Obama, Israel and Jews

Obama proclaimed that the U.S. will "forge partnerships as opposed to simply dictating solutions," in a statement to the G-20 summit. Obama told al-Arabiya, America will henceforth "start by listening, because all too often the United States starts by dictating." This has been Obama's approach to Iran, Russia, Cuba, Syria, Hamas dominated Gaza and Venezuela. On the other, Obama's claim of an "unbreakable bond" with Israel comes with DICTATING that Israel freeze all settlement activity.

Obama, in his speech at Cairo U., compared the suffering of the Palestinians to that of the Jews during the Holocaust. This comparison is lunacy, approaching that of the Holocaust deniers. Obama failed to mention in Cairo that any suffering the Arabs have endured was brought upon themselves by not accepting the new State of Israel, declaring war on Israel and to this day not accepting the right of Israel to exist.

Obama's mentor, close personal friend and minister of 20 years, just last week, declared: "Them Jews ain't going to let him (Obama) talk to me". Only the most naive could think that Obama never heard such anti-Semitic sentiments from the mentor Wright over the course of 20 years or that having stuck by Wright for 20 years until it wasn't politically expedient, that Obama doesn't share some of Wright's sentiments.

Obama has warned Israel not to take unilateral action against Iran's nuclear development capability. Of course, it is not the U.S. that has been threatened to be wiped off the face of the Earth by Ahmadinejad. No prior U.S, president has taken such a hard line against Israel taking preemptive measures to defend itself.

Obama appointed former advisor and colleague Susan Rice as U.S. Ambassador to the United nations. Rice's anti-Israel ranting are well documented and can be found on the internet. Her position has been that Israel should be a non-Jewish state.

Obama appointed former advisor and colleague Samantha Power as a member of the National Security Council. Power has a long record of dislike for Israel. In one interview at Berkeley, Power suggested that the U.S. needs to have a major military presence in Palestine to protect the Palestinians from genocide by Israel and might have to intervene militarily by invading Israel.

The warning signs of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish sentiments by Obama were there well before the election with his long term realtioshipswith Rice, Power, Wright, Louis Farrakhan, and pro-Palestian-terrorism fund raiser Rashid Khalidi. Many chose to stick their heads in the sand before the election with respect to these relationships.