Israel Matzav

DeVore, Fiorina blast Obama on Israel

California Republican Senate candidates Chuck DeVore and Carly Fiorina have both come out strongly against President Obama's treatment of Israel. This is DeVore:

"Israel is our only true ally in the Middle East -- and indeed, one of our few true friends in the world. It deserves better than the attacks it has suffered from the Obama Administration of late. More important, America deserves better. We expect our President to have a clear-eyed understanding of America's interests. Instead, Barack Obama's policy on Israel is apparently driven by petty vindictiveness, coupled with a shocking naivete, married to an unforgivable ignorance of the Middle East.

"For the Administration to 'condemn' -- the strongest possible diplomatic language -- the construction of some apartments in a historically Jewish section of Jerusalem does nothing to advance the cause of peace, and still less the security of our country. Peace is advanced through strength, not weakness -- and through unity, not division. At a stroke, President Obama has diminished both.

"Instead, the President and the Secretary of State have only emboldened Israel and America's enemies. Have no doubt that Iran, Syria, and Islamist radicals around the world are watching America turn on its longtime ally. And they approve. Have no further doubt that our allies from Britain to Korea to Afghanistan are seeing the disregard our President has for faithful friendship to the United States -- and drawing the appropriate conclusions.

"The plain fact is that neither America nor Israel have ever benefitted from capitulation to pressure from their enemies -- and make no mistake, our enemies are the same. The American people understand this: that's why they overwhelmingly support our enduring friendship with Israel.

"Americans stand by Israel because our most sacred principles compel us. This Administration does not appear to share those principles. While Vice President Biden was chastising Israel over apartment construction, the Palestinian Authority was naming a public square after a suicide bomber who slaughtered 37 innocents. Americans instinctually grasp the difference between civilization and barbarism, and they know that a public honor for a mass murderer is perilously close to the latter. It's inexcusable that Barack Obama's Administration doesn't have the same moral sense.

Fiorina's statement is a YouTube video. It's right from the top. Let's go to the videotape (it's actually a radio interview).



Fiorina gets into the Tom Campbell and Sami al-Arian thing around the 7:00 minute mark (just before it) and she blasts him again for it.

Still waiting to hear from Barbara Boxer (the Democratic incumbent) and Tom Campbell (the other Republican candidate) on this one.

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:07 PM