The President's Middle East Playbook

The American Thinker ^ | March 18, 2010 | Avi Davis

[Scanian]

Barack Obama has achieved the impossible. He has managed to bring together secular Israelis and ultra-Orthodox Jews in a heated campaign against him. His administration's determination to use an Israeli housing construction project in Northern Jerusalem as the pretext for a diplomatic crisis, has set him on a collision course not just with Israelis of all stripes but even with American Jews who are growing increasingly apprehensive of just where this President intends to lead them.

Did he anticipate this? No one can know for sure. But his determination to face down Benjamin Netanyahu and force him to cancel the permit for 1600 units in the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood of Jerusalem has already backfired.

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2154771/posts?page=1084#1084

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Hat Tip:

http://israel.internet-haganah.com/archives/001706.html
March 16, 2010
“CALL IT THE OBAMA INTIFADA”

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Previously...

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3863432,00.html

“Day of rage’: Hamas calls for terrorist attacks inside Israel”

Ali Waked
Latest Update: 03.16.10, 13:32 / Israel News

SNIPPET: “While hundreds of Palestinians demonstrated and threw stones at security forces in a number of places in east Jerusalem to mark a “Day of rage”, the Palestinian Authority announced a general alert.

Hamas’ acting parliamentary speaker Dr. Ahmed Bahar called on the Palestinian organizations to strike Israel with terrorist attacks in its central region...”

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The President's Middle East Playbook...

is still being colored in by Hillary.

[Cindy]

Re Hillary:

Quote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2472613/posts

Mrs. Clinton’s Hissy Fit
Washington Times ^ | March 16, 2010 | editorial staff
Posted on March 16, 2010 7:38:02 PM PDT by raptor22

It says a lot when Vice President Joe Biden comes across as the Obama administration’s most skilled statesman. Last week during a visit to Israel, Mr. Biden was caught off-guard by an announcement that work would progress on 1,600 apartment units in Jerusalem’s Ramat Shlomo neighborhood, a Jewish enclave in the northern part of the city claimed by Palestinians. This faux pas could have ended civilly. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized for the bad timing of the announcement, and Mr. Biden reiterated the strength of the relationship between the two countries. Life should have gone on.

Instead, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, in close coordination with President Obama, called Mr. Netanyahu and launched a 45-minute telephone tirade. White House senior adviser David Axelrod declared Sunday that the announcement was an “insult” and an “affront” and that resolving this issue was “important for our own security.” The Obama administration is demanding the Ramat Shlomo project be cancelled or peace talks cannot continue. Meanwhile, Palestinians - emboldened by the White House chastising Israel - are rioting in the streets.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...

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0bama has united the Jews against him
All that Freeper crap about American Jews voting for 0bama and putting them down and saying they don’t care about Israel
Well...it was crap
Because American Jews are finally pissed at the Muslim Kenyan

Now American Jews must desert the Democrat party and not just 0bama. FU 0bama and all your JudenRat advisers Axelrod, Rahm Emaunuelle etc etc who work against Israel.