Obama does not ♥ Israel
John Podhoretz describes a new book written by Michael Oren:
It’s called “Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide,” and I’m not sure that in the annals of diplomatic history there’s ever been anything quite like this astonishing account of Oren’s four years (2009-2013) as Israel’s ambassador in Washington…
It’s not that there’s lots of breaking news in “Ally” that will startle people. Rather, it makes news on almost every page with its incredibly detailed account of the root hostility of the Obama administration toward the Jewish state.
What makes the details especially credible is that Oren is no flame-breathing Israeli right-winger but very much (and at times distressingly) an Establishment creature and one, moreover, who makes it clear he drank the Obama hope-and-change Kool-Aid in 2008. (Indeed, he now serves in Israel’s Knesset not as a member of Bibi Netanyahu’s Likud but of the new centrist Kulanu party.)
So, it seems the Oren started out as an admirer of Obama, but soon learned how mistaken he was. I wonder why he ever thought Obama wasn’t hostile to Israel; was it just Obama’s pro-Israel rhetoric, and didn’t Oren look any deeper into Obama’s past? I suppose I’ll have to read Oren’s book to find the answer.
Here’s more about the Obama administration’s treatment of Israel and of Oren:
Example: The Palestinian Authority made moves toward seeking a declaration of statehood at the United Nations in 2011, which would’ve triggered a law shutting down their US mission and suspending all aid to the PA and to UN agencies that recognized Palestine.
In response, Deputy Secretary of State Tom Nides called Oren into his fancy Foggy Bottom office and screamed at him: “You don’t want the f”Š-”Š-”Š-”Šing UN to collapse because of your f”Š-”Š-”Š-”Šing conflict with the Palestinians, and you don’t want the f”Š-”Š-”Š-”Šing Palestinian Authority to fall apart either.”
Class act.
More:
Oren also writes about bizarrely petty offenses. In 2010, Obama left Israel off a list of countries he mentioned as having helped in the wake of the Haiti earthquake when it was the first nation in the world to dispatch relief teams and get them to the disaster sites ”” because the president was angry about something having to do with the peace process.
But Obama specializes in “bizarrely petty offenses.” Why would anyone be surprised at this?
Lastly, we have:
Throughout his tenure, Oren believed he was uniquely well-equipped to explain Israel to Americans and America to the Israelis. But how to explain a president who recently said that the Israel he admires is the Israel of kibbutzim and Golda Meir ”” a ludicrously rosy and unrealistic image of the Jewish state on par with wanting to look like Disneyland’s Main Street USA?
But if Obama’s statement is true, it’s really no mystery at all. Obama is first and foremost a man of the left. The left used to love Israel during its early years, when Israel was a leftist country founded by leftists, and the kibbutzim were part of that movement. Meir herself was a leftist through and through:
In 1913 she returned to North Division High, graduating in 1915. While there, she became an active member of Young Poale Zion, which later became Habonim, the Labor Zionist youth movement. She spoke at public meetings, embraced Socialist Zionism and hosted visitors from Palestine…
n 1913 she had begun dating Morris Meyerson. She was a committed Labor Zionist and he was a dedicated socialist. Together, they left their jobs to join a kibbutz in Palestine in 1921…
In the British Mandate of Palestine, Meir and Meyerson joined a kibbutz. Their first application to kibbutz Merhavia in the Jezreel Valley was rejected, but later on they were accepted. Her duties included picking almonds, planting trees, working in the chicken coops, and running the kitchen. Recognizing her leadership abilities, the kibbutz chose her as its representative to the Histadrut, the General Federation of Labour…
In 1934, when Meir returned from the United States, she joined the Executive Committee of the Histadrut and she moved up the ranks to become the head of its Political Department. This appointment was important training for her future role in Israeli leadership…
Meir was a member of the Mapai Party, “a left-wing political party…[that] was the dominant force in Israeli politics until its merger into the modern-day Israeli Labor Party in 1968.” The party presided over an establishment of a welfare state in Israel, and Meir was instrumental in the task.
That is the Israel that Obama liked, if he liked any Israel at all.
If anyone has wondered why wars and stupid foreign policies exist, look no farther than the flawed humans we have as ambassadors.
They start up more wars than they stop.
That is the Israel that Obama liked
Israel as explained to him by these clowns:
Obama’s Chicago Roots Help Explain His Unfathomable Israel Policy
TWICE!
The Chicago Jewish News:
Obama and the Jews.
In great details.
Kapos.
In my opinion, John Podhoritz is the best film critic in America. I see his reviews in The Weekly Standard. He has rarely let me down.
The College Board is preparing to release the final revision of its Advanced Placement examination for US history. This excerpt makes the objective clear:
“Students should be able to explain how various identities, cultures, and values have been preserved or changed in different contexts of U.S. history, with special attention given to the formation of gender, class, racial, and ethnic identities. Students should be able to explain how these subidentities have interacted with each other and with larger conceptions of American national identity.”
that should explain a lot as to how obama sees israel..
A pox upon him and all who voted for this supreme navel gazer.
This reminds me of what happened with Marty Peretz, the former editor/owner of the New Republic. He had grave doubts about Obama with regard to Israel during the 2008 campaign, especially after we all learned of Obama’s decades-long association with Rev. Wright. But Obama had a face-to-face meeting with him that gave Peretz enough reassurance about his “love” for Israel that Peretz then campaigned hard for him. Of course, within days of the Obama presidency, Peretz realized he’d been bamboozled and has been a firm opponent ever since.
Anyway, Obama must have a gift for very effective up-close and personal schmoozing, and maybe that worked with Oren as well. Until it didn’t.
Ann:
Please read this.
If you can not recognize a con artist within 10 seconds, you should stay in your parent’s basement watching porn. Slick Willy, the boychild, etc. are quickly identified by anyone with an IQ above room temperature.
Good piece on the “swoon”, Neo. But I think in the case of Peretz, and maybe Oren, more than just being in his presence was needed — there was the additional ability of Obama to convince them of his arguments. As I remember, Peretz went into great detail in the magazine on just what Obama said to him during their meeting. All lies, of course.
All the news in Oren’s book about the State Dept. under Miss Crazy should be aggressively used in the ’16 Campaign against her.
Obama would disapprove of Golda’s sheer toughness. She was fully involved as PM in the hunting down and killing of the Munich Olympics Black Septembrists.
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Parker: re-smelling snakeoilers within 10-minutes..? IF only it were so. Ain’t ever going to be. And the digital age has put the Con Artist Slime on Steroids.
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Ann:
But “the swoon” comes in with their inability to see the rather obvious fact that they were lies, given the man’s history and the history of his thought and previous associations. They could not see the con because they fell in love with something else about Obama, which for want of a better word we’ll call his charm (I see him as singularly charmless, however).
neo-neocon Says:
June 11th, 2015 at 5:33 pm
Ann:
But “the swoon” comes in with their inability to see the rather obvious fact that they were lies, given the man’s history and the history of his thought and previous associations. They could not see the con because they fell in love with something else…
From my above linked pieces, they knew, they groomed, they carried the water … The “something else” is hatred of home…
A talentless artist from Austria comes to mind. They knew, he had it all documented and laid out in advance…
We know exactly who they are. As in the aftermath of WWII there will be purges …
Obama’s finest speeches do not excite. They do not inform. They don’t even really inspire. They elevate. They enmesh you in a grander moment, as if history has stopped flowing passively by, and, just for an instant, contracted around you, made you aware of its presence, and your role in it. He is not the Word made flesh, but the triumph of word over flesh, over color, over despair. The other great leaders I’ve heard guide us towards a better politics, but Obama is, at his best, able to call us back to our highest selves, to the place where America exists as a glittering ideal, and where we, its honored inhabitants, seem capable of achieving it, and thus of sharing in its meaning and transcendence….
The tens of thousands of new voters Obama brought to the polls tonight came because he wrapped them in that experience, because he let them touch politics as it could be, rather than merely as it is. And for that, he deserved to win. And he deserves our thanks. The politician who gets the most votes merits our congratulations. But the politician who enlarges our politics and empowers more Americans to step forward into the public square deserves our gratitude. And we, in turn, deserve to permit ourselves to feel inspired, if only for a night. Ezra Klein.
Petulant.
I have been convinced since 2008 that Obama is, in fact, anti-Semitic, not just anti-Israel.
The boychild is anti-Western Civilization PERIOD. He hates the West. Dreams of my father are actually dreams of turning America into zimbabwe.
Some food for thoughts about Israel and the Kibutz.
I spent my teen years in an North-African city. We had an important jew community there (3000 to 4000 people) focused mainly in commerce.
This community worked as a socialist one. What I mean: there were no poors, no man was left behind, and everyone was supported by the community. Kibutzs fitted up to a point in the jew community, and they were very productive because there were a very strong sense of community.
So I can understand why jews use to be leftish. It’s part of the jew culture.
BUT…
Shared values were very important. If you were part of this community, you were expected to be responsible and to be involved. You were expected to work hard since after a while you should change your “helped” state to a “helper” one, because there would be other people to help.
The problem with modern left is that it takes away responsabilities, so all that remains it’s all rights and rights and more rights. There’s no shared values, there’s no community, there’s just some people paying taxes and some other people expecting some kind of “permawelfare” because “they have the right to” (“perma” is a prefix that indicates that some condition is relatively permanent, like permafrost or permadeath).
This is a path to misery. So things will have to change in the next years. People don’t stand down forever.
“Obama doesn’t love Israel”?
Got news for you: Obama doesn’t love America, either.
Funny how the two are connected.
File under: Someone ought to tell Walt & Mearsheimer (not that they’d bother to listen).
Hussein uses hypnotic techniques. The closer people get, the more they tend to Obey the Authority. Other people have become strangely resistant to hypnosis, suggestion, and commands. Thus they can have a strong negative reaction to Hussein, before knowing anything first.
But it’ll take more than room temp IQ numbers to make people resistant to Authority. Most people prefer to obey their orders. They have no reason to rebel.
Given that women vote for alimony, freebies, baby extermination, and more… especially if it hurts the men they will marry… i say… too bad… if they didnt care enough for their mates and children, the future is theirs… they OWN it… as they are the primary majority to manipulate, ergo they were the ones worked on hardest for the past 40 years.
Hulu is broadcasting a cartoon meant for children about a boy who rescues a prince and a princess but then chooses to marry the prince. Yes, the prince, the bearded guy in the photo below. This effort to teach children the joys of not only gay marriage, but also borderline pedophilia is simply reprehensible. It’s especially obscene to start in on this topic with preschoolers.
its WOMEN siding with this for the few kids they have after they decided to earn money and have lots of sex, over family, society, the children, etc.
heck… the two prisoners are free and there is a manhunt because thuggish prison sex got a woman to bring them power tools…
and of course lets not forget destroying the ability of themselves, their mates, and chidren to earn a living unless they change their skin color, or go jenner and cut their penis off (either in reality or pretend with a gaff)
they still have the gall to blame the men for this sea change in society…
take some time to read the posts of the young men, as all you hear is women, or women telling you wht men thing, or women telling you what men want, etc.
now that is so crappy record numbers are abandoning citizenship, and fleeing as if its east germany in its beginings… once again, the women have made a Nazi state… antisemitic, hateful of success, and so on.
its all yours ladies..
(even the ones not responsible, because there was no way for men to stop the wackos without proving they were oppressors to them)