Posted on 03/06/2012 12:20:13 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
It wasn’t long ago that the White House was angering Israeli leaders with statements seen as critical. But 2012 is an election year, and that makes all the difference.
It was one of those moments you could experience only at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) annual conference. At the lectern was Susan Rice, President Obama’s ambassador to the United Nations. In the audience were 300 rabbis, Jewish-community leaders, and AIPAC delegates who were allowed to attend Rice’s speech, an event left off the public agenda for the conference.
Rice, an African-American, began her remarks by quoting in stilted Hebrew from a traditional Jewish hymn, “Hiney ma tov u’ma-mayim. Shevet akh-im gam ya-chad,” which translates: “Behold how good and pleasing it is for brothers to sit together.” When she finished her speech—about how she and her staff work every day to defend Israel at Turtle Bay—the audience broke into the same song the ambassador had quoted at the start: “Hiney ma tov u’ma-nayim,” everyone sang. “Shevet akh-im gam ya-chad.”
Listening to the speech, it would be hard to discern that Rice had caused a stir with the Israeli government little more than a year ago. At that time, Israeli officials didn’t like her remarks at all. Following an American veto of a resolution condemning Israeli settlement activity in the occupied Palestinian territories, Rice had explained the vote like this: “While we agree with our fellow council members—and indeed, with the wider world—about the folly and illegitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity, we think it unwise for this council to attempt to resolve the core issues that divide Israelis and Palestinians. We therefore regrettably have opposed this draft resolution.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
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Well we are entering the election season.................
It hasn’t changed anything but rhetoric.
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“It is not necessary for Iran to actually have the bomb to demonstrate beyond doubt that they have crossed the nuclear threshold,” says AIPAC’s executive director.
ECI has also placed ads at bus stops all around the convention center where AIPAC is hosting its annual meeting. The ads show a picture of Obama and the text “He says a nuclear Iran is unacceptable.” In a much bigger font it asks, “Do you believe him?” Underneath the photo of the president, next to a separate photo of Iran’s president and its Supreme Leader, the ad asks, “Do they?”
Isaiah 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Mike: Calm down now. Mustn't hate. Mustn't hate.Crow: At least so overtly.
Mike: Exactly, right. Must disguise our hate just a little.
Anyone within the mac daddy administratioin who’s lips are moving is lying.
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