Saturday, March 05, 2011

Obama's behavior towards Israel is totally unacceptable and he has now crossed the RED LINE!‏

To: President Barack Hussein Obama

To: Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Chair of House Committee on Foreign Affairs

To: Congressman, Brad Boehner, Foreign Affairs Committee: brad.goehner@mail.house.gov

To: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: bnetanyahu@knesset.gov.il

To: Yuli Edelstein, Minister of Information and Diaspora Affairs: yedelstein@knesset.gov.il

To: HE Ambassador Michael Oren

info@washington.mfa.gov.il

Re: Obama's behavior towards Israel is totally unacceptable and he has crossed the RED LINE!

President Obama, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Honorable Congressmen,

In his recent hour-long meeting with about 50 representatives from the Jewish community's chief foreign policy umbrella group, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, regarding his approach toward Israel, President Obama reportedly urged the Jewish communal leaders to speak to their friends and colleagues in Israel and to "search your souls" over Israel's seriousness about making peace. Please read: 'Soul-Searching, Self-Reflection, and the Peace Process' (http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/03/03/soul-searching-self-reflection-and-the-peace-process/) AND 'Our patronizing President lectures the Jews' (http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/03/our_patronizing_president_lect.html)

In a patronizing tone and foolish in content the President implied that Israel bears the primary responsibility for advancing the peace process, totally ignoring the past 92 years history in which the Arabs rejected NINE (9) time Israel's offers to have a state living side-by-side with Israel: 'Portraits of the Peace Process in Its 92nd Year' (http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/01/20/portraits-of-the-peace-process-in-its-92nd-year/). Reason being, the Arabs do not want a state; they want Israel off the map and they are not bashful to flaunt that map.

The president's comments about Israel are forever growing more hostile, naive and sadly rather unsurprising.

Obama wants to divide Jerusalem and hand "East" Jerusalem to the PalArabs aka "Palestinians," ignoring the fact that NO part of Jerusalem has EVER, in the history of the world, been the capital of ANY Arab/Muslim/Palestinian state/entity. Despite this major historical fact, Obama is willfully ignoring it and the fact that today, there are 250,000 Jews lawfully living in "East" Jerusalem.

Obama is also ignoring the historical fact that there would have been many more Jews living in "East" Jerusalem if not for the Arabs' ethnic cleansing Jerusalem from Jews in the years 1947 – 1967, when Jordan held, to the city illegally.

Propagating to handing "East" Jerusalem to the PalArabs does nothing but appease Arab irredentism and rewards Islamic terror. This is a grave USA foreign policy error.

Obama is ignoring all that the Arabs are publically constantly stating and threatening regarding Israel. He is ignoring the fact that Mahmoud Abbas has sworn that there will be NO JEWS living in their envisioned "Palestine," thus, Obama appears to be a protagonist of ethnic cleaning. Yet, Obama is expecting that Arabs will be living in the Jewish State of Israel?!

We need to admit that Obama is obsessed with the State of Israel for all the wrong reasons. His policy has done nothing towards peace, rather has made any possible agreement between the PalArabs and Israel far less unachievable. Worse, Obama has made both parties totally distrust the USA claim or be a fair "mediator."

Obama is egregious and conspicuously offensive towards Israel, more so he egregiously violating Israel's sovereignty. Obama uses Israel as his punching bag because it is the only country in the world that allows him to punch it, insult it, disrespect it, whitewash its history and lie about the facts of the "peace" negotiations. It is clear that Obama will sleep well at night if there is no more Israel.

The Palestinians are still in no position to implement Phase I of the three(3) phases of the Road Map; yesterday they rejected Phase II again, concerned that Netanyahu may be preparing to offer it to them, and they are eagerly engaged in an end run around Phase III – preferring to work toward international imposition of a state without the need for any negotiations. The "peace" talks and the Road Map process obviously requires some very serious soul-searching — but NOT from Israel, rather from Obama and his enablers, the EU, the UN and the PalArabs!

The question is why the Israeli government and Jewish leaders allow Obama to go on attacking and humiliating the Jewish State of Israel?

I demand that Obama's endless diplomatic squall towards Israel is brought to an end at once, as it harms the state of Israel and the 5Million Jews living there only.

I call for Israel to apply diplomatic offense and get the Obama Administration noose off its neck!

Nurit Greenger

Los Angeles, California, 90209 USA
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http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/03/our_patronizing_president_lect.html


March 02, 2011

Our patronizing President lectures the Jews

Ed Lasky

President Obama just can't seem to be able to stop scratching that itch. At a meeting with Jewish leaders regarding his approach toward Israel he delivered a lecture, patronizing in tone and foolish in content.

From the JTA:

President Obama reportedly urged Jewish communal leaders to speak to their friends and colleagues in Israel and to "search your souls" over Israel's seriousness about making peace.

In an hour-long meeting Tuesday with about 50 representatives from the Jewish community's chief foreign policy umbrella group, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Obama reiterated the U.S. commitment to Israel, according to statements from both the White House and Conference of Presidents.

But several participants at the meeting told JTA that the president also implied that Israel bears primary responsibility for advancing the peace process. They interpreted the president's comments either as hostile, naive or unsurprising.

Obama said Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is eager to secure his legacy by establishing a Palestinian state and would accept a decent offer if one were on the table, according to participants.

"The Palestinians don't feel confident that the Netanyahu government is serious about territorial concessions," the president reportedly said.

Obama reportedly said that the Jewish sections of Jerusalem would remain in Israeli hands as part of any peace deal, but that the Arab sections would not.


For the record, the Israelis have been the ones offering to meet for peace talks and have made numerous concessions. Israeli Prime minister Netanyahu is the first Israeli Prime Minister to agree to the establishment of a Palestinians state. Just in the last few days, he has again re-broadcast his willingness to advance the peace process.

Furthermore, the status of Jerusalem is supposed to be a final status issue to be decided in negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. This has been the written understanding between past Presidents and Israel. This statement regarding Jerusalem being split in two (Solomon must be smiling, as are Arab extremists) by Barack Obama seems to be the beginning of the imposition of an American (let's call it an Obama) plan on Israel. This is something the Israelis have rightly feared would be coming from this President. Americans are well-familiar with how Obama likes to impose his plans and ideology on people.

The Palestinians, in contrast, have petulantly refused to engage in peace talks.

Aside from this (ignored) fact, the President's patronizing tone is graceless. He urged Jewish leaders to speak to their friends and colleagues in Israel and to search their souls over Israel's seriousness about making peace.

The Israelis (and their supporters in America) have been very actively searching their souls over the prospects of peace.

Israel has given up vast swaths of land in search of peace, has done quite a bit of "soul-searching" regarding the peace process, had paid a great price when it took risks for peace, etc. Israel has a very disputatious media and political culture-one that welcomes debate about a myriad of subjects. The desire for peace with its neighbors -- and the ways one can be achieved -- are of paramount concern and discussion.

The Palestinians...have they searched their souls? That does not seem to have happened. Do they have blocs of people, NGOs, leading figures advocating that concessions be made, that hate speech in their media and mosques be stopped in order to prepare their people for the need to make concessions and the need for peace?

Just in the last day they have opposed UN efforts to teach Palestinian children about the Holocaust. Yes -- the UN actually proposed doing this (thank you Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Chairwoman of the House Foreign Relations Committee for your vocal opinions regarding funding and the United Nations).

Let us open up the time capsule to recall how Barack Obama has viewed Israel in the recent past (and, lest we forget, his "moral compass" Jeremiah Wright had an unhealthy obsession regarding Israel and Jews).

This is what Senator Obama said in 2007 regarding building the road to peace between Israel and the Palestinians:

Some of those stones will be heavy and tough for the United States to carry. Others will be heavy and tough for Israel to carry. And even more will be difficult for the world. But together, we will begin again.

(The Palestinians apparently had no stones that they would have to carry -- he did not mention any for them to carry)

This is what he said in 2008 in Cleveland:

Frankly some of the commentary that I've seen which suggests guilt by association or the notion that unless we are never ever going to ask any difficult questions about how we move peace forward or secure Israel that is non military or non belligerent or doesn't talk about just crushing the opposition that that somehow is being soft or anti-Israel, I think we're going to have problems moving forward.

Senator Obama apparently viewed Israel as a "belligerent."

Has much changed?
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http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/03/03/soul-searching-self-reflection-and-the-peace-process/


Soul-Searching, Self-Reflection, and the Peace Process
Rick Richman 03.03.2011 - 8:14 AM

Meeting with 50 Jewish leaders from the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, President Obama reportedly urged them to contact their Israeli colleagues to encourage “soul searching” about Israel’s commitment to peace (h/t: Ed Lasky). His message was apparently the same he delivered in 2009, when he told Jewish leaders that the Bush approach to the peace process had not accomplished anything and that Israel needed to engage in “serious self-reflection.”

In evaluating Obama’s renewed advice, it is worth comparing his two-year peace process with the one in Bush’s final two years.

Faced with (1) the Hamas takeover of Gaza and the resulting inability to implement Phase I of the Roadmap (dismantlement of terrorist groups), and (2) the Palestinian refusal to consider Phase II (a provisional state), the Bush administration “accelerated” the Roadmap and went straight to Phase III final status negotiations. It convened an international conference to kick them off and devoted the secretary of state virtually full-time to the process, with 20 trips to the region. The result was another Israeli offer of a contiguous state — on all of Gaza, all of the West Bank (after land swaps), and a capital in Jerusalem — which the administration advised the Palestinians to accept and they rejected, extending their streak of missed opportunities to seven.

In the past two years, Obama discarded the prior definition of a “settlement freeze” (no new settlements or expansion of borders of existing ones); refused to abide by the 2004 Bush letter on defensible borders and major settlement blocs; decided to put “daylight” between the U.S. and Israel; publicly humiliated the Israeli prime minister; adopted a position on settlement construction more radical than that of the Palestinians themselves; lectured Israel at the UN; lost the confidence of both sides, and … achieved nothing.

The Palestinians are still in no position to implement Phase I; yesterday they rejected Phase II again (concerned that Netanyahu may be preparing to offer it to them); and they are engaged in an end run around Phase III – preferring to work toward international imposition of a state without the need for negotiations. The process obviously requires some serious soul-searching — but by whom?

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