It makes me sick to see obama in Israel today delivering that speech.
I think the intent of obama's speech was as Charles posed: IMHO since he couldn’t convince Netanyahu to get the peace process going his speech was given with his "glowing" lines of B.S.
for the Israeli people to try to convince them to pressure Netanyahu into doing so.
Some Quick Facts:
There has been a continuous presence of Jews in Israel for over 3,000 years.
There is no connection between modern "palestinians" and ancient Philistines or Canaanites.
As Libertas so rightly says:
The origin of the name Palestinians were given to Israel by Roman occupiers for punishment and to mock them after the second Jewish revolt in 132 AD.
Before 1948 some Jews called themselves Palestinians and the Jerasalem Post was first called the Palestinian Post.
There was no such thing as Arab palestinian identity before 1967. As former PLO terrorist and now Born Again Christian Walid Shoebat says: "Why on June 4, 1967 I was a Jordanian and then overnight I became a Palestinian?"