That he doesn’t really believe it?
I try not to pat myself too much on the back, but this administration has done more in terms of the security of the state of Israel than any previous administration.
Or that he does?
…Either way, I believe that the appropriate Yiddish phrase to use here is Oy gevalt.
Now it may be because I’m this horrible, horrible neoconservative Right-Wing Death Beast and everything – but I have to admit: articles like this confuse me.
The United States faced increasing pressure on Tuesday as the Palestinian quest for statehood gained support from Turkey and other countries, even as the Obama administration sought an 11th-hour compromise that would avoid a confrontation at the United Nations next week.
With only days to go before world leaders gather in New York, the maneuvering became an exercise in brinkmanship as the administration wrestles with roiling tensions in the region, including a sharp deterioration of relations between three of its closest allies in the region: Egypt, Israel and Turkey.
…But then again, I am a neocon RWDB, which means that I take the UN as seriously as it deserves to be treated… which is to say: when it comes to Israel, not at all.
Continue reading The infinitely avoidable US/UN Palestine showdown.
Rosa DeLauro: Connecticut Democratic Congresswoman. Married to Stanley Greenberg, Democratic strategist and former Clinton adviser. Both credibly linked to the biotech megacorporation Monsanto – I mention this not because I care, but it never hurts to remind the netroots that they’re brazen hypocrites when it comes to their supposed opposition to GM foods – and former landlords to then-DCCC chair (and current Chicago mayor) Rahm Emanuel. Although ‘landlord’ should really apply to people who charge rent to their tenants, I suppose – particularly when the tenant had the ability to steer fat contracts to the landlord’s polling firm. Ach, well, we’ll save that investigation for 2013. It’ll give Issa something to do after he finishes burning out the rot in the Justice Department.
But I digress. Continue reading The Democratic hypocrisy of DeLauro & Greenberg.
…or risk ‘strained ties with Washington.’* (Via AoSHQ Headlines)
Israel to Obama: No.
Executive summary: last year, Israeli blockade enforcers stopped the so-called Gaza ‘peace flotilla’ (which is what ordinary, decent people call ‘a pro-terrorist blockade running fleet’). In the process of said stopping, the peaceful members of the peace flotilla did their level best to peacefully murder the blockade enforcers; to give you some idea of the double standards involved here, Israeli forces felt forced by international pressure to try to secure the blockade-runner using nothing more lethal than paintball guns. Fourteen attackers died; nine were apparently Turks, which has the current Turkish government – led by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who hates Israel anyway – to demand an apology. The Obama administration, using Secretary of State Clinton as a proxy, has duly ‘backed up’ this demand; and the Israelis have politely told both the Obama administration and Turkey where they can head in. Continue reading Obama to Israel: apologize to Turkey…
With his (hilarious) one-state solution for the Middle East:
Especially this line:
“Some anti-Semites that the Jews already run America, but that’s ridiculous. If the Jews ran America we wouldn’t be fourteen trillion dollars in debt. (pause) Knuckleheads.”
There’s going to be some epic-level whining over that observation. Which is not the same as calling it incorrect, necessarily.
(Via Instapundit)
Moe Lane
PS: One other factoid for you: hey, where’s the safest place in the Middle East to be an openly gay Muslim? Yup, you guessed it: Israel.
Sure, Jen Rubin wrote this about Barack Obama’s Israeli policy:
Democrats are loath to admit the president doesn’t know what he is doing…
…but, honestly, when isn’t this true?
Via Instapundit.
Moe Lane
PS: For the record, I can’t help but notice that the level of commentary allowed by the Washington Post when it comes to Jen Rubin’s articles would probably be the subject of a disapproving article by the Washington Post if they were appearing on any other national website.
I understand that the White House is now spending my tax money to fund a hack whose explicit job description is to troll important sites on the Internet – including RedState – in order to do instant push-back on various posts. I suggest that said hack cease doing that for a moment, and instead call somebody higher up the food chain right now and let them know that President Barack Obama has a problem.
One of the most important Democratic donors in the past two decades, whose generous contributions helped pay for the DNC headquarters in Washington, D.C., has indicated that he will not contribute to President Obama’s reelection campaign in 2012, because of the administration’s stance on Israel.
[snip]
“President Obama has raised so much money and will raise so much money through the Internet, more than anybody before him. And he frankly doesn’t, I believe, need any of my donations,” said [Haim] Saban.
Continue reading MAJOR Democratic donor Haim Saban breaks with Barack Obama.
…of Dana Millbank’s article about his Israeli au pair*…
…You know, I can’t remember what I was going to say about Jim Geraghty’s post, past “Jim’s right.” Probably something along the lines of noting that President Obama’s Jerusalem gaffe was sufficiently egregious that it’s got the head of the DNC whining about how Republicans shouldn’t take advantage of it. Free hint, Debbie: if you don’t want to deal with the President making ignorant policy statements, then don’t let him make any. Or quit your job; because we of the VRWC are neither required nor inclined to show mercy to a political opponent simply because he’s a bit of a bumbler with no real feel for his position.
Moe Lane
*Which I am not going to mock; I wouldn’t mind a live-in domestic assistant myself if we had the money and/or room for it, and if you’re going to have one then it makes perfect sense to have one that can field-strip a M-16.
…that people panned Obama’s inability to check before insisting that Israel give back East Jerusalem.
At least, the Bad Jooosss: the ones that live in Israel and supposedly run American foreign policy. And the American media. And, apparently, bloggers (which apparently includes people like me*). Andy, Andy, Andy. Real Americans don’t have to be paid to respect magnificently tough sons of bitches that have held off everything thrown at them for sixty-three years and counting. That they’re also a functioning and prosperous democracy in a sea of kleptocracies and failed states is merely icing on the cake.
Ach, well: the tertiary stage of conspiracy theorizing has been long known.
Moe Lane
*Gotta love those checks from the International Zionist Conspiracy.
…for our stunningly brilliant President’s that pre-1967 borders in Israel means bringing back East Jerusalem.
The president, however, told the BBC that he wasn’t discussing Jerusalem, saying “our argument is let’s get started on a conversation about territory and about security, that doesn’t resolve all the issues, you still end up having the problem of Jerusalem and you still end up having the problem of refugees, but if we make progress on what two states would look like, and a reality sets in among the parties, that this is how it is going to end up, then it becomes easier for both sides to make difficult concessions to resolve those two other issues.”
Two things about this:
