Thursday, April 22, 2010

Even WashPost's unreliable RCohen starts to get it

http://tinyurl.com/y3syrt6
Obama, don't forget Jerusalem By Richard Cohen
...busy days for Jewish bloggers when it comes to Israel....the formidable Ed Koch, has virtually incinerated President Obama for his Israeli policy. The Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel has taken out full-page ads in major newspapers to tell Obama, in effect, to lay off Jerusalem, and Ronald S. Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, wrote the president to say how concerned he was about the administration's Israel policy. In short, it stinks....the Israeli newspaper Haaretz tell us...****Another unreliable source, Haaretz is often not to be trusted...except by the likes of Cohen.****...Obama does not dance like a star. He gives every appearance of not "getting" Israel; not appreciating its fears or its history. Israel is not half of the equation, as if both sides are right. It is a democracy with American values that has tried, over and over again, to make peace with a recalcitrant and unforgiving enemy....It is downright disturbing that in a recent poll published in Haaretz, about 27 percent of Israelis said they think Obama is an anti-Semite....it is unlikely that American Jewish liberals, some of whom have high school crushes on Obama, will ever desert the man.***or think outside of their self-imposed box.***...Would Obama stick by Israel? Many Israelis wonder. Obama "needs to address Israelis' fears," the Israeli philosopher Carlo Strenger wrote recently in Haaretz. So far, Obama has done just the opposite, even going to Cairo to assure the Palestinians and the greater Arab world that he appreciates their plight without assuring Israelis that he appreciates theirs. His coolness toward Netanyahu, earned or not, has chilled the Israeli public and encouraged Palestinian defiance. He is on the cusp of an enormous diplomatic blunder....

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