If there was ever any ambiguity about Barack Obama's true feelings toward Israel, the record has now been set straight once and for all. According to Bill Kristol of The Weekly Standard, senior administration officials have been assuring foreign governments that Obama intends to back an effort next week at the U.N. to set up an independent commission to investigate Israel's behavior in the Gaza flotilla incident. To repeat: The White House is in favor of looking into Israel's behavior alone—not that of either Turkey or Hamas.
"The White House," Kristol writes, "has apparently shrugged off concerns from elsewhere in the U.S. government that a) this is an extraordinary singling out of Israel, since all kinds of much worse incidents happen around the world without spurring U.N. investigations; [and] b) that the investigation will be one-sided."
I suppose, if nothing else, one should be grateful that Obama is showing his true colors for once. Among his failings as a human being and a leader—and they are legion—perhaps none is more glaring than his dishonesty, which has been on fairly continuous display since he took the oath of office. He has not leveled with the American people regarding his stance on health care (despite his refusals to acknowledge the fact, he is on record as stating his ultimate goal for the country is universal health care), nor has he been forthcoming about his views on black nationalism or socialism.
At least at last, he is flautning his anti-Semitism for all the world to see. I trust that Jewish voters will find some way to repay his candor in the polls come November of 2012.
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Always messing with the Jews! No, NO ONE ELSE needs to answer for the incident...ONLY THE JEWS. They are easy to blame, we've been doing it for CENTURIES. With only 14 million of us left, our numbers dwindling DAILY and the ludicrious/antiquated Christian teachings that we killed CHRIST (ONE OF OUR OWN BLOOD, mind you) I guess we're always an easy target. Obama, you will NOT have my vote come re-election.
It's almost a moot question because the same people that tell Obama what to do and say, also tell Israel's government what to do and say. From Europe.
Didn't know that, did you?
Israel is a zionist state, not a Jewish one. That was the intention all along. They just call it a Jewish state for PR purposes. The zionist influence in our federal government cannot be overlooked either. Beginning with Rahm Emanuel. His father was a member of the zionist terrorist group called Irgun. Rahm himself was an Israeli citizen until his 18th birthday.
Maybe if we put funny hats on all the pro-Israel hawks in the presidential cabinets of the past 40 years or so? Maybe then you would understand how "owned" we truly are.
And Jennifer,
The zionists I refer to, and Helen Thomas referred to a few days ago, are the white Euro-Jews. They're followers of Theo Herzl. Atheist and Jewish supremacist.
Jewish nazis founded Israel, not religious Jews.
Modern Israel is a fake.
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So what do American Jews want? Do they want to give Israel a free pass to commit any crime it wants without ever having to face any consequences? Is international law supposed to apply to every other country in the world except Israel? Such believes are dangerous for world peace and stability because today it is Israel that is violating international laws and tomorrow it will be another country. Either international law applies to all countries or it applies to none of them. If Israel wants to be treated like a "normal" country then it needs to start behaving like a "normal" country that respects international laws and norms. The current Israeli policy is wrong and it is hurting the Israelis the most. If the US is a true friend to Israel it will tell it to fall in line with international norms and to support the creating of a viable Palestinian state asap.
No! No Palestinian state. Now or ever.
The reason being is the two state solution is the zionist solution. It must be avoided at all costs.
The reason being, it would leave the racist, apartheid system of government in Israel, intact.
They, are the problem with Israel. Not Arabs.
The only reason the Arabs are stirred up to begin with is the racist policies that come out of this cabinet of White Euro-Jews that run the country.
Religion really has nothing to do with any of this. The zionists like to stir that pot.
This is about atheistic white Jewish supremacists wanting Israel to be full of the same.
Israel must be united under a new flag. Where being Jew or Muslim means nothing and being an Israeli means everything.
The zionists will NEVER allow that, and that's why they need to go.
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\So are you people saying it is ok for the Muslim countries to be a theocharcy but Israel should not declare itself a Jewish state. In Israel, Jews Muslims and Christians live together, however in a country such as Syria or Iran or Saudi Arabia, this does not exist, in some countries a person pays a tax to practice their beliefs if they are contrary to Islam or face death, in Burma, Christians are being slaughtered, however the UN turns a blind eye to such an atrocoties. Unless you have been in these countries and have lived among the people, you have no Idea what you are talking about, you are only told what the talking heads want you to hear and the radical Muslims who wish to abolish Israel. As for Israel being Nazis, there is nothing to back such a statement up, that is totally antiisemetic, based on lies and hatred. Go to the middle east, Israel in particular and see with your own eyes the real truth.
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