I did not vote for Barack Obama, but now that the election he clearly won is over, it is time to stop bashing our president-elect. He will be our president and as such deserves our support. That's what I plan to do until he does something that I cannot support. As my readers know, my main concern has been that an Obama administration will make a sharp turn in favor of the Palestinians because his foreign policy advisors have had a long track record of taking anti-Israel/pro-Palestinian positions.
Several e-mails from liberal Jews have been forwarded to me in which they salivated over the appointment of Rahm Emanuel as Obama's chief of staff. They alluded to Emanuel's strong Jewish faith and to the fact that his father, a Jerusalem-born physician, had been a member of the Irgun. The Irgun, a Zionist terrorist group, operated against the British in Palestine from 1931-48 and played a major role in the fighting that gave birth to the Jewish State. The salivaters offered Emanuel's appointment as proof that Jews can trust Obama's declared friendship for Israel. What fools they be.
I believe that because Emanuel is Jewish, he will bend over backwards to avoid any appearance of being biased in favor of the Israelis. If I am correct, that does not bode well for the State of Israel. And now it is almost certain that Obama will appoint Hillary Clinton as his Secretary of State. Jews should take no comfort in that, considering Hillary's embrace of Suha Arafat in 1999. A reminder is very much in order.
At the time, an outraged Jewish reader declared that an article by Yedidya Atlas "details what Hillary 'Terrorist Enabler' Clinton did that showed what she really loves. Here is something that you (Jews) should never forget about her." The article that so enraged him is from IsraelNationalNews.com (11-7-2000) and this is what Atlas reported:
"In November 1999, while on a purported State visit to the Middle East, she (Clinton) 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. Glossing over this remarkably repugnant affair, Mrs. Clinton has yet to specifically contradict and denounce the monstrous lies uttered by Yasser Arafat's wife in her presence."
78 percent of the Jewish vote went to Obama. So, all of you salivating liberal Jews, now it's time to wake up in the real world and stop dreaming. Obama chose Emanuel not because he is Jewish, but because "Rahm-bo" is a proven political hardball player. The best that you can hope for is that Emanuel will keep his nose out of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. If he doesn't, I see him leaning toward the Palestinian side. And Hillary Clinton, as Secretary of State, will be no friend of Israel either. Sorry, but that's why I still don't trust Obama.
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