The Tsuris (our first Jewish President, BHO)

NY Magazine ^ | Sep 18, 2011 | John Heilemann

[SJackson]

Barack Obama is the best thing Israel has going for it right now. Why is that so difficult for Netanyahu and his American Jewish allies to understand?

The last time Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu shared each other’s company, you could say that the encounter did not go well if by not well you mean abysmally. This was on May 20, the day after Obama gave his big speech on the Arab Spring, in which he unleashed a tsunami of tsuris by endorsing the use of Israel’s 1967 borders with mutually agreed [land] swaps as the basis for a two-state solution with the Palestinians. Obama and Netanyahu were seated in the Oval Office for what was supposed to be one of those photo ops devoted to roasting rhetorical chestnuts about the solidity of the U.S.-Israel alliance. Instead, while Obama watched silently, looking poleaxed, Netanyahu lectured him�for seven and a half minutes, on live television about the folly, the sheer absurdity, of suggesting Israel ever return to what he called the indefensible 1967 lines.

Obama was furious with Netanyahu, who in choosing to ignore the crucial qualifier about land swaps had twisted Obama’s words beyond recognition the kind of mendacious misinterpretation that makes the presidential mental. The seniormost members of Obama’s team felt much the same. Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Bob Gates, Bill Daley, the former Mideast-peace envoy George Mitchell: All were apoplectic with the prime minister, whose behavior over the past two years had already tried their patience. The collective view here is that he is a small-minded, fairly craven politician, says an administration source deeply involved in its efforts to push the parties to the negotiating table. And one who simply isn’t serious about making peace.

[SJackson]

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Poor unappreciated President.

[Usagi_yo]

.... Barack Obama is the best thing Israel has going for it right now. Why is that so difficult for Netanyahu and his American Jewish allies to understand? ....

The’re joking right?

[Stepan12]

Typical sick and evil Liberalism.

Barack Hussein Obama our first Jewish President? I guess the very Liberal "New York" magazine would then say Julius Striecher is the first Jewish state cartoonist -- of Nazi Germany that is.

War is peace.
Slavery is freedom
Life is death.

[Carling]

This article was satire, right? If not, the author should resign in disgrace over writing such a baffling article.

Did the author forget that Israel suspending building settlements for the first 10 months of Obummer’s presidency? In return, Obama said nothing to Abbas about negotiating with Israel.

Did the author forget that Obama embarrassed Netanyahu when Bibi first visited the Obama WH? Barry went to eat dinner with his family while Bibi was left sitting in a chair.

I could go on, but I honestly think this author is either being satirical or is somewhat challenged mentally.

[nuvista]

So, Barack Hussein Obama (PBUH) is our first Jewish president?
Oy....
As a Jew, I’m now channeling my inner Seinfeld:
“I hereby renounce Judaism”!! (from “Serenity Now” episode)!! (:

[Maceman]

Well, they had to make him our first Jewish president, because the title of “first black president” was already taken by Bill Clinton.

Liberalism is just a fluffy wonderland of imagination.

[RobertClark]

As a Jew and an individual who spent 10 years working in Netanya Israel, I am disgusted by this article. Obama is a tsuris - that much is true when taken in consideration the Yiddish meaning of the word: trouble and stress.

Obama has no understanding of the complexities involved for Israel nor what it is like to live in the region. He has done nothing but destabilize the region and Israel by supporting extremist infiltration of the movements in Egypt, Jordan, Libya, and Syria. I cannot fathom a Jew supporting Obama.

[C210N]

The’re joking right?

Looks serious to me.

"With the Middle East apparently hurtling headlong into crisis, Israel finds itself increasingly isolated, beleaguered, and besieged... Yet despite the damage ..., the Obamans have never wavered in going balls-out for Israel."

The crisis referred to is zer0's TREASONOUS doing.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

barack hussein is a Jew just like he’s a Christian.

[Dogbert41]

"The premise of Obama’s approach to Israel all along has been straightforward. Given the demographic realities it faces�the growth of the Palestinian population in the territories and also of the Arab population in Israel itself�our ally confronts a fundamental and fateful choice: It can remain democratic and lose its Jewish character; it can retain its Jewish character but become an apartheid state; or it can remain both Jewish and democratic, satisfy Palestinian national aspirations, facilitate efforts to contain Iran, alleviate the international opprobrium directed at it, and reap the enormous security and economic benefits of ending the conflict by taking up the task of the creation of a viable Palestinian state�one based, yes, on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed upon land swaps, with East Jerusalem as the Palestinian capital."

I think I'll just go and pound my head against a wall a while...

[Dogbert41]

"The premise of Obama’s approach to Israel all along has been straightforward. Given the demographic realities it faces�the growth of the Palestinian population in the territories and also of the Arab population in Israel itself�our ally confronts a fundamental and fateful choice: It can remain democratic and lose its Jewish character; it can retain its Jewish character but become an apartheid state; or it can remain both Jewish and democratic, satisfy Palestinian national aspirations, facilitate efforts to contain Iran, alleviate the international opprobrium directed at it, and reap the enormous security and economic benefits of ending the conflict by taking up the task of the creation of a viable Palestinian state�one based, yes, on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed upon land swaps, with East Jerusalem as the Palestinian capital."

I think I'll just go and pound my head against a wall a while...

[SJackson]

I don’t think it was satire.

[aposiopetic]

The collective view here is that he is a small-minded, fairly craven politician

People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

[Carling]

I honestly had to read that sentence three times in the article until I realized the author wasn’t talking about Obama.

[GBA]

Who doesn't know that the progressives are insane?

Obviously, they can't deal with things as they are, but it's getting worse.

It was kinda funny/sad when they thought Clinton was the first black President, but now obama is the first jewish president?

Time for an intervention.

[aposiopetic]

The shoe sure fits.

[Stepan12]

Antisemites? Who, us?

[HomeAtLast]

I honestly think this author is either being satirical or is somewhat challenged mentally.

The answer is b, author is challenged mentally.

It is NY magazine after all.

Obama is depicted by the author as a "tough love" practitioner slapping his little brother sober. (I'm not kidding, it's in the commentary.) Obama leaned on the pro-Palis, it just "wasn't reported." Netanyahu distorted Obama's remarks about the '67 borders. Etc.

[Stepan12]

I think this is the way the Commies work; i.e., pushing one's face into the excrement and saying it is really perfume.

Leftwing anti-Semitism. Where does it come from?

"The Israelite religion [is] nauseating."

Karl Marx's letter to Arnold Ruge

"What is the secular basis of Judaism? Practical need, self-interest."

"What is the wordly cult of the Jew? Haggling. What is his wordly god? Money!..."

"Money is the jealous god of Israel before whom no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of mankind and converts them into commodities...."

"What is contained abstractly in the Jewish religion -- contempt for theory, for art, for history, for man as an end in himself..."

"The social emancipation of the Jew is the emancipation of society from Jewishness."

From Karl Marx's essay on The Jewish question

"...since the Mensheviks were the faction of the Jews and the Bolsheviks that of native Russians, it would be a good thing to have a pogrom in the Party."

Josef Stalin's remarks reproduced from his 1907 underground newspaper

"In the Doctors' plot [Stalin's final purge to kill the three million Jews of Russia] of 1952-1953, a majority of those accused were Jews, but some were not. The Jewish element was publicly emphasized but it was under the guise of a link with "Zionism...."1 (emphasis added)

1. The Great Terror pp 66

"The Jews are descendents of of apes and pigs."

Arab textbooks directed to little children who later mouth these obscenities

Obscene leftwing, anti-Semitic protests. It's no wonder that even far back as the 1960s that a person who witnessed the Nazi era thought the New Left were the Nazis redux

Zombie time anti-Semitism watch

"Anti-Semitism is the Socialism of fools."

August Bebel (not Jewish btw....)

"Anti-Semitism is the intellectualism of stupid people."

Mary McCarthy