Barack Obama today delivered one of the strongest condemnations by an American president of Israeli settlement building and made a startling admission of past US foreign policy mistakes.
In an audacious speech at Al-Azhar university in Cairo to a worldwide audience of 1.5 billion Muslims, Mr Obama told the Israeli government that continuing to construct new Jewish homes in the occupied Palestinian territories was unacceptable and must stop.
Mr Obama went further than any US President in recent memory in conceding that America had sometimes been wrong, citing past policies towards Iran and recent reactions after 9/11. He implied that the invasion of Iraq had been a mistake.
He also made thinly-veiled criticisms of the authoritarian regimes in Middle Eastern countries to which America has in the past appeared uncritically supportive.
I am going to say something about Barak Obama that I never said about Bill Clinton, no matter how much I disagreed with him. Obama is not my president. He has shamed the United States. He has abandoned the principals upon which this country was founded. He is a disgrace.
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