Before Netanyahu vs. Obama There Was Netanyahu vs FDR

US bipartisan support for Israel -- when and how did that start?

Apparently, the birth of that bipartisan support for Israel came about during the term of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, despite FDR's antagonism towards Zionism.

FDR. Photo by Leon A. Perski, 1944.
Source: Wikipedia

And a lot of the credit seems to be due to Netanyahu.

Why FDR Wrote: "We the American Holy Warriors have arrived...to fight the great Jihad of Freedom"

That's right: Franklin Delano Roosevelt wrote those words -- not Barack Obama.
Decades before JFK spoke to Germany in German, Roosevelt did something similar during WWII.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressing Americans during
fireside chat. He also addressed the Muslim world in an
Arabic letter. Government photo.

Daniel Pipes writes that in October 1942, FDR Addresses the Arabs, sending an appeal in Arabic to the Muslim world in Arabic. The British forces had just succeeded in stopping Hitler's Afrika Korps, giving the Allies hope that they could successfully keep Germany out of the Middle East. In an effort to take advantage of this and win Muslim favor, Roosevelt sent the following message:

New Debate of Fate of The St. Louis During Holocaust and the Effort to Redeem Roosevelt's Image

According to the Amazon description of the book FDR and the Jews:

Nearly seventy-five years after World War II, a contentious debate lingers over whether Franklin Delano Roosevelt turned his back on the Jews of Hitler’s Europe. Defenders claim that FDR saved millions of potential victims by defeating Nazi Germany. Others revile him as morally indifferent and indict him for keeping America’s gates closed to Jewish refugees and failing to bomb Auschwitz’s gas chambers.

New Book "FDR and the Holocaust: A Breach of Faith" Exposes Roosevelt's Antisemitism

For Immediate Release February 25, 2013

BOOK SHEDS NEW LIGHT ON FDR'S OPINIONS ABOUT JEWS & HOLOCAUST Revered President Sought to "Limit Jews in Professions" and  "Spread Them Thin All Over the World" *** REVIEW GALLEYS AVAILABLE ON REQUEST *** WASHINGTON D.C. - President Franklin D. Roosevelt privately wanted to restrict the number of Jews entering some professions and universities, and believed Jews should be "spread thin all over the world," according to documents uncovered by a veteran Holocaust scholar and published in a new book being released on March 5, 2013. The book, FDR and The Holocaust: A Breach of Faith, by Dr. Rafael Medoff, will be published by the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, based in Washington, D.C.  Dr. Medoff, the founding director of the Wyman Institute, is the author of 14 previous books on the Holocaust, Jewish history, and Zionism.

The following by Rafael Medoff is reposted here with permission:

George McGovern,
A Pacifist Who Wanted to Bomb Auschwitz

by Rafael Medoff

REMEMBRANCE

George McGovern receives Distinguished
Flying Cross in 1944. (AP Photo/McGovern
Family)

WASHINGTON (JTA) -- George McGovern is widely remembered for advocating immediate American withdrawal from Vietnam and sharp reductions in defense spending. Yet despite his reputation as a pacifist, the former U.S. senator and 1972 presidential candidate, who died Sunday at 90, did believe there were times when America should use military force abroad.

Case in point: the Allies' failure to bomb Auschwitz, an episode with which McGovern had a little-known personal connection.

In June 1944, the Roosevelt administration received a detailed report about Auschwitz from two escapees who described the mass-murder process and drew diagrams pinpointing the gas chambers and crematoria. Jewish organizations repeatedly asked U.S. officials to order the bombing of Auschwitz and the railroad lines leading to the camp. The proposal was rejected on the grounds that it would require “considerable diversion” of planes that were needed elsewhere for the war effort. One U.S. official claimed that bombing Auschwitz "might provoke even more vindictive action by the Germans."

Enter McGovern. In World War II, the 22-year-old son of a South Dakota pastor piloted a B-24 "Liberator" bomber. Among his targets: German synthetic oil factories in occupied Poland -- some of them less than five miles from the Auschwitz gas chambers.