Identifier
Created
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09SAOPAULO35
2009-01-20 13:52:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Consulate Sao Paulo
Cable title:
Media Reaction: Middle East and the Inauguration
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SIPDIS
STATE INR/R/MR; IIP/R/MR; WHA/PD
DEPT PASS USTR
USDOC 4322/MAC/OLAC/JAFEE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KMDR OPRC OIIP XM XR XF BR
SUBJECT: Media Reaction: Middle East and the Inauguration
Title: A Pause for Obama
Main Editorial in center-right O Estado de S. Paulo (1-20) states:
[Israel's] cease-fire was a result of an American demand,
transmitted emphatically to all parties, for the assembly of a
present peace around the first days of Obama in the White House....
Both parts voice their victory....Nevertheless, there are signs that
the Hamas has preserved itself....'the world understands today that
Hamas is the only address in Gaza', says an Israeli political
scientist, '- a piece of data which is an intolerable reality to
Israel".
Media Reaction Topic: Presidential Inauguration/new administration
Foreign Policy
Title: Obama's policy for energy
Editorial in center-right O Estado de S. Paulo (1-20) by Jose
Goldemberg: "U.S. extraordinary material progress is based on the
consumption of those [coal, oil and natural gas] fuels, whose trade
moves around at US$ 2 trillion per year....It is not surprising,
then, that any attempt to reduce fossil fuel consumption finds so
much resistance in the U.S....The new American government should
substantially change [Bush's administration] policies, as indicated
with the nomination of the new energy secretary, Dr. Steven Chu, a
Nobel Prize winner in Physics (1997) and a professor at the
University of California. [Among his opinions are:]....[1] using
energy in a more efficient way....[2] increasing the production of
renewable sources of energy that have already been developed.... and
the possibilities of cooperation between U.S. and Brazil are good in
that area....and [3] developing new technologies until they become
competitive in the market."
Media Reaction Topic: Presidential Inauguration/New Administration
Foreign Policy
Title: Obama's Promise
Column in liberal Folha de S.Paulo (1-20) says: "Barack Obama's
inauguration as the 44th U.S. president constitutes an historic
event whose magnitude cannot be attenuated. Not only a black
politician reaches the post to govern the most powerful country in
the world - an unedited fact to attest to the vitality of that
democracy - as he [Obama] does it surrounded by a breeze of optimism
that contrasts frontally with the panorama around him....The
atmosphere of confidence and hope that surrounds Obama at his
inauguration gives him an unusual grace period. Nonetheless, the
size and the multiplicity of the challenges that awaits him,
however, accumulate the potential of eroding them rapidly.
WHITE
SIPDIS
STATE INR/R/MR; IIP/R/MR; WHA/PD
DEPT PASS USTR
USDOC 4322/MAC/OLAC/JAFEE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KMDR OPRC OIIP XM XR XF BR
SUBJECT: Media Reaction: Middle East and the Inauguration
Title: A Pause for Obama
Main Editorial in center-right O Estado de S. Paulo (1-20) states:
[Israel's] cease-fire was a result of an American demand,
transmitted emphatically to all parties, for the assembly of a
present peace around the first days of Obama in the White House....
Both parts voice their victory....Nevertheless, there are signs that
the Hamas has preserved itself....'the world understands today that
Hamas is the only address in Gaza', says an Israeli political
scientist, '- a piece of data which is an intolerable reality to
Israel".
Media Reaction Topic: Presidential Inauguration/new administration
Foreign Policy
Title: Obama's policy for energy
Editorial in center-right O Estado de S. Paulo (1-20) by Jose
Goldemberg: "U.S. extraordinary material progress is based on the
consumption of those [coal, oil and natural gas] fuels, whose trade
moves around at US$ 2 trillion per year....It is not surprising,
then, that any attempt to reduce fossil fuel consumption finds so
much resistance in the U.S....The new American government should
substantially change [Bush's administration] policies, as indicated
with the nomination of the new energy secretary, Dr. Steven Chu, a
Nobel Prize winner in Physics (1997) and a professor at the
University of California. [Among his opinions are:]....[1] using
energy in a more efficient way....[2] increasing the production of
renewable sources of energy that have already been developed.... and
the possibilities of cooperation between U.S. and Brazil are good in
that area....and [3] developing new technologies until they become
competitive in the market."
Media Reaction Topic: Presidential Inauguration/New Administration
Foreign Policy
Title: Obama's Promise
Column in liberal Folha de S.Paulo (1-20) says: "Barack Obama's
inauguration as the 44th U.S. president constitutes an historic
event whose magnitude cannot be attenuated. Not only a black
politician reaches the post to govern the most powerful country in
the world - an unedited fact to attest to the vitality of that
democracy - as he [Obama] does it surrounded by a breeze of optimism
that contrasts frontally with the panorama around him....The
atmosphere of confidence and hope that surrounds Obama at his
inauguration gives him an unusual grace period. Nonetheless, the
size and the multiplicity of the challenges that awaits him,
however, accumulate the potential of eroding them rapidly.
WHITE