Posted on 03/16/2010 10:22:24 AM PDT by Michael van der Galien
Israel Apartheid Week hadn’t yet run its course when Israel came in for a barrage of hostile characterizations also from the Obama administration. In the same brief time span there was also Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad—“The Zionist regime is the most hated regime in the world…. with Allah’s help, this regime will be annihilated.” All this came hard on the heels of a wave of international outrage, and violent attacks by Palestinians, over Israel adding shrines in Hebron and Bethlehem to a list of national heritage sites.
If it seems like a lot of negative attention for one small, constantly pressured country, it is. Reacting to an announcement by the Israeli Interior Ministry on plans to build 1600 housing units—for Jews (if they had been for Arabs, no one would have protested)—in Jerusalem, Vice-President Joe Biden, who was in Israel for a visit, reportedly told Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, “This is starting to get dangerous for us. What you’re doing here undermines the security of our troops who are fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. That endangers us and it endangers regional peace.”
Netanyahu apologized and, by Thursday last week when Biden’s visit ended, apparently thought the matter had been handled. But on Friday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called Netanyahu and gave him a 45-minute harangue in which she told him, as State Department spokesman P. J. Crowley put it, that “the United States considered the announcement a deeply negative signal about Israel’s approach to the bilateral relationship,” that “this action had undermined trust and confidence in the peace process and in America’s interests,” and that “she could not understand how this happened, particularly in light of the United States’ strong commitment to Israel’s security.”
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Bibi is gonna hit Iran when Barry is hip-deep in arm twisting on Capitol Hill trying to get his health care passed
Are American Jewish Democrat voters having buyer’s remorse yet?
I have a lot of Jewish friends and they all voted for Obama. I have yet to see any buyer's remorse from them. I just don't get it. I think the vast majority of them (as well as my fellow Greek-Americans) are a lost cause.
Maybe because most American Jews are Reform Jews. Reform Judaism is the most liberal (theologically and politically) Jewish denomination in the US.
Yes, because they are no longer Jews in their core values. Just like many people of other faiths, they've sold their values for the leftist mantra.
[Your friends are probably "Reform" or "nonreligous" Jews. You'll find that religious Jews, just like practicing Christians, are much more conservative.]
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