Obama Speech Signals End of 9/11 Era ( When they say peace and safety ,sudden destruction cometh )

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Obama Speech Signals End of 9/11 Era

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Haaretz said Obama's pledge for a new beginning with Muslims has signaled the end of the 9/11 era.
CAIRO – His pledge to forge a new beginning with the Muslim world and change course, US President Barack Obama's address signals an end to the 9/11 era, Israeli daily Haaretz said Friday, June 5.

"If Barack Obama fulfills even some of the promises he made during his important address in Cairo Thursday, June 4, 2009 will be remembered in world history as the last day of the 9/11 era," the daily said.

"Instead of a clash of civilizations, we will have a dialogue of cultures."

Obama admitted Thursday that the US response to the 9/11 attacks was enormous and led to grave violations.

"We are taking concrete actions to change course," he said in his much-heralded speech to the Muslim world.

Following the 9/11 attacks, then president George W. Bush ordered the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq under his so-called "war on terror".

Invoking "Islamic terrorism" as an internal and external enemy following the terrorist attacks, Bush also ordered the arrest and rendition of hundreds of people and sanctions coercive interrogation techniques against detainees.

A series of torture and abuses scandals by US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and the notorious Guantanamo Bay also tarnished the US reputation as a model of liberty and freedom.

Unlike Bush's unwavering bias to Israel, Obama called for a halt of Israeli settlement activities and for an independent state for the Palestinian people.

"Instead of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict being pushed to the sidelines of the struggle against Islamic terrorism, we will get a Palestinian state in the 1967 borders, with agreed territorial adjustments, and normalized relations between Israel and the Arab states," Haaretz commented.

"Instead of a balance of nuclear terror between Iran and Israel, both of them will be signatories in good standing of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty."

New Era

Obama's speech has also echoed as far as France that a new era is heralding.

"Muslims were always fans of the US -- they love their films, Hollywood -- but after Sept. 11, they put us all in the same bag," Imam Hassen Chalghoumi, from the northeastern suburb of Drancy, told the Los Angeles Times.

"All that would change now.

"Everything is possible thanks to Obama's frank message of tolerance," Chalghoumi said.

Obama has pledged a new beginning with the globe's 1.5 billion Muslims to end a decade of mistrust and discord.

"We know that his speech won't change things right away, but it's important to say it," said Stanislas Cassagne, 25.

But it seems that Obama's speech had after all touched the hearts of all Muslims in France.

"This was a very great thing," said Mourad Maaouia, 30, a practicing Muslim whose parents immigrated to France from Tunisia.

"I liked his speech so much, that . . . I was touched. Simply."

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