Obama's Cairo speech

[Mark Stapleton]

My take on Obama is he talks the talk but rarely walks the walk.

Talk is cheap. Action is what he needs to take and thus far he keeps retreating from it.

Assuming he ever intended to take action in the first place anyway.

It's starting to look that way David.

So far no reaction from the Obama administration on Netanyahu's reply to Obama's Cairo speech:

http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?optio...%3A53%3A41

Netanyahu was short on concessions and long on conditions. A demilitarised Palestine bereft of sovereignty makes me think the two state solution can't work. And he ruled out a settlement freeze to boot. Obama has elicited no landmark shift in the Israeli position at all.

In the absence of a definitive response to Netanyahu, Obama's Cairo effort will be regarded as just a lot of fluff.