Posted on 03/20/2013 5:52:33 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
Why is US President Barack Obama coming to Israel today? In 2008, then president George W. Bush came to celebrate Israel’s 60th Independence Day, and to reject Israeli requests for assistance in destroying Iran’s nuclear installations.
In 1996, then-president Bill Clinton came to Israel to help then-prime minister Shimon Peres’s electoral campaign against Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu.
It is possible that Obama is coming here in order to build up pro-Israel bonafides. But why would he bother? Obama won his reelection bid with the support of the overwhelming majority of American Jews. Their support vindicated his hostility toward Israel in his first term. He has nothing to prove.
It is worth comparing Obama’s visit to Israel at the start of his second term of office, with his visit to Cairo at the outset of his first term in office.
Ahead of that trip, the new administration promised that the visit, and particularly Obama’s “Address to the Muslim World,” would serve as a starting point for a new US policy in the Middle East. And Obama lived up to expectations.
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Some say he went to Indonesia to get permission form his Muslim cleric to lie to the world. Maybe he needs to get one form Hezbollah?
Forgive me, Caroline, but isn't it obvious?
Obama has visited Israel because it's on the route to Ramallah. And that is the real purpose of his trip -- to break bread with Brother Abbas in Ramallah.
But he couldn't go directly to Ramallah without revealing his true intentions to both Israel and American Jews.
The visit to Israel -- and what is said and done there -- is completely incidental to what will be said and done in Ramallah.
"The only revealing aspect of Obama’s itinerary is his decision to on the one hand bypass Israel’s elected representatives by spurning the invitation to speak before the Knesset; and on the other hand to address a handpicked audience of university students – an audience grossly overpopulated by unelectable, radical leftists." Always radical leftists. .
"It is possible that in addressing the unelected radical Left in Jerusalem, Obama seeks to undermine the legitimacy of the Israeli government." Getting ready. .
"Through the radical Left, Obama may intend to foment a pressure campaign to force the government to withdraw unilaterally from all or parts of Judea and Samaria, as Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip in 2005."
"What we can say with certainty is that the administration that supports the “democratically elected” Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and did so much to clear all obstacles to its election, is snubbing the democratically elected Israeli government, and indeed, Israel’s elected officials in general. Obama’s transmission of this message in the lead-up to this visit, through symbols and action alike does not bode well for Israel’s relations with the US in the coming four years."
In "Audacity of Hope" , p 261, Obama writes: "I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."
Is this some kind of "Lawrence of Arabia" self-aggrandizement tour? Fits right in with the malignant narcissism. . In the film, "Its themes include Lawrence's emotional struggles with the personal violence inherent in war, his personal identity, and his divided allegiance between his native Britain and its army and his new-found comrades within the Arabian desert tribes."
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