Obama and Islam

I thought about writing this post just after Obama's speech - in Cairo University - on June 4th, about the American - Muslims relations. However, I got busy with a lot of stuff at work, but now after this video started spreading on facebook, which shows parts of Obama's speech, in AIPAC, last year when he was running for presidency. On the other hand there was this video that was spreading between the Israelis.
The first video is called "Obama, the other face" and of course people are sharing it with comments like "Obama - The Hypocrite", cause they believe it contradicts with what he said in Cairo.
So I just want to let everyone know that you have to set your expectations to be kind of logical; no US president can afford to do more than what Obama did and said.
No one persuaded Obama to come to Egypt and give us this speech. Well, I don't remember that this ever happened. And NO, we are NOT that powerful nor influential to get him or the Americans on their needs to ask for a new beginning.

From here I would like to ask the Arabs and Muslims, what do we want from the US?
I'm sure I will hear different answers, none of which, will make sense. I believe the right answer should be something like "a fair player that can push the peace process forward". Except that the "fair" word in the answer is controversial.
I just want to let everyone know that Obama represents a democratic country, so he HAS to reflect what his nation want.

Will it work?

"Since the first stirrings of the Arab-Israeli peace process after the Yom Kippur war, America's relations with Israel have been characterized by a paradox. Those presidents regarded as the least friendly to the Jewish state have done it the most good. Its strong allies have proven much less helpful.

This history begins with Jimmy Carter, who threatened a cutoff of American aid to pressure Menachem Begin into returning all of Sinai to Egypt, which made possible the 1979 Camp David agreement. The other most meaningful U.S. contribution to Mideast peace came under the first President George Bush at the 1991 Madrid Conference. When the Israelis refused to participate, Secretary of State James Baker withheld loan guarantees and said that Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir should call him when he got interested in peace. At one point, Baker actually banned Benjamin Netanyahu, who was representing Shamir in Washington, from the State Department Building. Madrid led to a peace treaty with Jordan, the recognition of Israel by many other countries, and the first real face-to-face negotiations with Palestinians." ....

"Happily, President Obama seems poised to defy this old dichotomy."

Slate

Words that could heal wounds of centuries

"But much of the truth was there, albeit softened to avoid hurting feelings in Israel. To deny the facts of the Jewish Holocaust was "baseless, ignorant and hateful", he said, a remark obviously aimed at Iran. And Israel deserved security and "Palestinians must abandon violence...
The United States demanded a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He told the Israelis there had to be a total end to their colonisation in the West Bank. "The United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements.

The Palestinians had suffered without a homeland. "The situation for the Palestinian people is intolerable," Obama said and the US would not turn its back on the "legitimate Palestinian aspiration for a state of their own". Israel had to take "concrete steps" to give the Palestinians progress in their daily lives as part of a road to peace. Israel needed to acknowledge Palestinian suffering and the Palestinian right to exist. Wow. Not for a generation has Israel had to take this kind of criticism from a US President. It sounded like the end of the Zionist dream. Did George Bush ever exist?" Fisk

Egypt and its Media

While everyone is reporting about the catastrophe of Air France's A330 flight that has vanished earlier today, reporting that it has 228 people.
"Passenger jet carrying 228 people disappears off coast of Brazil, airline says" CNN
Egyptian Media as usual astonishes me, here is what Masrawy reported:
باريس (ا ف ب) - اكدت شركة الخطوط الجوية الفرنسية (اير فرانس) الاثنين فقدان طائرة قادمة من ريود دي جانيرو الى باريس وعلى متنها 216 راكبا.
Masrawy

Someone may notice the difference in numbers 228 (CNN) and the 216(Masrawy). This is not a mistake, its true that the flight carried only 216 passengers (that is what egypt would care about), but the crew of the flight is 12 (Apparently, those are not important enough to the Egyptian media).

This is not the first time I notice something like this.