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Other WrongsReader comment on item: Assessing Obama's Cairo Speech Submitted by Peter Herz (United States), Jun 10, 2009 at 15:29 Mr. Obama said that the Palestinian situation is "intolerable". Why didn't he politiely remind his hearers that the "Great Shaitan" has made passport-holding, voting-rights, public office-eligible, and (more importantly) property-rights holding citizens of more Falastin Arabs than any seven Arabic-speaking nations excluding the PA, Jordan, and Israel itself? Further, as a Christian, I am gravely concerned that Obama added the Muslim PBUH when mentioning Jesus. It seems to me that its more appropriate for one who believes that Jesus in God Incarnate and the promised Messiah to ask grace and peace FROM the risen and glorified Jesus Christ than to ask God's peace on a dead one.
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