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Posted on 05/20/2011 6:09:23 PM PDT by beaversmom
Democratic senior statesman Ed Koch says Israel is facing its “most dangerous and critical period” and he is ready to break with his party in the next presidential election over President Obama’s policies on the Middle East.
In an exclusive interview with Newsmax.TV, the former New York City mayor said, “Mitt Romney correctly summed it up when he said that President Obama has once again thrown Israel under the bus.
“I believe this is the most dangerous and critical period that Israel has ever faced and regrettably it does not have the support of the President of the United States, which in past difficult situations it could count on.”
Koch, who crossed party lines to support President George W. Bush against John Kerry in 2004 due to his foreign policy stance, said he would do it again. All it would take is the right candidate.
“I’m a Democrat. I support the Democratic domestic philosophy and policies and will always be supportive of them,” said Koch, mayor of America’s largest city from 1978-89. “But I have no hesitation in crossing party lines when I think America’s interests demand that I cross party lines.
“I supported President Obama, believing he would be good on foreign policy, particularly with respect to the support of Israel. It turned out badly.”
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Koch was speaking in the light of Obama’s Thursday speech on the Middle East in which the President called for a two-state solution to the Israel/Palestine gridlock with borders that were in place before 1967.
Koch said he believes the president took the position because “he thinks it’s more important that America have the support of the Arab nations as opposed to the support of what we heretofore have said was our ally in the Mideast – the only democratic state there.”
But he said he has doubts that the speech will affect the support that Jewish voters have traditionally given Democratic presidential candidates.
“Regrettably the Jewish vote has been tied to the Democratic Party since FDR. No matter who’s running for president, many Jews think it’s still FDR.
“That’s been harmful to the Jewish community supporting the State of Israel.”
Many Democrat voters are dumb and think they are voting for a Democrat who actually died decades ago.
Many other Democrat voters are themselves dead, having died decades ago.
Oh THAT will show Obama!
Gee, Ed, what was your first clue that BO would not be a friend of Israel?
Brain dead.
He still won’t be a real republican, he is NYC Urb to the core.
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In the 70 years since that tragic voyage, the story of the St. Louis has been told and retold, taught and studied, researched and pondered. It has been to Hollywood, in the 1976 film "Voyage of the Damned," starring Faye Dunaway. It was the subject of a U.S. Senate resolution expressing remorse over what happened. It was featured in a full-page political cartoon in the Washington Post (by Art Spiegelman of "Maus" fame and this author). It was the focus of a project by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to trace the fate of each of the more than 900 passengers.
FDR did that
This idiot Koch new Obama’s record and associations and still supported him, giving a green light to thousands of unsure Jews. And now, when the obvious happens, he wants to take it back?
Some people will fall for anything.
So does that mean we get another liberal republican?
No one of conscience and the intelligence to understand what they are doing would affiliate with the Democratic Party in the first place. Where does that leave Ed?
Oh yea, a playmate for Mayor Bloomberg ...cut from the same cloth.
Oh THAT will show Obama!
It will sting him a bit.
A liberal like Reagan? Because that’s who we got the last time Koch talked like this.
I'll believe it when Koch actually DOES IT. Until then....YAWN....
A definition of RINO I was not aware of.
Obama spent some of his formative years in a school were he was required to memorize verses from the Koran, an extremely anti-Semitic book. He also sat in a pew listening to an extremely anti-Semitic pastor for almost twenty years ... what did Ed think would be Obama’s thoughts about Israel?
I think you’ll find that Ed is more approving of her than many would ever suspect. He’s an independent thinker and a decent man.
And the rest suffer from brain and/or soul death.
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