Tel Aviv Journal: Obama’s Scandalous Approach to the Middle East

New Republic ^ | 3/16/11 | Marty Peretz

[Nachum]

What is now clear is that the only help Barack Obama was willing to give to the Arabs was his coldness to the Jewish nation. Or, and I want to be frank, his hostile indifference to Israel. It has been a not quite sub rosa sub-theme of his presidency since the beginning. He had not the slightest idea or maybe couldn’t care less that Zion and Zionism meant the retrieval of the Jews from a harrowing if remarkable history. The president is of the generation—or perhaps the temperament—that knows not the “long is the road”

[Jack Hydrazine]

This guy is a bigger failure than Jimmy Carter and maybe the worst president all time.

[JoeFromSidney]

When New Republic starts sounding like National Review, Obummer is really in trouble.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Nachum. Writing in The New Republic, Marty Peretz sez:

What is now clear is that the only help Barack Obama was willing to give to the Arabs was his coldness to the Jewish nation. Or, and I want to be frank, his hostile indifference to Israel.

[SJackson]

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[Eleutheria5]

The writing in that article, however, is so bad that I couldn’t finish it. How unfocused and pompous can anyone get?

[Cvengr]

Concur. It wouldn’t survive the scrutiny of most blogsters.

[Cvengr]

"...that knows not the “long is the road” Hebrew story of national philosophical rebirth in the context of 1848..."

I confess my lack of knowledge. Is this a typo, intending to reference 1948, or is there something more historically profound in Jewish history from 1848?