Marty Peretz worries, “Maybe I’m Getting Paranoid … About Obama”:
I’ve just read the transcript of the president’s remarks about Haiti, the ones he made on January 15. He noted that, in addition to assistance from the United States, significant aid had also come from “Brazil, Mexico, Canada, France, Colombia, and the Dominican Republic, among others.” Am I missing another country that truly weighed in with truly consequential assistance? Ah, yes. There it is. Right there “among others.” Yes, the country to which I refer is “among others,” that one.
The fact is that, next to our country, Israel sent the largest contingent of trained rescue workers, doctors, and other medical personnel. The Israeli field hospital was the only one on the ground that could perform real surgery, which it did literally hundreds of times, while delivering–as of last week–at least 16 babies, including one premature infant and three caesarians. The first 250-odd Israelis were real professionals, and they were supplemented by others, also professionals. And to these can be added the many organized Jews from the Diaspora who, in solidarity with Israel, also went on a work pilgrimage, an aliyah, in solidarity with Haiti.
It’s not that Israeli participation in the Haiti horror was being kept secret. I myself saw it reported several times on television—on ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN.
So didn’t Obama notice? For God’s sake, everybody noticed the deep Israeli involvement. I understand that Obama doesn’t like Middle East narratives that do not contain “one side and the other side” equal valence. But he couldn’t have that here. The Arabs don’t care a fig, not for their impoverished and backward own, and certainly not for strangers. That’s why their presence in Haiti amounted to a couple of bucks from Saudi Arabia and maybe from some other sheikhs.
Meanwhile, regarding a more pressing issue that also emanates primarily from the Middle East, Jonah Goldberg posits that “it’s time for Obama to look at terrorism differently.”
Call me cynical, but such a course correction might just require more than 50 minutes to accomplish.
Related: While Peretz worries about The One’s take on Israel, the Anchoress asks, “What Does Obama Like About America?” And Fausta Wertz boils the argument down to its essential question.
Obama’s anti-Semitism has its roots in his Marxist upbringing.
Democrats have the same ugly root the Stalinists and Nazis did when it comes to that.
So it’s not just Israel. That’s a front, like the use of the word “Zionism.”
When Democrats use these terms, they’re just trying not to admit they hate Jews.
A worthy link to add is this from ‘American Thinker’, about American Jews starting to flee the Democratic party, thank God, and about FREEKING time!
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/01/jews_leaving_dems_adls_foxman.html
To be blunt, and I know it’s touchy, but I remain pretty severely ticked at the American Jewish community’s relentless and just plain stupidly blind liberalism. I am particularily disinclined to forget how they treated George W. Bush, of whom the state of Israel has never, and I mean NEVER, and I MEAN NEV-ER!!!!!! had a greater friend in the White House.
Did I say NEVER??
And he got spat in the eye for it by 75% of American Jews, that number being the numbers voted by American Jews for both Kerry and Bush. And the seething hostility of virtually every one that I personally talked politics with was frankly obscene.
I went to anti-Bush, anti-war demos in DC (just to check ‘em out) and the anti-semitism on display was stunning…. stunning. And American Jews, philosophically and literally, marched hand in hand with them. Again and again.
Given the 46% that voted for McCain, and the emourmous cultural and financial power involved, it is not too much to say that the American Jewish community gave us Mr. Obama, or at least gave us fertile gound in which his votes would grow.
And now they recoil in horror from Barack Hussein Obama’s obvious hostility to Israel, while the right continues to back that gallant outpost of civilization to the hilt, as they have been for decades.
Yeah, I have some issues. I’ll get over it. But frankly, we on the right are owed an apology by American Jews….. Big Time.
D’OH!!!
“…75% of American Jews, that number being the numbers voted by American Jews for both Kerry and Obama….”
@Andrew X: As a Jew who recognized that George Bush was one of the staunchest friends Israel has ever had, and that Obama was likely to be only a lukewarm friend when it served his own selfish purpose, I warned my family and my liberal Jewish friends to beware of trusting Obama to stand behind America’s long-held policy of promoting democracy and opposing religious and ethnic terrorism in the Middle East. To no avail. Now, of course, many of them tell me of their regret for having voted for Obama. Voter’s remorse, what good is it? In return, what I do is repeat to them the old saying, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” Perhaps the lesson will sink in.