Despite the usual flowery rhetoric about two peoples living in peace, last week’s presidential address may well go down in history as the beginning of the end of the State of Israel. We cannot phantom Obama’s justification for uttering these dangerous on onerous words.
Despite his backtracking within hours of Obama’s speech hitting the airways, never before has an American President so brazenly embraced the “Palestinian” cause; never before has an American President so contemptuously pushed Israel into a corner. For Obama to proclaim that the borders of a Palestinian state must be drawn according to the 1967 lines, ignoring all the issues that should be negotiated on the way to two secure states and ignoring that Israel will someday have to defend these borders from Palestinian hatred, tells two lies at once: that the Palestinians have been sincerely searching for peace, and that Israel is the problem.
The crisis in the Middle East–the fact that the Palestinians want to destroy the state of Israel far more than they want to create a state for themselves; that they are planning a new holocaust even as they are denying the Holocaust that actually happened. We have identified those who want a new genocide. the President’s shameful and unnecessary speech.
The headlines in Israel on May 14, 1948.
If Barack Obama is reelected for another four-year term in 2012, there might not be an Israeli newspaper publishing in Jerusalem by 2016.
That the President should have delivered such a blow against Israel in the face of the Palestinian Authority’s new alliance with Hamas, the terror group that tried to exterminate it, wants to exterminate all Jews, and has vowed never to acknowledge a Jewish State is incomprehensible.
That he should have implicitly linked the Palestinians’ rejectionism to the revolutionary democratic spirit coursing through the rest of the Middle East in this Arab Spring calls his judgment, as well as his political vision, into question.
Where is the outrage from America’s Jewry?
