Obama is right, it’s time for honesty
In Perspective: Obama is right, it’s time for honesty
Jun. 11, 2009
Daniel Gordis , THE JERUSALEM POST
In the days leading up to his landmark speech in Cairo, US President Barack Obama said it was time for “honesty” between the United States and Israel. Now he has spoken, and we should respond in kind. For Obama is right - it is time, at long last, for honesty.
Too many analyses of the speech have ignored the fact that it was addressed primarily to the Muslim world, and was delivered...
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Dr. Daniel Gordis is Senior Vice President of the Shalem Center, where he is also a senior fellow. The author of numerous books on Jewish thought and currents in Israel, Dr. Gordis was the founding dean of the Ziegler Rabbinical School at the University of Judaism.
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