Speaking in Cairo, Obama cited the Israeli-Arab conflict as the second major source of the rift. Obama ignored the context: it is Arabs who fight Jews and hate America for preventing the new holocaust. Instead, Obama put the onus on Israel by calling on her to stop the settlements. No need for a concomitant cessation of Palestinian terrorism, of course.
A sane person would start with the major problem, which is obviously Iraq. But Obama cracks down on the less important and thus irrelevant problem of the settlements. According to Obama, America’s major problem with Muslims is… colonialism. He mistook the Middle East for his Kenyan homeland. Most of the region was never colonized, and certainly America had no part in it.
Even if Obama somehow arranges for an Arab-Israeli peace treaty, it won’t end the Arabs’ hostility toward America. Arabs will hold it responsible for carving Israel from the “Palestinian homeland.”
Obama should better listen to Ayatollah Khomeini: Muslims hate America because it is the Great Tempter; for its pop and porn, Las Vegas and New York, jeans and Coke.
US position on Middle East conflict was always ambivalent. On one hand, the Middle East conflict must not endanger US oil supplies. On other hand, the more the Middle East is embroiled in the conflict the stronger is the US position of its arbiter.