JFJ Forums - Holding Barak Obama to the record

Perhaps Barak will be our next president. I'm starting a thread to casually record his views on Israel. Please add what you find with intelligible references of some sort.

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Title of article: Barack Obama defends Israel’s concern about Iran's "extraordinary threat"
Date/Time: June 21, 2008, 9:46 AM (GMT+02:00)
Location: http://www.debka.com
Quote: “And so there is no doubt that Iran poses an extraordinary threat to Israel and Israel is always justified in making decisions that will provide for its security.”

Obama supports Palestinian state cutting Israel in half
By Israel Insider staff  January 29, 2008
Article excerpt:
Obama said he supported the division of Israel into at least two parts by a Palestinian state.  [...]  "The right of return [to Israel] is something that is not an option in a literal sense," [...] "The Palestinians have a legitimate concern that a state have a contiguous coherent mass that would allow the state to function effectively."

A land corridor between Gaza and the West Bank would effectively cut Israel in half, making it incoherent and non-contiguous, divided into northern and southern portions by the Palestinian land-mass Obama supports. The Democratic candidate didn't explain why it was legitimate for the Palestinians to have a coherent and contiguous territory at Israel's expense.
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