MK Oren: Obama May Be Resolving ‘Abandonment Issues’ On World Stage
During a radio interview Sunday, former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren reinforced his position that President Obama’s relentless outreach to the Muslim world may be motivated by Obama’s being abandoned by two Muslim father figures.
Last week, Oren had speculated that Obama’s purported abandonment issues may have caused him to seek acceptance from the Muslim world.
Sunday, Oren maintained “it’s a legitimate question” to ask whether the “abandonment” of Obama by Kenyan Muslim father and Indonesian Muslim stepfather have partially driven Obama’s policy toward Islam, the Middle East, the war on terrorism, and Iran.
Oren made these comments on “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio,” broadcast on New York’s AM 970 The Answer and Philadelphia’s NewsTalk 990 AM.
Oren, a historian and author, served as Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. from May 3, 2009 to 2013. He is now a member of the Knesset and has been promoting his latest book, published last week, entitled, Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide.
As part of the book promotion, Oren penned an opinion piece in Foreign Policy Magazine in which he called Obama’s Muslim outreach “naïve” and “detached from a complex and increasingly lethal reality.”
Oren posited Obama’s policies of rapprochement toward the Islamic world “clearly stem from his personal interactions with Muslims” as well as the president’s academic influences.
Regarding Obama’s Muslim father figures, Oren wrote:
“I could imagine how a child raised by a Christian mother might see himself as a natural bridge between her two Muslim husbands. I could also speculate how that child’s abandonment by those men could lead him, many years later, to seek acceptance by their co-religionists.”
Obama’s father, Barack Obama Sr., was a Muslim who married Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, in 1961 and divorced her three years later.
Is Hamas Passing Information To Israel?
They say politics makes strange bedfellows. Apparently so does fighting Islamic State ideologues.
Using Egypt as a middleman of sorts, Hamas has been passing to Israel information on rival Salafist jihadists in the Gaza Strip hoping the Jewish state will target those militants, an Egyptian security source told KleinOnline.
The information has also been used by Egypt in its fight against allied Salafist groups in the Sinai Peninsula, which neighbors Gaza, the source said.
The source said the intelligence sharing development does not mark any change in Hamas’s attitude toward Israel. Nor does the development represent any rapprochement between Israel and Hamas, he added.
The source further stated that the information from Hamas only flows one way and that Israel does not in turn share any intelligence via Egypt with Hamas.
Asked to comment on the Egyptian security source’s claims, Mushir al-Masri, a spokesman for Hamas, told KleinOnline “This is a sick joke.”
“Israel is our enemy,” al-Masri continued. “Our conversations with Egypt have nothing to do with Israel.”
Senator Sanders Is Closely Tied To Socialist Organization
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), an avowed progressive and a 2016 presidential candidate, has not been shy about his affinity for socialism.
Now this reporter has found that Sanders maintained a close working relationship with the Democratic Socialists of America, or DSA, even helping to raise funds and recruit new members to the socialist group.
Sanders was a central player in the ushering of DSA-supported candidates into Congress and later helped rebrand and incorporate that legislative axis within the Congressional Progressive Caucus, or CPC.
The DSA is the largest socialist organization in the United States and is the principal U.S. affiliate of Socialist International, the worldwide organization of social democratic, socialist and labor parties.
Rewind to 1998. That year, in the January/February issue of Chicago DSA’s New Ground publication, veteran DSA activist Ron Baiman identified Sanders and Democratic Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts as leaders of the Progressive Caucus in Congress, which, Baiman related, the DSA “helped to organize.”
Until November 2002, the website of the CPC was openly hosted by the DSA, demonstrating the close ties between the two like-minded groups.
Following negative publicity about the CPC website being hosted by the socialist organization, the list of CPC names was moved to Sanders’s own website and was later relocated to its own site.
While the CPC website was being hosted by DSA, the DSA website featured “The Internationale,” the worldwide anthem of communism and socialism.
Another song on the site was “Red Revolution,” sung to the tune of “Red Robin.” The lyrics include:
“When the Red Revolution brings its solution along, along, there’ll be no more lootin’’ when we start shootin’ that Wall Street throng. …
“Are you sleeping? Are you sleeping? Bourgeoisie, Bourgeoisie. And when the revolution comes, We’ll kill you all with knives and guns, Bourgeoisie, Bourgeoisie.”
The DSA endorsed Sanders for every one of his subsequent elections and has openly helped raise funds for him over the years.
In 2006, for example, the DSA boasted in its literature about the socialist group’s “involvement in Bernie Sanders’ pivotal independent 2006 Senate campaign in Vermont.”
Indeed, the DSA held “Elect Sanders” house parties in Atlanta; Boston; Detroit; Portland, Maine; Boulder, Colorado; Indianapolis; Columbus, Ohio; Ithaca, New York; Springfield, Massachusetts; Washington, D.C.; and New York City.
That same year, Sanders spoke at a Detroit fundraiser for DSA’s Political Action Committee. The fundraiser was connected by telephone link to a simultaneous DSA fundraising event in Atlanta.
DSA literature notes that in January 2006, DSA Detroit Chair David Green “took Bernie Sanders to tour Stan Ovshinsky’s United Solar Ovonics plant in Auburn Hills northwest of Detroit.”
In the fall of 2006, Sanders was the featured speaker at several DSA “urban parties,” which also were meant to garner support for his senatorial run while raising awareness about the DSA and recruiting new members to the group.
DSA reported the Sanders events helped recruit new members to the socialist organization. “Sanders support work provides a natural vehicle in any locality for DSA to reach out to – and potentially recruit – unaffiliated socialists and independent radicals.”