Netanyahu Gives Obama A Loaded Gift

(AP)

Prime Minister "Bibi" Netanyahu offered President Obama more than talk at their meeting today: The Israeli leader presented the president with a copy of Mark Twain's "Pleasure Excursion to the Holy Land," according to Ha'aretz.

The 1867 travel memoir paints a bleak picture of Israel under Muslim rule. "Renowned Jerusalem itself, the stateliest name in history, has lost all its ancient grandeur, and is become a pauper village," Twain writes.

The essay, which is part of Twain's "The Innocents Abroad," describes the diversity of the Jewish state at the time. "It seems to me that all the races and colors and tongues of the earth must be represented among the fourteen thousand souls that dwell in Jerusalem. Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of Moslem rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself, abound," Twain said.

The author added that "Jerusalem is mournful, and dreary, and lifeless. I would not desire to live here."

[glamajamma]

Obama should have responded with Einstein's letter to the editor of the NY Times.
http://www.globalwebpost.com/farooqm/study_res/einstein/nyt_letter.html

"The public avowals of Begin?s party are no guide whatever to its actual character. Today they speak of freedom, democracy and anti-imperialism, whereas until recently they openly preached the doctrine of the Fascist state. It is in its actions that the terrorist party betrays its real character; from its past actions we can judge what it may be expected to do in the future"

[globalcoolin]

An excellent gift!
I will buy my own copy.
Another good gift idea for this president from democracies under constant emergency would be an un-loaded American made, customized 9mm handgun.
A glass ceiling Obama could break in accepting a nice handgun and then doing a photo op of him taking firearms safety instruction... to promote firearms safety!
And show there's nothing bitter about defending ones own home and family.
American police officers sure want to protect their own homes and families (and do!). So why not support them, too!
Protection isn't about bitterness!