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President Obama Administration bash and blast Israel

Conservatives and national security experts are condemning the Obama Administration’s missteps and mishandling of the valuable U.S.-Israeli relationship, reports Law Enforcement Examiner.

One Republican leader, former GOP presidential candidate Gary Bauer claims President Barack Obama displays an “outrageous hostility toward the only reliable democratic friend we have in the Middle East.”

Bauer, an influential Christian conservative known for his work on behalf of Israel, had an itinerary very similar to Vice President Biden’s last week. Bauer’s itinerary included meeting with Israel’s leadership, as he has many times before. He was in Israel as the current escalation in flawed U.S.-Israeli relations began with the announcement of a new building project in Jerusalem, Israel’s capital.

The president of American Values and chairman of the Campaign for Working Families made the following statement: “It is obvious that in recent days the Obama administration has manufactured a crisis with Israel and is doing everything it can to humiliate our ally and weaken the Israeli government on the eve of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

“We shouldn’t lose sight of what set off the administration’s tirade. It was the on-going process of authorizing homes to be built in Jerusalem, the capital of Israel for its people. No other nation in the world runs its housing decisions by the Obama administration, but Israel is expected to do so, leading to numerous Obama officials denouncing our ally and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calling Israel’s behavior ‘insulting,’" said Bauer.

During the 1980's, then-leftist lawyer Hillary Rodham Clinton served on the board of the New World Foundation, which funneled money to the Palestine Liberation Organization, at a time when the PLO was officially recognized by the United States as a terrorist organization.

“[I]t is an insult to Israeli sovereignty to suggest that it must get the Obama administration’s permission to build homes for Israeli Jews. The homes are not the reason peace has been elusive in the Middle East. There is no peace because Israel’s enemies refuse its right to exist at all," said Bauer.

What is particularly telling is that this is a president who bowed to a Saudi king, who has repeatedly held his hand out to Iran only to have his face slapped in response and who has regularly suffered the slings and arrows of insults from Russia, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea, to name a few. For whom does he reserve his anger, toughness and vehemence? For Israel, the only reliable ally we have in the Middle East, say many national security experts.

Even in the last few weeks, the Obama Administration weakly responded to Syrian President Bashar Assad’s insult of accusing the U.S. of ‘colonialism,’ and publicly apologized to Moammar Gadhafi for allegedly treating him with less than the appropriate level of respect after Libya called for a ‘jihad’ against peaceful Switzerland.

"Last week a Gallup poll showed support for Israel among the American people at 64%. When President Obama attacks Israel, he may gain the applause of Middle East thugs, but he will not get the support of the American people," Bauer said.

Critics are upset over Obama's "Middle East Peace" team such as Hillary Clinton and George Mitchell. In her early days as an attorney, Clinton was quite vocal regarding her support for the Yassir Arafat and the PLO. In addition, she uttered anti-Israeli accusations. In May 1998, she told a youth conference on Middle East peace in Villars, Switzerland, that she supports the eventual creation of an independent Palestinian state.

Then, in November 1999, while on a purported State visit to the Middle East, she publicly appeared with Yasser Arafat's wife Suha. With Hillary at her side, Suha Arafat made the deliberately false allegation that "Our [Palestinian] people have been submitted to the daily and intensive use of poisonous gas by the Israeli forces, which has led to an increase in cancer cases among women and children." Mrs. Arafat also accused Israel of contaminating much of the water sources used by Palestinians with "chemical materials" and poisoning Palestinian women and children with toxic gases.

Instead of reacting with outrage, Hillary Clinton sat by silently and gave her a hug and a kiss when she finished speaking. Later, many hours after the event, and only after a media furor put her on the spot for what many view as a bit more than a mere political "faux pas", Mrs. Clinton called on "all sides" to refrain from "inflammatory rhetoric and baseless accusations" - including Israel, whose leaders made no such accusations.

Similarly, in February 1996, Hillary hosted a reception at the White House for leaders of Hamas-supporting groups such as the American Muslim Council and the Council on American-Islamic Relations. And in January, 1998, Hillary hosted another White House reception honoring Muslim leaders and the Muslim Public Affairs Council who defended militant Islamic fundamentalism and also supported radical Islamic groups.

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TAGS: USA Israel Obama Administration U.S.-Israeli relationship Hillary Clinton George Mitchell

[03/26/2010]

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