Do Obama’s Jewish Backers Have Any Red Lines?

Commentary Magazine ^ | 7/20/2009 | Jonathan Tobin

[Jbny]

The demand issued to the new Israeli ambassador (and former Commentary contributor) Michael Oren this past weekend spoke volumes about the changing nature of the U.S.-Israel alliance.

For the past few months, Obama’s Jewish supporters have been saying that the dispute between the two countries over settlements is not about the United States trying to harm Israel but rather a case of Washington seeking to stop “illegal settlements” opposed by many Israelis and most American Jews. But the demand issued to Ambassador Oren was not about some illegal hilltop outpost somewhere deep in the West Bank, in territory that most Israelis concede would be part of a future Palestinian state. Instead, the houses going up are in a section of the capital, albeit a neighborhood that prior to June 1967 was occupied by Jordan and, therefore, off-limits to Jews from 1949 to 1967. The 20-unit housing complex is in Sheik Jarrah, a still predominantly Arab neighborhood but one that, as even the New York Times concedes, is also home to foreign consulates and Israeli government buildings.

[ScaniaBoy]

And they are right. Read more about it here:

Abullah II clenches his fist

[justiceseeker93]

If Hitler came back from the dead and called himself a Democrat, Jews would vote for him.

Not exactly an original line, but there is some truth to it.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks!

[jmaroneps37]

http://www.collinsreport.net/2009/05/07/while-american-jews-cheer-him-on-obama-is-killing-israel-they-love-socialism-more-than-israel/