Posted on 04/01/2010 9:49:09 AM PDT by Nachum
I would readily forgo the White House Manischewitz in exchange for an end to the bitter herbs he is dishing out to Israel.
This Monday, President Barack Obama hosted his second White House Seder. As a Jewish American I am grateful to the president for highlighting the festival of Jewish emancipation, but given a choice, I would readily forgo the White House Manischewitz in exchange for an end to the bitter herbs the president is serving Israel. Publicly shunning Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and privately berating him is not going to be forgiven because of gefilte fish and matza balls. If you want to show American Jewry some respect, Mr. President, then stop treating the elected leader of the Jewish state as if you were Pharaoh and he was Moses.
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If the President views Bibi as Moses.......he best be pretty scared at best.
"Reporting from Jerusalem — In the midst of a high-profile trip by Vice President Joe Biden, Israel unveiled plans for new housing in disputed Jerusalem on Tuesday, a surprise step that embarrassed and angered the highest ranking Obama administration official yet to visit the country."
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/09/world/la-fg-biden-israel10-2010mar10
Bush would have done the same if Cheney was embarrassed on purpose like that. USA is the world's only superpower and a staunch supporter of Israel (at least a lot more supportive than most other nations) so embarrassing the US VP is not a smart move.
Those who bless Israel will be blessed. Another sin now being committed by America. Let’s see there is abortion, pornography, pedophilia, promotion of homosexuality, the mocking of Christ Jesus, the subjugation of Almighty God, assisted suicide, besides all the immorality committed by individuals overt and covert, and now outright rudeness to our only ally in the mid East, Israel! There isn’t much reason for God to stop the coming carnage in this country, is there?
But Israel's rejoicing in the ears of Egypt's grief was too much to bear. Pharaoh then destroyed the best of his troops and his own life too.
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This is a matter of character. I didn't post this article because of the references to Pope Pius XII, since it's an issue which invariably takes these threads off track, which is Obama's character, and as President, America's.
I received my own lesson this week about how to treat those with whom you sharply disagree. I was in Italy to promote the Italian translation of one of my books. Gary Krupp, the New York-based Jewish papal knight whom I had sharply criticized for defending Pius XII, went out of his way to get me invited to the Vatican to see documents relating to Pius’s pontificate.When I arrived, just one week before Good Friday, although the Vatican was under siege with press reports of pedophile priests, Monsignor Livio Poloniato, who works in the cardinal secretary of state’s office, gave me hours of his time to show me around. Here I was, an unrelenting critic for over a decade of a pope whom the Holy See is seeking to canonize. Yet the high-ranking priests I met could not have been friendlier. Everyone I met showed kindness and warmth. The visit didn’t change my view of Pius XII, whom I continue to view as guilty of the foremost moral omission of the twentieth century in refusing to even once speak out against the Holocaust. But it did get me thinking.
I contrasted the warm welcome accorded a papal critic with President Obama’s disdainful treatment of Netanyahu. If the reports are true and Obama got up and left in the middle of their meeting, derisively telling him he was going to have dinner with his family and adding “get back to me if you have anything new,” then as an American I am ashamed of our president’s behavior. As a Jew I am scandalized by his contempt. Yes, having dinner with your kids is important, but to use your kids as an excuse to treat a guest like garbage is repellant.
Gary Krupp and the Vatican officials provide an fine example not only of how you treat those with whom you disagree, but how you bring them around to your point of view, to the extent you can.
Personally, I wouldn't extend that respect to a tyrant, which appears to be how Obama views the Prime Minister of Israel. With contempt, whether for a Jew or a capitalist I don't know, probably both.
I see you are new here.
There has been MUCH discussion of the facts of the case here, including that it WAS NOT a new approval for housing, but just a permitting document for a developement that was already approved ~ something that is usually done at the Building Department by a bureaucrat initialing a piece of paper.
The LA Times is not a paper that I would go to for an accurate charcterization of the issue at hand.
Personally, I wouldn't extend that respect to a tyrant, which appears to be how Obama views the Prime Minister of Israel. With contempt, whether for a Jew or a capitalist I don't know, probably both.
It is sad to say, whether the Jews are in the U.S., Europe, or in Israel, the Chosen people are the canary in the coal mine.
Methinks the corner stone of the third Temple may be laid...
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Publicly shunning Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and privately berating him is not going to be forgiven because of gefilte fish and matza balls. If you want to show American Jewry some respect, Mr. President, then stop treating the elected leader of the Jewish state as if you were Pharaoh and he was Moses.Gosh, it's almost as if Obama was a foreign-born Moslem like all those right wing loonies have been saying for two years.
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