Nothing but obscene propagandists for Israeli state violence in this thread. It's quite shameful.
I can't comprehend what more you people (or Netanyahu himself) could have wanted from Obama's speech. What, exactly, did you people want him to say about the conflict? I'm just stunned because from the speech it is entirely clear that Obama is as staunch a "supporter of Israel" as any other American president for the past 50 years. He totally and completely demolished the chances at an international recognition of the Palestinian State in the upcoming UN General Assembly. He said nothing about Jerusalem, and nothing about 7,000,000 refugees that rot in camps across the Middle East. All he did was a re-iterate a position that has been entirely standard over the entire peace process - two state solution based on 1967 borders. Nothing new. Even Israeli prime ministers have said this stuff before. He continued to talk at great length on "Israel's security" while saying nothing about Palestinian's security. OK?!
Nothing is going to happen. You can all go back to sleep and stop worrying. There will be no Palestinian state. The government of Israel will continue to operate countless checkpoints across the West Bank, it will continue to build settlements in the West Bank and operate Israeli-only highways criss-crossing the territory, it'll continue to demolish and ethnically cleanse Palestinian neighborhoods in East Jerusalem, it will continue controlling the airspace over Palestine and the shores of Gaza, the entirety of the Jordan River, all major water resource and fertile land in the West Bank. It will continue to hold Palestinian "political prisoners" like the best of it's enemies do elsewhere in the region (yes, those much more evil, much
browner regimes it claims to be so far superior to), it will continue to blockade the Gaza strip in its entirety, discriminate against its Arab minority, and brutally oppress and humiliate the people of the West Bank.
OK?! AREN'T YOU ALL SO VERY HAPPY?! Go on, be happy. Because you can be. Because all you ******* slugs can sit in your nice little suburban houses with your little gardens and white picket fences watching your flat-screen TVs, because there's not a single chance that foreign occupation is going to bulldoze your little dream home, because a foreign soldier is not going to stop
you on your way to work to check your papers
in your own country. No, it's all well and good in the Town of Bumfuck, America especially when you can call brown people dying a half-world away savages.
But I digress - My point is to you guys, STOP WORRYING!

You guys are just too uptight about the whole ordeal. Israel is perfectly fine and safe, ok guys? Nothing is going to happen to Israel, least of all from the Palestinians, with or without speech and with or without State. Here, let me show you, just so that you guys can sleep a little better at night:
Israel:
- Nuclear Warheads
- Among top 10 best militaries in the World
- $13 Billion in Military Expenditures - 18th in the World
- Developed Economy
- $220 Billion GDP - 49th in the World
- $29,000 GDP per capita - 27th in the World
Palestine:
- Pop bottle rockets
- Among top 10 rag-tag militias
- Underdeveloped Economy
- $13 Billion GDP - would be around 130th in the world
- $2,900 GDP per capita - would be around 135th in the world
See?? Israel is perfectly fine! Israel is basically 20 times richer than the Palestinian Territories and Israeli's are 10 times richer than Palestinians. Their military expenditures equal the entire domestic product of the Palestinian "economy." Israel's got nukes, Hamas has pop bottle rockets. So, don't worry!

Israel's the one with the capabilities to destroy the West Bank and Gaza, not the other way around. So you know, it's all good! We should all be very concerned if Hamas could do shit to Israel, but since it's only Israel that could single-handedly demolish all of Palestine, then there is absolutely nothing to be concerned about! Hopefully they'll finish the job of eliminating every savage man, savage woman, and savage child in all of Palestine sooner rather than later so that all of you can be very happy and be able to flip that channel with a little more peace of mind.