Posted on 08/05/2009 8:06:06 PM PDT by Avi Kane
Two pro-Israel American organizations and the Republican Jewish Coalition lashed out at U.S. President Barack Obama for awarding a Presidential Medal of Freedom to Mary Robinson. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) called on the administration to “firmly, fully and publicly repudiate her views on Israel and her long public record of hostility and one-sided bias against the Jewish state.”
The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) also condemned the decision to award former South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The ZOA pointed out that both Tutu and Robinson “have made statements and presided over organizations and conferences that were viciously critical of Israel.” ZOA’s National President Morton A. Klein said, “It is deplorable that President Obama should have honored two such utterly partisan, vociferously anti-Israel figures like Mary Robinson and Desmond Tutu.”
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The list, ping
The east coast elites must have spinning heads these days.
The awakening of the American Jewish community? One can only hope.
Yea, Doc, I cracked a smile when I read that. I have a few Jewish friends dow n Miami and I have never seen a group so blinded by Obama as that group. It is simply amazing to watch.
ZOA and AIPAC, Robinson and Tutu.
This does not surprise me at all, what obama did. In fact, I expect it will get much worse for the Jews in the coming months.
As a Christian coming from a strong Jewish background … I have questioned my relatives on why they voted for Obama, and, with few exceptions, the answer was … “I don’t won’t to lose my benefits, Republicans will take away my benefits”.
Were the Jewish Americans aware of the background of obambi or did they just selectively choose to ignore it?
I was on subguns.com and someone printed a bumpersticker that said:
You can get on the train.
I’ll be in the forest.
Better nationalize the brewers.
(Robinson was being honored due to her being the first female President of Ireland and as a prominent crusader of women’s rights in Ireland and throughout the world.)
Suuure! Obama trying to have it both ways...
I don’t know how many times Obama will need to bash pro-Israel Jews over the head before they figure out that he hates them!
Don’t hold your breath doc1019,
I’d bet the farm American Jews vote once again in 2012 overwhelmingly for this socialist anti Israel poser.
Obambi’s camo is coming off real fast
I wouldn’t hold my breath
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