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When Will Obama's Pro-Israel Promoters Admit They Were Wrong?

Posted: 17 Mar 2009 07:27 PM PDT

Mind you I'm not talking about Obama's core Jewish supporters. They

never supported Israel. They might support the destruction of Israel.

I'm not even talking about his core base of support among Jews, young

unaffiliated liberals who couldn't give less of a damn about Israel.

I'm not even talking about the likes of Michael Bloomberg, cynical

politicians eager to trade on anything for their own self-advancement.

I am talking about people like Ed Koch, Martin Peretz, and Alan

Dershowitz, who had built up legitimate Pro-Israel credentials, and in

some cases had turned right after 9/11, only to turn around
and be taken for a ride on the Obama bandwagon. Enlisting people

like them played a crucial role in convincing Jewish organizations that

Obama was not dangerous and that his positions on Israel would be just fine.

(They were certainly not alone. Plenty of non-Jewish liberal Republicans

proved willing to get on the Obama bus. They've hemmed and hawed, but

they've yet to admit their mistake.)

Now hardly two months in, it's clear that they were tragically wrong, that

they were played and in the process helped con others. From the beginning,

from his phone call to his first interview, Obama put terrorists and the

Saudis first. The Chas Freeman appointment was not an isolated
event, along with James L. Jones, Samantha Power, for whom Obama
created a special position, Dennis Blair he was meant to be part of a whole

raft of Anti-Israel figures now calling the shots.

Meanwhile J Street, an Anti-Israel lobbying group funded by Soros,

is getting primacy at the White House.

In case anyone doubted the meaning of the message, when Gabi
Ashkenazi, the Israeli Chief of Staff, came to D.C. to meet with

administration officials, he found all the doors had been

barred against him. From the Defense Secretary, to the Chairman of

the Joint Chiefs, or Blair himself. Ashkenazi's one meeting was set to be

with James L. Jones, himself closely tied to the Saudis, whose role was

to warn Israel to start making concessions to Israel immediately.
Ashkenazi was almost lucky though by comparison to Uzi Arad, Israel's

new National Security Advisor, who isn't even being allowed to enter

the United States.

Israel has been virtually shut out of the process as D.C. has worked to

bring together a Unity government, and made so many approaches to

Iran that even some of the Gulf States are panicking and warning

Obama to run any concessions by them first.

Though when not even Iran openly admitting to collaborating in the

murder of US troops prevents American diplomats from giving away the

kitchen store, it's not clear what if any limits exist anymore.

Meanwhile the Administration has turned a blind eye to the growing

anti-semitic invective and attacks by left wing South American

governments, particularly Chavez's Venezuela. And now a new CIA

report supposedly claims that Israel has twenty years to live,
terminating in a One State Solution. By no coincidence the prefered
outcome promoted by Chas Freeman.

All that and it's only the middle of March. Still there are few signs of

Teshuvah, repentance and atonement, by those who helped foist King

Hussein on us. Martin Peretz appeared shaken by the Freeman battle

and its larger implications. Alan Dershowitz insisted on condemning

Freeman alone, without an honest examination of how or why
someone like that would have ever gotten the nod to take charge of
the National Intelligence Estimate. Ed Koch has focused only on the

economy, repeatedly praising Obama, but questioning some of his

economic steps, yet blaming Congress for most of it.