Obama seems prepared to dump on Israel even to the point of its existence.

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***Obama's antipathy for Netanyahu, Israel and, possibly, Jews outside of his administration seems curious in an American President. His snubbing of the British seems likewise strange. In both case, policy might be coming from his personal animus (the British colonial powers oppressed his forebears in Kenya; he was marinated in anti-Semitism in his decades on the South Side of Chicago with the Rev. Wright, Louis Farrakhan, Rashid Khalidi and the Chicago Palestinian community.) Perhaps he just doesn't understand. Despite his supposed intellectualism, he is innumerate, seems to know very little history ( and, worse, seems to misunderstand it by "knowing" things that aren't so ) and his soaring rhetoric seems often separate from logic, facts, and basic principles of causality. He might well believe that the Israeli presence in the Middle East "caused" 9/11 and that the jihadists are somehow provoked. His "outreach" to the Muslim worl in the light of terrorism including 9/11 seems peculiar, at the least.Having finally acknowledtged that Al Qaeda is an enemy, does he yet recognize other Muslim jihadis inimical to Western Civilization? That is, Iran isn't part of Al Qaeda and his strange silence about the nature of Maj. Hasan 's terrorism at Ft Hood is peculiar. ***
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Barack The GoodThe big government liberalism that Mr. Obama uses to make himself history-making also alienates him in the center-right America of today.
By SHELBY STEELE
****Steele thinks that Obama's narcissism impels him to be transformative and to "make a difference" whether the transformation be for good or ill so long as it's significant. ****
****As a narcissitic control freak, his first steps and the final desiderata are clear.****//
Obama Wants Israel's Netanyahu Out By: Dick Morris & Eileen McGann
Why is President Barack Obama so obviously humiliating Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu?hy is Secretary of State Hillary Clinton negating everything she said when she represented New York state and piling on the Jewish state? ****Because she has few core principles and those do not apply to Israel (and she's a political opportunist.)****
They want Netanyahu out. Specifically, they want him to feel such pressure that he dumps his right-wing coalition partners and forms a new government with the center-left party Kadima, headed by former Prime Minister Tzipi Livni.
Livni, who thinks nothing of trading land for peace, no matter how flawed the peace might be, will then hold Netanyahu's government hostage and force it to bend to the will of Washington and sign a deal with the Palestinians that cedes them land in return for a handful of vague vapors and promises, none of which will be kept.
On March 3 Livni said, in a Knesset debate, that since Netanyahu took control "Israel has become a pariah country in the world." ****Livni is as unprinciple an opportunist as is HIllary.****
She is trying to use Obama's and Clinton's rejection of Netanyahu's course to force her way into the government. And Obama and Clinton are intent on helping her do so by publicly humiliating Netanyahu.****Rahm Emanuel did a similar hatchet job on Netanyahu under the behest of the Clinton White House.****
Netanyahu insists that he'd be happy to negotiate a peace accord. But, as he told me last year, "I just don't have a peace partner with whom to negotiate."
The Palestinians are expert at playing "good cop/bad cop" with Israel. The good cop — the Palestinian Authority — wants to negotiate a peace deal and insists on signs of Israeli good faith in order to do so.
Meanwhile, the bad cop — Hamas — fires missiles at Israel from Gaza, land Israel ceded to the Palestinians in order to promote the peace process earlier in the decade.
Any peace deal with the Palestinian Authority will not be binding on Hamas, and the pattern of Gaza will likely play out again: First, Israel cedes land to the Palestinian Authority. Second, Hamas seizes the newly ceded land through elections or military action. Third, Hamas refuses to recognize the peace deal and uses the newly acquired territory as a base from which to launch further attacks against Israel.
Insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome each time.
When Hillary Clinton and President Obama explode in indignation against Israel for building apartments in East Jerusalem, they deliberately miss the point: There is no reason for Israel to catalyze peace negotiations when there is no single entity that is both committed to peace and speaks for the entire Palestinian people.
Without a peace partner, negotiations are either a trip to nowhere or a slippery slope to more Gaza-like concessions that do nothing but strengthen the enemies of Israel without providing any advancement to the cause of peace.
The merits of building in East Jerusalem or the need for a moratorium on all settlement construction are quite irrelevant as long as a substantial body of Palestinian opinion wants a war with Israel and the prevailing political authority in Gaza insists on the Jewish state's eradication.
So why are Obama and Clinton so intent on raising the profile of the construction issue and publicizing it?
One suspects an effort is afoot to link Israeli resistance to the peace process with the ongoing loss of American lives in Iraq and Afghanistan, if not to the global terrorism of al-Qaida.
Gen. David Petraeus told the Senate Armed Services Committee that "Arab anger over the Palestinian question limits the strength and depth of U.S. partnerships with governments and peoples [in the region] … Enduring hostilities between Israel and some of its neighbors present distinct challenges to our ability to advance our interests in the area of responsibility." In other words, blame Israel.****Petraeus denies having said these things.****
And ultimately, the administration's agenda may be to explain its withdrawal of support for Israel by blaming its stubborn insistence on housing construction.
One can well see the Obama administration learning to live with an Iranian nuclear weapon, all the while blaming Israel for fomenting Iranian hostility by building housing.
Meanwhile, through American aid to Gaza, the Obama administration is helping Hamas to solidify its position in Gaza and lengthen its lease on political power — the very power it is using to torpedo the peace process.