So lame it's almost comical......
NEW YORK, June 17 - Democrat Barack Obama misused a "code word" in Middle East politics when he said Jerusalem should be Israel's "undivided" capital but that does not mean he is naive on foreign policy, a top adviser said on Tuesday.
Addressing a pro-Israel lobby group this month, the Democratic White House hopeful said: "Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided."
The comment angered Palestinians, who want East Jerusalem, captured by Israel in 1967, as the capital of a future state. "He has closed all doors to peace," Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said after the June 4 speech.
Obama later said Palestinians and Israelis had to negotiate the status of the city, in line with long-held U.S. presidential policy.
Daniel Kurtzer, who advises Obama on the Middle East, said Tuesday at the Israel Policy Forum that Obama's comment stemmed from "a picture in his mind of Jerusalem before 1967 with barbed wires and minefields and demilitarized zones."
"So he used a word to represent what he did not want to see again, and then realized afterwards that that word is a code word in the Middle East," Kurtzer said.
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More gaffes from Obamessiah. And he ain't even Prez yet...
Posted by: atheling | June 17, 2008 at 07:58 PM
He will be soon, mark my words!
Posted by: Jason | June 17, 2008 at 09:12 PM
:That's why I Said it Should be "Undivided".....
I think Ahmadinejad said something very similiar..
Posted by: pulsar182 | June 18, 2008 at 08:05 PM