On
Wednesday, U.S. President Barack Obama received an "Ambassador for
Humanity" award from movie director Steven Spielberg, the founder of the
University of Southern California Shoah Foundation.
"Standing up to anti-Semitism
is not simply about protecting one community or one religious group,"
Obama said in his acceptance speech at the gala, which was held in honor
of the 20th anniversary of the Holocaust museum that Spielberg
established after making the film "Schindler's List."
The president also urged
Americans to "speak out against the rhetoric that threatens the
existence of the Jewish homeland," and assured that he would "sustain
America's unshakable commitment to Israel's security."
Due to Obama's appalling
treatment of Israel in particular and his disastrous foreign policy in
general -- both of which have empowered human-rights abusers across the
globe -- these words ring as hollow as the distinction bestowed upon him
by Spielberg.
As a result, conservative
pundits have been justifiably taking him to task for his hypocrisy.
Obama, after all, is the president on whose watch the Iranian regime is
racing towards a nuclear bomb; the Syrian dictator is massacring his
people in the tens of thousands with every means available, including
chemical weapons; the Turkish prime minister has come out of the
Islamist closet to side with forces hostile to the United States and
Israel; the Russian president has invaded Ukraine; and the Palestinian
Authority is burying the hatchet with Hamas, instead of negotiating its
false claims to and ostensible desire for statehood.
These are the most blatant, but
by no means the only, results of Obama's agenda of reaching out to
America's enemies and admitted pride in "leading from behind." Indeed,
they are the fruits of his hard labor, not the blunders of a novice.
Still, there is one key outcome
he did not anticipate when handed the Oval Office on a silver platter:
that his many years of education at the hands of mentors like radical
community organizer Saul Alinsky and Black Liberation theologist Pastor
Jeremiah Wright have had the opposite of his intended effect. They did
not culminate in the socialist multicultural world-without-borders of
his fantasies.
On the contrary, in the world
as it actually exists, a weakling in the White House provided a green
light for an escalation in sectarian, feudal, religious and -- yes --
even border wars. Rather than winning brownie points for kowtowing to
despots large and small, Obama has earned their utter disdain.
His response has been to attack anyone who dares point this out. It is thus that he considers the Republican Party a greater threat than the Republican Guards.
His response has been to attack anyone who dares point this out. It is thus that he considers the Republican Party a greater threat than the Republican Guards.
And then, of course, there's Israel.
Leaving
aside the debate about whether statements emanating from his
administration constitute anti-Semitism, there is no question that Obama
has as dim a view of Israel as he does of the U.S., and has been doing
everything in his power to undermine the fabric of both. As the man at
the helm of the latter, he has been doing such a stellar job that it
could take decades to repair the damage.
Where the former is concerned,
however, he has not fared so well. If anything, his behavior towards
Israel has increased Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's popularity at
home.
This is because what Obama does
is actually worse than expressing the kind of outright hatred for the
Jewish state that Iranian mullahs and their terrorist proxies boast. He
is among the ever-widening circle of leftists, among them the J Street
crowd, who profess their undying love for Israel, while placing it on a
par with the world's most pernicious elements.
The danger of this trend, which
I have called "anti-Israel is the new pro-Israel," lies in its
disingenuousness. Where such a fashion reigns, any moral parity made
between Israel and the PA constitutes giving Israel the benefit of the
doubt. The Obama administration excels at this underhanded game of
proving its good intentions by treating "both sides" -- one a democracy
striving for peace, and the other a corrupt, lawless entity dreaming of
jihad -- as equals.
This is precisely what enables
Obama to continue to enjoy the political support and financial backing
of American Jews for whom Israel is a voting issue. Indeed, Obama's
"pro-Israel" speech to Hollywood A-listers at Spielberg's gala coincided
with a massive fundraising campaign among rich Jews ahead of the
midterm elections in November.
As a newly crowned "Ambassador
for Humanity" -- an apt title for someone who makes no distinction
between one species of humanity and another -- Obama will undoubtedly
bring back some big bucks for his party comrades running for Congress.
Heaven help humanity if they win.
Thanks NG
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