Ben Shapiro
has written an essay for breitbart.com (“A Complete Timeline of Obama’s
Anti-Israel Hatred”. March 20, 2015). It seems complete enough and damning enough
to share with you. If you haven’t already seen it, read it here:
“On Thursday
[March 18, 2015], the press announced that the Obama administration would fully
consider abandoning Israel in international bodies like the United Nations.
According to
reports, President Obama finally called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to
congratulate him – but the “congratulations” was actually a lecture directed at
forcing Netanyahu to surrender to the terrorist Palestinian regime.
For some odd
reason, many in the media and Congress reacted with surprise to Obama’s
supposedly sudden turn on Israel. The media, in an attempt to defend Obama’s
radicalism, pretend that Netanyahu’s comments in the late stages of his
campaign prompted Obama’s anti-Israel action.
But, in
truth, this is the culmination of a longtime Obama policy of destroying the
US-Israel relationship… Here is a concise timeline, with credit to Dan Senor
and the editors of Commentary:
February
2008: Obama says
while campaigning, ‘There is a strain within the pro-Israel community that says
unless you adopt an unwavering pro-Likud approach to Israel that you’re
anti-Israel.” At the time, as Dan Senor pointed out in The Wall Street
Journal, Israel was run by the Kadima government run by Ehud Olmert, Tzipi
Livni, and Shimon Peres, and was attempting desperately to bring the
Palestinians to the table. Instead, the Palestinians launched war, as always.
June 2008: Obama tells the American Israel
Public Affairs Conference that Jerusalem ought to remain undivided, attempting
to woo Jewish votes. He then walks that back the next day, saying only that the
capital shouldn’t be divided by barbed wire.
March
2009: The Obama
administration reverses the Bush era policy of not joining the United Nations
Human Rights Council. Secretary of State Clinton said, “Human rights are an essential
element of American global foreign policy,” completely neglecting the UNHRC’s
abysmally anti-Semitic record. The Washington Post reported that the
administration joined the Human Rights Council even though they conceded that
it “has devoted excessive attention to alleged abuses by Israel and too little
to abuses in places such as Darfur, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe.”
May 2009: Obama tells Netanyahu that
“settlements have to be stopped in order for us to move forward.” Netanyahu
announces a settlement freeze to comply. The Palestinians refuse to negotiate.
Obama then slams Israel: “they still found it very hard to move with any bold
gestures.”
June 2009: Obama tells the world in his
infamous Cairo speech that Israel was only created based on Jewish suffering in
the Holocaust. He then says that Palestinians have been similarly victimized by
the Jews: “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. America will not turn our backs on the legitimate
Palestinian aspiration for dignity, opportunity, and a state of their own.”
July 2009: Obama threatens to put “daylight”
between the United States and Israel. He tells Jewish leaders, “Look at the past
eight years. During those eight years, there was no space between us and
Israel, and what did we get from that?” Except for Israel forcibly removing
thousands of Jews from the Gaza Strip, the election of Hamas, and the launch of
war by the Palestinians and Hezbollah, nothing happened. Obama then lectures
the Jews about the need for Israeli “self-reflection.” The same month, Obama
tells CNN that the United States would “absolutely not” give Israel permission
to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities.
September
2009: Obama tells
the United Nations that “America does not accept the legitimacy of continued
Israeli settlements.” Obama’s definition of Israeli settlements, as the world
soon learned, included building bathrooms in a home already owned by Jews in
East Jerusalem. Obama offers no serious criticism of the Palestinians.
March
2010: Obama follows
up on his threatening language about settlements by deploying Vice President
Joe Biden to Israel, where Biden rips into the Israelis for building bathrooms
in Jerusalem, the eternal Jewish capital. Hillary Clinton then yells at
Netanyahu for nearly an hour on the phone, telling him he had “harmed the
bilateral relationship.” David Axelrod calls the building plans an “insult” to
the United States. When Netanyahu visits the White House a week and a half
later, Obama makes him leave via a side door.
April
2010: Obama refuses
to prevent the Washington summit on nuclear proliferation from becoming an Arab
referendum on the evils of Israel’s nukes.
June 2010: An anonymous “US defense source”
leaks to the Times of London that Israel had cut a deal with the Saudis
to use their airspace to strike Iran. The deal is scuttled.
May 2011: The State Department labeled
Jerusalem not a part of Israel. The same month, Obama demanded that Israel make
concessions to the Palestinians based on the pre-1967 borders, which Israelis
call the “Auschwitz borders” thanks to their indefensibility.
November
2011: Obama and
French president Nicolas Sarkozy are caught on open mic ripping Netanyahu, with
Sarkozy stating, “I can’t stand him, he’s a liar,” and Obama replying, “You’re
tired of him? What about me? I have to deal with him every day.”
December
2011: Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton rips into the State of Israel, stating that it is moving
in the “opposite direction” of democracy. She said that Israel reminded her of
Rosa Parks, and that religious people not listening to women sing – a
millennia-long policy among some segments of the Orthodox – reminds her of
extremist regimes, adding that it seemed “more suited to Iran than Israel.“
February
2012: Secretary of
Defense Leon Panetta tells David Ignatius at the Washington Post that
the possibility he worried about most was that Israel would strike Iran. The Post
then adds, “Panetta believes there is a strong likelihood that Israel will
strike Iran in April, May or June – before Iran enters what Israelis described
as a ‘zone of immunity’ to commence building a nuclear bomb.” The goal: to
delay any potential Israeli strike.
March
2012: NBC News
somehow gains information from “senior Obama administration officials” that
Israel had financed and trained the Iranian opposition group
Mujahideen-e-Khalq, and adds that the Obama administration had nothing to do
with hits on Iranian nuclear scientists. More daylight. More leaks. The same
month, Foreign Policy receives information from “four senior diplomats
and military intelligence officers” that the “United States has recently been
granted access to Iran’s northern border.” Foreign Policy also reports
that a “senior administration official” has told them, “The Israelis have
bought an airfield, and the airfield is Azerbaijan.” Again, a potential Israeli
strike is scuttled. The same day as the Foreign Policy report, Bloomberg
reports a Congressional Research Service report stating that Israel can’t stop
Iran’s nuclear program in any case. Columnist Ron Ben-Yishai of Yidioth
Ahronoth writes that the Obama administration wants to “erode the IDF’s
capacity to launch such strikes”…
June 2012: In an attempt to shore up the
Jewish vote, top members of the Obama administration, including Barack Obama,
Joe Biden, and then-CIA director Leon Panetta were quoted by David Sanger of The
New York Times talking about the President’s supposedly deep involvement in
the Stuxnet plan to take out Iran’s nuclear reactors via computer virus. Until
that point, it had been suspected but not confirmed that Stuxnet was an Israeli
project. The Obama administration denied leaking the information. A year later,
the State Department released emails showing that Sanger had corresponded
regularly with all the top Obama officials, including correspondence on
Stuxnet.
December
2012: Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton speaks at the Saban Forum on US-Israel Relations, where
she says that Israelis have a “lack of empathy” for Palestinians, and that the
Israelis need to “demonstrate that they do understand the pain of an oppressed
people in their minds.”
March
2013: Obama forces
Netanyahu to call Islamist Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to apologize
for Israel’s actions to stop a terrorist-arming flotilla from entering the Gaza
Strip to aid Hamas. Erdogan had recently labeled Zionism racism.
May 2013: Members of the Obama Pentagon leak
information that Israel attacked the Damascus airport to stop a shipment of
weapons to terrorist groups. Obama officials actually had to apologize for this
leak, since it endangered American lives. They blamed “low-level” employees.
June 2013: The Obama administration leaks
specific information regarding Israeli Arrow 3 anti-ballistic missile sites.
Weeks later, US sources tell CNN that Israel attacked a Syrian
installation full of Russian-provided missiles. The same month, “American
intelligence analysts” tell the New York Times that Israeli strikes had
not been effective. All that information was classified.
June 2014: Three Jewish teenagers are
kidnapped, including an American, and murdered by Hamas. The Obama
administration immediately calls on Israel for restraint, and says it will
continue to work with a Palestinian unity government including Hamas. State
Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki says that the Obama administration wants “the
Israelis and the Palestinians continue to work with one another on that, and we
certainly would continue to urge that… in spite of, obviously, the tragedy and
the enormous pain on the ground.” Throughout the ensuing Gaza War, in which
Hamas fired rockets at Israeli civilians and tunnels were uncovered
demonstrating Hamas’ intent to kidnap Israeli children, the Obama
administration criticized Israel’s prosecution of the war.
August
2014: In the middle
of a shooting war, Obama stopped weapons shipment to Israel. According to the Wall
Street Journal, Obama found out that Israel asked the Defense Department
for shipments of Hellfire missiles. Obama personally stepped in and blocked the
shipments.
October
2014: Jeffrey
Goldberg, court Jew for the Obama administration, releases an article in The
Atlantic quoting Obama officials calling Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
a “chickenshit.” Goldberg, naturally, blames Netanyahu (of course, he also
wrote in 2008 that any Jew who feared Obama on Israel was an “obvious racist”).
January
2015: Obama deploys
his campaign team to defeat Netanyahu in Israel. A group titled “One Voice,”
funded by American donors, pays for the Obama campaign team, led by Obama 2012
field director Jeremy Bird. The announcement comes days after Speaker of the
House John Boehner’s invite to Netanyahu to speak before a joint session of
Congress. Obama quickly announced he would not meet with Netanyahu, making the
excuse that the meeting would come too close to the election.
March
2015: Netanyahu
wins. Obama refuses to call him to congratulate him for two days. When he does,
he threatens to remove American support in the international community, even as
he moves to loosen sanctions and weapons embargoes on Iran.
Nothing has
changed. Obama is who he always was. The mask has simply been removed.”
My comment:
today, March 23, 2015, the United States has announced that it will not speak at
this week’s United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) meeting in Geneva. At
first, it looked as if this was another Obama-inspired anti-Israel act—for the
US has in the past spoken up to protect Israel from a UNHRC that has proven to
be viciously anti-Israel (the US has called the UNHRC treatment of Israel disproportionate, one-sided and biased). That
the US was now not speaking seemed like
a fulfilment of Obama’s threat last week to leave Israel completely exposed at
the UN—with no friend, no one to stand up for it and no one to protect it.
But then
news outlets reported that this was not what it looked like. Israel, it was
reported, had actually requested the US not to speak (Tovah Lazaroff, “US joins
Israel in boycotting UNHRC session to protest Agenda Item 7”, Jerusalem Post,
March 23, 2015).
Which
story-line was true—another American insult or an American answer to an Israeli
request?
Stay tuned.
This story isn’t over. It’s just beginning.
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