(Originally posted to Freedom Press website}
So Obama went down to his crony Jeffrey Goldberg’s synagogue and put on the usual performance aimed at the dumber sort of liberal Jews. He mentioned Martin Luther King so many times that you might have thought it was MLK Day. He equated Betty Friedman with Einstein and Jonas Salk as the Jewish contribution to America. That’s like classing Al Sharpton with George Washington Carver.
After enough flattery about Jewish values, he got to the Israel-bashing point, stating, “Just as Israelis built a state in their homeland, Palestinians have a right to be a free people on their land, as well.”
Let’s set aside the obnoxious hijacking of Hatikvah worthy of the sort of BDSers who wear shirts with Anne Frank in a Keffiyah, how exactly does Obama plan to achieve the “free part”?
His buddy Abbas hasn’t held an election in a long time. Gaza is run by Hamas, a Muslim Brotherhood totalitarian terror group, making effectively two Palestinian states.
Neither of them free.
While Obama and Kerry constantly berate Israel, they haven’t tried to force Abbas to hold an actual election. The West Bank is currently run by the PLO Council rather than by a democratically elected government. Gaza is probably run by some combination of Iran and Qatar.
Like most cynical peace processors, Obama insists that the burden is on Israel while expecting nothing from the other side. After flattering his audience with the usual references to Jewish history in America, he places the burden on Israel to somehow make people in thrall to the PLO “free” by empowering the PLO.
After all the flattery, Obama chooses to irrationally blame Israel for the behavior of the PLO. If he wants to set anyone free, he should champion democracy in the West Bank. Instead Obama champions tyranny and terror and puts the blame on Israel.