Analysis: Obama's Islam success rests on Israel - White House- msnbc.comWASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's speech to Muslims also had a huge and attentive Jewish audience, attuned to any suggestion that he might soften U.S. support for Israel or ease up with Iran at the expense of the Jewish state. His careful words illustrate the constraints posed by Obama's political obligations as he tries to reinvigorate America's honest-broker status in the Islamic world.
The president's address in Cairo was a long-promised dissertation on the painful history of the U.S. relationship with Muslims, the misunderstandings and missteps that fill an ocean of suspicion and ill will on both sides.
While Obama acknowledged that one speech could not "eradicate years of mistrust," he scored points with Muslims for opening a public dispute with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over Jewish settlements on land Palestinians want for an independent state.
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