Throw A Shoe At Obama’s Betrayal By Ilan Pappe(ISRAELI HISTORIAN) http://countercurrents.org/pappe250511.htm

At 4:17pm GMT on Sunday, I threw a shoe at my television screen, aimed at US President Barack Obama, precisely at the moment he began to explain that the reference in his Thursday speech at the State Department to the 1967 borders was in accordance with the Israeli interpretation of these borders.Not that I was thrilled with that speech either but it was at least as meaningless as his previous speeches on the topic.

But at 4:17 he said there will be “no return to the borders of June 4, 1967” and the thousands who attended the AIPAC convention cheered wildly. Annexation of Israeli settlement blocs built illegally in the occupied West Bank and the creation of a small Palestinian bantustan in the spaces in between was the essence of Obama’s real vision for peace.