Does Obama Actually Care About Israel’s Struggle to Survive?
On the contrary, what the UAE means by terrorism in “all its forms and manifestations” was unequivocally spelled out by its UN representative, Ali Alshemail. Speaking at the General Assembly on October 6, 2010, he said:
[We] emphasize that elimination of the danger of terrorism requires us to address all forms and manifestations of terrorism without exception, including the state terrorism which violates the right of peoples to self-determination. …
[W]e support…a clear definition of terrorism and to differentiate it from the legitimate struggle of people under foreign occupation.
In short, Israeli civilians are fair game.
Furthermore, instead of the GCTF modifying the views of its Muslim members, the spillover effect appears to be operating in the opposite direction. At its September 2011 launch all members of the GCTF — including the Obama administration — adopted the so-called Cairo Declaration on Counterterrorism and Rule of Law. Published by the State Department itself, the declaration states: “Noting the importance of relevant regional and international instruments.” The relevant regional instruments include the OIC terrorism treaty — and its exception clauses.
Moreover, Secretary Clinton gave the UAE’s counter-terrorism center a vote of confidence at the GCTF meeting on June 7, 2012, in Istanbul, Turkey. She said:
[T]he UAE took an important step when it announced it would host the first-ever international center developed to combat extremism and develop those best practices that will do so. I am pleased to announce that the United States will support this effort with both funding and expertise…
Particularly disturbing has been the repeated omission of Israel and Israeli cities in lists of terrorist victims prepared by Obama administration officials connected to the forum. Here’s Clinton at the September 22, 2011, launch in New York: “From London to Lahore, from Madrid to Mumbai, from Kabul to Kampala, it’s innocent civilians who have been targeted.” Here’s Attorney General Eric Holder at the Inaugural Meeting of the GCTF “Criminal Justice/Rule of Law Working Group” on November 3, 2011, in Washington: “All around the world — from New York to London; from Lahore to Madrid; from Mumbai to Abuja — we have seen the devastating effects — and costs — of terrorism.” At the GCTF meeting in June 2012 Clinton’s statement mentions terrorism in only Mali, Somalia, Yemen, Nigeria, the Maghreb, Turkey and “lone-wolf killings” in Europe.
The confusion of the Obama team on the subject of terrorism was also in evidence at the most recent GCTF meeting in July. At that conference, Maria Otero, Obama’s under secretary for civilian security, democracy and human rights highlighted the work of the non-governmental organization “Sisters Against Violent Extremism” (SAVE). This is an NGO which Secretary Clinton also singled out at the “Special Operations Command Gala” on May 23, 2012, in Tampa, Florida. The work of Sisters Against Extremism in the Israeli-Palestinian context is spotlighted in a video which features two grieving women, Israeli Robi Damelin and Palestinian Siham Abu Awwad.
The SAVE video states that Abu Awwad’s “brother was killed by an Israeli settler.” Robi states her son was killed by a Palestinan sniper when serving in the IDF, and she gives this explanation: “He didn’t kill David because he was David. He killed David because he was a symbol of an occupying army.” More specifically, Robi’s son was killed while he worked as an IDF officer at a checkpoint, a constraint which exists for the purpose of preventing terrorism. During the attack by a member of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade which killed her son, the terrorist also killed six other Israeli soldiers and three civilians. According to films featuring the death of Siham’s brother Youssef, he was “killed by an IDF soldier while trying to cross a check point.”
The moral relativism and twisted perceptions of terrorism that the GCTF will perpetuate, rather than solve, is perhaps simply illustrated by the Obama administration’s choice of a co-chair of the GCTF rule of law working group. The co-chairs are the United States and Egypt. So today, the Muslim Brotherhood is working with the Obama administration on “good practices for effective counterterrorism practice.” While Israel is denied entry.
As Israelis grieve still more acts of terrorism, it is disheartening that the President of the United States is quick to speechify and less ready to take the necessary steps to forever delegitimize terrorists and their enablers.
Can’t PJ spell Israel correctly?
Barack Hussein Obama can whistle dixie all he wants, but this much is sure – there will be NO, and I mean NO, stopping Israel when it comes to a ‘proper’ response.
While it definitely has been the (tragic) case that Israel’s leadership have allowed Washington to dictate certain terms, those says are gone. The only question is – when will Jerusalem start the smack down?
How do I know this? Suffice it to say, I am not writing my blog out of thin air. Follow its contents closely, the rest will become clear.
Time’s are about to change…..http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/07/17/update-middle-east-on-fire-nearing-full-fledged-explosion-addendum-tothe-mother-of-all-wars-is-knocking-at-our-door-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki-76-2/.
When the dust settles there will be ‘quiet’- at least for the foreseeable future.
Btw, if I stop my updates it will be due to ‘facts on the ground’. It is what it is.
IMO, said smackdown is looooong overdue.
Also IMO, we should have nuked Tehran and Qom in the 1970s. It still isn’t too late, but now it’s time to add all the other sites that harbor Iran’s nuclear program.
SoS Clinton issued a statment today regarding the terrorist attack against Israeli tourists in Bulgaria. It said in part:
“The United States stands ready to offer any assistance necessary, and we will work with our partners in Bulgaria, Israel and elsewhere so that the perpetrators can be apprehended swiftly…”
“apprehended”?
She is thus ruling out Israeli use of of deadly force against the perpetrators of this heinous crime, no doubt in an effort to protect the Iranians.
“Isreal?”
What are you talking about? I did not see an incorrect spelling of Israel in the article. One of us may be dyslexic, and I do not think it is I.
The error was corrected. What remains are the posts referring to the original mistake.
I think Obama’s views on Israel can be summed up by the words he spoke to Sarkozy in France, when Obama stated how much of a pain he thought Prime Minister Netanyahu was. A real friend of Israel would never had said those things. Even if he thought them, he would never had said them to anyone else, let alone if he knew there was a possibility of those words could be repeated in the international press.
And Obama has been literally falling over himself to try and suck up to every Muslim crackpot and radical in the world, from the Iranians to the Muslim Brotherhood. Obama is no friend of Israel. And before any trolls out there say “Then how come we still give so much in foreign aid to Israel,” save your breath. That money comes by way of Congress, NOT the president. Obama knows if he vetoed a bill that gave aid to Israel his support from Jews in American would end, and fast. Obama says stupid things, but he’s not THAT stupid. He will agree to pay the Israelis for their defense, but he doesn’t consider them friends and he sees them more as the problem in the Middle East rather than the solution.
How any Jews still vote for Obama is a mystery to me. When the chips are down, Obama won’t hesitate to throw Israel under the bus if he thought it would serve his purposes. Obama’s muted response to the Gaza boat flotilla incident should be ample proof of that. In that incident, Israel was the problem, not all the armed terrorists trying to run the blockade. Doesn’t sound like much of a friend in the White House, does it.
Libertyship46 – Very well said. I would just add the following to one of your comments: “Obama is no friend of Israel.” I would go further. Obama is no friend of America, and he seems to be no friend to our friends and no adversary to our adversaries; a truly weird POTUS.
As to your statement: “How any Jews still vote for Obama is a mystery to me.” Your not the only one to whom it’s a mystery. It’s a mystery to me as well.
“Obama knows if he vetoed a bill that gave aid to Israel his support from Jews in America would end.”
I disagree. Many (maybe even most) American Jews are leftist true believers who have very little intellectual basis for even calling themselves Jews. They could care less about Israel, and will whole heartedly support Obama, or any other leftist, regardless.
I think you are projecting too much political motivation on most Jews.
Most Jews, like most human beings of every type, are mainly interested in their own lives, their families, their jobs and their neighborhoods. They vote democratic because they want to fit in with their family, friends and neighbors, not out of any resolute ideology. If you were to query them in a serious way about political and economic policies, you would find mostly ignorance and annoyance at being questioned about topics they had little interest in discussing. Many commenters on PJ seem to believe that Jews are a unique group of people operating with some group motivation and master plan. What nonsense. These commenters are projecting their own anxiety and florid imagination on to Jews and can’t see them as simple human beings like anyone else.
Steve – I would tend to agree more with Secretive Oil Billionaire than with you. A majority of Jews in America have little to no ties to Judaism, and they are overwhelmingly Leftists. About the only place where some semblance of balance exists is in the Orthodox Jewish community. The Leftism of the majority, though, is not some evil plot. The anti-Semites of the past were called ‘Rightists’ even when they weren’t (as, for example, the Nazis, a point now well debunked by Jonah Goldberg). Thus anything Left is good, and anything Right is bad – that despite Franklin Roosevelt’s inaction to lift a finger to save European Jewry or counter Perfidious Albion’s 1939 white paper, despite Jimmy Carter’s blatant anti-Israeli positions and despite O’s treatment of Israel and its Prime Minister.
The secular jews in America are mostly sodomites and as long as obama gives into their purient urges he is alright with them sadly they could care less about the Hebrews and even helped with the floatella they didn’t care that Isrealie soilders would be killed either.They care about Gay marriage and getting things for free like healthcare and staying in power.I was stunned to hear that the secular jews were helping the terrorist in hamas too get guns to the Gaza strip.after all Obama has done to our friends in Isreal they will still vote for him a second time.Thank God the rest of the country cares about our friendship with the Hebrews and will not let him get a second term.Don’t feel to bad Obama Hates the Americans too after so many gave him a chance knowing what they knew about him and his wife.
There is absolutely nothing in Obama’s supposed background, education and community organizing that would suggest anything other than a dislike for Israel and a Radical Chic-style support for its enemies, such as the Muslim Brotherhood.
Of course he doesn’t. He is actively working with his koranimal kin to destroy Israel. And he’s using our money to do it.
You’ve got that right.
Washington DC has been crawling with Muslim Brotherhood moles for a VERY long time.
Obama care about Israel?? How funny. Obama cares about the Jewish vote and money in this country which for him is slowly evaporating.
This exclusion is nowhere in the MSM. This is purposeful and probably in line with the administration’s erroneous assumption that the west (including Israel)is the only possible colonialist. On the contrary, Islam is forcefully and viciously colonizing Africa and stealthfully colonizing Europe.
BHO is a marxist-muslim mole.As a mole he has to walk a fine line to reach his goals.He can temporarily accept the historic friendship of the american people and Israel , the strong suport of the Congress for Israel, but at the same times he will do his best to help the radical-extremist muslim brotherhood to seize power in Egypt or Lybia and he will let the radical ayatollahs inIran run to the end their nuclear program.Then he will be quite happy if at some point egypt turns more aggressive against Israel ( very soon the egyptian military will relinquish their power to the Muslim Brotherhood elected president ) and Hillary Clinton will approve because it is ” so democratic “.The same benevolent policy applies towards Teheran, which can get their nukes almost unhindered, while H.Clinton gnaws her teeths at the ” terrible sanctions” she is about to enacts.Since the Teheran regime has foreign reserves of one billion $ they can support quite easily those sanctions.So bottom line BHO and Clinton are just setting a smokescreen to conceal their benevolent acceptance of the Mideast radicalization while the worst ennemies of israel are sharpening their knives.That the american jews don’t get that is not a mistery, they are totally ignorant of the mideast, and they are miles away from understanding the true nature of BHO, as millions of americans still don’t see the radical mole behind the preacher’s speech.
Look at the bright side; the Israelis would be fools to give instruction and training to the very countries working for its destruction. I suspect that the Israelis have little to learn and much to teach in the sphere of counter-terrorism.
No and he does not give a s**t about America either but then Narcissists are incapable of caring about anything but acquiring more power for themselves.
I have to agree with Carla. The Israelis would be fools to teach the arabs how Israel goes about preventing and punishing terrorists. The US state department has routinely been screwed over by teaching Muslims how to fight and gives them advanced weaponry (see recent Turkish purchases).
The arabs may be learning from their mistakes. No one cared about airline hijacking when the victims were only Israelis. the uproar began when other nations became victims. Thus by decreasing terroist attacks against nonJews ( outside of Egypt, Iraq, lebanon and Syria) and redefining the term victim of terrorism to exclude Jewish casulties, they succeed in restoring terrorism as a useful tactic. This will make “international law” all the more irrelevant to Israelis. Afterall, if the law doesn’t protect them, why should they abide by it.
Does Obama care about Israel? NO! And even if he did, he would never do it publicly. If he did, he would lose the Muslim vote (both the legal and illegal). But by not supporting Israel, he keeps the Mussie vote and the Jews will vote for him anyway. Just like the blacks. He keeps kicking them in the crotch but they vote for him anyway. Since all he cares about is getting re-elected, why should he change.
I believe that Mr. Obama would like to see Israel continue to exist in the same way he would like, as a former Chicago resident, to see the White Sox win the World Series. (I just can’t see him as a Cubs fan.) It would be great if it happened but if it doesn’t, oh well. I don’t think it is fair to say that Obama is anti-Israel as much as he believes that Israel has no particularly special claims on American support. They are no different than, say, Taiwan. His view is that in both cases the majority population is composed of interlopers who were only able to establish their dominance with U.S. support against the will of the native population. Also, neither country provides the U.S. with anything concrete except idealogicial faction to a few of our more retrograde political elements.
The fact that both are functioning democracies surrounded (or threatened) by totalitarian regimes means little to the President. He does not view this as a principal important enough to defend. If Israel were “abolished” in some manner AND it could be done in such a way that he would forfeit the support of American Jews I believe that Mr. Obama would be saddened but not overly upset. Much as a White Sox failure to win the pennant it would be a case of “Oh Well – These things happen.”
Think about this:
What does Obama’s belief about personal enterprise imply about his feelings towards Jews?
‘You didn’t build that yourself’.
Well, Jews are pretty good at building success, in business, academia, whatever. and Israel has been pretty good about building itself as a nation.
Obama believes any benefit they have has perhaps not been earned. ‘Not been earned’ is almost the the same as benefiting in some dishonest way that requires a ‘corrective’. He means taxes of course, but when he looks at Jews and Israel in the aggregate, and sees success almost universally across the board; he sees people who have no right or at least less rights to what they have.
In the case of Israel, which he cannot tax, he perhaps has other plans for how to apply a corrective.
And because he cannot tax America for the benefit of the world, does he have other plans for how some sort of international ‘corrective’ can be applied?
Subordinating the USA to the UN, cutting her military down to size, beefing up opponents?
Anyhow, it is a mindset.
I report, you decide.
I’d imagine That unlike the writer of this article that Obama KNOWS that, as England also, America is the REAL “ISRAEL” by the seed of Joseph(Gen. 48:16, not Judah, only promised “grace”(Gen. 49:10). So Obama WANTS US DESTROYED EVEY BIT AS MUCH AS JUDAH! KENYA WAS NOT ABOUT HATE LIKE AMERICA IS “HATED” BY OBAMA! No? WATCH! P.S. Welcome to Adam’s world, especially AFTER CAIN WAS BORN! Just telling it like it is…
“Does Obama Actually Care About Israel’s Struggle to Survive?”
NO, NO, NO , NO AND NO , NO, NO , AND NO.
Really Anne Bayefsky, not a very intelligent question.
You knew the answer to this question back in 2008.
I sure did and I am no genius. .
JA, I’m pretty sure the question is rhetorical. It’s obvious by the content of the article that she believes the answer is “no.” But in a polite way, she is asking the question not of the POTUS but of the American Jewish Community, which needs to get engaged and see what is going on, and not just continue to stick with their left-leaning politics out of habit. At least that’s how I’m reading this.
There is unfortunately very little discussion on the difference between political Zionism and biblical Zionism. If we truly understood biblical Zionism, none of what is happening would be a surprise, and we would see the truth as revealed in the Nevi’im. Nothing new under the sun.
Obama cares as much about Jews & Israel as Mohammad did at Quarezah when he had 900 unarmed Jews decapitated..and we all know how much Obama and his Muslim friends revere Mohammad and every sociopathic murderer he commited!