Israel Matzav

Time for Democrats to face reality on Obama's pressure on Israel

Jonathan Tobin does a great job of summing up President Hussein Obama's relations with Israel.

From January 2009 to the present, the conflict between Israel and the United States has never been connected to any real chance of peace or ending the conflict in a manner that is consistent with American pledges about ensuring the Jewish state’s security. At this point, it is time for even those that have rationalized and apologized for Obama’s penchant for attacking Israel to face up to the fact that his behavior requires a better explanation than an alleged desire to save it from itself. Nor is the argument about Iran enough to justify what we are witnessing. Nothing about the current argument can be traced to U.S. security needs. Rather, its motive seems more about personal anger and vague ideological assumptions about Israel and the Palestinians that have no connection to reality.

That is a sobering thought that should motivate even those Democrats who are no fans of Netanyahu to begin speaking up against an administration policy that seems rooted in spite, not strategy.

Or maybe not so vague.

Where does Israel fit into this? It seems that Victor Davis Hanson got it partly right when he wrote:

Does Team Obama really believe that a murderous autocratic cabal like Hamas is merely different from a democratic constitutional republic like Israel? At best we have naiveté at the helm (Obama thinks he can mesmerize misunderstood killers), at worst, a genuine feeling that Israel is an aggressive, Western imperialist power exploiting indigenous people of color who simply wish to be free--in other words, the Rev. Wright-Bill Ayers-Rashid Khalidi view of the Middle East.
If D'Souza is correct (and what he writes is certainly plausible), it should be clear that Obama views Israel - like the United States - as a post-colonial country that is "an aggressive, Western imperialist power exploiting indigenous people of color who simply wish to be free." But Hanson got one detail wrong. Obama doesn't look at us that way because of Wright, Ayers and Khalidi. They just reinforced the view of Israel that Obama already had in his blood from his Kenyan father.

I've been telling you all for eight years that the company a politician keeps matters. We could all have figured this out eight years ago (I did). What could go wrong?

Labels: anti-colonialist, Barack Hussein Obama, Bill Ayers, fierce moral urgency, Jeremiah Wright, Palestinian state, Rashid Khalidi

Where were you in '08?

More than five years after he all but conceded the Presidency by not going for Barack Hussein Obama's jugular, John Sidney McCain is calling Obama the most naive President evah.

It happened Sunday on CBS's Face the Nation.

Let's go to the videotape. The interview starts at the 3:37 mark, and the question and answer you're looking for is at the 7:54 mark. The interview runs until 9:40.

McCain had his chance to show up the most naive President evah and he didn't take it. He didn't hit Obama for listening to weekly sermons from an anti-Semite for 20 years. He didn't hit Obama for hiding a video in which Obama is alleged to have made anti-Semitic comments. He didn't hit Obama for his associations with the likes of Jeremiah Wright, Rashi Khalidi, Billy Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Louis Farrakhan and the most corrupt politicians Chicago has ever seen. He didn't hit Obama for his inexperience in 2008. He didn't hit Obama for his disappearing birth certificate and academic records. He didn't hit Obama for anything, and he tried to prevent Sarah Palin from doing the job for him.

And now, in 2014, McCain calls Obama naive? He still doesn't get it. Obama is anything but naive. He is undermining America from within. That's not naive. It's conniving. It may be years before the Republicans are able to cleanly win a Presidential election because of all the cheating that Obama has built into the system. And John McCain is the one who let that happen. Obama was a Manchurian candidate and McCain let him win.

Labels: anti-Semitism, Barack Hussein Obama, Bernadine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, campaign 2008, Jeremiah Wright, John McCain, Louis Farrakhan, Rashid Khalidi

Which of Obama's friends would you want at your seder?

Here's an ad questioning President Obama's commitment to Israel that is being run in Jewish newspapers in swing states (Hat Tip: Michal S).

Obama Israel Final Oct 2012

I think they forgot Chas Freeman.

Labels: Ali Abunimah, Barack Hussein Obama, Bill Ayers, Campaign 2012, Jeremiah Wright, Rashid Khalidi, Robert Malley, Samantha Power, Susan Rice, US-Israel relationship, Zbigniew Brzezinski

All the President's friends

During the 2008 campaign, Barack Obama claimed not to be connected to domestic terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn. At Breitbart.com, Joel Pollak has discovered that then Senator Barack Obama attended a barbecue at the home of Ayers and Dohrn during on July 4, 2005. Here's the blog post he found: