US President Barack Obama - on the defense?
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and .The 2012 American presidential race is already beginning to heat up with attacks aimed at incumbent President Barack Obama's Israel-Palestinian Authority policies. Pro-Israel groups have launched television ad and telephone campaigns targeting the president's May 19 .
Obama called for Israel to agree to a final status deal with the PA, based on the 1949-1967 Armistice lines with land swaps. He also called on the PA to recognize Israel as a Jewish state with a need for secure borders, and offered, where an interim government is still in place and no one yet knows what kind of leaders will guide Israel's southern neighbor.
The American president added that the agreement should be concluded without a final settlement on Jerusalem or the issue of the so-called "right of return" of Arab refugees, both central points of contention which he alleged could be left for “later.” However, since Jerusalem is the reunited capital of Israel and the Jewish People, and the Palestinian Authority insists on taking nearly half of it for the capital of any country it would create, a final status agreement on such a basis would be essentially impossible.
The Republican Jewish Coalition -- which took a dim view of Obama's policy -- is already gearing up for the race, which may be a tight one. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, the organization is conducting a massive automatic telephone campaign that calls on the president to “retract his statements and support secure and defensible borders for Israel.”
The Emergency Committee for Israel meanwhile is thanking Congressional Democrats in a to be broadcast on cable news networks, according to a post on that organization's website. The ad tells viewers that the Democrats in Congress “stood with Israel” while Obama “sided with the Palestinians.”
The Emergency Committee for Israel meanwhile is thanking Congressional Democrats in a to be broadcast on cable news networks, according to a post on that organization's website. The ad tells viewers that the Democrats in Congress “stood with Israel” while Obama “sided with the Palestinians.”
The piece reiterated the president's vision that “a lasting peace will involve two states for peoples” – not an original thought, as it was previously “envisioned” by former President George W. Bush as well – “Israel as a Jewish state and the homeland for the Jewish people, and the state of Palestine as the homeland for the Palestinian people, each state enjoying self determination, mutual recognition and peace.”
Former Florida Congressman Robert Wexler also wrote a defense of the president in an op-ed for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel – an important move, since Florida is usually a swing state in presidential elections. In the coming year, it may become an especially pivotal state, inasmuch as Florida has a large “snowbird” population as well – the term for senior citizens who fly south for the winter, many of whom are Jewish.
In addition, newly-elected Chicago Mayor and former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel wrote a pro-Obama op-ed in the weekend Washington Post.
(IsraelNationalNews.com)
My note:
The majority of Americans stand by Israel. It matters not how much Obama's "sheep" and main stream media push Obama's agenda. Americans have had enough time to know that we will refuse to allow this administration to have another opportunity in 2012 to completely dismantle this nation, or progress with its un-American stance against our allies, while one man continues supporting America's enemies i.e. Islamic organizations bent on destroying the West and the State of Israel.
"When the ill winds blow, I will always stand with the Muslims." Barak Obama (in his book, The Audacity of Hope.")
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. - Thomas Jefferson
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. - Thomas Jefferson
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