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		<title>Barack Obama’s Top Ten Insults Against Israel</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Treating our close friend and ally as an enemy. ]]></description>
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<p><strong>Reprinted from <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/">Telegraph.co.uk</a>.</strong></p>
<p>Last week Israel celebrated its 62nd year as a nation, but there  was major cause for concern amid the festivities as the Israeli people  faced the looming menace of a nuclear-armed Iran, as well as the  prospect of a rapidly deteriorating relationship with Washington. The  Israel-bashing of the Obama administration has become so bad that even  leading Democrats are now speaking out against the White House. New York  Senator Chuck Schumer <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0410/Schumer_Obamas_Counterproductive_Israel_policy_has_to_stop.html">blasted Barack Obama’s stance towards Israel </a>in a radio interview last week, stating his <em>“counter-productive”</em> Israel policy <em>“has to stop”</em>.</p>
<p>At the same time <a href="http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1295.xml?ReleaseID=1448">a poll was released by Quinnipiac University</a> which showed that US voters disapproved of the president’s Israel  policy by a margin of 44 to 35 percent. According to the poll, <em>“American  voters say 57 – 13 percent that their sympathies lie with Israel and  say 66 – 19 percent that the president of the United States should be a  strong supporter of Israel.”</em></p>
<p>I recently compiled a list of <a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100027838/barack-obama%E2%80%99s-top-10-insults-against-britain/">Barack Obama’s top ten insults against Britain</a>,  America’s closest ally in the world. This is a sequel of sorts, a list  of major insults by the Obama administration against America’s closest  ally in the Middle East, Israel. As<a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100030542/barack-obama-treats-israel-and-britain-with-sneering-contempt/"> I wrote previously on Obama’s treatment of both Britain and Israel:</a></p>
<p><em>In the space of just over a year, Barack Obama has managed to  significantly damage relations with America’s two closest friends, while  currying favour with practically every monstrous dictatorship on the  face of the earth. The doctrine of “smart power” has evolved into the  shameless appeasement of America’s enemies at the expense of existing  alliances. There is nothing clever about this approach – it will  ultimately weaken US global power and strengthen the hand of America’s  enemies, who have become significantly emboldened and empowered by  Barack Obama’s naïve approach since he took office.</em></p>
<p><em>The Obama presidency is causing immense damage to America’s  standing in the free world, while projecting an image of weakness in  front of hostile regimes. Its treatment of both Israel and Britain is an  insult and a disgrace, and a grim reflection of an unbelievably crass  and insensitive foreign policy that significantly undermines the US  national interest.</em></p>
<p>So here’s my top 10 list of Obama administration insults against Israel after just 15 months in power:</p>
<p><strong>1. Obama’s humiliation of Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House</strong></p>
<p>In March, the Israeli Prime Minister was humiliated by Barack Obama when he visited Washington. As<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/7521220/Obama-snubbed-Netanyahu-for-dinner-with-Michelle-and-the-girls-Israelis-claim.html"> <em>The Telegraph</em></a> reported, <em>“Benjamin  Netanyahu was left to stew in a White House meeting room for over an  hour after President Barack Obama abruptly walked out of tense talks to  have supper with his family”</em>, after being presented with a list of 13 demands. As <a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100031523/barack-obama%E2%80%99s-humiliation-of-israel-is-a-disgrace/">I wrote at the time:</a></p>
<p><em>This is no way to treat America’s closest ally in the Middle  East, and a true friend of the United States. I very much doubt that  even third world tyrants would be received in such a rude fashion by the  president. In fact, they would probably be warmly welcomed by the Obama  White House as part of its “engagement” strategy, while the leaders of  Britain and Israel are frequently met with arrogant disdain.</em></p>
<p><strong>2. Engaging Iran when Tehran threatens a nuclear Holocaust against Israel</strong></p>
<p>In contrast to its very public humiliation of close ally Israel, the  Obama administration has gone out of its way to establish a better  relationship with the genocidal regime of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, which  continues to threaten Israel’s very existence. It has taken almost every  opportunity to appease Tehran since it came to office, and<a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100020804/iranians-are-dying-for-freedom-%E2%80%93-where-is-barack-obama/"> has been extremely slow to respond</a> to massive human rights violations by the Iranian regime, including the beating, rape and murder of pro-democracy protesters.</p>
<p><strong>3. Drawing a parallel between Jewish suffering in the Holocaust with the current plight of the Palestinians</strong></p>
<p>In <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-Cairo-University-6-04-09/">his Cairo speech to the Muslim world,</a> President Obama condemned Holocaust denial in the Middle East, but  compared the murder of six million Jews during World War Two to the  “occupation” of the Palestinian territories, in a disturbing example of  moral equivalence:</p>
<p><em>“On the other hand, it is also undeniable that the Palestinian  people – Muslims and Christians – have suffered in pursuit of a  homeland. For more than sixty years they have 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. America will not turn our backs  on the legitimate Palestinian aspiration for dignity, opportunity, and a  state of their own.”</em></p>
<p><strong>4. Obama’s attack on Israeli “occupation” in his speech to the United Nations</strong></p>
<p>In his<a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100011129/barack-at-the-un-was-this-obama%E2%80%99s-most-naive-speech-ever/"> appalling</a> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/24/us/politics/24prexy.text.html">speech to the UN General Assembly last September</a>,  President Obama dedicated five paragraphs to the Israeli-Palestinian  conflict, without once referring directly to Palestinian terrorism by  name, but declaring to loud applause “America does not accept the  legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements.” He also lambasted the  Israeli “occupation”, and drew a connection between rocket attacks on  Israeli civilians with living conditions in Gaza. The speech served as a  ghastly PR exercise aimed at appeasing anti-Israel sentiment in the  Middle East, while bashing the Israelis over the head.</p>
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