Posted on 03/19/2010 1:23:38 PM PDT by Nachum
Obama claims he's launched a political war against Israel in the interest of promoting peace. But this claim, too, does not stand up to scrutiny.
Why has President Barak Obama decided to foment a crisis in US relations with Israel?
Some commentators have claimed that it is Israel’s fault. As they tell it, the news that Israel has not banned Jewish construction in Jerusalem – after repeatedly refusing to ban such construction – drove Obama into a fit of uncontrolled rage from which he has yet to recover.
While popular, this claim makes no sense. Obama didn’t come to be called “No drama Obama” for nothing. It is not credible to argue that Jerusalem’s local planning board’s decision to approve the construction of 1,600 housing units in Ramat Shlomo drove cool Obama into a fit of wild rage at Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
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"Neither party to the difference has mentioned the US administration's fourth condition for resuming normal relations: an Israeli commitment to refrain from attacking Iran's nuclear program without prior US consent."
Perhaps this whole thing is put on, especially considering the U.S.'s overreaction. Consider this: what if this whole 'diplomatic crisis' is merely a ruse to create the conditions for the U.S. and Israel to be at odds long enough for the Israeli to take out Iran’s nukes. One of the specific requirements for normal relations with the U.S. is now held to be a pledge not to hit Iran - which Israel will refuse long enough to in fact hit Iran – but while on the outs with the U.S. and therefore appearing to being doing so without U.S. permission and indeed specifically against our declared wishes. Would it not be a clever way to get the job done while preserving America’s image in the Middle East and protecting our troops on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan from a direct Muslim-street backlash? Just asking. http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/pings?more=269556578
Obama’s war on the free world in favor of the islamic world of despots.
Caroline always provides a breath of fresh air.
If this were the case, I wouldn’t trust this President. He will then turn on Israel and blame them for any problems he would have because of this.
Oh definately, you’re right about that. It does make some sense though, no?
I hope the 75% of the Jews that voted for Obama are happy. Even more important the money they donated in vast quantaties was essential to his campaign.
As for the other 25% thank you for voting for your own self survival as opposed to your destruction.
Obama is a bigot pure and plain and simple.
Obama’s position on Israel is a green light for Hamas to continue firing rockets into civilian areas of Israel and will only result in more bloodshed on both sides. He’s either completely ignorant or maliciously evil.
Nothing would surprise me with this guy. He needs to be impeached.
Nope. abubama is seriously anti-Israel. Period. He wants Netanyahu gone. He is trying to undermine Netanyahu politically IN ISRAEL.
It is not the first time an American leftist admin has run headon into Netanyahu. I do not think they will achieve the same result this time.
abubama now has blood directly on his hands from beginning this dispute and freeing up the pals to attack Israel at will. The unrest in Israel now can be laid at obama’s doorstep...not Israel’s. And the death of the Thai UN worker is directly on obama, not Netanyahu.
bflr
“I hope the 75% of the Jews that voted for Obama are happy”
This shit is getting mighty old here on FR. Are the liberals in every other religion happy? For years and years you guys blamed American Jews for being more pro-Israel than American. You questioned our loyalty and said we would always put Israel first. And NOW that has all suddenly changed? NOW you blame Jews for not being pro-Israel enough?
Geez!!!
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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AND the Powers of the POTUS need to be reviewed and returned to the "Figurehead" that this position was originally inteded to be.
You don’t understand, it’s well known in many quarters that Jews vote 17 time each. Children under 10, only ten times. If you don’t believe that you recognize that Jews didn’t carry a state for Obama, the credit going to Christians. It’s a sad way to look at the world, elections, and America.
You are SOOO correct!
Too pro-Israel. Too anti-Israel. Too religious. Too secular. Not politically active enough. Too politically active. Jew-haters always find a way to hold Jews and Israel to standards they apply to no one else, even themselves.
Yes, it is, and I am sick of it. I blame liberals of every stripe. And I am also tired of black Christians being called simply blacks who overwhelmingly vote democrat and not black CHRISTIANS who overwhelmingly vote democrat when democrats hate Africa as much as they hate black people...and democrat is STILL the party of slavery in this country. Give me a break already.
Some commentators have claimed that it is Israel's fault. As they tell it, the news that Israel has not banned Jewish construction in Jerusalem -- after repeatedly refusing to ban such construction -- drove Obama into a fit of uncontrolled rage from which he has yet to recover.Thanks Nachum.
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A Letter to the World from Jerusalem by Eliezer ben Yisrael (Stanley Goldfoot)
I am not a creature from another planet, as you seem to believe. I am a Jerusalemite-like yourselves, a man of flesh and blood. I am a citizen of my city, an integral part of my people.
I have a few things to get off my chest. Because I am not a diplomat, I do not have to mince words. I do not have to please you or even persuade you. I owe you nothing. You did not build this city, you did not live in it, you did not defend it when they came to destroy it.
And we will be damned if we will let you take it away. There was a Jerusalem before there was a New York. When Berlin, Moscow, London, and Paris were miasmal forest and swamp, there was a thriving Jewish community here. It gave something to the world which you nations have rejected ever since you established yourselves- a humane moral code.
Here the prophets walked, their words flashing like forked lightning. Here a people who wanted nothing more than to be left alone, fought off waves of heathen would-be conquerors, bled and died on the battlements, hurled themselves into the flames of their burning Temple rather than surrender, and when finally overwhelmed by sheer numbers and led away into captivity, swore that before they forgot Jerusalem, they would see their tongues cleave to their palates, their right arms wither.
For two pain-filled millennia, while we were your unwelcome guests, we prayed daily to return to this city. Three times a day we petitioned the Almighty: "Gather us from the four corners of the world, bring us upright to our land, return in mercy to Jerusalem, Thy city, and swell in it as Thou promised." On every Yom Kippur and Passover, we fervently voiced the hope that next year would find us in Jerusalem.
Your inquisitions, pogroms, expulsions, the ghettos into which you jammed us, your forced baptisms, your quota systems, your genteel anti-Semitism, and the final unspeakable horror, the holocaust (and worse, your terrifying disinterest in it)- all these have not broken us. They may have sapped what little moral strength you still possessed, but they forged us into steel. Do you think that you can break us now after all we have been through? Do you really believe that after Dachau and Auschwitz we are frightened by your threats of blockades and sanctions? We have been to Hell and back- a Hell of your making. What more could you possibly have in your arsenal that could scare us?
I have watched this city bombarded twice by nations calling themselves civilized. In 1948, while you looked on apathetically, I saw women and children blown to smithereens, after we agreed to your request to internationalize the city. It was a deadly combination that did the job- British officers, Arab gunners, and American-made cannon. And then the savage sacking of the Old City-the willful slaughter, the wanton destruction of every synagogue and religious school, the desecration of Jewish cemeteries, the sale by a ghoulish government of tombstones for building materials, for poultry runs, army camps, even latrines.
And you never said a word.
You never breathed the slightest protest when the Jordanians shut off the holiest of our places, the Western Wall, in violation of the pledges they had made after the war- a war they waged, incidentally, against the decision of the UN. Not a murmur came from you whenever the legionnaires in their spiked helmets casually opened fire upon our citizens from behind the walls. Your hearts bled when Berlin came under siege. You rushed your airlift "to save the gallant Berliners". But you did not send one ounce of food when Jews starved in besieged Jerusalem. You thundered against the wall which the East Germans ran through the middle of the German capital- but not one peep out of you about that other wall, the one that tore through the heart of Jerusalem.
And when that same thing happened 20 years later, and the Arabs unleashed a savage, unprovoked bombardment of the Holy City again, did any of you do anything?
The only time you came to life was when the city was at last reunited. Then you wrung your hands and spoke loftily of "justice" and need for the "Christian" quality of turning the other cheek. The truth- and you know it deep inside your gut - you would prefer the city to be destroyed rather than have it governed by Jews. No matter how diplomatically you phrase it, the age old prejudices seep out of every word. If our return to the city has tied your theology in knots, perhaps you had better reexamine your catechisms. After what we have been through, we are not passively going to accommodate ourselves to the twisted idea that we are to suffer eternal homelessness until we accept your savior.
For the first time since the year 70, there is now complete religious freedom for all in Jerusalem. For the first time since the Romans put a torch to the Temple, everyone has equal rights (You prefer to have some more equal than others.) We loathe the sword- but it was you who forced us to take it up. We crave peace, but we are not going back to the peace of 1948 as you would like us to. We are home. It has a lovely sound for a nation you have willed to wander over the face of the globe. We are not leaving. We are redeeming the pledge made by our forefathers: Jerusalem is being rebuilt. "Next year" and the year after, and after, and after, until the end of time- "in Jerusalem"!
Stanley Goldfoot
Founder Editor
The Times of Israel
August 1969
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Obama doesn't like it when Jews build homes in Jerusalem? Guess what, Obama, I invite you to perform an anatomically impossible act upon yourself. Same for anyone else who believes the same.
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