It seems that the Israeli Settlers, and the far-right contingent of Israeli citizens and Israeli supporters who support the ongoing settlements, are mad that Obama’s Cairo speech threw them under the bus.  This is fine.  This is the Israeli population that needs to (figuratively speaking) have their desires thrown under the bus.

The other up-shot pot-shot regarding Obama and the Israeli government is it’s one more element in some frictious relations between Obama and the Netanyahu government — and thus there’s this suggestion:  “Is Obama trying to overthrow Bibi?”  Weirdly enough, clearly not as immersed, knowledged, or pondering those issues as Goldberg is, I couldn’t shake that thought — but, as likely, Obama’s policy is as much working past Netanyahu to whatever degree possible.

Of course, the other government Obama’s speech seemed to have suggestions of “overthrowing” is Iran’s government.  The American right’s drum-beating of an “Apology Tour”, peaking against America — by which they just as often mean apologizing for Bush as opposed to America — gets its due with Obama’s mention of the Overthrow of the Shah.  The American government has “apologized” for that already, attempts to push through thaws in the relationships — via a couple of passive-voice press releases. 

There is a better than even chance that the voters in Iran, from off of the state-controlled list of candidates, are about to give him the boot.  We may no longer have Ahmadinejad to kick around anymore.  Which does make perfect sense.  Ahmadinejad’s rise was largely a reaction to Bush’s “Axis of Evil” rhetoric, and Ahmadinejad doesn’t have Bush to kick around anymore.  But, the shot at two shots of the bow against Ahmadinejad — one against Holocuast Denialism:

Around the world, the Jewish people were persecuted for centuries, and anti-Semitism in Europe culminated in an unprecedented Holocaust.  Tomorrow, I will visit Buchenwald, which was part of a network of camps where Jews were enslaved, tortured, shot and gassed to death by the Third Reich.  Six million Jews were killed — more than the entire Jewish population of Israel today.  Denying that fact is baseless, it is ignorant, and it is hateful.  Threatening Israel with destruction — or repeating vile stereotypes about Jews — is deeply wrong, and only serves to evoke in the minds of Israelis this most painful of memories while preventing the peace that the people of this region deserve.

And, perhaps just as broadly to the Muslim World, there is this, sloping off of the Holocaust Denial in parts and its own ball of wax in other aspects:

I am aware that some question or justify the events of 9/11. But let us be clear: al Qaeda killed nearly 3,000 people on that day. The victims were innocent men, women and children from America and many other nations who had done nothing to harm anybody. And yet Al Qaeda chose to ruthlessly murder these people, claimed credit for the attack, and even now states their determination to kill on a massive scale. They have affiliates in many countries and are trying to expand their reach. These are not opinions to be debated; these are facts to be dealt with.

Or, perhaps that bit of conspiratorialism can be directed to, as much as anything else American, 9/11 Truth Movement.  Where it will be received with the same sort of thing seen in the title of this Bill Clinton Bohemian Grove youtube clip.

Then again, it’s sort of notable that these two comments blast up against this Obama comment.:

And I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.

But these negative steoretypes of the Middle East believing these conspiracy theories exists for a reason.

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