Gee, I’m not the only one who thinks that the White House is nuts on the Middle East and Israel.
The letter’s lead signatories were Eric Cantor (R-VA) and Steny Hoyer (D-MD). The letter had only circulated for three days last week before garnering 327 signatures, probably the most bipartisan effort seen on Capitol Hill in this session of Congress. It provides a measure of just how far out of the mainstream the Obama administration has gotten on relations with Israel.
Moreover, they’re entirely correct. Thanks to what amounts to a reversal of 20 years of American policy on settlements in Jerusalem, Obama has given the Palestinians a reason to refuse to come to the table that Israel simply can’t address. Obama has made peace a lot less likely than it was fifteen months ago by throwing his tantrum in such a public manner. Weakening Israel won’t bring peace — it will bring more attacks on Israel as Palestinians begin to believe that the US won’t back its ally any longer.
Jennifer Rubin believes Obama’s fumble was by design, or at least by instinctual hostility towards Israel. With advisers like Samantha Power at the White House, that hostility was known long before Obama got elected. Accidental, latent, or overt, Obama’s hostility towards a key democracy in the most strategic part of the world has raised eyebrows of both Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill — perhaps belatedly, but not too late to put some serious pressure for this administration to grow the hell up.
They seem to be particularly impervious to that. As do their defenders, including some commenters here.
The problem is, after we get rid of Obama is when we will have to clean house and people may just go back to sleep. It’s taken decades to get where we are today and it will take decades to clean it up.
Weakening Israel won’t bring peace — it will bring more attacks on Israel as Palestinians begin to believe that the US won’t back its ally any longer.
And yet, the Jews in this country will continue to vote for Obama and his cohorts in congress by an overwhelming margin. Something I’ve never been able to understand, but now just accept as fact.
Obama promised bipartisanship, and he’s delivered; Democrats and Republicans, united against him.
Obama promised a new kind of politics, and he delivered: the Tea Parties! Does anyone here think they would have formed without Obama?
Obama has accomplished the impossible: a resurgent Republican party, riding a swell of populist discontent. When he took office, a great many predicted that the Republican party was kaput, or at least consgned to minority status for eight years or more. But, things are now far far different, and the R’s look to be ascendant. Who would have thought that possible so soon after 2008?
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Obama spent 20 years in Wright’s church, frequently hearing anti-semetic rants. One can’t eliminate the possibility that Obama is anti-semetic himself. But then there’s this:
Obama’s hostility towards a key democracy in the most strategic part of the world has raised eyebrows of both Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill — perhaps belatedly, but not too late to put some serious pressure for this administration to grow the hell up.
Obama doesn’t seem to care very much for democracy here or abroad. His apologizing and bowing to tyrants, his screwing over allies like the UK and Israel may be connected. His actions towards Israel might not be so much because they’re Jewish but that they’re a democracy.
And yet, the Jews in this country will continue to vote for Obama and his cohorts in congress by an overwhelming margin.
Not all of us will.
Ahh Israel. The hobby horse nation that so many care about more than their own. I’m out of the loop, is their nuclear status official yet or what?
Just go back to sleep. kthxbye
mebbe someone needs to bounce rahm’s head off the tiles a coupla times in the house showers, hard.