Continuing his spiteful campaign against Israel’s prime minister, our slickster-in-chief was pandering to a liberal Jewish crowd last week in Washington D.C.. Speaking to the Adas Israel Congregation ~
Making references to Ramallah in one breath and Selma in the next, and sketching an ethical map that made the civil-rights movement and Palestinian nationalism interchangeable, the president implied that support for Netanyahu’s policies was tantamount to rejecting the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr..
It was Chemi Shalev, the U.S. editor of Haaretz, who best captured the essence of Obama’s May 22 message: “I represent your core values far better than the elected leader of Israel.”
Obama subtly implied…
… that many Jews – that is, Jews who support Benjamin Netanyahu – have indeed placed their narrow, ethnic interests above their commitment to universal humanistic values. In his view, they have betrayed those values. And so the warning was faint, but unmistakable: if Jews wish to avoid being branded as bigots, then they—you—must line up with him against Netanyahu.
Writing at the American Spectator, Aaron Goldstein sums up the Adas Israel event nicely ~
President Obama’s speech to the Adas Israel Congregation must be seen for what it is. A cynical means by which to make nice with the American Jewish community which although still solidly Democratic has become increasingly alienated from the Obama Administration due to its anti-Israel posture. Obama is recycling old rhetoric to make false claims about Iran, anti-Semitism, draw false equivalencies and, above all else, is unwilling to recognize the genocidal aims and objectives of the Palestinian body politic against Israel and Jews around the world.
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Related:
A Letter to My Liberal Jewish Friends ~ The president’s address last week to Congregation Adas Israel as “an honorary member of the tribe” was something other than it seemed.
Five Observations of Obama’s Speech to the Adas Israel Congregation
Israel survives – DESPITE its elite lefties
American Jews: The Last Leftist Jews in the World ~ Daniel Greenfield – incidentally Jewish himself – on the tenacious liberalism of U.S. Jews ~
When the parties of the left in the UK, Canada and Australia tilted against Israel, Jewish voters left them. It’s only in the US that Jewish liberals pathetically cling to the raddled corpse of the Democratic Party. They continue to cling to it despite Jimmy Carter, who has done everything but don a Hamas headband, and Obama.
American liberal Jews are swiftly becoming the last of their kind. Israel doesn’t need to adapt to them. They have a choice between joining their Jewish brothers and sisters or going down with a suicidal left-wing ideology that cannot offer them any sort of future, national, ethnic or religious.
The Jews of the world have made their choice. It’s up to American Jews to save their own future.
