Obama Regime Announces Historic Changes In Relationship To Israel

From First Things:




Barack Obama Announces Historic Shift in America’s Relationship With Israel

Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, April 15, 2010, 5:01 AM

Do you remember when Jesse Jackson said that under Obama Jews would lose all of their clout?

He was right.



(Top left clockwise) Barack and Michelle Obama and radical Leftist anti-Israel Professor Edward Said at a May 1998 Arab community event in Chicago at which Edward Said gave the keynote speech. (Bill Baar’s West Side), Former PLO operative and close friend of the Obama’s Rashid Khalidi, Barack Obama and his racist minister Jeremiah Wright, and close terrorist friend William Ayers.



In an unprecedented move, the Obama administration said today that support of Israel will be “balanced against other US interests.”

The New York Times reported:



It was just a phrase at the end of President Obama’s news conference on Tuesday, but it was a stark reminder of a far-reaching shift in how the United States views the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and how aggressively it might push for a peace agreement.



When Mr. Obama declared that resolving the long-running Middle East dispute was a “vital national security interest of the United States,” he was highlighting a change that has resulted from a lengthy debate among his top officials over how best to balance support for Israel against other American interests.



This shift, described by administration officials who did not want to be quoted by name when discussing internal discussions, is driving the White House’s urgency to help broker a Middle East peace deal. It increases the likelihood that Mr. Obama, frustrated by the inability of the Israelis and the Palestinians to come to terms, will offer his own proposed parameters for an eventual Palestinian state.



Mr. Obama said conflicts like the one in the Middle East ended up “costing us significantly in terms of both blood and treasure” — drawing an explicit link between the Israeli-Palestinian strife and the safety of American soldiers as they battle Islamic extremism and terrorism in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.



Mr. Obama’s words reverberated through diplomatic circles in large part because they echoed those of Gen. David H. Petraeus, the military commander overseeing America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In recent Congressional testimony, the general said that the lack of progress in the Middle East created a hostile environment for the United States. He has denied reports that he was suggesting that soldiers were being put in harm’s way by American support for Israel.



Previously on Obama & Israel:

** Obama Refuses to Dine With Jewish Leader

** Obama Won’t Allow Any Photos of Him With PM Netanyahu

** Stunner. Obama Has Refused All Israeli Military Requests Since Entering Office in 2009

** Obama Administration Denies Visas to Israeli Nuclear Scientists



Related… Yesterday, the President of the World Jewish Congress called out Barack Obama telling the president, “Appeasement does not work!” The WJC took out full page ads in the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal today criticisizing the administration’s Israel policy