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Obama's Selective Anger
Townhall.com ^ | March 18, 2011 | Mona Charen

Posted on 03/18/2011 5:35:41 AM PDT by Kaslin

President Obama is known for his cool. He's been called "No drama Obama" by some of his associates. And certainly in the realm of foreign policy, his response to events has been phlegmatic. The Iranian government sent its thugs into the streets to beat and murder democracy demonstrators, and Obama stayed aloof. The Iranians arrested three American hikers, held them for months in prison, and now accuse two of spying -- and Obama remained calm. A Muslim American opened fire on U.S. soldiers at Fort Hood, and the president initially warned the nation not to jump to conclusions.

But there was one outrage that provoked the president's ire -- when Israel announced a permit for the construction of 1,600 new apartments on Jewish-owned land in a Jerusalem neighborhood. Though Prime Minister Netanyahu immediately apologized to the visiting Vice President Biden about the timing of the announcement (by which Netanyahu was apparently blindsided), the reportedly "livid" Obama was unsatisfied.

On presidential instructions, Secretary of State Clinton phoned Israel's prime minister and delivered a 45-minute harangue about Israel's decision to build apartments for Jews in the Jewish capital. Details of the irate phone call were immediately released to the press, with then-State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley offering that Clinton had told Netanyahu that "the United States considered the announcement a deeply negative signal about Israel's approach to the bilateral relationship."

In the choreographed world of diplomacy, that amounted to a fierce rebuke. But Obama wasn't finished. A few days later, presidential adviser David Axelrod appeared on a Sunday talk show and repeated the administration line that the Israeli announcement was an "affront" and an "insult."

Later, when Netanyahu visited the White House, Obama delivered the final slaps -- declining to pose for pictures or take press questions with the prime minister, delivering a list of steps Israel would have to take to restore trust, and then pointedly walking out on the prime minister with the parting words "Let me know if there is anything new."

On March 11, Palestinian terrorists entered the home of Udi and Ruth Fogel in the town of Itamar on the West Bank. It was the Sabbath, and most of the family was sleeping. The terrorists first slit the throats of Udi and his 3-month-old daughter, Hadas. Ruth was in the bathroom but was attacked and killed as she emerged. Two more sons -- Yoav, 11; and Elad, 4 -- were also killed by knives to the heart. Their throats were slit as well. There were three more Fogel children. Two other boys, ages 8 and 2, asleep on the sofa, were apparently missed by the murderers. Twelve-year-old Tamar, who had been spending Shabbat with friends, returned home to discover 2-year-old Yishai standing over the bodies of his parents and begging them to wake up.

In Rafah, Palestinians celebrated the news of the massacre by dancing, singing, and handing around sweets.

The Obama administration issued a pro-forma condemnation. "There is no possible justification for the killing of parents and children in their home," it read. Secretary Clinton called the murders "inhuman" and reportedly coaxed a more robust denunciation of the atrocity from Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas than he had at first offered.

But there has been little else -- no ongoing campaign to shame or humiliate the Palestinians, no list of actions they must undertake to show their good faith -- not even a particularly strong expression of revulsion. Above all, the Obama administration has utterly disregarded the abundant evidence that the Palestinian Authority has, over the past 20 years, nurtured and cultivated genocidal hatred of Jews and the worship of violence. The men who slit the throats of the Fogel family may soon have a town square named for them. The PA recently named a square in the town of El-Bireh after Dalal Mughrabi, who killed 37 Israeli civilians and wounded 71 in 1978. Mughrabi was also featured among the "Women as Exemplars" on Palestinian television.

The PA named a soccer tournament after Wafa Idris, a suicide bomber. A TV documentary about Palestinian doctors contained a fictitious scene of an Israeli shooting a Palestinian in the head. The governor of the town of Jenin presented a $2,000 "Presidential Grant" to the family of Khaldoun Samoudi, who was killed while attempting to detonate two bombs near Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint.

The Fogels were not killed by two men. They were the victims of the death cult that Palestinian society has bred.

The world's attention has been distracted by Japan's catastrophe and Libya's torment. But Barack Obama once boasted of being able to walk and chew gum at the same time. In contrast to his vehement condemnation of Israel's apartment-building, he has offered only official disapproval of the murders of children -- and has had nothing to say about the culture that encourages and, in fact, celebrates such savagery.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Israel
KEYWORDS: israel; jews; paliterrorists

1 posted on 03/18/2011 5:35:44 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Well, he said he’d “stand with the Muslims.” Why is anybody surprised that this is the only thing that wakes him up?

Oh, wait, there’s also race: consider the reaction to Haiti’s earthquake, in the news constantly and referred to by Bambi frequently, the recipient of all sorts of help - and compare it with his obvious lack of interest in the much greater catastrophe in Japan.


2 posted on 03/18/2011 5:43:34 AM PDT by livius
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To: Kaslin
"President Obama is known for his cool
antiSemitism, hatred for all things American,
utter lack of documentation and SS#/resume fraud
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There, fixed it for you.


3 posted on 03/18/2011 5:44:22 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Kaslin

If Obama seriously denounced these murderers the Muslim world would accuse him of not practicing taqiyya when he says he is Christian, and then it would be Obama’s head they would be after, for apostasy.

Obama is owned by the Muslims in every way. And everything he has done shows that. He can be no more just than his owners are just. And America can be no more just than he is. IOW, America can only be as just as the Muslims are just.

Elections matter.


4 posted on 03/18/2011 5:46:28 AM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: Kaslin

..Dumbo is an outright liar the release of the Lockerbie Bomber was being arranged by Dumbo before the release and afterward Dumbo played anger and surprise while all the time he was implicit in the arrangement.....


5 posted on 03/18/2011 5:49:15 AM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Kaslin
They were the victims of the death cult that Palestinian society has bred.

No, Mona, you've missed the point again. Like the soldiers at Fort Hood, they were the victims of the death cult, Islam. The death cult that "cool" President Obama favors at every point. And he'd be just as "cool" if it were you and your family with your throats cut.

Enjoy your cocktail parties with your liberal Democrat "friends" ...

6 posted on 03/18/2011 5:57:59 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Nadie me ama como Jesus.)
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To: Kaslin

FUBO!!! Evil bastard.


7 posted on 03/18/2011 6:01:07 AM PDT by unkus
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To: Kaslin

A token, under-acheiving, barely-sane, Muslim-activist, American Army psychiatrist screaming “Allahu akhbar!” opened fire on U.S. soldiers at Fort Hood, and the president initially warned the nation not to jump to conclusions.


8 posted on 03/18/2011 6:04:06 AM PDT by flowerplough (Thomas Sowell: Those who look only at Obama's deeds tend to become Obama's critics.)
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To: Kaslin

This is a very well-written article. If anybody had any doubts about where Hussein’s loyalties lie, their eyes should be wide open of late. He is obviously biased against the Israelis, and embraces anything that hurts them.
But we already knew that.


9 posted on 03/18/2011 6:05:54 AM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: butterdezillion

If Obama seriously denounced these murderers the Muslim world would accuse him of not practicing >taqiyya<.....

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Right on target! 0bama is a master of deception.


10 posted on 03/18/2011 6:18:31 AM PDT by unkus
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To: Kaslin
ZERO got madder when the professor buddy of his got arrested than he did about any of the latest foreign problems.
11 posted on 03/18/2011 6:34:02 AM PDT by DeaconRed (Margaqritaville: - Smell those shrimp they're beginning to boil. . . . .)
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To: Kaslin
President Obama is known for his cool. He's been called "No drama Obama" by some of his associates.

More like Dramamine Obama. Don't rock the boat, baby.

12 posted on 03/18/2011 6:35:56 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Kaslin
But Barack Obama once boasted of being able to walk and chew gum at the same time.

But that's about it.

13 posted on 03/18/2011 6:38:36 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Kaslin

Rev. Wright’s pansy-boy is just following his heart when it comes to Israel.


14 posted on 03/18/2011 6:42:35 AM PDT by Carley (WISCONSIN STREET NO DIFFERENT THAN THE ARAB STREET. UGLY AND VIOLENT)
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To: Kaslin

Why does the interview with Boy George about “...my Muslim faith” keep ringing in my ears? And the beauty of the Muslim call to prayer? And his perfect recitation of such?

No doubt in my mind where his loyalties are.


15 posted on 03/18/2011 6:49:05 AM PDT by Tigerized (pursuingliberty.com)
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To: Kaslin
Let's see, Obama hates whites, American or otherwise. He doesn't seem to like Jews, and he may not like non-Communist Asians. And this guy is our president?
16 posted on 03/18/2011 6:53:31 AM PDT by Major Matt Mason (Redistribution = theft.)
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17 posted on 03/19/2011 3:38:03 AM PDT by SJackson (Normal people don't sit cross-legged on the floor and bang on drums, WI State Sen Glenn Grothman (R))
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