Barack Obama: the Most Anti-Israel President!

American Thinker ^ | November 11, 2010 | Ken Blackwell

[Ooh-Ah]

With his remarks in Jakarta, Indonesia, President Obama made history once again. Sadly, it's a most unenviable title. I believe he is the most anti-Israel President in U.S. history.

In going to Jakarta, Indonesia, to launch his latest attack, he literally went to the ends of the earth to give voice to his displeasure. He emphasized his opposition to the policies of the elected government of Israel.

He used his Jakarta platform to complain about Israel building apartments for her growing population. Where? In Jerusalem, the capital of Israel.

To make matters even worse, Jakarta is a city no Israeli is allowed to enter! The symbolism of saying what he said in the country and city where he said it is simply atrocious.

He was in Indonesia less than 24 hours. If he had to make such a one-sided and unfair pronouncement, couldn't he at least have waited until he got to South Korea? Touting Indonesia's great tolerance is offensive. We love everyone here in Indonesia, except the Israelis, of course, and except Catholic school girls who get beheaded on their way to school.

What could he have been thinking in traveling to his boyhood home -- in what is widely described as the largest Muslim country in the world -- and sharply criticizing Israel? It's as if he is determined to take an unfriendly stance and to reinforce it with his own biography: This place was a second home to me, and I am telling you, Israel, to knock it off! Those were not his actual words, but how else can we interpret his bizarre sense of time and place?

President Obama's foreign policy puts much greater emphasis on the UN as a world body. He has changed previous policy by bowing to the UN's horrendous Human Rights Council. This is a body that contains Russia, China, Cuba, and Saudi Arabia -- those paragons of human rights. It is to this body that the Obama administration finds it necessary to "report." The reports we have submitted essentially apologize to these brutal despots at the UN for not fully implementing more of the Obama legislative agenda at home.

The President has admitted he and his party took a "shellacking" in the midterm elections. So implementation of that agenda looks increasingly problematic. Shellacking it may be, but you cannot put a high-gloss veneer on what happened November 2^nd. Voters streamed into the polling places to render a vote of "no confidence" in this administration.

Interestingly, if the United States had a constitutional system similar to the parliamentary social democracies that Mr. Obama and so many of his liberal allies clearly favor, they would all be out of office. None of the leaders he will encounter in his G-20 meeting in South Korea this week would be appearing in the group photo if their parties had been given such a shellacking by the voters in their countries. 

President Obama can thank his stars for the fact that under the United States Constitution, he still has a full two years to try to implement what's left of his program. He'll have a hard time doing it with 60+ new members of the House of Representatives who won their seats touting their staunch opposition to Obama policies.

Here's an idea he might suggest that could help build consensus and restore his frayed mandate: President Obama should announce that the U.S. Embassy in Israel will be moved -- to Jerusalem.

By doing that, he could demonstrate that he is not reflexively anti-Israel. Every other U.S. Embassy in the world is in the host nation's capital city. When Germany united twenty years ago, the new government there designated Berlin as their capital. The U.S. Embassy in Bonn obediently packed up and moved to Berlin in 1999.

By moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, he could reassure Israelis -- only 4% of whom think he is a friend of Israel. And he could show "the Muslim world" that he keeps trying to appease that the United States will not abandon its historic alliance with Israel. It's a sad commentary that such a reassurance is increasingly necessary.

Ken Blackwell is a senior fellow at the Family Research Council. He serves on the board of directors of the Club for Growth, National Taxpayers Union, and National Rifle Association and is co-author of The Blueprint: Obama's Plan to Subvert the Constitution and Build an Imperial Presidency.

[Kudsman]

He used his Jakarta platform to complain about Israel building apartments for her growing population.

Then give them Detroit.

[Jan Hus]

What do you expect from a guy with a name Barack ???? Duh !

[Mr. Mojo]

Jakarta is a city no Israeli is allowed to enter!

Yet that doesn't stop Obama from lauding Indonesia as a model of religious tolerance."

[TigerClaws]

Exactly. Christians murdered. Women stoned to death. African-Americans slaughtered every day on the streets.

And from Obama we get... SILENCE.

Rather than use his position to make real “change” he says nothing and continues the apology tour.

[forgotten man]

Ken Blackwell ran against Michael Steele for chairmanship of the Republican Party. Too bad he did not win.

[umgud]

Are American Jews too blind to see this?

[JimmyMc]

I’ll donate to buy Barack and the beas a hut there. It would have to be a two bedroon hut thught

[BocoLoco]

“Are American Jews too blind to see this?”

Their historical track record speaks volumes about their naivity (or whatever you call it).

I could cite a few references but I think everyone on here knows enough about it.

[SunkenCiv]

He used his Jakarta platform to complain about Israel building apartments for her growing population... To make matters even worse, Jakarta is a city no Israeli is allowed to enter! The symbolism of saying what he said in the country and city where he said it is simply atrocious... Touting Indonesia's great tolerance is offensive. We love everyone here in Indonesia, except the Israelis, of course, and except Catholic school girls who get beheaded on their way to school. What could he have been thinking in traveling to his boyhood home -- in what is widely described as the largest Muslim country in the world -- and sharply criticizing Israel?

Gee, I wonder.

No, I don't.

Thanks Ooh-Ah.

[Frantzie]

If Obama went to Iran and pressed the button to nuke Israel - the majority of American Jews who voted for him (and still love him) would cheer.

CNN and the rest of TV news media would cheer his “bold move to bring peace to the ME” by nuking Israel.

[stevem]

He’s also extremely anti-American. So, I guess you can’t call him a bigot. With the exception of Moslems he’s probably an equal opportunity hater.

[MestaMachine]

What do you suspect he might have said in islamnesia had he “suddenly” received word that the west coast of the US had been struck by a nuke? hmmm?

[Senator Goldwater]

Are American Jews too blind to see this

American Jews broke about 70-30 in favor of Obama in 2008. I haven't seen how they voted in the mid-terms, but they if they went heavily for the GOP, we would've known about it by now.

My Jewish friends complain constantly about Obama, even though they all voted for him. I suspect they'll be there for him again in 2012, because apparently being a liberal is more important to them.

[M. Espinola]

A Wahhabi lurks in the White House, when he is not overseas or at parties.

[Georgia Girl 2]

What do you expect from our first and hopefully last Muslim President?

[propertius]

I think you would find that most Israelis would give that title to Eisenhower.

[SJackson]

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[M Kehoe]

Barack Obama: the Most Anti-Israel President!

0bama beats Carter and Johnson? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you...

5.56mm

[HearMe]

Johnson may have prevented the 1967 war if he fulfilled Eisenhower’s guarantees (to Israel as a result of the Israeli withdrawal from Sinai after the 1956 war) to not allow (again) an embargo on Israeli shipping. He didn’t. Likely because he was stuck in Viet Nam.

Except for that, Johnson was personally pro Israel and maybe the most pro Israel President- at least as much as a President can be considering geo-politics.