Posted on 03/16/2010 5:53:04 AM PDT by IbJensen
It took awhile, 14 months to be exact, but both the ADL and AIPAC have issued very solid statements condemning the President's new verbal war on Israel, and asking for the Administration to curtail the public berating of its supposed ally, and work with Israel in a more diplomatic fashion on both the peace process and Iran.
What is disgraceful is that so far, exactly one elected Democrat in Congress has done the same: Congresswoman Shelley Berkley of Nevada. Sadly, Democrats seem to care far more about passing health care legislation this week, than protecting the US-Israel relationship from Obama's assault. It's apparent that indifference i f not hostility to Israel's survival is at work. The infamous New York Daily News headline about Gerald Ford's response to New York's fiscal crisis was less fair to him (he never said these words) than the title of this article is to President Obama.
It is interesting that David Axelrod, who blasted Israel on network news programs on Sunday, and is a proud standard bearer of the Millard Fillmore label when it comes to the history and politics of the Middle East conflict (for the record, Fillmore headed the Know Nothing Party back in the 1850s), will be honored by the NJDC (National Jewish Democratic Council) at a coming event. Axelrod has pretty much a perfect record of having avoided any connection with any pro-Israel or Jewish communal activity in his long political career, with the notable exception of raising money from Jews for Democratic candidates.
This Obama does well too. In Obama's case, the handwriting as to his sympathies in the Middle East conflict (not to be confused with his lies delivered to AIPAC conferences), were pretty well documented well before he was elected -- the 20 years he listened in rapture to the sermons of Reverend Wright; all those dinners , and babysitting, and chit chats with Rashid Khalidi and Ali Abunimah; the close friendship with Samantha Power (who sought an international force to invade the West Bank and liberate it from Israel); the years spent in the most anti-Israel hothouses in America -- the neighborhoods where elite colleges are located.
Martin Peretz has it right that America elected its first third world President, and he is behaving accordingly. His sympathies lie with the Palestinians. He is, after all, a redistributionist on all issues, and will always favor the group or state he perceives as weaker. The flak attacks by Hillary Clinton, other State Department officials, and Axelrod will do nothing to advance the peace process, ostensibly the goal of the Administration. Since Oslo, the Palestinians for over 15 years spoke directly to Israelis, without intermediation, even during the intifada.
When Obama launched his Presidency with a call for a 100% settlement freeze on all land beyond the green line, including natural growth of settlements, he enabled the Palestinians to avoid coming back for talks without those conditions being met. Why would the Palestinians be more pro-Israel than the White House, and accept less than the White House was demanding of Israel? Now the PA can hang back some more and honor some more mass murderers of Israelis while they wait for Obama to deliver more Israeli concessions before talks begin (prisoner releases, extending the settlement freeze to Jerusalem, eliminating more roadblocks ,easing the blockade of Gaza. ).
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is right to let the Americans know that Israel will continue to build within its capital. To please the Americans and not establish facts on the ground, only new housing for Palestinians would be allowed. Of course, when the ten month freeze on new settlements in the West Bank was agreed to, Bibi came in for high praise. Bibi specifically excluded Jerusalem from that freeze.
The announcement of the 1,600 units in a neighborhood where 16,000 Jews already live was step 4 in a 7 step approval process, with no construction for 3 more years. So yes, maybe it was an ill-timed announcement with Joe Biden in town, given how everyone needs to walk on hot coals to avoid giving the PA another excuse to not negotiate even indirectly with Israel.
For the Obama Administration to blow up over this as some grave insult is ridiculous, but telling. This is a real and deliberate provocation, by Obama, not Israel. This was an opportunity for the Administration, to let Israel know which side Obama backs.
Sad to say, even J-Street has been better than Obama this week. The White House had nothing to say (no condemnation to be sure) about the Palestinian Authority honoring a terrorist mass murderer of Israeli Jews last week. Even J-Street said this was a provocation and condemned it.
Murdered Jews and Jewish apartments: Obama evidently finds the latter more repellent than the former. Then again, Obama was silent on the mass murder of hundreds of Christians in Nigeria by Muslim marauders. Never will an unkind word be said about Muslim murderers or Palestinian killers that might detract from his charm offensive to the Muslim world, the one that so far has accomplished only a projection of weakness, and cowardice, and a loss of any ability to weigh competing claims fairly.
You are traitors and an embarrassment to American Jewry!
ADL yes. AIPAC no. See my recent post on another thread.
ML/NJ
That’s okay, they are an embarrassment to Christians too.
Amazing how far my country has fallen and so fast.....
I’m not sure we can get it back to where America should be according to our Constitution and our morality...Our “leaders” have sold us to the devil...and we have stood idly by for the most part....
In Beamer’s immortal words, “Let’s ROLL !!!!!”
Take back ur country....
Wake up decedents of Abraham! Is Liberalism/socialism/being Democrat more important than Isael? Obama is setting up Israel to be our enemy; he has never been, nor ever will, be as hard on Arab states as he is on Israel.
Which western democracy is Hussein going to throw under the bus next? Australia? Germany? Canada? Japan?
God to Obama: Vengeance is Mine.
He never knew his father, beginning his life as a bastard son of a promiscuous mother (very much like Billy Goat Clinton), and despises America and any decency that remains.
He is further confused by his garbaged experiences with religion and believes, no doubt, that he is a Jew-hating Muslim.
He is not only the worst leader in the history of America and the world, but the most dangerous.
He is mentally unbalanced and if he were the captain of a ship at sea could be legally removed from command!
The leftist rats have succeeded, apparently, in completing the shredding of our Constitution which they have used for toilet paper. They might be thinking about what would happen if the forces of the right seized control of the government and, like Spain, Chile and Peru, the nation was ruled by a benevolent despot who would dramatically end all political careers of leftists.
I only hope this administration is removed in time...The time to start is now and with the 2010 Congressional elections replace any liberal or maybe even better yet, replace any incumbent....
All I can say is That WE TRIED TO WARN YOU.
“I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.” - Barack HUSSEIN Obama
I figured that one out more than a year before 0bama got elected.
Elections do have consequences don't they?
...Our “leaders” have sold us to the devil...
Your fellow citizen voter, John Q Dumbass, helped
I’m pretty sure a certain narcissistic person thinks the MOSSAD is a bunch of morons that don’t know how to go to the bathroom properly.
Richard Baehr is chief political correspondent of American Thinker.
Readings:
Jennifer Rubin on who stands with Israel (add Joe Lieberman no longer a Democrat, to the list);
John Podhoretz on Obama's new approach, which put very simply, is not very smart. But then again, the ranks of those deluded or dazzled by Obama's supposed brilliance drops every day;
David Horovitz exposing the fragility of US support for Israel in this Administration;
At least the American people still stand with Israel;
Gallup: Greenberg, Quinlan, Rosner;
Abe Foxman and the ADL;
Another lie: that Israel's settlement policy is causing American deaths in Pakistan , Afghanisan and Iraq. But of course, if only there were no building east of the green line, then Al Qaeda and Iran would lay down their arms.
On Iran, the Administration is doing nothing fast. But the Administration is preparing the ground for explicit linkage; Jerusalem housing will be used to explain the Administration's failure to win UN sanctions, and for Iran getting the bomb.
Two from Barry Rubin: first- some facts on Jerusalem construction; Why the PA is smiling;
Melanie Phillips, one of the last remaining voices of sanity in Britain.
Prole to Obama: Go back to Kenya and STAY THERE.
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