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2010-04-14 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

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Posted by Phinter Ebbising2041 2010-04-14 02:26|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top

#1 Behold! The Jewish awakening.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-04-14 08:02|| 2010-04-14 08:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Who needs Israel when we can have good, trustworthy friends like the Palestinians, Syrians, and (if we're really nice) Iranians. We've already mended our evil ways and made nice with Venezuela, Russia, and China. It is easier, after all, to join the axis of evil rather than spend all of the time and effort fighting them, right?

Posted by Keeney 2010-04-14 09:38|| 2010-04-14 09:38|| Front Page Top

#3 Koch thought Obama would be good for Israel. He confesses error here.

But oddly he chose Huffpo to do so. Koch might not not have realized that the majority of Huffpo commentators are anti Israel. Time for another confession.

Posted by lord garth 2010-04-14 10:02|| 2010-04-14 10:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Koch thought Obama would be good for Israel.

A lot of people really need to be reminded how bloody stupid they were to believe the media hype about Obama, The Democrats, and the whole Left. The Left only succeeds at all because it has so much influence over the media. (Mediums which it generally kills over time.)

Posted by Bulldog 2010-04-14 12:57|| 2010-04-14 12:57|| Front Page Top

#5 #$@*
Nope. Koch isn't that dumb. Wright? Samantha Power?
Nope. Koch knew Obama would be an enemy of Israel long ago.
Question is what was in it for him to pretend otherwise? Until it was too late.
"Oh, dearie me. I was misled. Whatever shall I do?"
Not buying it.
Want to know who bought Koch and for how much.

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2010-04-14 13:52|| 2010-04-14 13:52|| Front Page Top

#6 Well, 78% of the Jewish voters bought the Obama deal too.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-04-14 15:53|| 2010-04-14 15:53|| Front Page Top

#7 I must admit there is some irony in this situation where folks who voted for Obama are disappointed in his predeictable behavior. My question would be to American Jewish voters who supported Obama: What did you really expected from a person who had no track record of supporting Israel or backing any initatives against unruly Arab states?

But don't feel bad Jewish supporters of Obamam eventually most supporters will be disappointed; the question will then be 'how bad will America (and Israel) be damage as Obama is eventually pushed from office?'

My advice is to join the Tea Party.

Posted by airandee 2010-04-14 18:52|| 2010-04-14 18:52|| Front Page Top

#8 JohnQC.
Yeah, 78% did. But most of them were dumb enough, or self-deluded enough, to actually believe.
Koch is/was neither.
He did this with his eyes open.
My question is how much it cost to buy him.

For most of the 78%, I expect, voting against whatever they think conservative Christians want is good enough.

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2010-04-14 19:22|| 2010-04-14 19:22|| Front Page Top

#9 President Reaqan did about the best of modern day conservative presidents with the Jewish vote: link Presidential Voting Patterns There seems to be a historic progressive/liberal tendency with American Jewish voters. During Lincoln's time, they tended towards him with greater numbers. Maybe this will be the year the trend deviates. I don't know why Koch has come out against BO; lately he has been writing articles which go against BO's policies and directions. That is a good thing. Maybe they realize the harm that can come to the country fromm this embracing of way left policies.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-04-14 20:01|| 2010-04-14 20:01|| Front Page Top

#10 I don't know why Koch has come out against BO

It seems the last straw for the mayor was the treatment of Prime Minister Netanyahu: first the lambasting by Secretary of State Clinton followed by the dinner he wasn't invited to. Mayor Koch's first editorial in the Huffington Post was printed a few days after that dinner.

Then there's this, at the top of Drudge tonight and the New York Times front page tomorrow:

Obama administration says support of Israel to be 'balanced against other interests'...

Posted by trailing wife 2010-04-14 23:05|| 2010-04-14 23:05|| Front Page Top

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