Candidly Speaking: American Jewish Leaders Fail to Respond to Obama’s Threats
It is time to stop making excuses for American Jewish leaders and their failure to respond to US President Barack Obama’s latest charm offensive, expressing “admiration” for Jews and “love” of Israel as a mantle to cast moral aspersions against the democratically elected government of Israel.
Obama is clearly determined to undermine the standing of the newly elected Israeli government by embarking on a campaign to promote an utterly fictional narrative of the Arab-Israeli conflict, even in advance of the June 30 deadline of the “negotiations” with Iran.
He orchestrated interviews with journalists Jeffrey Goldberg and Tom Friedman, whom he uses regularly to convey his distaste for Israeli policies – and Ilana Dayan of Israel’s Channel 2 TV. Considered a tough investigative journalist, Dayan on this occasion acted as though she were launching an Obama fan club.
She failed to pose any challenging questions and instead provided openings for him to benevolently display his loathing for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Obama also gave a major address to a Jewish audience at Washington’s Conservative Adas Israel congregation.
One of his acolytes, David Axelrod, recalls Obama – who for many years belonged to a church with an anti-Semitic pastor – describing himself as “the closest thing to a Jew” who has ever served as an American president. At Adas Israel, Obama even described himself as “an honorary member of the tribe” and called on Israelis and Jews to concentrate on “tikkun olam – repairing the world,” implying that universal humanistic values are more in keeping with Judaism than nationalism. (Read more from “Candidly Speaking: American Jewish Leaders Fail to Respond to Obama’s Threats” HERE)
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