“Them Jews aren’t going to let him talk to me. I told my baby daughter, that he’ll talk to me in five years when he’s a lame duck, or in eight years when he’s out of office…Allahpundit notes that Obama was a member of Wright's church for 20 years and had personal conversations with him. Even putting aside the gross anti-Semitism that Wright spews, it is likely that Obama picked up some of his simplistic worldview of the Middle East from Wright as well.
Wright also said Obama should have sent a U.S. delegation to the World Conference on Racism held recently in Geneva, Switzerland, but that the president did not do so for fear of offending Jews and Israel.
“Ethic cleansing is going on in Gaza. Ethnic cleansing of the Zionist is a sin and a crime against humanity, and they don’t want Barack talking like that because that’s anti-Israel,” Wright said.
Obama has framed Israel as a refuge for Jews from the Holocaust and persecution. That is what he said in an interview last year with Jeffrey Goldberg:
I know that that there are those who would argue that in some ways America has become a safe refuge for the Jewish people, but if you’ve gone through the Holocaust, then that does not offer the same sense of confidence and security as the idea that the Jewish people can take care of themselves no matter what happens. That makes it a fundamentally just idea. [emphasis added]And he said the same thing in his Cairo speech:
America's strong bonds with Israel are well known. This bond is unbreakable. It is based upon cultural and historical ties, and the recognition that the aspiration for a Jewish homeland is rooted in a tragic history that cannot be denied. [emphasis added]Obama--'the student of history'--is ignorant of history, and the fact that the re-establishment of the state of Israel is based on the historical ties of Jews to the land.
Obama's view of Israel is nothing but a sanitized version of what Wright believes--that Jews came to the land of Palestine to escape the Holocaust and usurped the Palestinian Arabs.
And this is the outlook is part of what informs his policy in the Middle East.
For all the praise for how smart Obama is, intelligence and political moxie are not a substitute for knowledge and sound judgment.
Crossposted on Soccer Dad
Crossposted on Soccer Dad
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2 comments:
not sure how sanitized Obama's version is. Yes, Obama's version of history is closer to the antiJew interpretation of Jewish land grabbing as a function of western imperialism and exists merely as an apology for the Shoah. This reasoning, at its core though is merely cover for the arabians for whom, Obama seems to be an advocate.
I noted that belief of Obama that of Israel as merely a refuge for the Jews in contrast to the G-d given inheritance that it is during the campaign. As a refuge, the borders are negotiable, being merely an over-sized DP camp. As a divinely given homeland, Israel is not negotiable. Thus, the Obama designs on Israel will ultimately fail.
Meanwhile, Wright may have sown the seeds that could frame the future debate and the integrity of the president to engage in it.
Wright Warns Obama to be Himself
I'm afraid to say that I have to agree with rev. Wright in this instance. Gaza is certainly ethnically cleansed - but not in the way he probably intended.
There was a thriving Jewish community in the Gaza strip - until the Sharon government "ethnically cleansed" the strip of all Jews. Now, there is only one Jew left in the strip. Want to know who?
Gilad Shalit was forcibly captured in an illegal, unprovoked cross-border raid three years ago. He is now the only Jew left in the Gaza Strip. It seems that Hamas did not like the idea of an area completely Judenrein, and so decided to do something about it.
J.
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