Posted on 04/15/2010 5:03:52 AM PDT by SJackson
Full Text of Letter from Ronald S. Lauder to President Obama
Full Text of Letter from Ronald S. Lauder to President Obama http://worldjewishcongress.org/en/main/showNews/id/9264
15 April 2010
Dear President Obama:
I write today as a proud American and a proud Jew.
Jews around the world are concerned today. We are concerned about the nuclear ambitions of an Iranian regime that brags about its genocidal intentions against Israel. We are concerned that the Jewish state is being isolated and delegitimized.
Mr. President, we are concerned about the dramatic deterioration of diplomatic relations between the United States and Israel.
The Israeli housing bureaucracy made a poorly timed announcement and your Administration branded it an “insult.” This diplomatic faux pas was over the fourth stage of a seven stage planning permission process – a plan to build homes years from now in a Jewish area of Jerusalem that under any peace agreement would remain an integral part of Israel.
Our concern grows to alarm as we consider some disturbing questions. Why does the thrust of this Administration’s Middle East rhetoric seem to blame Israel for the lack of movement on peace talks? After all, it is the Palestinians, not Israel, who refuse to negotiate.
Israel has made unprecedented concessions. It has enacted the most far reaching West Bank settlement moratorium in Israeli history.
Israel has publicly declared support for a two-state solution. Conversely, many Palestinians continue their refusal to even acknowledge Israel’s right to exist.
The conflict’s root cause has always been the Palestinian refusal to accept Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people. Every American President who has tried to broker a peace agreement has collided with that Palestinian intransigence, sooner or later. Recall President Clinton’s anguish when his peace proposals were bluntly rejected by the Palestinians in 2000. Settlements were not the key issue then.
They are not the key issue now.
Another important question is this: what is the Administration’s position on Israel’s borders in any final status agreement? Ambiguity on this matter has provoked a wave of rumors and anxiety. Can it be true that America is no longer committed to a final status agreement that provides defensible borders for Israel? Is a new course being charted that would leave Israel with the indefensible borders that invited invasion prior to 1967?
There are significant moves from the Palestinian side to use those indefensible borders as the basis for a future unilateral declaration of independence. How would the United States respond to such a reckless course of action?
And what are America’s strategic ambitions in the broader Middle East? The Administration’s desire to improve relations with the Muslim world is well known. But is friction with Israel part of this new strategy? Is it assumed worsening relations with Israel can improve relations with Muslims? History is clear on the matter: appeasement does not work. It can achieve the opposite of what is intended.
And what about the most dangerous player in the region? Shouldn’t the United States remain focused on the single biggest threat that confronts the world today? That threat is a nuclear armed Iran. Israel is not only America’s closest ally in the Middle East, it is the one most committed to this Administration’s declared aim of ensuring Iran does not get nuclear weapons.
Mr. President, we embrace your sincerity in your quest to seek a lasting peace. But we urge you to take into consideration the concerns expressed above. Our great country and the tiny State of Israel have long shared the core values of freedom and democracy. It is a bond much treasured by the Jewish people. In that spirit I submit, most respectfully, that it is time to end our public feud with Israel and to confront the real challenges that we face together.
Yours sincerely,
Ronald S. Lauder
President
World Jewish Congress
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
..................
Deluded Dhimmis for Hussein I.
Guess Lauder was out of town on the one day the Rev. Wright tapes were played.
/s/
Wealthy Jews are in for a shock when they get his tax bill.
Really stupid.
Very, very dumb...
A friend of mine is an Italian Jew... She told me that her father voted for Mussolini...
Ronald Lauder has always been a Republican. I doubt he voted for 0bama. So your formulaic dissing of Jews voting for 0bama is nonsensical here. You should check things out a little bit.
“Mr. President, we are concerned about the dramatic deterioration of diplomatic relations between the United States and Israel.”
....then you got nobody to blame but yourselves...you were among his biggest supporters...it’s not too late to reverse course...join us in getting Obama out of office.
I have checked it out many times.
Last update - 15:02 05/11/2008
Barack Obama wins 77 percent of Jewish vote, exit polls show
By Haaertz Service and News Agencies
Tags: israel news, Barack Obama
Despite the tense rift between Republican and Democratic Jews over the course of the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, exit polls on Tuesday showed that Barack Obama received about 77 percent of the Jewish vote.
These numbers were higher even than the 2004 election, when Democratic candidate John Kerry received 74 percent of the Jewish vote. Al Gore received the highest percentage of Jewish votes in 2000, with 79 percent.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1034574.html
77% you need to do YOUR homework!!!
I have checked it out many times.
Last update - 15:02 05/11/2008
Barack Obama wins 77 percent of Jewish vote, exit polls show
By Haaertz Service and News Agencies
Tags: israel news, Barack Obama
Despite the tense rift between Republican and Democratic Jews over the course of the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, exit polls on Tuesday showed that Barack Obama received about 77 percent of the Jewish vote.
These numbers were higher even than the 2004 election, when Democratic candidate John Kerry received 74 percent of the Jewish vote. Al Gore received the highest percentage of Jewish votes in 2000, with 79 percent.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1034574.html
77% you need to do YOUR homework!!!
Don’t confuse the issue, and there are plenty of freepers who hold Jews, including you and I, in complete contempt. The fact that Ron Lauder is a Republican doesn’t erase the fact that he’s a Jew, thus subject to criticism.
And thank you all for reinforcing the stereotype that “conservatives” suffer from Jewobsession. I would like to point out the bile vented here is in no way representative of the GOP or Republicans in the real world. I look forward to checking this evening and reading dozens of comments from “conservatives” about the stupid, irreligious, communist Jews.
On behalf of myself, screw whatever "us" it is you want me to join. Like lifelong Republican Ron Lauder I'll settle for the Republican Party.
Czre to explain. I am baffled by your post.
He is a well known politically conservative Jew, he did not vote for 0bama so what's your point?
Ed Koch did vote for 0bama and your comment would be correct for Koch
IOW if you are going to post some Jew stuff then it helps to know your Jews and not just give us your standard rap. Many despise 0 and never voted for him
Many.........by what standard to use the word many to describe those jewish people who did NOT vote for O.
As for Lauder. He funded the term limits in NYC and then sat quietly by while Bloomers circumvented the new law.
I have not heard a word from Lauder during the run up to the election. Can you point to any statements he made that pointed out how dangerous O would be for America, let alone Israel.
Ron Lauder is one of the good guys and billionaires are not political activists. 0bama pushed him too far. Lauder is not an activist like Carley. So sorry this billionaire couldn’t live up to you standards. He must obviously be a moron.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.