Required reading: Anne Bayefsky on Obama's Cairo speech

Anne Bayefsky rips Obama's apologia in Cairo: Obama thought he would prove his even-handedness towards Israel by boasting of Friday’s trip to a concentration camp and rejecting Holocaust denial. In this context, however, the move of doing Jews these supposed favors appears to be cynical political opportunism, especially having just set the Holocaust side-by-side with the “suffering” and “pain”