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What other card does he have to play? The Indonesia card, I suppose.
It was ineptly played. He was elected POTUS in a country that has a history of violence and bigotry towards his particular ethnicity, but also with a history of contrition for that former history, and a desire to atone. He is comparing that with a Jewish state that has come into existence and thrived despite being situated in the midst of fanatical hatred and hostility, no contrition, no sense even that there’s anything wrong with obsessive hatred, and never-ending attempts on the lives of its citizens. Comparing apples and oranges, indeed. More like comparing pineapples and fragmentation grenades.