Friday, April 02, 2010

A PENNY FOR YOUR POLITICAL CAPITAL

Putting it mildly, President Obama has no affection for the State of Israel and no apparent understanding of its importance to the national security of the United States and the free world. He has concocted a phony crisis over the permitting of housing units for Jews in the capital of the Jewish state. By the time this crisis is resolved—if, indeed Obama sees an end in sight, and whether he does or not is, lamentably, debatable—by the time this crisis is resolved to his satisfaction, Israel will have been weakened by the necessity of placating Obama, and the interests of her enemies will have been advanced. But, Israel’s enemies are also the enemies of the United States. They hate not only Jews but Christians. Christians are under siege in every Muslim country in which they live as a minority. But, Israel is expected to cede land and uproot its citizens in favor of a jihadist aggressor whose aim is world domination.
Obama’s deplorable rudeness and contempt displayed toward Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his White House visit is only a signal of the radical sea-change in Israel/US relations. Obama is seriously considering a request by Qatar’s foreign minister that the US not veto an upcoming Security Council vote condemning Israel for building in its own capital. http://iplextra.indiatimes.com/article/06Sa9xLgYz9MZ?q=Barack+Obama
Until now, only the US stood between Israel and the hostile resolutions passed against her in the United Nations. With Obama at the helm, Israel will no longer be able to count on American friendship as a buffer to international sentiment that is increasingly threatening to Israel and the Jewish people.

One of the most powerful Democrat members of Congress is Representative Henry Waxman of Los Angeles who is Jewish. As Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce committee, Waxman was instrumental in writing the health Care Reform Bill and cracking skulls to get it passed through Congress.

Waxman constantly sites his Jewish background as the source of his cultural pride and where his liberal values come from. He has always voiced public support for Israel even if his actions don’t live up to his rhetoric. The district Waxman represents is 14% Jewish and this large politically active Jewish population is one of the reasons he has been in office for over 35 years.

Considering the amount of work that Waxman did to get Obama’s landmark Health Care legislation passed, it stands to reason that President Obama would lend Waxman his ear because of Waxman’s role as a valuable ally and strategist. It also stands to reason that Waxman would be both concerned about Israel’s position in the world today and Obama’s treatment of Israel. This being the case, it should be a mystery to Jews who live in Waxman’s district why he remains silent about Obama’s clear antipathy toward Israel.

Waxman’s blind loyalty to President Obama and the Obama agenda is disturbing but when one notices Waxman’s complete silence on Obama’s treatment of Israel, America’s only democratic ally in the Middle East, it calls into question not only Waxman’s love for his own people, but his concern for the security of the United States.

Throughout history, Jews who stood up for their people against the forces of tyranny were heroes and advanced the cause of freedom for all people just as the State of Israel must do now.
By not standing up to Obama and by not spending even a penny of political capital for his people, Waxman is next to useless as a protector of the Jewish people and an ally of the State of Israel.

Waxman’s inaction on behalf of our people speaks volumes of his need to be liked and accepted by our president in order to have a powerful position for himself in our government without regard to the long term ramifications this silence will have on the future security of Israel and the United States and the safety of Jews and Christians worldwide.

Waxman must publicly demand that Obama continue to exercise the US veto in the UN Security Council when it votes to condemn Israel. Moreover, he should strenuously criticize Obama for daring to bar Jews from living where they choose in their own eternal and undivided capital. The Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 was passed by the 104th Congress on October 23, 1995. It affirms the status of Jerusalem as Israel’s undivided capital. Obama, in condemning Israel for building in Jerusalem, is disregarding US law. Since he is owed a favor from Obama for his work on the health Care bill, the least that we should expect from Waxman is the temerity to remind Obama to enforce the law of the United States with regard to Jerusalem. And while he is at it, he should demand that the US move its embassy to Jerusalem as the Jerusalem Embassy Act requires. Waxman should not treat this as a favor or quid pro quo, for it is not a favor to enforce the law, nor is it a presidential prerogative to ignore it. Obama is not above the law but a servant of the law and Waxman owes it to the Jews who favor him to remind Obama of his responsibility as Chief Executive to faithfully execute and carry out the laws of the United States.
We know that Obama is angling for the re-division of Jerusalem and he propounds the lie that there is an East and a West Jerusalem and that so-called East Jerusalem is traditionally Arab. This vicious, balled-faced lie was concocted by Israel’s enemies in order to deny the Jewish connection to Israel’s capital and the land of Israel itself. The truth is that so-called Arab East Jerusalem was Jewish until 1948 when Jordan either expelled or massacred the Jews living there. Jordan blew up over 100 synagogues, Jewish schools and other institutions and desecrated whatever remained. Israel liberated Jordanian-occupied Jerusalem in 1967 during the Six Day War after being attacked by 5 Arab nations intending to destroy her and drive all the Jews into the sea. People of all faiths and nationalities live in freedom there now which was not the case during the 19 years of Jordanian occupation. These facts must never be forgotten. They are our defense to the false claims of Israel’s enemies that Obama is endeavoring to advance at Israel’s expense.
Passover is the Jewish holiday that celebrates our Exodus from bondage and our journey to the Promised Land. The story of the Exodus is our deed to the land of Israel and 100 years ago, every Christian nation in Europe recognized that it was so. Today, the Arabs zealously defend their claim to Jewish land, though their claims are based on lies. Jerusalem is not mentioned even once in the Koran but is the center piece of the Hebrew Bible and the heart and soul of Judaism. In failing to advocate the Jewish claim to the land, he is defending the Arab right. Why should he support the Arabs in their zeal and deny the Jews in theirs? If Waxman continues to go along with Obama, he will be doing just the thing that may lead our people right back into bondage…or worse.
Moreover, the destruction of Israel and even a weakened Israel that is unable to defend itself would not herald the world peace and harmony that our short-sighted President seems to imagine. Certainly, the absence of Jewish housing units in Jerusalem would not contribute to peace and stability—no matter how forcefully Obama insists that Jewish building projects undermine peace. Obama does not recognize that Israel’s enemies and the enemies of the United States are identical and share precisely the same goals for world domination and the destruction of the free world. Since Obama harbors a persistent blind spot for Arab intransigence, aggression, terrorism and hatred for all things Jewish and Christian, it is up to Waxman, one of his closest political allies, to set him straight.
The security of the United States is at stake here, unless, of course, the jihadist paradise advanced by our enemies is as appealing to Waxman as it seems to be to Obama.
I therefore call upon Henry Waxman to step up to the plate, to do the right thing and speak out against the injustices toward Israel already perpetrated by Obama and those that he plans to carry out in the near and long term. Henry Waxman, I implore you! It is the right thing to do.

Ari David
Candidate for Congress
California 30th District
P O Box 163
Malibu CA 90265
AriDavidforcongress.com
Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/aridavidforcongress

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