Obama pledges ‘unshakeable commitment’ to Israel’s security, but who will guarantee Palestine_

by Raza Shah July 25, 2008 US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama ended his trip to Israel on Thursday morning with a surprise visit to occupied al-Qud’s (Jerusalem’s) Western Wall, before heading for Berlin. On Wednesday, Obama pledged his “unshakeable commitment to Israel’s security,” after a day of meetings with the Zionist State’s most senior leaders. But who will guarantee Palestine’s security and protect its people from Israel’s barbaric actions? Known to Muslims the world over al-Quds, Jerusalem has been under illegal Israeli occupation since 1967, in flagrant violation of the UN General Assembly’s resolution of November 29, 1947 which adopted a partition plan for Palestine that led to the creation of the Jewish state of Israel in 1948. Under that plan, put forward to the UN in August 1946, Jerusalem was to... [read full story]