Obama's hatred of Israel isn't just personal animus against Netanyahu

When Barack Hussein Obama ordered his UN ambassador to abstain in Friday's vote against the 'settlements' at the United Nations, it wasn't just personal animus against Prime Minister Netanyahu.

Mr. Obama’s animus toward Prime Minister Netanyahu is well known. Apparently Mr. Obama took it as an affront that the President-elect would express an opinion about this week’s U.N. resolution.

It is important, though, to see this U.S. abstention as more significant than merely Mr. Obama’s petulance. What it reveals clearly is the Obama Administration’s animus against the state of Israel itself. No longer needing Jewish votes, Mr. Obama was free, finally, to punish the Jewish state in a way no previous President has done.

What Obama did on Friday went against the views of the vast majority of the US Congress, the vast majority of the American people, and of course, the vast majority of Israelis - including the sane part of the Israeli Left.

I call upon the Obama administration to veto this resolution against Israel at the UNSC.>>

— יאיר לפיד (@yairlapid) December 23, 2016

The nations of the world should know that on this issue there is no coalition or opposition in Israel.>>

— יאיר לפיד (@yairlapid) December 23, 2016

A decision like this will provide a tailwind for terror and violence. It won't advance negotiations, it will only obstruct them.

— יאיר לפיד (@yairlapid) December 23, 2016

For those who speak Hebrew, there's a video of Lapid blasting the resolution on Saturday here.

What Obama did on Friday will permanently cloud the possibility of any kind of peace. This is from the first link, a Wall Street Journal editorial.

No effort to rescind the resolution, which calls the settlements a violation of “international law,” will succeed because of Russia’s and China’s vetoes.

Instead, the resolution will live on as Barack Obama’s cat’s paw, offering support in every European capital, international institution and U.S. university campus to bully Israel with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.

Here in Israel, there's a palpable fear that the mamzer in the White House isn't done 'punishing' us yet.

At the cabinet meeting yesterday the experts on foreign affairs presented a scenario in which Obama could even on his last day in office cause harm to Israel.

The concern is that Obama may promote a move in the UN Security Council giving guidelines for a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians and the establishment of a Palestinian state. Israel would find it hard to present an alternative model after these guidelines are set.

The experts on foreign affairs also posed another concern regarding the Paris conference which is supposed to take place during the course of February. At the conference a pro-Palestinian peace initiative may be presented and could be viewed as authoritative if it is adopted.

I'm less concerned about what could happen in February - when Donald Trump is President - than I am about what could happen in the next three weeks. 

Obama has earned the title ימח שמו וזכרו - may his name and memory be obliterated. May God Bring that about speedily and in our time.