| Is President Obama an Existential Threat to the Jewish State? |
[Jun. 10th, 2009|10:29 am] |
The fallout from President Obama’s Cairo speech is still raining down. Al Qaeda, AIPAC and the Limbaugh-led GOP have basically condemned it, moderates in the “Islamic world” are cautiously optimistic, and the Netanyahu-led Israelis are nervous and jerky.
The big question is this - will the Israelis and their ardent US supporters see President Obama as an existential threat to the Jewish State?
The “special relationship” between the US and Israel has not been this stressed since JFK demanded a halt to Israel’s nascent nuclear weapons program, in the spring of 1963. Israel’s PM, David Ben Gurion resigned rather than comply. A few months later, JFK was gunned down in Dallas. LBJ gave the Israelis the green light to proceed with their nuclear ambitions.
I see a parallel dynamic developing. With a far-right Israeli government currently in power, somebody may be thinking the unthinkable. Is Biden as ruthless and self-serving as LBJ was in 1963? We shall see.
Here is a link to an excellent article appearing on Haaretz.com, with this ominous headline, “Loving Israel by hating Obama “, by Bradley Burston.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1091234.html
It is an eye-opening, provocative piece that dares to expose a racist element in Israel-loving US Jews. I just had to comment.
Here is the text of my post:
Thank you, Mr. Burston, for having the courage and will to speak so openly on such a taboo subject. Please continue to inform us about issues that are uncomfortable and therefore often left out of the news and opinion sections of the mainstream media.
It appears that victimhood, in itself, does not confer righteousness upon the victims.
A history of being oppressed does not seem to engender a sense of collective compassion, sympathy or tolerance in the former victims.
On the contrary, former victims of hatred can become brutal perpetrators - this is true for individuals as well as for nations.
It is more than ironic when the Israeli government and Jewish NGO's speak out about "growing anti-Semitism" in Europe and elsewhere.
The world sees the apartheid wall, the Jim Crow system for Arab Israelis and the squalid Arab refugee camps.
When and if the Israelis abandon their notions about Jewish supremacy in Palestine, the world might genuinely eschew anti-Semitism. |
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