JESSE JACKSON VALIDATES BEN SHAPIRO'S WARNING

"The most important change would occur in the Middle East, where decades of putting Israels interests first' would end."

"Bush was so afraid of a snafu and of upsetting Israel that he gave the whole thing a miss. Barack will change that, because, as long as the Palestinians haven't seen justice, the Middle East will remain a source of danger to us all."

"Barack is determined to repair our relations with the world of Islam and Muslims. Thanks to his background and ecumenical approach, he knows how Muslims feel while remaining committed to his own faith."

As reported by The New York Post, those are three snippets from a wide-ranging interview Jesse Jackson gave to author and columnist Amir Taheri during the World Policy Forun in Evian, France this month. Jackson was predicting what foreign policy changes an Obama administration would bring forth.

Jackson's prediction that our foreign policy will take a sharp turn in favor of the Palestinians validates Ben Shapiro's warning that "Barack Obama is the most dangerous candidate for the State of Israel since its creation in 1948." (Refer to my blog of 10-15-08.)

Jackson also told Taheri that "Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades will lose a great deal of their clout when Barack Obama enters the White House."

"Zionist control of American policy" has long been a mantra of anti-Semites, of which Jackson has proven himself to be one. Remember his "Hymietown" reference to New York? At the time, Jackson vehemently denied having said so, accusing Jews of spreading lies in a plot to destroy his presidential candidacy, before finally admitting that he had indeed used that anti-Semitic term. The "Hymietown" and "Zionist control" remarks have not been Jackson's only expressions of his contempt for Jews.

In yesterday's TownHall.com, Cal Thomas commented on Jackson's interview with Taheri. Thomas questioned "what could Jackson possibly mean by claiming the Palestinians have been denied justice? By their leaders, certainly they have. Palestinians could have had their own state a long time ago. They were offered one in 1948 and in years since, but their leaders have made no secret that they want not just part of the land, but all of it, thereby eliminating Israel."

Thomas also asked, "what about justice for the Jews? Apparently that doesn't count with Jackson, who once called New York City 'Hymietown.' Why wouldn't Jackson support Israel, the region's only democracy, with a second - Iraq - headed in that direction? Why does Jackson see Israel and its elected government as inferior to Arab dictatorships and a Palestinian leadership that slaughtered those who wanted to cut a peace deal with Israel long before recent elections put the terrorist group Hamas in charge?"

Thomas went on to write that "Obama says Jackson 'knows how Muslims feel.' Really? Does he know that in their sermons, their media and textbooks they recruit the young as suicide bombers, accuse Jews of causing AIDS, and all the world's other ills, and teach that their God wants all Jews (and Christians, which presumably would include the 'useful idiot' Jesse Jackson) dead."

Obma was quick to distance himself from Jackson' remarks, claiming that he has always been a strong supporter of Israel. (If you believe that, I'll sell you some beach-front property in Arizona.) Jackson, as with his "Hymietown" crack, denied having said what Taheri reported. While some of Taheri's previous reports have been questionable, there is no reason to believe that his report on Jackson's remarks in Evian was not accurate. Nor is there any reason to belive that Jackson's prdictions will not come to pass. After all, he knows Obama better than most.

JewsForObama.com, a web site established by left-wing Jews, was quick to come to Obama's defense. It attacked both Jackson and Taheri. The site added, "And, as Jeffrey Goldberg recently so eloquently put it: So, all you rumor-mongering, fever-headed Jewish conspiracists… After a point, it becomes obvious that what you fear is not Israel’s destruction, but the presence of an African-American in the White House. And that’s disgusting."

When all else fails, play the race card. Just hang a wacko racist label on your fellow Jews if they are opposed to Obama because his foreign policy advisers and some of his friends have long been hostile toward Israel. There is no doubt that Goldberg, a long-time investigative journalist for liberal publications, was referring to Jews like Shapiro and me. What is really disgusting is that he would make such an extremely offensive and outrageous assertion about Jews who truly believe that an Obama presidency will be a disaster for Israel. Goldberg's disgusting insertion of a racial motive is a typical tactic of the radical-left.

Again, Jesse Jackson's remarks to Amir Taheri validate Ben Shapiro's warning that "Barack Obama is the most dangerous candidate for the State of Israel since its creation in 1948." And as for Jeffrey Goldberg and JewsForObama.com, Shapiro's statement that "Any American Jew who votes for Obama ought to be ashamed of him or herself" applies doubly to both of them.