no reason to support him any more. I'm for Ron Paul.

AS in the meantime this Great Clown slams the American Veto Door on any hope of progress at the 'United Nations'! Obama ~ your puppet strings are showing!