Friday Afternoon Roundup - The Evil that Obama Speaks
Posted: 05 Jun 2009 03:50 PM PDT
Obama began his charade of a trip at Cairo, bowing and scraping
before the Saudi King, and equating
the Holocaust to the Palestinian Arab situation.
Around the world, the Jewish people were persecuted for
centuries, and anti-Semitism in Europe culminated in an unprecedented
Holocaust. Tomorrow, I will visit Buchenwald, which was part of a
network of camps where Jews were enslaved, tortured, shot and gassed to
death by the Third Reich. Six million Jews were killed — more than the
entire Jewish population of Israel today. Threatening Israel with
destruction — or repeating vile stereotypes about Jews —is deeply wrong,
and only serves to evoke in the minds of Israelis this most painful of
memories while preventing the peace that the people of this region
deserve.
On the other hand, it is also undeniable that the
Palestinian people... have suffered in pursuit of a homeland. For more
than 60 years they've endured the pain of dislocation. Many wait in
refugee camps in the West Bank, Gaza, and neighboring lands for a life
of peace and security that they have never been able to lead. They
endure the daily humiliations — large and small — that come with
occupation. So let there be no doubt: The situation for the Palestinian
people is intolerable. And America will not turn our backs on the
legitimate Palestinian aspiration for dignity, opportunity, and a state
of their own.
Then he headed off to Buchenwald to stage his photo op.
While concentration camps have been used for photo ops by
politicians before, Obama is using Buchenwald as a prop in his campaign to
pressure Israel. After a formula that compared the Holocaust to the
Palestinian Arab refugee camps (maintained by their fellow Arabs as
a deliberate policy to promote hostilities with Israel), the obvious
equation treats Israelis as the new Nazis.
Obama's speech
furthermore describes threatening Israel with destruction, genocide, as
"deeply wrong." Why is it deeply wrong according to Obama? Because it
raises "painful memories" for Israelis, and prevents them from making
peace.
Not because planning to kill millions of Jews is wrong. But
because talking that way upsets Israel too much to make a deal.
By contrast he describes the Palestinian situation as "intolerable". Killing
millions of Jews to Obama is not "intolerable". By contrast Israel not
giving the Palestinian Arab terrorists their own state, is intolerable.
And of course an intolerable thing is something that Obama will not
tolerate.
So just so we're clear, plotting to stage another
Holocaust, "deeply wrong", but don't expect Obama to do anything about it.
Failing to create a Palestinian state. "Intolerable."
Of course
that's just the beginning, and the handful of conservatives and Jewish
leaders praising this speech, have simply not read it carefully through
all the way. Don't tell me words don't matter, right.
Obama describes the suffering of
Americans and Israelis at the hands of terrorists in terms of emotional,
and therefore irrational responses. The attacks of 9/11 "was an enormous
trauma to our country." Threatening genocide to the Jews "evoke in the
minds of Israelis this most painful of memories". This is the way a
therapist talks about a patient, not the way a leader talks about the
people he is supposed to defend.
Interestingly enough my
preview copy of Obama's speech actually managed to hit some of his
highlights.
My Preview Copy
I am privileged to be
speaking to you today from Cairo's Al Azhar University, the world
renowned center of Islamic scholarship. Once upon a time, Islamic
science was the envy of the world over. Islamic scholars brought knowledge and faith
to Europe and Asia. Informed by their centuries old faith, the
greatest minds of Islam helped transform the world with their wisdom,
their belief and their intellectual curiosity.
Obama's Speech
I am honored to
be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be hosted by two
remarkable institutions. For over a thousand years, Al—Azhar has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning; and for over a century, Cairo University has been a source of Egypt's advancement. And together, you represent the harmony between tradition and progress.
As a student of history, I also
know civilization's debt to Islam. It
was Islam — at places like Al-Azhar — that carried the light of learning
through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe's Renaissance and
Enlightenment.
My Preview Copy
I apologize first of all for our rush to judgment in the
aftermath of the man-caused disaster that occurred on September 11. We
may never know for certain who was behind these attacks, whether it was
extremists operating out of Afghanistan and hijacking the good name of
Islam to disguise their links to the CIA, or whether as my hosts have
suggested, it was perhaps the Jews. We will never know. But no attack,
no amount of carnage justifies the unthinking hatred with which the
American people responded to this unfortunate incident.
Obama's Speech
Violent extremists have exploited these tensions in a
small but potent minority of Muslims. The attacks of September 11, 2001
and the continued efforts of these extremists to engage in violence
against civilians has led some in my country to view Islam as inevitably
hostile not only to America and Western countries, but also to human
rights. All this has bred more fear and more mistrust.
Of of course it was virtually inevitable that Obama would
repeat the myth of Islamic enlightment and minimize the attacks of 9/11,
while apologizing for Americans viewing the Islamic Jihad as hostile. But
it shows how predictable Obama's ballyhooed teleprompter speeches are
getting.
At The Daily Beast, there's a breakdown of how
to write your own Obama speech, and it really isn't all that hard at
all.
Charles
Krauthammer at the Washington Post meanwhile points out the inherent
hypocrisy of Obama condemning American imperialism in policymaking, only
to declare his own diplomatic Jihad against Israel for not knuckling under
to terrorism.
President Obama repeatedly insists that American foreign
policy be conducted with modesty and humility. Above all, there will be
no more "dictating" to other countries. We should "forge partnerships as
opposed to simply dictating solutions," he told the G-20 summit. In
Middle East negotiations, he told al-Arabiya, America will henceforth
"start by listening, because all too often the United States starts by
dictating."
An admirable sentiment. It applies to everyone --
Iran, Russia, Cuba, Syria, even Venezuela. Except Israel. Israel is
ordered to freeze all settlement activity. As Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton imperiously explained the diktat: "a stop to settlements -- not
some settlements, not outposts, not natural-growth
exceptions."
What's the issue? No "natural growth" means
strangling to death the thriving towns close to the 1949 armistice line,
many of them suburbs of Jerusalem, that every negotiation over the past
decade has envisioned Israel retaining. It means no increase in
population. Which means no babies. Or if you have babies, no housing for
them -- not even within the existing town boundaries. Which means for
every child born, someone has to move out. No community can survive like
that. The obvious objective is to undermine and destroy these towns --
even before negotiations.
Naturally.
Speaking of enabling violent racists
and anti-semites, Obama is now working closely with Al Sharpton, a man
behind racial attacks on Jews and Asians, some of which like the Crown
Heights Pogrom and the Freddy's arson, ended in murder.
Al Sharpton
is a former drug dealer, a violent racist thug and an all around
hatemonger. He is also a shining star of the Democratic party, he has
spoken at conventions and now he's getting quite close to Obama.
Al's Back
So far, Sharpton has been to the White House more times,
and for more close-up conversations with Obama, than the leaders of
other long-established civil rights organizations like the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Urban
League.
And in April, Vice President Joe Biden addressed the
annual convention of Sharpton’s group, the National Action Network, in
New York.
Now the Department of Education is making plans for
Sharpton to join Secretary Arne Duncan on a five-city tour this fall —
an idea that Duncan’s aides say came directly from the White House after
the Oval Office meeting.
Naturally Obama couldn't embrace Sharpton too closely,
until he was safely seated inside the White House. But now Sharpton, who
has been responsible for more hate crimes than David Duke, has an all
access pass to Obama.
Elder of Ziyon meanwhile takes on Western naivete toward the Jihad
The biggest single mistake that well-meaning Westerners
make when analyzing the Middle East is when they assume that everyone
thinks the way they do.
To a Westerner, it seems obvious that
organizations that have no logical reason for existence would become
irrelevant. In the Arab world, things are quite
different.
Westerners look at problems and instinctively try to
find optimal, logical solutions. They want to draw a straight line from
point A to point B. They create project plans, hold conferences, debate
issues, and attempt to make everybody happy - all with the underlying
mindset that everyone is like them.
Arabs do not think like we
do. Westerners have to stop trying to place the square Arab peg in the
round Western hole and actually understand an entirely alien
mindset.
From an Arab perspective, the "justification" for
Hezbollah is crystal clear and explicit: they will continue to exist
until Israel is destroyed. For a large number of Arabs, a peace treaty
would be, by definition, between Israel and Arab traitors - a useless
gesture whose only possible purpose would be to destroy Israel by
stages. To them, Israel's very existence is an unpardonable affront to
their honor as Arabs. Hezbollah is not Palestinian.
Even
forgetting about Israel, Hezbollah has two other purposes that keep them
relevant after any "peace treaty:" they aim to turn Lebanon into a
fundamentalist Islamic state, and (more recently) they are enabling Iran
to increase its influence in the Middle East. (Syria also finds
Hezbollah useful to advance its own interests.)
So too the peace process ultimately strengthened
Hamas. And Al Queda gained power from warmer American relations with the
Gulf States.
Furthermore terrorist groups are part of a proxy war
against Israel, that cannot be resolved with peace treaties that are not
concluded with the principals. The principals are in Tehran or in Ridyah.
They are not in Ramallah. And they have no need to negotiate with Israel,
because they can't be hurt in a proxy war.
IsraelMatzav points out
the fallacy of Obama tying
the creation of Israel to the Holocaust
The Balfour Declaration preceded the Holocaust by
more than thirty years. The Palestine Mandate preceded it by more than
twenty years. Israel's existence is not 'justified' by the Holocaust and
the Holocaust is not the only time our people were massacred - only the
most recent one and probably the largest one in terms of numbers and
percentages. While the Holocaust is an important event in Jewish
history, there are many other 'justifications' for Israel's existence
and they go back much longer than 70 years.
President Obama doesn't get it.
Oh does get it. He just chooses to articulate a
position that treats the Jews as colonialist settlers who invaded the
Middle East and had to be given a state because everyone felt bad for them
after the Holocaust.
Going back to the Balfour declaration would
open up a dangerous can of worms that would wind up favoring Israel. And
we can't have that.
Speaking of scumbags, Murtha's drug
dealer lobbying case continues to unfold
Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., steered millions of dollars in
defense work to a campaign donor and the Pentagon went along with it,
even though two convicted drug dealers had been deeply involved with the
company.
I seriously can't see how anyone with the slightest
modicum of self-respect could utter such a thing. Why in the world can't
they take care of themselves? Are they retarded? Are they daft? Are they
children? Hell, even children eagerly await the day when they can take
care of themselves as they protest "I can do it, let me do it" but then
these kids grow up to be democrats and suddenly someone else is expected
to "do it" and the liberal democrat is all too willing to make the
promises. Except that these "promises" of a false utopianism where every
one's need is met is really just a tyranny in disguise.
Exactly, and the nanny state is a pretext for a state
of nannies, ultimately run for the benefit of the nannies.
Lemon Lime Moon writes in Perpetual State of Fear
Michael Crichton 's State of Fear showed an
environmental group who were willing to drive home their point by
murdering thousands through ecological terror. You don't believe us.....
we'll show you!
In other words, get your way by creating all
manner of threats to them.
Socialistic governments, communist
governments make money off the backs of the people they enslave. Slaves
are dependent on their masters for everything. Of course a wise master
feeds his slave and allows him relatively okay treatment . Starving
workers don't produce for you. But they deny you freedom of thought and
freedom of innovation and creativity.
To continue to hold people
in slavery to you manipulation of their minds is paramount. There must
be threats with which to keep them cowering and living in fear. Whether
such threats exist or not is not important . It is only important that
the slaves think they exist. So you provide external threats, internal
threats, and etc.
The sky must always be falling. Cancer is
around every corner...the gov must intervene! There are enemies seeking
to blow everything up......the government must intervene. Your grass is
a carbon enemy... the gov can save you. Cows are killing us all with
their emissions...... yet again gov is the hero. The seas are
polluted... we have to tax fishermen to the hilt. The air is unclean....
more taxes on gas and planes and cars and motorbikes. You can't afford
to be healthy.... so the government will tax you more and give you
proven inferior socialized medicine. Even the weather is out to get you
now too........ Hurray for government which solves
everything!
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