July 23, 2009
American Jews: Listen to Israel's Left
A great piece by Evelyn Gordon in the Jerusalem Post, talking about how Israeli lefty concerns about Barack Obama are falling on deaf American Jewish lefty ears.
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Obama has screwed up on this. he has alienated Israel. Eventually, that has got to percolate back to his Jewish Democratic base in the US. Meanwhile, he has weakened Fatah, strengthened Hamas and gained zero credibility with the Arab states.
EPIC FAIL
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mesh/2009/07/obamas-opening-gambit/
"In addition to the vagueness of his goals, Obama’s body language has dealt the Israeli Left a weak hand. The Cairo speech cast Israel as a bit player in a U.S.-Muslim drama. The President, stressing his Muslim ancestry, did not take the time to fly to Jerusalem, where he might have reasoned with the Israeli public about the value to it of abandoning the Bush-Sharon agreement. Instead, his advisers denied flatly (and falsely) that such an agreement had ever existed. As a consequence of this disingenuousness, many Israelis fear that the administration aims to buy goodwill from the Muslim world by distancing itself from Israel, and they wonder whether settlements are not simply the first of many concessions that will be demanded. With such doubts swirling in the air, it is difficult for the Israeli Left to trumpet the Obama agenda."
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