Tuesday, March 06, 2012

Does Barack "have Israel's back"?

Did the MSM vet him on this yet? Ha:
Consider Peter Beinart, the one-time Iraq War advocate who has reinvented himself as a liberal scourge of present-day Israel and mainstream Zionism. Mr. Beinart has a book coming out next month called "The Crisis of Zionism." Chapter five, on "The Jewish President," fully justifies the cover price. Mr. Beinart's case is that Mr. Obama came to his views about Israel not so much from people like his friend Rashid Khalidi or his pastor Jeremiah Wright. Instead, says Mr. Beinart, Mr. Obama got his education about Israel from a coterie of far-left Chicago Jews who "bred in Obama a specific, and subversive, vision of American Jewish identity and of the Jewish state." At the center of this coterie, Mr. Beinart explains, was a Chicago rabbi named Arnold Jacob Wolf. In 1969, Wolf staged a synagogue protest in favor of Black Panther Bobby Seale. In the early 1970s, he founded an organization that met with Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization—this being some 20 years before Arafat officially renounced terrorism. In the early 1990s, Wolf denounced the construction of the Holocaust Museum in Washington.
Not exactly a mainstream kind of guy. Then there's David Axelrod.

And there's more where that came from.

It was a chilling moment last night when Prime Minister Netanyahu (25:00 on) read a letter from WWII--when the US acted too late to avert the Holocaust.

What will this president do in a second term?

More. Obama: Having Israel’s Back ‘Not a Military Doctrine . . . for Any Particular Military Action’
And Bill Kristol.

Our own:
Bibi Netanyahu honors Mark Kirk


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