March 4, 2012 - 5:32 am
The truth about Obama and Israel is explored in a new half hour film – “Daylight: The Story of Obama and Israel” – released just before the start of the annual meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in DC. I am sitting in the press section of AIPAC, watching the film, waiting for the festivities to start. It’s well done – and scary.
BTW, Obama was originally scheduled to speak at 9:30AM but has pushed back to 11:00 after Shimon Peres. Meanwhile, Obama and Netanyahu are supposed to be meeting on Iran BEFORE the President’s speech here. Draw your own conclusions. But first watch the film.
Also covering what seems as if it may be the most fateful AIPAC for PJM – Bridget Johnson, Allis and Ron Radosh
Could you ever envision an Israeli leader, Liberal or Conservative EVER doing such a thing?
Neither can I..
An interesting film with one curious omission. Shortly after entering office, Obama made clear he did not consider the Bush-Sharon understandings – confirmed in an exchange of letters and reaffirmed by the US Senate – to be binding. That lead many to wonder if Israel could (or should) rely on a Presidential commitment, especially one that might have to extend beyond that President’s term. But more than that, it telegraphed – and not just to Israel – that a “binding commitment” by a US President wasn’t worth much if it could later be termed “non-binding”. So much for US credibility.
Of course, many Israelis alive today recall how the US in May of 1967 failed to fulfill a commitment made 10 years earlier to defend the right of Israeli passage through the Straits of Tiran – part of the deal to get Israel to withdraw from the Sinai. Abandoned by the US, Israel went to war shortly thereafter.
Obama is very bad at hiding his emotion when it comes to people who defy his authority. If he and Netanyahu are meeting before AIPAC and it’s basically an Obama warning to Bibi about doing anything to Iran, followed by the Israeli PM basically telling him to pound sand, you shouldn’t have much problem detecting the president’s peevishness when he speaks to the group later.
and we read today, the latest poll by the Dahaf Institute (Israel) that over 30% of Israelis prefer the O to any Republican candidate??!!
Yes, the poll says 30% prefer obama. Translated to english that says ~70% prefer someone else, probably anyone, over Obama.
Don’t forget that 20% of Israelis are Muslim and others.
Polls can be deceiving if you don’t exactly know who was polled
or how the question was asked.
@ thom
Out of it would be a matter if interest to know what percentage of Israel’s population is Arab. Could it be close to 30%?