Obama Prostrate before Israel
In a televised interview with an Israeli network given by the White House on 10 July of this year, President Obama and his advisers strove to provide an intimate atmosphere for the correspondent and her accompanying television crew.
The interview took place in the residential wing of the White House, normally closed to outsiders. In it, Obama responded honestly to all questions, including those dealing with personal and sensitive topics such as his skin color and his private life.
Among his most notable remarks was his belief that the name of his father, Hussein, makes Israelis uneasy. Addressing this perception, he explained defensively that his chief of staff, Rahm Emmanuel, is Jewish and his political advisor is the son of a Jewish American who is also a Holocaust survivor. Obama expressed his sympathy with Jewish “suffering” and the idea that there are shared roots between the African American freedom movement and the civil rights activism of Jewish Americans, and that the underpinnings of civil rights activism are somehow “the same impulses that led to the creation of Israel”! He affirmed his special relationship with Israel and said that throughout his term as president, the United States has presented Israel with more security support and cooperation than during any previous presidential administration. He emphasized that the threat of Iran developing a nuclear weapon has been among his top foreign policy priorities through his first eighteen months in office. Furthermore, he justified Israeli savagery in Lebanon and Gaza, claiming that when Israel offers concessions to arrive at a desirable peace, it is pelted with rockets from the Gaza Strip and some regions of Lebanon. Obama said that his initiative to engage the Muslims of the world in a respectful way, including the addresses he gave in Cairo and Ankara, bears a message whose import includes reducing the amount of danger and lessening the enmity of the Islamic world toward Israel and the West.
Obama lauded Benjamin Netanyahu, saying that he considers him to be wise. He even said that Netanyahu being on the extreme right will somehow prove to be a helpful factor for the acceptance of new ideas. Obama gave expression to his belief that there is a chance to achieve peace in the Middle East during his presidential term, which ends in 2013. In the same vein, he described Netanyahu when he welcomed him to the White House on 15 July* as a man of peace!
Leave aside any electoral factors facing Obama, there are two realities that one must scrutinize in order to comprehend Obama’s attitude.
The first is his extreme deception. Obama speaks to our people in the same manner as a mother rocking her baby to sleep sings “mama’s gonna buy you a mockingbird.” Then he turns to Israel and tells them, “Don’t worry about your mockingbird. I was just lying to my bratty kid so that he would shut up and sleep.”
The second reality is that Obama represents only the monetary power that helped to put him into the Oval Office.
When Obama took the oath of office saying “I, Barack Hussein Obama … ” many of our people, unlike the Israelis Obama mentioned in the interview, cheered for the word “Hussein.” Some of our people were completely carried away by their delusions that the grandeur of the American presidency somehow reflected upon them in that moment. One might compare them to people lusting after sweets who end up drowning in their own saliva.
Obama has undertaken the re-invasion of Afghanistan and decided to continue the barbarism of the invasion of Iraq. His policy on the blockade of Gaza varies between outright endorsement and turning a blind eye to it. Always apparent is his willingness to starve the people of Gaza and to go along with the destruction of their schools, hospitals, and houses of worship. Obama continues to stand on the sidelines as Israel tries to swallow up Jerusalem through a policy of Judaization: expanding settlements, establishing blockades, forcing migration and emigration, and many other examples of oppression and humiliation. When our young people remember that Israel is the forward operating base protecting Western interests, they will have realized that Obama is nothing more a rerun of George W. Bush.
*EDITOR'S NOTE: The actual date of Netanyahu's visit to the White House was 6 July 2010.
The interview took place in the residential wing of the White House, normally closed to outsiders. In it, Obama responded honestly to all questions, including those dealing with personal and sensitive topics such as his skin color and his private life.
Among his most notable remarks was his belief that the name of his father, Hussein, makes Israelis uneasy. Addressing this perception, he explained defensively that his chief of staff, Rahm Emmanuel, is Jewish and his political advisor is the son of a Jewish American who is also a Holocaust survivor. Obama expressed his sympathy with Jewish “suffering” and the idea that there are shared roots between the African American freedom movement and the civil rights activism of Jewish Americans, and that the underpinnings of civil rights activism are somehow “the same impulses that led to the creation of Israel”! He affirmed his special relationship with Israel and said that throughout his term as president, the United States has presented Israel with more security support and cooperation than during any previous presidential administration. He emphasized that the threat of Iran developing a nuclear weapon has been among his top foreign policy priorities through his first eighteen months in office. Furthermore, he justified Israeli savagery in Lebanon and Gaza, claiming that when Israel offers concessions to arrive at a desirable peace, it is pelted with rockets from the Gaza Strip and some regions of Lebanon. Obama said that his initiative to engage the Muslims of the world in a respectful way, including the addresses he gave in Cairo and Ankara, bears a message whose import includes reducing the amount of danger and lessening the enmity of the Islamic world toward Israel and the West.
Obama lauded Benjamin Netanyahu, saying that he considers him to be wise. He even said that Netanyahu being on the extreme right will somehow prove to be a helpful factor for the acceptance of new ideas. Obama gave expression to his belief that there is a chance to achieve peace in the Middle East during his presidential term, which ends in 2013. In the same vein, he described Netanyahu when he welcomed him to the White House on 15 July* as a man of peace!
Leave aside any electoral factors facing Obama, there are two realities that one must scrutinize in order to comprehend Obama’s attitude.
The first is his extreme deception. Obama speaks to our people in the same manner as a mother rocking her baby to sleep sings “mama’s gonna buy you a mockingbird.” Then he turns to Israel and tells them, “Don’t worry about your mockingbird. I was just lying to my bratty kid so that he would shut up and sleep.”
The second reality is that Obama represents only the monetary power that helped to put him into the Oval Office.
When Obama took the oath of office saying “I, Barack Hussein Obama … ” many of our people, unlike the Israelis Obama mentioned in the interview, cheered for the word “Hussein.” Some of our people were completely carried away by their delusions that the grandeur of the American presidency somehow reflected upon them in that moment. One might compare them to people lusting after sweets who end up drowning in their own saliva.
Obama has undertaken the re-invasion of Afghanistan and decided to continue the barbarism of the invasion of Iraq. His policy on the blockade of Gaza varies between outright endorsement and turning a blind eye to it. Always apparent is his willingness to starve the people of Gaza and to go along with the destruction of their schools, hospitals, and houses of worship. Obama continues to stand on the sidelines as Israel tries to swallow up Jerusalem through a policy of Judaization: expanding settlements, establishing blockades, forcing migration and emigration, and many other examples of oppression and humiliation. When our young people remember that Israel is the forward operating base protecting Western interests, they will have realized that Obama is nothing more a rerun of George W. Bush.
*EDITOR'S NOTE: The actual date of Netanyahu's visit to the White House was 6 July 2010.