Two immediate caveats - (1) this President is not in my judgment an anti-semite, although he definitely does intensely dislike Benjamin Netanyahu; (2) also, this President does not hate the United States, as shown by his desire to play every worthwhile golf course in the entire nation before his term in office expires.
That said, it is quite extraordinary that Mr. Obama has such a visceral disdain for our one true friend in the middle east, the fully democratic nation of Israel. A brief recitation of relevant facts about Israel's fundamental decency and steadfast commitment to the same values as we hold dear should convince any objective observer that Israel should be and is America's most steadfast ally in a region of the world where the very future of western civilization is under a growing existential threat by the forces of Islamist jihad. Israel is a pluralistic society which grants full citizenship rights to qualified Arab residents. (The Palestinians want to create an apartheid state in which every non-muslim is expelled.)
Israel conducts all of its governmental activities pursuant to the Rule of Law, equally applied to rich and poor, Arab and Jew alike. (The Palestinians are governed by the Rule of the Gun, any dissent from the ruling party line exposes the dissenter to a violent rebuttal.)
Israel has a human rights record that protects all minority residents and citizens from abuses. Israel has given woman full rights of participation in the political processes of the nation, ergo the election and governance of Prime Minister Golda Meir. (The Palestinians name schools, public squares and other government edifices after mass murderers of Jews, many times children slaughtered in Day Care facilities.) Clearly, my point is made here - when three Israeli teens were abducted and murdered, the majority of Palestinians rejoiced and they effected the escape of their killers; when a Arab teen was murdered, the majority of Jews mourned with the boy's parents and promptly arrested those Jewish criminals deemed culpable.
In this context of a clear delineation between American values being sought to be destroyed by Islamist fascists, the President does not even call Prime Minister Netanyahu, but he finds it appropriate to call the American World Cup soccer goalie to congratulate him on being a hero. Then, with hundreds of deadly rockets being launched from Gaza into Israel's civilian population centers (and with the Hamas stockpile of such rockets reliably estimated to exceed 10,000), the President calls for an immediate ceasefire at a point in time which will preserve Hamas' strategic advantage.
Let be honest here - since its capture of the Gaza strip in 2006, Hamas, not Israel, has been winning its war of total destruction against the Jewish nation. Major month long battles in this war of planned extinction have been fought by Hamas and Israel over the period of late 2006, 2008 and again in 2012. In each resumption of air and ground combat, the Israelis have responded in defense of their millions of citizens, both Arab and Jew, who have been subjected to ever more geographically expansive rocket attacks. In 2006, the Hamas arsenal was of a limited range, capable of striking only about 25 miles into southern Israel; after a US brokered ceasefire, in 2008, the Gaza terrorists were restocked by Iran with rockets having a range of more than fifty miles into Israel proper. After the 2008 coerced cessation of Israel's defensive efforts, the Iranian resupply of the Gaza arsenal extended these terror rocket's reach up to seventy five miles during the indiscriminate rocket attacks oncivilian centers in the Fall of 2012.
In the current battle for the survival of Israel, the Hamas rockets have expanded their range to upwards of one hundred and seventy-five miles, now striking daily the nation's two critical population centers - Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Even a community organizer can see this untenable pattern from 2006 until now - shadow boxing with Hamas, leaving this terrorist group disabled for a short period of time - indisputably allows them to come back a few years later both emboldened, empowered and more lethal.
Now, the Israelis have decided upon a new paradigm, one that will alter the Arc of History away from the incremental destruction of the Nation and provide for a Gaza battle outcome which will re-establish IDF control of this land area, such that the southern boundary of Gaza will no longer be unsecured to allow the unfettered smuggling to Hamas of ever more powerful long range rockets. Any more Korea-like stalemate via imposed truce declarations is now clearly seen to be slowly bleeding Israel to its death.
According, the President has an existential choice here - assist Israel in its battle for national survival or impose another (temporary only) cessation of hostilities that allows Hamas to live to fight and win another day. His choice here might not explain why he hates Israel, but if made in favor of Hamas, it will end forever the debate as to this characterization being accurate.
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