re: #93 Charles

Obama’s policies toward Israel seem no different than the past 4 or 5 administrations’ policies. He talks about Israel ceasing the settlements, just like George Bush did, and then takes no real action to stop it. He has maintained the US policy of looking the other way on Israel’s nuclear weapons. And he has continued US military supplies to Israel.

Obama not only defamed Israel in his Cairo-speech, equalized the Shoa and the situation of the palestinians and aggressively attacked the status of Jerusalem as Israel’s capitol [1], he is also appeasing Iran in a way, that George W. Bush would never do (for example, reaching out the hands to the Islamic regime and cutting aids for iranian opposition-groups in the middle of a revolution).

I don’t know if Obama shares Wright’s views, if he does, he is clever enough to not openly talk about them in his country, where an overwhelmingy majority strongly rejects anti-semitism.

But he is definitely the most anti-Israel-president since Jimmy Carter. His foreign advisors are people like Zbigniew Brzeziński, Samantha Power (who want the USA to lead a ground invasion of Israel) or the Hamas-friend Robert Malley.

Even though I don’t agreed with all of President Bush’s policies regarding Israel - he was a friend of Israel. Obama is not.

[1] See here:

Apologists for the Obama administration have been arguing that there is no real difference between his stand opposing Jewish settlements and that of George W. Bush. There was some truth to this when it came to settlements in the West Bank, though this assertion ignores the fact that the Bush administration publicly acknowledged that some of the larger settlement blocs would be retained by Israel in any peace agreement and that building within them was not really an issue. But even the most ardent fans of Obama must understand that there is a major difference between the two presidents when it comes to Jerusalem. Granted, the United States has never formally recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital or formally accepted the unification of the city that was made possible by the Six-Day War. As much as the U.S. routinely protested settlement-building in the West Bank, it never made a stink about building homes in Jerusalem. And that’s where Obama parts company with his predecessors.