February 2008: Obama says while campaigning, ‘There is a strain within
the pro-Israel community that says unless you adopt an unwavering
pro-Likud approach to Israel that you’re anti-Israel.” At the time, as
Dan Senor pointed out in The Wall Street Journal, Israel was run by the Kadima government run by Ehud Olmert, Tzipi Livni, and Shimon Peres, and
was attempting desperately to bring the Palestinians to the table.
Instead, the Palestinians launch war, as always.
June 2008: Obama tells the American Israel Public Affairs Conference
that Jerusalem ought to remain undivided, attempting to woo Jewish
votes. He then walks that back the next day, saying only that the
capital shouldn’t be divided by barbed wire.
March 2009: The Obama administration reverses the Bush era policy of not
joining the United Nations Human Rights Council. Secretary of State
Clinton said, “Human rights are an essential element of American global
foreign policy,” completely neglecting the UNHRC’s abysmally
anti-Semitic record. The Washington Post reported that the
administration joined the Human Rights Council even though they conceded
that it “has devoted excessive attention to alleged abuses by Israel and
too little to abuses in places such as Darfur, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe.”
May 2009: Obama tells Netanyahu that “settlements have to be stopped in
order for us to move forward.” Netanyahu announces a settlement freeze
to comply. The Palestinians refuse to negotiate. Obama then slams
Israel: “they still found it very hard to move with any bold gestures.”
June 2009: Obama tells the world in his infamous Cairo speech that
Israel was only created based on Jewish suffering in the Holocaust. He
then says that Palestinians have been similarly victimized by the Jews:
“They endure the daily humiliations – large and small – that come with
occupation. So let there be no doubt: the situation for the Palestinian
people is intolerable. America will not turn our backs on the legitimate
Palestinian aspiration for dignity, opportunity, and a state of their
own.”
July 2009: Obama threatens to put “daylight” between the United States
and Israel. He tells Jewish leaders, “Look at the past eight years.
During those eight years, there was no space between us and Israel, and
what did we get from that?” Except for Israel forcibly removing
thousands of Jews from the Gaza Strip, the election of Hamas, and the
launch of war by the Palestinians and Hezbollah, nothing happened.
Obama
then lectures the Jews about the need for Israeli “self-reflection.” The
same month, Obama tells CNN that the United States would “absolutely
not” give Israel permission to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities.
September 2009: Obama tells the United Nations that “America does not
accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements.” Obama’s
definition of Israeli settlements, as the world soon learned, included
building bathrooms in a home already owned by Jews in East Jerusalem.
Obama offers no serious criticism of the Palestinians.
March 2010: Obama follows up on his threatening language about
settlements by deploying Vice President Joe Biden to Israel, where Biden
rips into the Israelis for building bathrooms in Jerusalem, the eternal
Jewish capital. Hillary Clinton then yells at Netanyahu for nearly an
hour on the phone, telling him he had “harmed the bilateral
relationship.” David Axelrod calls the building plans an “insult” to the
United States. When Netanyahu visits the White House a week and a half
later, Obama makes him leave via a side door.
April 2010: Obama refuses to prevent the Washington summit on nuclear
proliferation becoming an Arab referendum on the evils of Israel’s
nukes.
June 2010: An anonymous “US defense source” leaks to the Times of London
that Israel had cut a deal with the Saudis to use their airspace to
strike Iran. The deal is scuttled.
May 2011: The State Department labelled Jerusalem not a part of Israel.
The same month, Obama demanded that Israel make concessions to the
Palestinians based on the pre-1967 borders, which Israelis call the
“Auschwitz borders” thanks to their indefensibility.
November 2011: Obama and French president Nicolas Sarkozy are caught on
open mic ripping Netanyahu, with Sarkozy stating, “I can’t stand him,
he’s a liar,” and Obama replying, “You’re tired of him? What about me? I
have to deal with him every day.”
December 2011: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton rips into the State of
Israel, stating that it is moving in the “opposite direction” of
democracy. She said that Israel reminded her of Rosa Parks, and that
religious people not listening to women sing – a millennia-long policy
among some segments of the Orthodox – reminds her of extremist regimes,
adding that it seemed “more suited to Iran than Israel.“
February 2012: Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta tells David Ignatius at
the Washington Post that the possibility he worried about most was that
Israel would strike Iran. The Post then adds, “Panetta believes there is
a strong likelihood that Israel will strike Iran in April, May or June –
before Iran enters what Israelis described as a ‘zone of immunity’ to
commence building a nuclear bomb.” The goal: to delay any potential
Israeli strike.
March 2012: NBC News somehow gains information from “senior Obama
administration officials” that Israel had financed and trained the
Iranian opposition group Mujahideen-e-Khalq, and adds that the Obama
administration had nothing to do with hits on Iranian nuclear
scientists. More daylight. More leaks. The same month, Foreign Policy
receives information from “four senior diplomats and military
intelligence officers” that the “United States has recently been granted
access to Iran’s northern border.” Foreign Policy also reports that a
“senior administration official” has told them, “The Israelis have
bought an airfield, and the airfield is Azerbaijan.” Again, a potential
Israeli strike is scuttled. The same day as the Foreign Policy report,
Bloomberg reports a Congressional Research Service report stating that
Israel can’t stop Iran’s nuclear program in any case.
Columnist Ron Ben-Yishai
of Yidioth Ahronoth writes that the Obama administration wants to “erode
the IDF’s capacity to launch such strike with minimal casualties.”
June 2012: In an attempt to shore up the Jewish vote, top members of the
Obama administration, including Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and then-CIA
director Leon Panetta were quoted by David Sanger of The New York Times
talking about the President’s supposedly deep involvement in the Stuxnet
plan to take out Iran’s nuclear reactors via computer virus. Until that
point, it had been suspected but not confirmed that Stuxnet was an
Israeli project. The Obama administration denied leaking the
information. A year later, the State Department released emails showing
that Sanger had corresponded regularly with all the top Obama officials,
including correspondence on Stuxnet.
December 2012: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks at the Saban
Forum on US-Israel Relations, where she says that Israelis have a “lack
of empathy” for Palestinians, and that the Israelis need to “demonstrate
that they do understand the pain of an oppressed people in their minds.”
March 2013: Obama forces Netanyahu to call Islamist Turkish Prime
Minister Tayyip Erdogan to apologize for Israel’s actions to stop a
terrorist-arming flotilla from entering the Gaza Strip to aid Hamas. Erdogan had recently labeled Zionism racism.
May 2013: Members of the Obama Pentagon leak information that Israel
attacked the Damascus airport to stop a shipment of weapons to terrorist
groups. Obama officials actually had to apologize for this leak, since
it endangered American lives. They blamed “low-level” employees.
June 2013: The Obama administration leaks specific information regarding
Israeli Arrow 3 anti-ballistic missile sites. Weeks later, US sources
tell CNN that Israel attacked a Syrian installation full of
Russian-provided missiles. The same month, “American intelligence
analysts” tell the New York Times that Israeli strikes had not been
effective. All that information was classified.
June 2014: Three Jewish teenagers are kidnapped, including an American,
and murdered by Hamas. The Obama administration immediately calls on
Israel for restraint, and says it will continue to work with a
Palestinian unity government including Hamas. State Department
spokeswoman Jen Psaki says that the Obama administration wants “the
Israelis and the Palestinians continue to work with one another on that,
and we certainly would continue to urge that… in spite of, obviously,
the tragedy and the enormous pain on the ground.” Throughout the ensuing
Gaza War, in which Hamas fired rockets at Israeli civilians and tunnels
were uncovered demonstrating Hamas’ intent to kidnap Israeli children,
the Obama administration criticized Israel’s prosecution of the war.
August 2014: In the middle of a shooting war, Obama stopped weapons
shipment to Israel. According to the Wall Street Journal, Obama found
out that Israel asked the Defense Department for shipments of Hellfire
missiles. Obama personally stepped in and blocked the shipments.
October 2014: Jeffrey Goldberg, court Jew for the Obama administration,
releases an article in The Atlantic quoting Obama officials calling
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “chickenshit.” Goldberg, naturally,
blames Netanyahu (of course, he also wrote in 2008 that any Jew who
feared Obama on Israel was an “obvious racist”).
January 2015: Obama deploys his campaign team to defeat Netanyahu in
Israel. A group titled “One Voice,” funded by American donors, pays for
the Obama campaign team, led by Obama 2012 field director Jeremy Bird.
The announcement comes days after Speaker of the House John Boehner’s
invite to Netanyahu to speak before a joint session of Congress. Obama
quickly announced he would not meet with Netanyahu, making the excuse
that the meeting would come too close to the election.
March 2015: Netanyahu wins. Obama refuses to call him to congratulate
him for two days. When he does, he threatens to remove American support
in the international community, even as he moves to loosen sanctions and
weapons embargoes on Iran.
Nothing has changed. Obama is who he always was.
The mask has simply been removed.
(I can hear the sound of thin ice splintering coming from the USA ... Keygar)