Obama's knowledge of Judaism doubted [honored Nazi fan who wanted Hitler to get Nobel peace prize]

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | June 5, 2012 | Jack Kelly

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President Barack Obama's enormous self-regard was on display during a meeting with 20 Jewish community leaders last Tuesday.

"Obama reportedly boasted about his knowledge of Judaism, telling the leaders that he thinks he knows more 'about Judaism' than all past presidents," said the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

This would have been impolitic to say if it were true. It isn't. John Adams and James Madison knew Hebrew. Harry Truman. who recognized the state of Israel in 1948, had since before World War II supported a homeland for the Jews. Jimmy Carter taught Sunday school for years, and was very interested in religion.

The evidence suggests Mr. Obama knows less about the Jews and Israel than have most modern presidents. In Cairo in 2009, the president said the U.S.-Israeli relationship: "is based upon cultural and historical ties, and the recognition that the aspiration for a Jewish homeland is rooted in a tragic history that cannot be denied."

The Zionist movement -- Zion is the name of a hill in Jerusalem -- to restore a national homeland for the Jews began in 1897, and figured prominently in Allied discussions of how to divide up the lands taken from the Turkish empire in World War I.

"Here [in Israel] we are taught that Zionist determination and struggle -- not guilt over the Holocaust -- brought Jews a homeland," wrote the editor of Haaretz in response to the Cairo speech.

May was "Jewish American Heritage Month." The White House issued a proclamation honoring, among others, the writer Gertrude Stein, a Nazi sympathizer who thought Adolf Hitler should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. A president who knows more "about Judaism" than any of his predecessors should have known that. Mr. Obama, said Richard Landes, a historian at Boston University, "is ignorant of history."

[mylife]

What a stain this guy is.

[vpintheak]

Oh, what he really meant was, he “knows” more about how evil the Jews are towards their peaceful arab neighbors. In other words, he don’t know jack!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks grundle.

May was "Jewish American Heritage Month." The White House issued a proclamation honoring, among others, the writer Gertrude Stein, a Nazi sympathizer who thought Adolf Hitler should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. A president who knows more "about Judaism" than any of his predecessors should have known that. Mr. Obama, said Richard Landes, a historian at Boston University, "is ignorant of history."

"That's BS -- I knew exactly what I was doing. Death to the Jews! Death to Israel! Death to America!"

[ncfool]

The video will be there before November.... Brietbart vetting. DRIP DRIP DRIP.

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Stein, fine art collection and all, wasn't much of a human being, despite Alice's brownies. Others will be more harsh, I think Obama is simply ignorant, there's no message here other than that.

[RedMonqey]

A well read person of Obama's "calibre" (cough,cough)would have known about Gertrude Stein

Not only a admirer of Hitler for his "peace in our time" statement repeated by Chamberlian, Gertrude Stein was also a avid supporter of Petain, head of the pro-Nazi French occupation Vichy regime.

As an Jew and a lesbian, she was another example of an liberal who would throw away liberties in the hope of “peace”

This is especially poignant since she must have known of Hitler's and the Nazi's policies of virulent hatred of Judaism and of Homosexuality