By Tom Segev, Haaretz Correspondent: Obama's Buchenwald visit seen as balance to Cairo speech
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Title:His Cairo speech was negligent
Name:yona
City: Tel AvivState: Israel
of the million Jewish refugees kicked from Mideastern states, where they lived for centuries.

And yes, it was negligent of the fact that Israel`s legitimacy comes from it`s own history - 1,500 years of Jewish rule, centuries more of Jewish majori and millennia of Jewish presence in some Jewish communities which hung on here from ancient straight through to modern times.

Not necessarily offensive, but certainly negligent of these facts.