Israel Matzav

The country Obama forgot

Marty Peretz slams President Obama for consistently leaving Israel, Israelis and Jews off the lists of terror victims he likes to make.

If truth be told, President Obama has a direct interest in keeping these statistics fudged. For, aside from Belfast, every location he mentions is a place where Muslim extremists have shed blood—and shed the blood of innocents, shed the blood of those who do not even know how to ask why they have been targeted, if indeed they have been specifically or personally targeted which most of them have not been. In fact, none of them have been. They are innocents in a crowd. But not according to their killers. They are guilty by being.

This is not the president’s narrative. Apparently and actually, he has no narrative. But he owes us a narrative, his narrative. After all, our soldiers are being killed and they are also killing. And innocents are being killed daily by adversary forces Obama will not name or characterize or define. Who does he really think we are fighting? The Bahai, maybe? Opus Dei? The Lubavitchers? If Obama does not think that we are besieged by several strands of Islam, what explanation has he for the wave of terrorism that has taken place in recent decades?

P.S. I’ve made an observation about Obama’s omission of Israel in another list of his once before. In my ex-blog, The Spine, I observed last January that in the president’s litany of countries that aided Haiti in its terrible need and despair he’d omitted Israel. Given the depth of Israel’s rescue work, it cannot have been an oversight. So was it Obama himself who flinched when he saw the troublesome country’s name in the text prepared by his staff? Or did his staff not name Israel in the first place? There’s a story to be told about his speechwriters. And it might just be that they know his prejudices.

P.P.S. Maybe you are too young to recall the ghastly Munich Massacre, which took place 39 years ago this week. But I remember everything I saw on ABC television from the very moment that a Cape Cod neighbor summoned me to see “a pogrom going on in Munich.” Already then, when Palestinian terror was still in the blush of youth, so to speak, there were respectable people apologizing for it. Peter Jennings sticks in my memory most of all because his excuse for the terrorists was that history had treated their people badly, the excuse that every terrorist sympathizer gives. (After 9/11, Jennings pasted together a public broadcasting program for teenagers showing how kind Muslims are to women.)

Anyway, here is an account of this great day in Palestinian terror, perhaps its greatest day, all but forgotten. So this is a reminder by the careful and honest historian Mitchell Bard.

The Jews who insist on supporting Obama need to be reminded over and over and over again that Obama's indifference to living Jews is at least as important as his support for their right to kill unborn Jews. Yes, I know. The number of Jews in the United States is too small to influence an election. But how can people who vote for this Jew-hater (and there is no getting around that anymore either) look at themselves in the mirror every morning?

Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, Islamic terrorism, Marty Peretz, Palestinian terrorism

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:06 PM