Obama in his Cairo speech shortly after takingoffice repeated theMuslimArab narrative:Jews were given land by the UN in the MidEast because they suffered in theHolocaust.He pointedly made no reference to the continuous Jewish presence in the land for millenia, nor to the fact that no-one else had established a country there in the 2,000 years since the Jewish country had been destroyed by the early Europeans. It is the Jewish land, and the Jews did not need the Europeans to give it to them. A few weeks ago UN's Unesco made it clear that they did not recognize Jewish rights to the Temple area, only Muslim rights. As Netanyahu always points out, this non-recognition of the Jewish connection to the land is the source of the IsraelPalestinian conflict. No settlements existed in 1967 when theArabMuslim nation mobilized todestroy Israel,and lost theWBank. For PR,Obama lit hanukah candles in the WhiteHouse a fewweeks ago: so many Jews celebrate the holiday in the US he knows when it begins.