[D]uring the campaign [for President, the] Los Angeles Times wrote: “Even as he won support in Chicago’s Palestinian community, Obama tried to forge ties with advocates for Israel. In 2000, he submitted a policy paper to CityPAC, a pro-Israel political action committee, that among other things supported a unified Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, a position far out of step from that of his Palestinian friends." 
The PAC concluded that Obama’s position paper “suggests he is strongly pro-Israel on all of the major issues.” Obama’s campaign volunteers within Jewish organizations and the Jewish media pointed to such endorsements such to assuage Jewish fears about Obama.
Now Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, [is] summoned to the State Department to be scolded because Jews were building a house in Jerusalem.
Obama’s supporters often said “Bush lied.”
Did Obama lie? When he was telling Jewish audiences for the better part of seven years that he believed in a united Israeli Jerusalem, did he mean it?
The PAC concluded that Obama’s position paper “suggests he is strongly pro-Israel on all of the major issues.” Obama’s campaign volunteers within Jewish organizations and the Jewish media pointed to such endorsements such to assuage Jewish fears about Obama.
Now Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, [is] summoned to the State Department to be scolded because Jews were building a house in Jerusalem.
Obama’s supporters often said “Bush lied.”
Did Obama lie? When he was telling Jewish audiences for the better part of seven years that he believed in a united Israeli Jerusalem, did he mean it?
Either he was telling lies to the Jewish PACS or he was telling lies to American Palestinians. And most Jewish journalists and most Jewish leaders were OK with that. They wanted him to win anyway.
They exerted [no] energy examining and publicizing Obama’s habit of saying one thing to Zionists and another thing to anti-Zionists, such as his friends at Electronic Intifada.
Now that he’s president he’s finally being upfront. Most Israelis don’t like it. Most American Jews don’t care.
The writer is Associate Editor of The Jewish Week, a New York newspaper.
They exerted [no] energy examining and publicizing Obama’s habit of saying one thing to Zionists and another thing to anti-Zionists, such as his friends at Electronic Intifada.
Now that he’s president he’s finally being upfront. Most Israelis don’t like it. Most American Jews don’t care.
The writer is Associate Editor of The Jewish Week, a New York newspaper.
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