Sunday, March 28, 2010

Why is Obama dumping on Israel? Three reasons: all blameworthy and all predictable.

http://tinyurl.com/yfpf9us
Obama Snubs Netanyahu at White House By: Dan Weil
President Obama snubbed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in several ways during his visit to Washington this week...//
http://tinyurl.com/y8t9xok
Why Does Obama Want an Israel Crisis? by Charles Krauthammer
Why did President Barack Obama choose to turn a gaffe into a crisis in U.S.-Israeli relations?...It was certainly not a policy change, let alone a betrayal. The neighborhood is in Jerusalem, and the 2009 Netanyahu-Obama agreement was for a 10-month freeze on West Bank settlements excluding Jerusalem. Nor was the offense intentional....The next day, however, the administration went nuclear....Clinton's spokesman then publicly announced that Israel was now required to show in word and in deed its seriousness about peace. Israel? Israelis have been looking for peace -- literally dying for peace -- since 1947, when they accepted the U.N. partition of Palestine into a Jewish and Arab state. (The Arabs refused and declared war. They lost.) Israel made peace offers in 1967, 1978 and in the 1993 Oslo peace accords that Yasser Arafat tore up seven years later to launch a terror war that killed a thousand Israelis. Why, Clinton's own husband testifies to the remarkably courageous and visionary peace offer made in his presence by Ehud Barak (now Netanyahu's defense minister) at the 2000 Camp David talks. Arafat rejected it. In 2008, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert offered equally generous terms to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. Refused again. In these long and bloody 63 years, the Palestinians have not once accepted an Israeli offer of permanent peace, or ever countered with anything short of terms that would destroy Israel. ...What reciprocal gesture, let alone concession, has Abbas made during the Obama presidency? Not one....And Clinton demands that Israel show its seriousness about peace? Now that's an insult.
So why this astonishing one-sidedness? Because Obama likes appeasing enemies while beating up on allies -- therefore Israel shouldn't take it personally (according to Robert Kagan)? Because Obama wants to bring down the current Israeli coalition government (according to Jeffrey Goldberg)? Or is it because Obama fancies himself the historic redeemer whose irresistible charisma will heal the breach between Christianity and Islam or, if you will, between the post-imperial West and the Muslim world -- and has little patience for this pesky Jewish state that brazenly insists on its right to exist, and even more brazenly on permitting Jews to live in its own ancient, historical and now present capital?...****Krauthammer doesn't touch a fourth explanation: that Obama has marinated for decades in the anti-Semitism of the Rev. Wright, of Louis Farrakhan, of the South Side Chicago Palestinian community of Rashid Khalidi and Ali Abunemah ( who says Obama told him that 1) he would do whatever he could for the Palestinians if ever he had the power to do so and 2) he could no longer openly associate with Abunemah once he got elected but his sympathies remained the same .)For three-quarters of American Jews to have voted for Obama ( the third most supportive group after African-Americans and Muslim-Americans) is perhaps reflective of the mindset of European Jews who couldn't believe that anyone hated them so much as to instigate the Holocaust. ****
The fourth explanation has been offered by others, not even recently:
http://tinyurl.com/y88g4tq
THE SOURCE OF OBAMA'S ANTI-ISRAEL POLICY
E.W. Jackson Sr.June 16, 2009
Like Obama, I am a graduate of Harvard Law School. I too have Muslims in my family. I am black, and I was once a leftist Democrat. Since our backgrounds are somewhat similar, I perceive something in Obama's policy toward Israel which people without that background may not see. All my life I have witnessed a strain of anti-Semitism in the black community. It has been fueled by the rise of the Nation of Islam and Louis Farrakhan, but it predates that organization.
We heard it in Jesse Jackson's "HYMIE town" remark years ago during his presidential campaign.... In Chicago, the anti-Jewish sentiment among black people is even more pronounced because of the direct influence of Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam...

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