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
Many.........by what standard to use the word many to describe those jewish people who did NOT vote for O.>>>>>>>
LOL! You don’t know that number? Get real.
It is impossible in America to get 79% of ANY group to agree on anything except for the Jews voting for a liberal POS for president. Now if you really want to start the name calling go ahead. Just remember YOU started the name calling. I supported my position with FACTS. I do not care who the author worked for or what he did. The Jews as a whole lead the way to enable the rape of America and the tax and spend mentality of the 0 administration. The only other group that even came close to voting for 0 in those numbers was single women.
Jews who remain silent.............
Blacks 97%
INDEED INDEED.
For the record. Otherwise, a waste of time.
So how about the blacks? Are you rattling on about them too. There are too few Jewish voters in America to elect 0bama. Too few blacks too.
White people elected 0bama. That’s the best generliazation
and many several times!!!
Got halfway through it and couldn’t suppress a parody:
Dear Cossack Ivan:
Why did you charge down the streets of that shtetl waving your sword? Don’t you know that it was a market day and the streets were crowded? Aren’t you aware that you’re liable to hurt someone if you charge around on horse in the middle of a crowded street, waving your sword? Do you really want to hurt me? Do you really want to make me cry? Well, I’m greatly concerned by this course of actions, as well as your overall attitude.
Hoping that you see the light and say I’m sorry for decapitating that fish wife and trampling those two street urchins to death, I remain,
Sincerely,
Ronald Lauder
(namby pamby suck up extraordinaire)
PS: Hope your stallion Yavlunka is recovered from the sprained ankle and you got all the street urchin juice off him. Look forward to seeing you at the next golf tournament.
Couldn’t read the rest.
Uhh, even if 100% of Jews voted Obama, they couldnt flip one state from Mclame to Obama. That was accomplished by Christians.
Quite true. But the Jewish campaign help and the money donated is a major factor in several big states.
Lauder is a Republican. He was an ambassador to Austria under Reagan. In 1989, he ran for mayor in NYC, losing a nasty primary to the more liberal Giulliani.
True enough, but if the Christians held fast to their beliefs, they would never have pulled the lever for Obama. Your not saying the Christians were duped by the Jews I hope.
It’s time you realize that Obama is abandoning Israel while American Jews are fiddling. Check out the Jewish members of Congress (save for Joe Lieberman) who have voiced pract- ically no support for Israel. This tin horned thug,Ahmandinejad, is threatening to destroy Israel and he has the tools to do it, yet you and the rest cry anti-semitism when someone points out that the American Jews continue to vote their enemies to power. The Republicans, have always been ardent supporters of Israel.
NYC needed a tough sob for Mayor and Rudy surely was.
NJ has a tough sob for governor now and things are going to get ugly but it has to be.
To think Rudy lost to Dinkins.......arggggggghhhhhhhhh
What biles? The truth is that Jews have not been the sharpest of voters... In the US, they voted for Roosevelt who was an antisemite. In Italy for Mussolini. In France for the socialist party etc. etc.
And they voted for the obamination en masse.
As a minority of a minority of a minority, you are not personally referenced
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