Is Obama Throwing Israel Under the Bus?

Obama has turned out to be King “throw him under bus.”

This week, it was not a he – or a she – it was Israel.

Obama traveled to the Middle East to shower Muslims with attention and gain popularity at the expense of Israel. To appease the Arab nations, he cold shouldered Israel, gave his “Muslims are loving too” speech and moved on completely missing a stop in Israel and just about everyone noticed. Muslims noticed – and praised Obama and stated Israel should follow Obama’s peaceful lead and Israel noticed too - with a slightly different take on the whole trip.

The Zionist Organization of America’s national president Morton Klein did not hold such a supportive outlook on King Obama’s speech. In part he said: "Obama falsely claimed the Palestinian Arabs were 'displaced' by Israel in 1948; falsely claimed the Palestinian Arabs have been suffering trying to establish their state for 60 years (they could have had a state in 1937, 1948 or in 2000, but turned down each opportunity). Obama also bizarrely claimed that he longs for the day Jerusalem is secure for Jews, Muslims and Christians even though this has been precisely the case since Israel reunited the city under its control in 1967.

The Zionist organization released a long abrasive commentary on Obama’s speech and they were none-too-happy.

Netanyahu wasn’t pleased either, and that wasn’t too highly unexpected. He said Israel would defy Obama and continue building in existing settlements on territory Israel occupied during the 1967 Middle East war.

Back in the U.S. - House Minority Whip Rep. Eric CantorEric Cantor (R-Va.) made comments on Obama’s speech as well. He Stated: “As Palestinian terror shows no sign of abating, President Obama’s insistence that it is in America’s best interest to pressure Israel sends the wrong message to the region. Where is the outrage at the Palestinians’ continued refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state? Where is the concern for their failure to root out the terrorists in their midst?

David Horovitz of the Jerusalem Post wrote today that Obama wasn’t exactly on the money when referring to the history of Israel and the Jews. He wrote: Where he [Obama] - terribly - missed a vital opportunity from Israel's point of view, however, was in legitimizing our Jewish nation-state solely on the basis of our people's persecution through the centuries, which "culminated in an unprecedented Holocaust."

Yes, of course, denying the Holocaust is "baseless, ignorant and hateful." And yes, "threatening Israel with destruction" does indeed serve "to evoke in the minds of Israelis this most painful of memories while preventing the peace that the people of this region deserve." But our rights in this land are not predicated solely, or even primarily, on the tragedies that have befallen us during our history in exile. Those rights relate, rather, to the fact that we were in exile - from this land, this historic Jewish homeland. This is the only place on earth where the Jews have ever been sovereign, the place we never willingly left, the place to which we always prayed to return.”

“…the president spoke of the "displacement" of Palestinians "brought by Israel's founding" (while making no mention of the Arab world's rejection of the Arab entity that would have been simultaneously created alongside us). In so doing, he reinforced the very portrayal of Israel as a modern colonial upstart that Iran's Mahmoud AhmadinejadMahmoud Ahmadinejad so cynically and strategically asserts.

Prominent Zionist, Rabbi Shlomo Aviner, is now urging Israelis to reject Obama’s pressure and even further to not accept any financial aid from the US at all and that according to the Gemara accepting charity from a non-Jew equals blasphemy.

So – did Obama throw Israel under the bus? Or, did Obama simply promote peace in a war torn area and offer his hand to the Muslim nations that under his Presidency, the United States would no longer unequivocally support Israel?

Maybe if you look at Obama’s words in context of the negativity aimed at Israel, the avoidance of any real discussions on Arab terrorism and nations such as Iran who pushes their nuclear programs “for peaceful means” you just might draw the conclusion that Obama sides with the Muslim nations.

Israel is not a foolish country and the idea that Obama would discuss the development of nuclear technology with Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a basis for “peaceful energy” was not overlooked.

How Obama can sit straight faced with this man and believe his nuclear intentions are for energy purposes is simply foolish. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is no friend of Israel, but is becoming a closer with Obama.

Last week while campaigning, Ahmadinejad ruled out talks with the UN Security Council veto-wielding permanent members Britain, China, France, Russia the United States and Germany on its nuclear development, but Ahmadinejab said he was open to a debate with US President Barack ObamaBarack Obama.

That’s just odd. Ahmadinejab, who is seeking a second term in office, again stated on Wednesday that the Holocaust was a "big deception." He also accused the world's democracies of degrading "human values" with their pro-Israel policies and that the "identity of the liberal democracy has been exposed to the world by its protection of the most criminal regime in the history of humanity, the Zionist regime, by using the big deception of the Holocaust.

He further stated: "There is no doubt that the only way to replace the liberal thought is to go back to the teachings of the divine prophets."

There is no discussing anything with this mad-man. Discussions with Iran are not in the best interest of the United States. Israel has long been an allied to the United States and Iran has shown hostility, subjected American citizens to terrorism and boldly denied one of the most tragic events of World history. To discuss peaceful energy that has the potential to demolish Jews is not above the thought process of Ahmadinejad and Israel will NOT stay under the bus long enough to allow Obama to continue his denial of Iran’s true intentions.