Democrats should press Obama -Jonathan Tobin
Obama is proud of quarreling with Israel. Indeed, he asserts that his hammering of Israel is merely "honest talk" that should be interpreted as the highest form of friendship.
Though Obama speaks to Jewish groups of equal pressure on the Arabs, everything that the administration has done and said in its short time in office makes it clear that the president's sole target is the government in Jerusalem, not the terrorists running Gaza or the corrupt Fatah functionaries in Ramallah.
[T]he passive response from Jewish leaders to the downgrading of the alliance with Israel cannot be denied.
[T]he overwhelming majority of American Jews who voted for Obama last year did not back him because they anticipated that he would pick pointless fights with Israel to advance a peace process that Palestinians scorn. Most did so because they are partisan Democrats and share his views on domestic issues. But there is no way that he would have won as much as three-quarters of the Jewish vote had not most believed him when he claimed he was a supporter of Israel.
[S]ome of those who vouched for Obama during last year's campaign have said that the president's offenses are not yet egregious enough to warrant a rebuke. Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz, a man whose long and honorable record of support for Israel is beyond question, attempted to defend Obama's positions in a recent op-ed in The Wall Street Journal.
The question remains what will be the tipping point for Jewish Democrats at which it will be impossible for them to go on pretending that they did not elect [a] president hostile to Israel?
If the current trend continues without a strong negative reaction from Jewish Democrats who raised money for Obama and voted for him, then we are entitled to ask why they are either silent or rationalizing a policy that they know is wrong.
[Jerusalem Post]
[Please consider emailing President Obama at President@WhiteHouse.gov or use the web form at http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact]
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Obama is proud of quarreling with Israel. Indeed, he asserts that his hammering of Israel is merely "honest talk" that should be interpreted as the highest form of friendship.
Though Obama speaks to Jewish groups of equal pressure on the Arabs, everything that the administration has done and said in its short time in office makes it clear that the president's sole target is the government in Jerusalem, not the terrorists running Gaza or the corrupt Fatah functionaries in Ramallah.
[T]he passive response from Jewish leaders to the downgrading of the alliance with Israel cannot be denied.
[T]he overwhelming majority of American Jews who voted for Obama last year did not back him because they anticipated that he would pick pointless fights with Israel to advance a peace process that Palestinians scorn. Most did so because they are partisan Democrats and share his views on domestic issues. But there is no way that he would have won as much as three-quarters of the Jewish vote had not most believed him when he claimed he was a supporter of Israel.
[S]ome of those who vouched for Obama during last year's campaign have said that the president's offenses are not yet egregious enough to warrant a rebuke. Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz, a man whose long and honorable record of support for Israel is beyond question, attempted to defend Obama's positions in a recent op-ed in The Wall Street Journal.
The question remains what will be the tipping point for Jewish Democrats at which it will be impossible for them to go on pretending that they did not elect [a] president hostile to Israel?
If the current trend continues without a strong negative reaction from Jewish Democrats who raised money for Obama and voted for him, then we are entitled to ask why they are either silent or rationalizing a policy that they know is wrong.
[Jerusalem Post]
[Please consider emailing President Obama at President@WhiteHouse.gov or use the web form at http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact]
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