Obama's Middle East Policy Falls Apart

American Thinker ^ | 11/10/09 | Sammy Benoit

[Shellybenoit]

With his typical left-wing arrogance, Tom Friedman of the New York Times says that Obama should drop his peace efforts and call a pox on both the Israeli and Palestinian houses because neither side is willing to negotiate. Friedman assumes that President Obama is an idiot who did not understand that peace is unattainable.

I suggest a different scenario. President Obama has a lifetime's worth of anti-Israel sentiments, a cause for great suspicion for Jewish voters during the early part of the campaign. Before the economy collapsed, the Jewish vote was moving away from Obama. In the end it was economics, not Israel, that was the key issue in the 2008 vote. That made it easy for Obama to overcome the Jewish suspicion and win their votes.

Now that he is President, perhaps the reason Obama is pushing for peace so hard is that he knows it is unattainable. It is the very failure of his effort that gives him the excuse to bash and isolate Israel while working to split up the Jewish community. This is exactly what Obama is doing via his anti-Israel statements, anti-Israel appointments, and his "mentor-ship" of J Street.

[goldstategop]

Only 4% of Jewish Israelis support Obama. In his video address to all the "Rabin Week" Israelis, Obama was preaching to the choir. Meretz, the Israeli party that comes closest to his world view has only 3 seats in the Knesset.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus

[Bahbah]

There is not a single area in which this horrid man has not been a disaster for this country. Not one.

[Mom MD]

What middle east policy? It’s all about Obama, not anyone else....

[houeto]

There is not a single area in which this horrid man has not been a disaster for this country. Not one.

Um...Dearborn, Michigan.

[Fetid Facts]

LOL, but I respectfully disagree. Obama’s policies may have helped some people in Dearborn, but they are still a disaster for America as a whole.

[SaraJohnson]

I guess they don’t want Obama killing them. They must be racist or something! ;(

Jewish lefties in the US, on the other hand, think they are safe from Iran’s nukes. No one is safe from jihad when the CIC is clearly sympathic to the cause.