I grew up on ethnic human and still enjoy it! But it's all about who told it, where it was told, when it was told and too whom it was told. Take a moment to think about it.
Here we have one of the highest officials from the Obama regime posing as honest broker of an Israeli-Palestinian peace.
He's speaking for this regime at a "Washington Institute for Near East Policy" forum.
He's speaking at a time when the question of whether Obama has changed America's long held relationship with Israel.
He's speaking to an audience that includes a large number of Muslims - many of who consider themselves enemies of both Israel and the US. "The Washington Institute for Near East Policy" has a website that prominently (on top) has a button to view the site in Arabic - not Hebrew or any other language.
And as I stated on this thread before, Jone's version of an old joke - on humorously clever business practices told in many versions and involving various ethnic groups - is one customized in a particular way. It now involves a Jew hating Muslim (Taliban) - not unlike many in his audience. He wanders out of the desert desparate for water and comes upon a greedy scheming Jew and his brother who bounce him back and forth between them without giving him water.
The mask may have been humor, but the intention was far more significant and the Obama regime and those enemies of America & Israel hearing it know it. [And even a non Jew like me can see that.]
I think you’re reading it the wrong way. I read it that the Jews got over on the Muslim. Remember, it was the Muslim that was spewing hate and diatribe to the Jewish merchant that General Jones could not repeat.
Think of this, if it was told while Gen Jones was an official with the Bush administration and the Huffington Post was making a big deal about it, would you agree with them and continue to pile on? If you were honest with yourself, the answer is no. And you would not be over analyzing this like you are doing now.
Well said.