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Obama 2, Netanyahu 0

24 Jan

Obama 2. Netanyahu 0

The final returns  are in from the Israeli election and it appears that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will stay on. The big surprise of the election was that centrist Yair Lapid’s new party ran so strongly.

But Lapid’s showing was only that: a surprise. The only thing new about Lapid is that he represents the first time Israeli voters chose a media personality for a top position. At 49, he’s young (by Israeli standards), handsome and a good talker in both Hebrew and English. In terms of substance, he is nothing new. Most significantly, he is utterly conventional when it comes to issues of war and peace, specifically the Palestinians and Iran.

Does that mean the Israeli election changed nothing?

Absolutely not.  It changed a great deal because Netanyahu did so poorly. Yes, he will likely remain as prime minister but in a far weaker position than he was before the election. Prior to this week’s election, Netanyahu’s Likud-Beiteinu party held 42 seats. It is now down to 31, a dramatic decline and a personal repudiation of the prime minister who leads the party.

Just prior to the election Netanyahu, clearly expecting a landslide victory, said that he would run for another term after his upcoming term ended. That seems considerably less likely now. Suddenly he seems to be a man of the past, with Israeli commentators already scouting out the next prime minister from among the various parties (like Lapid’s) that did better than expected.

The new weaker Netanyahu is good news for President Obama. A half-year ago, Obama was struggling to win re-election while Netanyahu was riding high, so high that he defied tradition and sent a signal to his American friends that he would like to see Obama replaced by a Republican.

In March 2011, Netanyahu addressed a joint session of Congress where he was repeatedly interrupted with standing ovations as he enunciated hard line policies that were at variance with Obama’s. Obama had to play catch up, lest Netanyahu weaken the president’s own standing here at home by rallying Israel’s supporters against  the president. As late as the fall campaign, a worried Obama kept enunciating his solidarity with Netanyahu’s policies while Netanyahu’s friends like Sheldon Adelson, made clear that the right choice for Israel was Romney.

And then came the one-two punches. First Obama won re-election easily, earning a strong new mandate and carrying 70% of the Jewish vote in the process. For all the publicity it received, the Adelson push in the Jewish community accomplished nothing. And now Netanyahu, having called elections to achieve a strong mandate, barely won at all.

In short, the results of the two elections could be summed up as Obama 2, Netanyahu 0.

 

Obama is now in a position to squeeze Netanyahu hard. Does Obama want to push for an Israeli-Palestinian agreement?  If so, he is in a strong position to achieve it. The same applies to negotiating a deal with Iran without worrying that Netanyahu will successfully marshal his forces against him.

After all, even before this week’s election, Obama nominated Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense despite the opposition of many of Netanyahu’s friends here. Hagel seems headed for confirmation while the lobby has seemingly given up the fight. It says it can live with Hagel.

The bottom line is that while the Israeli election did not change anything in terms of Israeli policy, it did severely weaken Prime Minister Netanyahu vis a vis President Obama. This change in the respective standing of the two leaders will particularly be noticed by Israelis who, in contrast to the truculent prime minister, do not like to be at loggerheads with a strong, popular American president. From now on, Netanyahu’s confrontational rhetoric directed at Washington will sound tinny.  It is Obama who holds the winning cards.

The question is whether he will play them.

A few months ago, I would have said that he wouldn’t. But since his re-election, and particularly following that splendidly aggressive inaugural address, I’m beginning to think he might.

He has no reason to fear Netanyahu now. Not only is he a second term president who is thinking in terms of legacy and not re-election, Netanyahu is on the ropes. If Obama acts strategically, he may be able to win over the Israeli people too. No, the election was not about foreign policy. It was about achieving some sort of domestic normalcy. Obama can demonstrate (at least to the half of the population that voted for centrist parties) that the only way to achieve that, once and for all, is through achieving peace with the Palestinians and ending the politics of bluster.

This is the moment to apply pressure. And the likely foreign policy team of Secretary of State John Kerry and Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel (along with Vice President Joe Biden who took a strong stand against Netanyahu early in the first term) are the people to do it. This is a moment that may not be repeated. Obama should go for it: an end to the occupation, two states, and peace and security for both peoples.

Just do it.

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Obama: Still Doing AIPAC’s Bidding In Second Term

13 Nov

President Obama gave his first signal over the weekend that his policies toward Israelis and Palestinians will be the same in his second term as they have been in his first. He will continue to do Prime Minister Netanyahu’s bidding.

Just five days after winning reelection, Obama told Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, that the United States will oppose a United Nations General Assembly resolution that would grant Palestine “non-member state” observer status in the world body. “Non-member state observer” status is not much, but it would at least enable the Palestinians to participate in various international commissions, from which they are now banned.

Of course, the Israeli government is opposed to that as it opposes any change in Palestinian status not agreed to by Israel. In fact, it says that it will stop the transfer of the Palestinians’ own tax revenues to the Palestinian Authority if it defies Israel’s wishes on this matter. The Israeli line, echoed by the Obama administration, is that Palestinians cannot take unilateral actions on anything. Any change in their status must be agreed to in the context of negotiations with Israel.

This sounds sensible until one considers that the reason there are no current negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians is because Israel insists on its right to continue taking its own unilateral actions: expanding settlements and expropriating West Bank land. The Palestinians will not negotiate while Israel unilaterally takes the land they would ostensibly be negotiating over. But Israel complains that the Palestinians are, horror of horrors, unilaterally going to the United Nations.

Forgive me for saying something so obvious, but isn’t the unilateral act of expropriating land and building settlements on them considerably more egregious than unilaterally taking your case to … the United Nations.

The whole thing is absurd. By definition, nothing about going to the United Nations is unilateral while everything related to building settlements on the land the two sides are supposed to negotiate over is.

Nonetheless, Netanyahu expects the United States to back his position because he assumes that the American Jewish community, through the “pro-Israel” lobby, will make it impossible for Obama to do anything but yield to his will.

He is right about that but only because it is unlikely that Obama will test that proposition. If he did, both Obama and Netanyahu would discover that American Jews are no more likely to follow Netanyahu’s lead on the issue of Israeli/Palestinian negotiations than they did on deciding who to vote for. American Jews voted overwhelmingly for Obama despite Netanyahu’s clear preference for Governor Romney and the clear evidence that the more hawkish candidate was Romney.

But Obama will not challenge this idea because he believes it is not worth the trouble.

Although he would prevail in the end, he does not want to begin his second term by going to war with a lobby which although not representative of most Jews is loud, powerful and flush with money. Additionally, it has hundreds of cutouts in Congress already worrying about AIPAC funding for 2014. As for Netanyahu, the man is a loose cannon. It is hard to blame Obama for not wanting to go to the mat with him. Besides, Obama has his hands full preventing him from ensnaring us in a war with Iran.

Nonetheless, I do blame him. Yes, America has its domestic problems to deal with. But the Israeli-Palestinian conflict threatens our national interests worldwide. The Muslim world despises us largely because of it. The rest of the world disrespects us because we are so obviously in thrall to a tiny foreign country in order not to displease its influential domestic backers. The Israeli peace camp is on life support because we refuse to give it the help it needs to end the occupation and save its country. As for the Palestinians, we enable their endless suffering at the hands of the Israeli government which maintains its occupation of the West Bank and blockade of Gaza because we are too intimidated to simply say “stop.”

Additionally, Obama seems not to understand that resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict fairly (on terms acceptable to both sides) would go far toward eliminating Iran’s ability to assume leadership of millions of Arabs by cynically invoking Palestine. Once the Palestinians have security and sovereignty, that pretense for endless hostility disappears.

It is also worth noting that last month President Mahmoud Abbas said that his goal was establishing a state in the occupied territories and not an inch more. He also said he would give up the right of return (this caused a furor in the Palestinian community). In other words, Abbas was offering to end the conflict with Israel, forever, in exchange for establishing a demilitarized state in 22% of historic Palestine. Israel would have the 78% that constitutes pre-’67 Israel.

Although President Shimon Peres hailed Abbas, Netanyahu rejected Abba’ offer just as he rejected the Arab League Initiative which offers Israel full normalization and peace with the Arab world in exchange for the occupied territories. He wants a full Palestinian surrender which would entail Israel keeping whatever parts of the West Bank it wants, full Israeli control of Jerusalem and the continued blockade of Gaza. In exchange the Palestinians would get to keep Ramallah.

When will the Obama administration wake up? When will it stop putting politics and fundraising over the US national interest, the rights of Palestinians and the survival of the State of Israel (the occupation will ultimately destroy it). It really is time to raise our voices, not like J Street, with its timid “AIPAC lite” program, but loudly and assertively.

The message: link aid to Israel to its acting to end the occupation. As the country moves left (read those election returns), Democrats need to hear from the grass roots that we are not giving them a pass on Israel/Palestine. Polls show that Democrats are not the knee-jerk supporters of the Israeli government that the Republicans are. Let’s act on what we know is right not simply yield to the ugly “reality” of big money politics.

The pro-Netanyahu, pro-occupation consensus needs to be broken. Contrary to what J Street argues, peace in the Middle East should be a wedge issue with Republicans supporting the status quo and Democrats saying out loud what most of them say in private: for America’s sake, for Israel’s, and for the Palestinians; the United States must end this conflict on our terms, not Netanyahu’s (after all, it is our taxpayer dollars that sustains it).

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Thanks to all my readers who inquired about how my mother is doing. She is out of her Rockaway home forever which is sad. But she is fine.

Much sadder is the condition of the Rockaways, still without power and looking like a war zone. If you want to help, the best place to send money is to the Occupy Sandy movement. People in Rockaway along with the media report that the Occupy Wall Street movement is now the most effective and indefatigable rescue and relief workers in Rockaway. They are on the ground everywhere, true heroes.

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My Rosh Hashana Greeting To Netanyahu: Butt The Hell Out Of Our Election

14 Sep

I don’t know what Bibi Netanyahu plans to do on Meet The Press on Sunday. But, based on his recent history, I suspect he will attack President Obama as soft on Iran. He hates Obama, of that there is no doubt. His biggest supporter inside Israel is Sheldon Adelson who, in addition to bankrolling Mitt Romney’s campaign, started up a newspaper in Israel for the sole purpose of touting Netanyahu. It is now the newspaper with the highest circulation in the country.

Netanyahu wants Obama to lose and, probably even more, he wants Obama to know that he, Binyamin Netanyahu, helped bring about his demise in conjunction with his biggest backer Adelson.

Netanyahu probably knows that he cannot deliver Jewish votes to Romney.

According to today’s Gallup poll, Obama is favored by 70% of Jews, in contrast to 25% who favor Romney. Netanyahu knows American Jews are, from his point of view, hopelessly liberal. And, adding insult to injury, only 3% consider Israel when they vote. 

He is going on Meet The Press (with the ever friendly David Gregory) to give voice to the GOP claim that Obama is weak on security issues. He will exploit the national grief over the killing of four Americans in Benghazi to drive home Romney’s original point — it was all Obama’s fault. And he will be persuasive in that arrogant faux-tough style of his which is buttressed by his contempt for Americans. “I know what America is. America is a thing you can move very easily. Move it in the right direction.”

His goal is not turning the Jews. It is turning out Obama.

Remember, Netanyahu is barely Israeli at all. He grew up in the United States and then went into business here (he even Americanized his name which he changed back when he moved to Israel). He is even more of a Republican than he is a Likudnik. And he hates Obama for all the reasons American rightwing conservatives do.

Except he is not an American. He is the prime minister of a country that is entirely dependent on the United States. Not only does Israel receive more aid from the United States than any other country,Israel aid  is the only program in the U.S. budget that is exempt from all cuts. On top of that, the United States does everything Israel wants us to do in the international arena, even using our veto in the United Nations Security Council to block resolutions which embody U.S. policy.

The fact is that the United States is a pariah in the Muslim world largely because the lobby dictates U.S. Middle East policy onIsrael’s behalf. And, yes, a large part of what drives those mobs in Arab capitals is America’s constant support for Israel’s abusive treatment of Palestinians. Ironically, Obama is as one-sided on Israel’s behalf and indifferent to the Palestinians as any of his predecessors. (The difference is what is in his heart, which does Palestinians no good at all, unfortunately).

Nonetheless, Israel’s prime minister is interfering in our election, blatantly trying to choose our president.

I think Obama will win and I also think, when he does, Israelis will understand that they need to dump Netanyahu;  they will not tolerate a prime minister despised by the leader of their only ally. They did that once before: rightwing prime minister Yitzhak Shamir took on  the first George Bush and was quickly deposed in favor of Yitzhak Rabin, strongly favored by Bush.

So I’m not worried about Israel. It will take care of itself. It always does. Besides, Netanyahu is likely to go down anyway over his Iran recklessness. (Most Israelis oppose attacking Iran).

No, my concern is for my own country and the position of Jews in it. The United States has been the most secure home Jews have ever had. Jewish Americans love this country and are utterly loyal to it. (Yes, there is the lobby and the Israel Firsters but they constitute a tiny albeit powerful minority, a power derived almost exclusively from campaign donations and intimidation).

But now, along comes Netanyahu. Three weeks ago his lobby made the Democratic Convention go back and overturn a plank on Jerusalem that reflected long-standing U.S. policy because he didn’t like it. He and his lobby intentionally set up the Democrats. First AIPAC approved the plank and encouraged the Democrats to go with it. Then they had Romney  and AIPAC Democrats denounce it as anti-Israel.  Badly embarrassed, Obama had to tell the convention to rewrite the plank and then, when the delegates refused to pass it the way AIPAC wanted it, the Democrats had to declare it passed anyway.

Far worse,  for the last three weeks, Netanyahu has been openly attacking our president and has made clear his determination to defeat him. He is demanding that the president draw a red line in the sand, one dictated by Netanyahu, and tell the Iranians that if they cross it, we, the United States, will go to war. In short, he is demanding that the United States allow a foreign country to make our decision to commit our forces on his behalf.  (Not even Winston Churchill demanded that and his country was fighting for its life against Nazi Germany not some imagined threat).

Obama is not going to risk American lives because Bibi wants him to. And I don’t think Romney would either. There are limits, not even Adelson’s campaign contributions are likely to buy a war that would destroy Romney’s  presidency.  He is, after all, an American politician  – just like Obama. American.

Who does Netanyahu think he is?

I’ll tell him. He is the leader of a foreign country that is a dependency of the United States. The lobby says we are allies. I suppose, but it’s like the alliance between  the captain of the football team and the little guy who was his pal in kindergarten. The big guy protects the little guy. And the little guy appreciates his big buddy. Or should.

Bibi has it backasswards. We don’t need him. He needs us.

Additionally, not that he cares, he is jeopardizing the position of Jews in this country. Every time he opens his mouth, we start looking a little alien. Why are these Jews so different from all other people?

The answer is that we are not. Netanyahu is not our leader. Israel is not our country. And we choose not to be enemies with the entire Muslim world, and especially our fellow Americans who are Muslims.

So, Bibi, butt the hell out. We’ll be here, long after you are gone, making the big bucks with Dan Senor in Tel Aviv or Los Angeles.

Don’t you dare jeopardize the future of our kids and grand kids in our country. Because Bibi, you won’t get away with it. Yes, many, if not most, American Jews care about Israel, but as a distant relative, a cousin who lives abroad. But this is home. And when you set out to make our homes insecure — and that is what you are doing — you are playing with fire.

If you succeed, Israel will lose not just America, but Jewish Americans as well. After all, that has already happened with our kids. Do you really want to lose us all?

TO MY JEWISH READERS (and everyone else too!)  Shana Tova, Happy New Year. May The Coming Year Be Better Than The Last

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Netanyahu, Not Iran, Is An Existential Threat To Israel

12 Sep

One ex-Israeli official put it best. Prime Minister  Binyamin Netanyahu seems to be “going berserk.”

He is demanding that the United States set a “red line” that, once crossed, will automatically initiate a US attack on Iran. He doesn’t even bother to pretend that war with Iran is in US  interests.  He just wants his war trigger. But, and this seems literally to be driving him crazy, he sees the chances for war diminishing every day.

I think his latest tantrum was produced by last week’s  New York Times op-ed by its former executive editor, Bill Keller which stated that even if Iran develops nuclear weapons, they would not necessarily  pose a significant threat to Israel, let alone to the United States.

Keller  merely suggested what Israelis say privately: this whole Iran scare is not about nukes per se, it is about Israel’s fear of losing  the ability to do whatever it wants to whenever it wants to. Bomb Gaza. Bomb Lebanon. Bomb relief ships. Bomb whoever, whenever.

It is about regional hegemony. After all, militarily Israel can more than handle Iran and both countries know that. That is why Israelis do not share Netanyahu’s enthusiasm for war.

Not only do they not want war,  they rightly fear that an attack on Iran would result in thousands of missiles, being launched against Israeli population centers by Hizbullah and Hamas. Even though Defense Minister Ehud Barak promises that only 500 Israeli civilians would be killed (how did he come up with that number), Israelis do not want their kids to be among that number.

None of this seems to matters to Netanyahu, who acts less an Israeli leader than a US neocon.  That is why he is the first Israeli prime minister not even to go through the motions of serious negotiations. He is not interested.

Fortunately, President Obama — like President George W. Bush before him — is standing in the way of an Iran war. Netanyahu’s plan requires the United States to jump in to bail Israel out once it begins a war it cannot finish, but Obama, like Bush, won’t permit it.

So what is Netanyahu to do? He will defeat President Obama (at least in his dreams) and bring in a Mitt Romney under the sway of Sheldon Adelson. He believes Romney would go to war and so he is engineering conflict with the United States to tip the election.

Forget the fact that he can’t do it. The percentage of Jews who vote based on Israel’s perceived desires is 3% at best, and not even that 3% necessarily believes war is in Israel’s interests. Nonetheless, that is what Bibi’s whole game is about.

The irony is that it is unlikely a President Romney would go to war either. With the military opposed, one would have to imagine that Romney would risk American interests (most importantly, young lives) to please a donor and the same neocon claque that led Bush to war with Iraq.

Really? A new Republican president would want to begin his term with another Middle East war? Dream on, Bibi.

The only force in the United States that favors war is the Israel lobby (AIPAC and its satellite organizations), neoconservative pundits and some Christian rightists (although the latter are more enthusiastic about going to war against a woman’s right to choose and gay rights than against Iran). War with Iran could destroy Romney’s presidency and he surely knows it.

The bottom line then is that all Netanyahu is accomplishing with his ugly saber-rattling is threatening the survival of the US-Israel relationship.

Don’t kid yourself. No matter what Obama says publicly, he is furious with Netanyahu. Privately, it is hard to imagine that even Republicans like seeing the United States being treated with such contempt by a tiny country we sustain with $3.5 billion a year in aid (exempt from all cuts, unlike every other program) and UN vetoes that make America look like Israel’s satellite. The only thing that keeps them all quiet is intimidation and campaign contributions. That won’t last forever, particularly as younger American Jews have moved toward  indifference to Israel due to the policies it has pursued since an Israeli fanatic killed Yitzhak Rabin.

Israelis need to wake up. IL Kenen, the founder of AIPAC, called the United States Israel’s defense line.  It is. And Bibi is jeopardizing it.

Binyamin Netanyahu poses an existential threat to the Jewish state. Those who claim to care about Israel need to speak out. Will we really allow this rightist egomaniac to destroy a 2000 year old dream?

 

 

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Why Is Obama’s Support Down Among Jews?

4 May

According to a poll released by the American Jewish Committee last week, President Barack Obama is leading former Governor Mitt Romney 61%-28% among Jewish voters. Obama’s support is 17% below the 78% he scored in 2008 while Romney’s is 6% above John McCain’s 22%.

Asked by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency what the numbers mean for Obama, Executive Director of the AJC, David Harris, said (addressing Obama):

“The concerning news is that you dropped about 17 points from where you were in 2008 and if it’s going to be a close election, especially in key swing states.” “You’re going to have to do more to recoup,” Harris said. “You will have to spend more time emphasizing the national security, pro-Israel aspects of your record.”

That conclusion is no surprise coming from Harris, who is extremely hawkish on all matters related to Israel. But the findings of the poll do not support his conclusion.

Yes, Obama’s numbers are down among Jewish voters. But why wouldn’t they be?

Obama’s numbers have dropped among Americans in general which is why not even the most optimistic Democrat is predicting anything like the Obama landslide of 2008. The reason for that decline is the weak economy. It was the economic collapse under President George W. Bush that produced Obama’s big 2008 win and it will be the continuing weakness of the economy that will be the main factor in Obama’s narrow win this November. Or his narrow defeat.

Every poll shows that. Why would Jewish Americans, who live in this country and are as affected by its economy as much their fellow Americans be any different?

As for Harris’s implication that Obama is perceived as week on “national security,” the polls simply don’t back that up. Killing Osama Bin Laden and his aggressiveness in Pakistan more than shored up Obama’s standing in that area.

Of course, Harris was not really referring to the “national security, pro-Israel aspects” of Obama’s record. He was talking about the “pro-Israel aspects” exclusively, using the “national security” phrase as a cover, so as not to appear too parochial.

But the AJC’s own poll shows that very few Jewish voters vote on the basis of a presidential candidate’s stance on Israel. According to the poll, the #1 deciding factor for Jews when voting for president is the U.S. economy. Among the 11 choices offered by the AJC pollster, 29% choose the economy. Next is health care with 20%. U.S.-Israel relations is chosen by 6%. The remaining 50% pick one of the other issues that Americans in general, and not specifically Jews, are concerned with.

So 6% of Jewish voters make their choice based on Israel.

And yet Harris concludes that to remedy a 17% slip among Jews, Obama must “spend more time emphasizing the national security, pro-Israel aspects of your record.”

But another finding by AJC is that of the 6% who vote for president based on Israel 45% would vote for Romney and 42% would vote for Obama.

So, on that issue alone, the one Harris chooses to emphasize, Obama’s deficit is just 3%. And of that number – those preferring Romney over Obama because of Israel – what percentage are Republicans in any case? Given that about 25% of Jews call themselves Republicans, it is safe to assume that the number who are swinging to Romney because of Israel is considerably less than 3%.

I won’t do the calculation because we are now approaching a figure that is close to meaningless. The bottom line is this: Obama’s ratings are down with Jews but not because of Israel.

So what’s the President’s problem? It’s the economy and the health care issue as the poll makes clear.

But – and here is where Jews differ from the general population – it is likely that Jewish voters object to Obama’s economic and health care policies not because they perceive that he spent too much money on economic stimulus and pursued a radical health care agenda, but because they believe his approach was too conservative.

That too is obvious from the AJC poll. Only 19% of Jews label themselves “conservative” or “lean conservative” while 46% label themselves “liberal” or “lean liberal” with another 35% opting for “moderate, middle of the road.”

Additionally, on the two issues of most concern to Jewish voters, the economy and health care, Jews are decidedly liberal as evidenced by the fact that of those choosing the economy as their #1 issue, 62% say they prefer the Democrats’ approach. On health care, 66% prefer the Democrats.

The bottom line is that a not insignificant percentage of Jews are, at least as of May, disillusioned with Obama’s presidency. If these numbers hold, it could cause problems for the President.

However, the way to solve his problems is not by doing more for Binyamin Netanyahu (what more could he possibly do?) but by moving left and offering a solid progressive agenda for America. Jews remain FDR Democrats. If Obama wants to approach FDR’s support among Jews (an average of 87%), he needs to start governing more like FDR and less like a generic moderate. He also needs to stop buying into the myth that American Jews put Israel first.

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Olmert Condemns Neocon Cowards

30 Apr

This is a moment I have been waiting for. A former Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, in New York yesterday, told an audience of rightwing Jews that their devotion to fighting to the last Israeli soldier was disgusting.

Olmert’s attack followed  being repeatedly booed by an audience of American Jews for opposing Netanyahu’s policies on Iran and Palestine. Olmert, like so many Israelis, cannot stand armchair heroics by neocons and others of their cowardly ilk and finally spoke the obvious truth about these living room tank commanders.

After the place went nuts with screams of “Neville Chamberlain” and “naive” directed at the ex-prime minister for saying that President Obama is Israel’s friend, not its enemy, he let the yahoos have it:

As a concerned Israeli citizen who lives in the state of Israel with his family and all of his children and grandchildren,” he said, “I love very much the courage of those who live 10,000 miles away from the state of Israel and are ready that we will make every possible mistake that will cost lives of Israelis.

Take that AIPAC. Take that Commentary, Jeff Goldberg, Eli Lake, American Jewish Committee, Zionist Organization of America, and every major and minor Jewish organization (and their Christian “allies’) who support policies that send Israelis to their deaths while they watch the spectacle on television.

Olmert, speaking for his country called the whole bunch of them cowards.

God bless him for saying what everyone knows.There is nothing more repulsive than people whose sense of manhood derives from watching young men far away fight and die.

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