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Obama’s Middle East Goal

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…is the marginalization of the Jewish state:

The relation between Obama and Netanyahu in the White House meeting reflected and prefigured the relation between the U.S. and Israel on the international and diplomatic stage, culminating in an agreement with Iran in which Israel had no part and was effectively ostracized. To say that Obama has no love for Israel is to put it mildly.

It would be interesting in this context to see the Khalidi/Obama video squirreled away by the Los Angeles Times. Rashid Khalidi, a former PLO spokesman and current Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, makes no secret of his hatred for Israel. Obama and Khalidi were good friends, and as Discover the Networks reports, “In 2003 Obama would attend a farewell party in Khalidi’s honor when the latter was leaving the University of Chicago to embark on his new position at Columbia.” The event was filmed and one may plausibly wonder what revelation the LAT is suppressing with regard to Obama’s participation, especially as Obama had praised Khalidi for having “challenged my thinking.” Israpundit’s Ted Belman puts it succinctly: “What was said at this event was presumably so damaging to Obama’s political career that the LA Times, that liberal bastion, who came into possession of a tape of the event, refused to release it.”

In any case, everything Obama has done vis à vis the Jewish state — favoring anti-Zionist rabbis and organizations, inveighing against housing construction in its own capital city, supporting the Palestinians in fruitless rounds of “peace talks,” insisting that Israel retreat to its indefensible pre-1967 borders, leaking military secrets about Israeli pre-emptive actions against Syria and Hezbollah — indicates that Obama would like to see Israel confined to a tiny sliver of land, boxed in between the sea and the Arabs, reduced to a rump state at the mercy of its enemies, and eventually ushered out of the corridors of history. This puts him in league with the ayatollahs. This is Obama’s version of the knockout game.

Except in the knockout game, the victim selection is random.

4 thoughts on “Obama’s Middle East Goal”

  1. Obama’s Israel “strategy” isn’t any better thought out than anything else he does; it’s just going with the flow of the fashionable academic politics he was raised with. And like the college transcripts, if and when the Khalidi video is released, it won’t tell us anything we haven’t already figured out – it will merely signal that his power to retaliate has dropped below a critical threshold.

  2. “This is Obama’s version of the knockout game.”
    And as if to echo the President, a Crown Heights Councilwoman insists that the Jews are somehow responsible for being knocked out.

  4. “is the marginalization of the Jewish state:”

    What Obligation does President Obama or the American Government have to the ‘Jewish State’?

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