Obama’s War on Israel
By Dick Morris & Eileen McGann
Published on DickMorris.com on May 23, 2011
No American Jew who values the existence of the nation of Israel can
kid himself any longer. President Obama is against the Jewish
state. His speech on Thursday overtly embraces the position of
the Palestinians and is designed to force Israel to surrender to their
domination.
How else are we to interpret a demand that Israel return to its 1967
borders and that this be the starting point for further
negotiations? The 1967 borders include a waist line across the
middle of Israel that is all of twelve miles in length. It can be
walked easily in four hours and driven in less than fifteen
minutes. A jet would take one minute to overfly it.
To force Israel into indefensible borders is not a prelude to a
solution. It is the prelude to a modern equivalent of the Final
Solution - the destruction of Israel and of the seven million Jews who
live there.
Who can pretend that shrinking Israel would appease the Arabs any more
than dismembering Czechoslovakia appeased Hitler? The
Palestinians, long kept seething with grievances by the United Nations
refugee agency, Hamas, and the PA, want the right of return. They
demonstrated this just last week as they approached Israel’s borders
demanding admission. Short of having their farms and homes back -
and driving out the Jews who have lived there for more than sixty years
- there is no compromise that they will accept.
And what is the backdrop for Obama’s embrace of the essential
Palestinian demand? It takes place a few weeks after the merger
of the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, committing both to the
destruction of Israel. This is the entity Obama wants Israel to
trust twelve miles from the sea!
If the last few months of revolutions in the Arab world have
demonstrated anything, it is that the Arab street is more concerned
with its own economic well being and in getting out from under the
despotism of their regimes than about the plight of the
Palestinians.
The consequences for Jewish Democrats of Obama’s remarks are
profound. They must each now choose, bluntly and without room for
equivocation between their support for Obama and their backing for
Israel. It is not Israel or the Republican Party that has forced
this choice upon them. It is the President himself whose
anti-Israel bias has never been more blatantly on display.
As President Obama solicits funds from American Jews, let us all
remember our family, friends, and compatriots in Israel and honor them
by saying no. It is the time for American Jews to choose.
Just like it was in 1938.
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