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| 2010-06-17 | |
| In another affront to a key ally, the White House reportedly doesn't buy Israel's story over the Gaza flotilla flap and supports a U.N. probe of its actions. Helen Thomas would be proud. According to the Weekly Standard, the investigation will be "one-sided, focusing entirely on Israeli behavior and not on Turkey or Hamas" -- despite overwhelming evidence that the terrorist group planned to assault Israeli forces. It has become increasingly clear that this administration is appeasing the Muslim world at the expense of Israel, a strategic partner in the Middle East at a time when Iran threatens the world with nukes. Where does this reckless new anti-Israel policy come from? The Israeli press blames the president's own personal bias. Citing recent remarks by a top Egyptian official, it's convinced that President Obama is a closet Muslim secretly furthering the agenda of the Palestinians and other Arabs. "The American president told me in confidence that he is a Muslim," Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said after a recent one-on-one meeting with Obama. He made the remarks on Nile TV. It was from Egypt that Obama made his famous "olive branch" speech to the Muslim world essentially apologizing for the War on Terror. While Obama's father and stepfather were Muslim, and he himself studied Islam as a child in Indonesia, there's no evidence that the president practices Islam. As far as we know, he doesn't pray five times a day or observe other Islamic rituals. But Obama, who speaks some Arabic,
This may explain in part why Obama has expressed sympathy with the widely held Muslim belief that American foreign policy -- expressly its partnership with Israel -- is largely to blame for anti-American terrorism. But it was at the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago that his political views on Israel likely cemented. His old church called for a South African-style boycott of Israel for its "apartheid" against Palestinians while Obama sat in its pews for some 20 years. Trinity also sang the praises of Hamas, even reprinting the group's terrorist manifesto in its church bulletin. Written by Hamas deputy chief Mousa Abu Marzook, a fugitive terrorist, the letter was featured on the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's "Pastors Page" under the title "A Fresh View of the Palestinian Struggle." Wright, a one-time member of the Nation of Islam, gave Jew-bashing sermons while mentoring Obama. He once joined Louis Farrakhan on a trip to Libya to pay homage to Moammar Gadhafi. In 1995, Obama joined Wright in Farrakhan's Million Man March. In 2008, Wright honored the Farrakhan as a hero on the cover of his church magazine, a publication the Obamas presumably received. Both Islamism and the radical "Black Liberation Theology" Wright preached reject the Jews as God's chosen people. No media have dared ask what Obama believes, though his church had a role in shaping his views -- and those views are now shaping U.S. foreign policy. "Obama and many of his advisers reject the idea that Islamist ideology is fundamentally opposed to Western civilization, mainstream among the world's Muslims, and the root cause of our problems," said former federal terrorist prosecutor Andrew McCarthy, author of the new best-seller "The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America." "They come from the point of view that American policy is the root cause," he added, "especially our tilt in favor of Israel." Now they're tilting in the opposite direction, a shift that could embolden the terrorists and alienate a strong strategic ally in our fight against them. | |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #6 Behind the White House's anti-Israel agenda Simple really, Obama hates Jews. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2010-06-17 20:37 |
| #5 The Israeli press blames the president's own personal bias. Citing recent remarks by a top Egyptian official, it's convinced that President Obama is a closet Mulsim secretly furthering the agenda of the Palestinians and other Arabs. Under the O...BINGO |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-06-17 16:47 |
| #4 This should help in November |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2010-06-17 14:01 |
| #3 Bambi won't resign - Michelle won't let him. She like being queen too much. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-06-17 13:26 |
| #2 whatadeal , you're a fool wagging your finger at the truly evil will only result in a severed hand. Obama won't resign, that requires a concience, he has none. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-06-17 13:08 |
| #1 It is time for Obama to resign. |
| Posted by: whatadeal 2010-06-17 12:04 |