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[Make sure to read Daniel Greenfield’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
In 2014, Hamas kidnapped and killed three teens, including Naftali Frenkel, an American 16-year-old. “I’ve murdered three Jews,” the killer boasted.
As Israel battled Hamas, Obama called for a ceasefire. “I have no sympathy for Hamas. I have great sympathy for ordinary people who are struggling within Gaza,” he argued, while describing the terrorists as having behaved “extraordinarily irresponsibly”.
“The US goal right now would be to make sure that the ceasefire holds, that Gaza can begin the process of rebuilding,” Obama said and urged that there needs to be “some prospects for an opening of Gaza so that they do not feel walled off.”
After the fighting died down, the Palestinian Authority asked for $4 billion to rebuild Gaza, the international community pledged $5.4 billion with $212 million of it coming from America.
“The people of Gaza do need our help, desperately,” Secretary of State John Kerry claimed.
The ceasefire which allowed Hamas to rearm and rebuild was one in a series that led directly to the horrors in the Israeli communities near Gaza attacked by the murderous Islamic group.
Obama’s pivot on Hamas was part of his pivot on the Muslim Brotherhood. When he delivered his ‘New Beginning’ speech in Cairo in 2009 , he specifically requested that the Muslim Brotherhood attend as he not only called for a ‘Palestinian’ terrorist state inside Israel and negotiations with Iran, but also legitimized Hamas which is an arm of the Brotherhood.
“Hamas does have support among some Palestinians, but they also have to recognize they have responsibilities. To play a role in fulfilling Palestinian aspirations, to unify the Palestinian people, Hamas must put an end to violence, recognize past agreements, recognize Israel’s right to exist,” he told an audience which included members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Hamas responded warmly to the outreach. Hamas boss Khaled Mashaal praised “Obama’s new language towards Hamas” and described it as “the first step in the right direction.”
Obama had made a point of reaching out to Hamas and to both of its key backers: the Muslim Brotherhood and Iran. On taking office, he had received letters from both Hamas, which “congratulated Mr. Obama on his presidency and reminded him that he should live up to his promise to bring real change to the region”, and from key national security figures, Brent Scowcroft, who provided advice to him, Chuck Hagel, his future defense secretary,
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter’s national security adviser, Paul Volcker, the head of Obama’s economic recovery board, along with other notables, urging him to talk to Hamas.
“I see no reason not to talk to Hamas,” Scowcroft, a longtime advocate of Iran appeasement, had argued. The national security figure was especially influential with Obama gushing, “I love that guy.” And what Obama offered was much better than words..
Earlier in 2009, the Obama administration promised to provide $900 million in aid to help “rebuild” Gaza after fighting that began when Hamas was caught digging a tunnel to kidnap Israelis. The donation was announced in Egypt by Hillary Clinton who promised that the money would not end up in the “wrong hands”, but made no mention of Hamas.
Despite that promise, Obama administration officials told Congress that the money needed to be allocated even if Hamas were to become part of a ‘unity’ government with the PLO. The unity government never happened. Instead, Hamas drew Israel into a series of clashes that ended with ceasefires and reconstructions funded by American aid that left the terrorists stronger.
In March 2014, Rob Malley, who had been dumped by the Obama campaign for his contacts with Hamas, was brought back in and made a senior National Security Council director and then the White House Coordinator for the Middle East. When Obama pressured Israel to stand down and accept a ceasefire after the kidnapping and murder of three Jewish teens, Malley was at the wheel. After Hamas survived, Malley moved on to become Obama’s lead negotiator on the Iran deal. He became Biden’s special envoy to Iran until he was sidelined when the FBI began investigating him for mishandling classified information.
Malley had described Hamas as a misunderstood organization victimized by “misinformation”.
When Obama took office, Iran was torn by internal strife and Hamas was struggling to hang on to Gaza. By the time he left office, Iran had benefited from sanctions relief and used that money to tighten its grip on Syria, Iraq and Yemen (not to mention Lebanon.) Obama’s Arab Spring delivered significant amounts of weapons and rockets to Gaza from Libya, By 2019, Hamas was receiving $30 million a month from Iran. More recently it benefited from the trade in weapons abandoned in Afghanistan. All the negotiations made Iran and Hamas much more powerful.
And this was not an accident.
The Hamas atrocities in the last day of the High Holy Days were a direct result of Obama’s foreign policy which empowered Islamists and undermined American allies. Hamas was the beneficiary of not only regular rebuilding programs after every clash with Israel, but of the newfound wealth and power of Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Obama replaced Bush’s flawed agenda of democratizing enemy nations with something much worse, Islamizing allied nations. The Arab Spring and the Iran Deal had disastrous consequences for every allied country in the region. The effects on Israel were more subtle. It handled the Syrian Civil War on its border without being significantly affected by it and survived Egypt’s brief experiment with Muslim Brotherhood rule. Iran’s rise posed a grave threat, but also spurred some Arab Muslim Sunni enemy nations to form the Abraham Accords alliance.
And yet Obama’s foreign policy had a corrosive effect on Israel that few were aware of. Hamas rocket attacks increased in volume and range. Regular conflicts were settled with ceasefires. Israeli leaders came to rely on a defensive strategy, building up the Iron Dome program, while remaining confident that high tech tools, surveillance cameras, drones and sensors, would enable it to manage any crisis coming out of Gaza. That has proven to be disastrously wrong.
The mindset that made Israel so vulnerable came from the modus vivendi imposed by the Obama administration. Rather than trying to defeat or at least cripple Hamas, Obama had pressured Israel, as he had Egypt and the PLO, to make Hamas a partner. Israeli leaders were encouraged to find ways to incentivize good behavior by Hamas. Such programs led the previous leftist Israeli government to offer 20,000 work permits for Gazans to enter Israel.
Those Gazans scouted Israeli communities and took part in the brutal Hamas attacks.
Obama had corrupted both America and Israel into adopting the worldview that Islamic terrorism could not be defeated, only managed by making deals with even the worst possible terrorists. Hamas was treated as a rational actor which could be co-existed with as long as it had something tangible to gain from avoiding conflict. This same philosophy underlay the massive aid programs to rebuild Gaza after every war which provided Hamas with weapons and money.
It was and still is the philosophy behind the Iran Deal and in every attempt to reach an accommodation with Islamic terrorists. Foreign policy appeasers claimed to be realists and argued at every turn that the jihadists were reasonable and could be dealt with.
“We may disagree with them, but they have their own rationality, that’s the one thing to understand. These are not—none of them are crazies,” Rob Malley spoke of Hamas. “If you want to take Hamas at its word, its long-term objective is the destruction of Israel. But that’s not a practical or realistic goal, even for them,” Brent Scowcroft said dismissively.
The negotiations and agreements with Hamas and Iran, not to mention the Taliban, advocated by the realists fell apart badly. A political and military leadership, and diplomatic corps which had absorbed the nonsensical propositions of the realists was unable to see it coming. Its members refused to evacuate the embassy from Kabul until the very last minute because they were convinced that the Taliban were going to join a unity government. They are still trying to cut an interim nuclear deal with Iran. And they didn’t see a Hamas attack coming.
All the calculations of co-existence were wrong. The ideas that the Obama administration had passed off as reasonable, sensible and credible were actually delusions unmoored from reality.
“Diplomacy is the art of saying ‘Nice doggie’ until you can find a rock,” Will Rogers had quipped.
That is still how our enemies practice diplomacy, but we keep saying ‘nice doggie’ without ever looking for a rock or realizing that we even need one. Saying ‘nice doggie’ has become a magical incantation that continues to be invoked no matter how often it fails.
Defeating Hamas and neutralizing Iran are more than military problems, they require the unlearning of the foolishly dangerous ideas injected into the establishment under Obama.
Barack Obama opened the road to Gaza with his outreach to the Muslim Brotherhood and the Iran Deal. Closing the door on Hamas will require also closing the door on Obama’s legacy.
Algorithmic Analyst says
One thing that should never have happened was allowing metal pipe into Gaza. Even the pipes for drinking water were dug up and turned into missiles. Plastic pipe could have been used instead.
The terrorists have fouled the drinking water in Gaza in numerous ways, even including dumping their sewage into the drinking water supply. What can be done dealing with people with a mentality like that? It is inconceivable to a western mind that anyone could think like that.
Jeff Bargholz says
They’re animals, that’s for sure.
Other options for pipes include clay and paper mache. We have paper mache pipes here in America that were made during WWII when the country needed to conserve steel. They suck but who gives a shit about Paleosimians and the Hamas government they elected?
Israel needs to cut off all welfare to Hamasistan. Gaza. FUCK those pigs and apes.
Mary Cox says
I agree with your statement. However, the reference you made with the name calling wasn’t necessary. Must people understand the objective of Hamas and their supporters as being the complete destruction of the Jewish people and the State of Israel. That is their sole goal. Anyone thinking otherwise are deceived. ISRAEL HAS A “RIGHT” TO EXIST and WILL.
Scott Rothstein says
An otherwise thoughtful article is tarnished by the inclusion of a racist cartoon of a former 2 time president. I would be ashamed to forward this article to others. Front Page should remove it from the piece.
john says
well said comrade! obviously you are a sympathizer for beheadings of innocent babies,women children and want less cartoons that hurt yr f- – -ing feelings! probably u should move to wuhan or cuba or join boko harem -you’d fit in well there with their hatred of free speech and freedom! have a good day @ i will definitely share this article for the sake of all the woke babies who hate free speech !!!!!
roy says
Just expressing “mild disagreement” with your comment.
As one that might be described as naive & uninformed about this area of the world (including its history) …. I feel I do know more about B. Hussein. I say that based on my ability to “connect the dots”.
Many others (not necessarily admirers of B. Hussein) have described him by his physical features. Personally, I think he has an attractiveness enhanced by his demeaner. With that said, I also have found myself very consciously) thinking …. “my, what big ears …”.
Anyway, I’ve described him (not by name) rather facetiously, to others as “the one in the White House with big ears”.
I was so very disappointed when John McCain said “I will not discuss/disparage/attack his character”. Some may think I’m “off base” but, that is of utmost importance to me, especially for the “Commander in Chief” of our United States (we used to be united).
James E Sparks says
Western power has brought them in. Smoke on that for a while.
David Cornish says
Hamas even said last week that they don’t care what happens to the people of Gaza. Their stated goal in their on-line mission statement is to “kill Jews”, and everything else is way down the list of importance. They also enjoy killing Muslims that disagree with them and their desire to create a huge Islamic state in the Middle-East. They can’t be clearer on their goals, and the 50% of Democrats who don’t think Hamas is responsible for the horror going on now just don’t want to see the truth.
Mo de Profit says
There’s only 2,000,000 million people in Gaza and the world has provided them with 10,000,000,000 at least.
How much more do they need before they start to lead comfortable lives?
TRex says
That was the first thing that popped into my mind while reading this article. How long will US administrations keep pouring money in thinking it’s an incentive for peace while it’s really just re-armament? They (the US officials) can not be so stupid as to think if we just give them a few more bucks they’ll quit being hateful murderers. To quote David Crosby (CSNY), ‘below the surface of the mud, there’s more mud here”. It appears to me, American diplomacy creates more problems than it cures. And, I don’t think that’s an accident. We’ve adopted Ukraine like some poor street urchin while, at the same time, tell Israel to just keep taking it on the chin. SMH
John MacKenzie says
All Obama the psycho homo ever did was leave death in his wake.
Carol Dreeszen says
Obama is a George SOROS puppet!! He is just as evil as Soros and is nothing but a disgusting prick!! He has done more damage to this country than anyone has,,Then add Biden on top of that and all he did was tell Biden how to destroy us!!
Annie45 says
I agree with all this regarding Obama’s legacy. But there’s something
even more sinister about him regarding Muslims.
Why did he release Muslim terrorists little by little from Gitmo? He
knew exactly who they were. And, sure enough, once released they
went on to fight against us again.
Why did he let four Americans at Benghazi, including a U.S. ambassador,
be murdered by Muslim terrorists – when he knew about it in real time
and could have saved them? And when he spoke of the attack at the
UN, why did he outright lie that the killers were angry over an offending
video (as if that should even matter) – then outrageously said “The future
must not belong to those who slander the Prophet”.
Why did he stand with Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt – even
threatening to cut off financial aid to Egypt if Morsi wasn’t supported? He
actually and arrogantly propped up the Muslim Brotherhood for all the
world to see.
Obama’s legacy has had a deleterious effect on American diplomacy for
sure. But it wouldn’t surprise me any if that sinister Commie is really a
closet Muslim.
R.J. says
You might save the lives of those you love by taking the position that Obama is evil, he hates America, especially white skinned people and is a muslim jihadi to the bone!
Drew458 says
Another gay for Islam. Doesn’t he know they’ll throw him off the roof too?
Roe Moddo says
I hope they do toss that bastard off of a roof…any roof will do!
Jeff Bargholz says
Of course Bareback is a closet Moslem, although He’s impious and doesn’t even understand that cult and its foul precepts.
He just hates America so he gives lip service to Islam. That little bitch has never read the Koran, Hadith or sura. She’s a cunt.
Johnniethejew says
Spot on Annie45.
Ballbag Barry Obumma was the biggest disaster that ever happened and an islamo fascist apologist to boot.
And still he peddles his snake oil behind the scene.
NAVY ET1 says
As many of my adopted southern countrymen have stated colloquially and eloquently in the past: “You don’t get a middle name like HUSSEIN when you come from Georgia.” The American people understand exactly what they mean.
Many believe Obama still pulls Biden’s strings from his palatial DC estate and, based on all outward appearances, that would seem to be the case…except now, through anonymity, he’s been able to take the gloves off and really get down to work and leave the negative reviews for Biden to deal with.
When he said “fundamentally transform”, we should’ve believed the commie bastard.
LuzMaria Rodriguez says
All true about Obama.
But incredibly, the worse and killing blow may be yet to come – some bigwigs on the left are quietly talking about putting Big Mike in the Oval Office. IF she, him, or it gets in,
with all our rinos, with our leftist media there is a strong probability after two terms, eight years, America as we knew it, will be gone, fundamentally changed to the Soros’ Obama model.
Cat says
In my opinion, that would need even more flagrant and obvious vote fraud than they did for Biden.
Sure, some lefty idiots would vote, yes.. Despite the de-masculinizing of American men, how many would vote for a man is a dress? And one who deceived us for years because “muh transgender victim of phobia”
I have no way to leave and nowhere to go but if that person is in office, my threat to leave would be far more real than Cher’s.
Zdena says
Absolutely, LuzMaria! You are so right, I hope it won’t happen. It would be an end of the word, literally! Why Americans are so naïve? I just pray, that it’s changing all US so fast, that they’ll figure it out, what’s really happening before it’s to late!
usmc7 says
I know I’m not alone in hoping that Obama fundamentally rot in hell.
Jeff Bargholz says
Yeah, and by fundamentaly, up her ass. Obama is such a bitch.
roy says
Well said & thank you. I for one believed his intentions when he made that statement … I just didn’t believe there were enough so-called American citizens that actually “drank the coool tea” he concocted from the recipe of Saul Alinsky (another community organizer).
BTW — I was an airdale AX-TWO 1964-69.
Thanks for your service.
THX 1138 says
None of this would have happened but for the “noble”, “virtuous”, altruist idea of “spreading the wealth”.
By what moral right does the government confiscate the EARNED wealth of an American citizen to hand it over to those who have NOT earned it, like Hamas or to anyone else?
To paraphrase “Atlas Shrugged”, who the hell has the moral right to assume a halo of virtue by practicing charity with wealth he does not own, by giving away goods which he has not produced, by making others pay for the luxury of his pity?!
Is NEED and not achievement the source of rights? Is it true that we don’t have to produce but only to want, to wish, to need, to have the right to what others have produced and earned? Is it true that the earned does not belong to us but the UNEARNED does?
Is it true that in order to be placed above rights, above principles, above morality, placed where anything is permitted to him, even plunder and murder, all a man has to do is be in need?!
Does NEED make right? Because THAT is the underlying premise of ALTRUISM.
Altruism and need makes right are the underlying premise of spreading the wealth.
Intrepid says
Talk about stuck on stupid. You personify it.
THX 1138 says
Does need make right? Yes or no.
Does your need make it right for Obama to confiscate your neighbor’s earnings to fund you because of your need?
Does your neighbor’s need make it moral for Obama to confiscate your earned income to fund your neighbor’s need?
Socialism is “spreading the wealth”. Spreading the wealth by force because allegedly need makes it right to steal from Peter to fund Paul.
aristotle cam says
Our government has not considered who has been coming over our borders and what they are bringing with them.
Ever hear a peep from our elected officials, FBI, CIA or any one?
Nice doggie. Nice doggie!
Steve Chavez says
Jimmy Carter:
*Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
*CPUSA/SOVIET/CUBA/(D) takeover of Nicaragua and Communism spreading with Ortega still ruling
*CPUSA starting US Peace Council with KGB’s World Peace Council and affiliates in every state and major university
*Overthrow of the Shah with Mullahs still ruling.
OBAMA:
*Arab Spring (In his Cairo speech, he said, “Radicalism is not the way,” but his eyes changed during that which was a signal to the gawking eyes in the audience, that it was the way and he was going to help them!)
*Rev. Wright’s Black Liberation Theology taught to Obama, Michelle, and Oprah and the beginning of the Black Supremacist Movement. (Started with: “If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon.” He defended anything Black leading to Beyonce’s Super Bowl halftime show with raised BLACK POWER fists! (In a different football game, two Black players sacked the White quarterback and they stood over him with raised BLACK POWER fists. The MSM didn’t expose that and the hosts said nothing!)
*Obama putting John Brennan, a Communist and Muslim, to head the CIA where his job was to conduct operations against Communist and Muslims, but he and Obama instead aided and abetted their Communist Comrades and Muslim Brothers. Look at the rise of both movements. John Kerry? Valerie Jarrett? Hillary? He put CPUSA/KGB recruits from the ’60s-’80s to head departments that were used to attack ALL opponents and who then conspired in a coup attempt a sitting President and now a former President!
*Obama and IRAN….. ! Mutual goal of wiping Israel off the map. Look at his treatment of Netanyahu!
*Obama quickly recognizing the new Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leaders who he then legitimized them by putting them all over government. Muslim outreach orders to NASA. (Well… they are both into rockets!)
OBAMA IS THE LEADER OF THE ENEMY WITHIN! Where was he born? SS#. No photos of him and Michelle, possibly really Michael, with babies. Gay prostitute. Coke dealer to support his habit and to pay NYC rent. Where’s the roommate? KGB recruit who visited the USSR to be trained. Whispers to Medvedev to Putin then acting tough to Putin to dismiss treasonous rumors.
*
Snuffy Carter says
Carter, Obama, and now Biden – anybody voting for a dem to be President is the enemy from within. (Bill Clinton was a domestic terrorist – raping American women and killing Americans at Waco and Ruby Ridge).
Kathleen says
And the passport he traveled on while younger. I can’t remember now where the travel ban was for a U.S. passport, but he went “there”. How? And all the “57 States”.
John Anderson says
Daniel, you wrote another excellent and accurate analysis of the horror, death and destruction that Obama (intentionally) causes. However, after reading Lee Smith’s article referenced below, only one sentence in your article may need to be reconsidered, and the parenthesis around “intentionally” I used should be removed. The sentence I’m referring to in your article is “And they didn’t see a Hamas attack coming.”
The Biden Administration Tries to Hide What It Knew About an Impending Massacre, While Leaving U.S. Backing for Iran Untouched
The D.C. blame game is about avoiding responsibility while protecting a policy that is written in blood
BY
LEE SMITH
OCTOBER 16, 2023, in Tablet Magazine.
THX 1138 says
“The End of Critical Thinking Could Destroy Israel” – Michael J. Hurd
The game the Biden regime is playing about the Israel-Hamas war is SO obvious. Only in an era where critical thinking has almost become extinct could anything like this be happening.
On the surface, the Bidenistas get to have it both ways. “We support and stand by Israel,” they say to the news media, none of whom will ask the Bidenistas why they’re still advancing billions of aid to Iran (the exact same as advancing billions to Hamas).
That way, they appease their anti-Jewish wing of the party while still leading inattentive Jewish Democrats into thinking that they’re as pro-Israel as America has always been. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth, and it’s easily provable by the Bidenistas’ own actions. They count on people not paying attention; and it seems to work! That fact is almost as horrible as the atrocities taking place against the Jews in Israel at this moment. Because without this inattentiveness, Israel would perhaps already have won the war.
If anyone other than Netanyahu were in charge, I would consider Israel relegated to the ash heap of history. However, Netanyahu has shown the moral courage in the past to stand on principle. The only principle the Americans offer — under our viciously anti-Israel, anti-freedom occupation government — is certain defeat, while pretending it’s not a defeat at all.
In its own way, this is even more sickening than the Nazi Germany era. At least the Nazis ultimately lost. And at least America was on the side of the good guys, not the bad guys.
Hamas and Iran face only one opponent: Israel itself.
If Israel prevails, it will be 100 percent Israel’s doing. And it will be in spite of America, not because of it.
LuzMaria Rodriguez says
True, for sure. Biden went there so quickly to apply some brakes to a response. Then the creep gifted them $100,000, just 2 or 3 weeks after gifting them $158,000,000. So now Hamas will have received a cool 1/4 $billion from the USA.
They say one thing while concurrently doing something really creepy.
Intrepid says
Oh how I wish Objectivism was finally relegated to the ash heap of history. At least you are doing your part by haranguing everyone here on a daily basis.
Israel has had some bad P.M.s and some good ones, and then there is Netanyahu, Israel’s Trump.
Israel will be fine with or without your doom and gloom predictions.
Walter Sieruk says
Barack Obama is the epitome and personification of the phenomena known as the “Red/Green alliance.”
Walter Sieruk says
About that anti-Israel UN resolution that Obama may well have had a sinister hand in creating, or at least failed to veto, which calls for the dividing of the State of Israel in to a “two state solution.”
This shows some things about President Obama .That he is very to do a much hard as possible in the short time he had before he left Office. This exposed the falseness on his claim that he is “a Christian.” For a real Christian would take seriously the teaching of Jesus. By Obama backing the UN resolution Obama Obviously doesn’t care what Jesus taught . For Jesus taught “If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.” Mark 3:24. {K.J.V.]
In addition , to risk sounding really far –out it had been reported that Obama’s national security advisor , James Jones, had declared the President Obama in the year 2009 had religious experience in the White House Office in the Obama believed that God appeared to him in a vision and told him the he should work for the dividing of the land of Israel into “two states.” [1] if this report of a supernatural experience of Obama actually occurred then the Bible contains the answer to this story . For the Bible teaches that Satan is so very deceitful that he can “appear as an angle of Light” Second Corinthians 11:14 .
Furthermore, to divide is showing that Obama ,who is for sure not the Anti-Christ is Nevertheless influenced by the spirit of the coming Anti-Christ who is predicted, in the Bible ,to come in the future. So to divide the land that composes Israel according to the Bible is wrong . So wrong ,in fact , when the real arch – villain who is will be the Anti Christs comes to power in the Middle East he “shall divide the land” Daniel 11:39. As for Obama is the reported religious vision he had in which supernatural being told him to “divide the land ” that this instruction is in contradiction to the Bible in Daniel 11 39. It’s thus in the light of Isaiah 8:20. An instruction in error, folly and darkness. Shame on Obama for wanting to “divide the land” and likewise being taken in by a deceptive religious experience.
[1] THE TERRORIST NEXT DOOR by Erick Stakelbeack pages 218. 219.
Seekers says
Were we so naive as to actually believe that none of this Gaza “humanitarian” aid would go to Hamas? Even assuming good intentions on the part of the Obama administration, this was a policy disaster.
Barbara says
Aid directly to the UN Palestinian refugee project needs to be banned. Any aid to Gaza needs to be distributed by completely neutral organizations such as non-partisan and church organizations who must supervise everything. It’s much more expensive that way, but if they read the school books with Google translate or an Israeli translator, they can make sure no extreme textbooks are allowed. They can bring food to individual families, lock up medicines and fuel etc with armed escorts. If Hamas will not accept aid under these conditions, then they won’t get any aid into Gaza, and their families will starve like everyone else. However, international pressure would likely make them accept these guarded aid convoys going house to house and clinic to clinic and school to school with aid, ousting extremist teachers.
NAVY ET1 says
I appreciate your sentiments here Barbara, I really mean that…but unfortunately you start from a faulty premise, as any caring individual might. You have separated into two camps; “innocent” Palestinians on one side and the ruthless Hamas leadership on the other. This is a misnomer. Hamas is the elected governing body of Gaza by the Palestinian people since 2006. They are synonymous. One can’t function without the other.
In a perfect world, your idea makes sense…but as one who’s spent time in Israel while in uniform, going past “The Green Line” into the Golan and standing on the borders of Syria and Lebanon, visiting Kibbutz Sa’ad in southern Israel on the boarder of the Gaza Strip, I can tell you that the hate is eternal and begins from the time a child is old enough to pick up a rock to throw. I wish it wasn’t so but it is.
Jello says
I have always thought that Barack Obama was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Just look at him now – crouched in his bachelor pad with Valarie Jarrett, a block from the largest mosque in D.C. and just a few more blocks from the White House. Michelle and her mommy are far away in their Hawaiian estate. Meanwhile Barack is making presidential policy pronouncements and calling them in to his puppet in the White House.
Owie says
The key to understanding Obama’s antipathy for the Jews, I believe lies in the 17 years he spent as a congregant at Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity United Methodist church. That’s 854 Sundays Obama spent listening to Wright curse the Jews, white people in general and America, messages he found so offensive that he had his daughters confirmed there. For my money Obama is Willie Horton with a pleasant smile, except that Willie never created the smallest part of the pain and suffering that Obama did.
Justin Swingle says
Some claim the Obomb is a closet Commie. Others a closet Republican exemplified for his service to big Wall Street banksters.
Some say Obama is a Christian of the racist Jeremiah Wright elk even as Barack is good buds with hate monger and antisemitic Louis Farrakhan.
Barack Obama is ALL of these things, i.e., a sociopath that stands for nothing.
Dr. Don Rhudy says
You are right Justin.
Steven Brizel says
It is no secret that Obama had a strong pro Arab bias and was an appeaser of terror-all of which redounded to Israel’s detriment and that he ignored anti Semitism and belonged to a church whose minister was an anti Semite as well.
Jeff says
Obama said the Gazans “should not feel walled off.” Sir, I beg to disagree. They should feel even more f*****g “walled-offed” than ever before!!
SteveFinSC says
We have been told since 9/11 that we are not at war with Islam. That is a lie. The West has been at war with Islam for 1400 years. We’re told that the war is against terrorism and that it’s against Islamic Extremists. Those are lies too. The former is like saying we’re at war against blitzkrieg or against strategic bombing. The later is wrong became there’s no such thing as Islamic Extremism. There is only Islam. Our problem is accepting that we can deal with these folks as rational actors. They are not. Hatred fuels the Muslim world’s decision making when it comes to Jews, Christians, and pretty much everyone else. Hatred is utterly irrational.
I have long said that it takes a religious people to fight a religious war. However anyone can die in one, even an atheist.
The West is no longer religious and so has no comprehension of religious belief let alone religious fanaticism. Thus, there is no understanding of the motivations of people who would strap explosives on themselves or their children and go to a pizza parlor and blow themselves up in order to kill people who were just out for dinner. That makes no sense to a person with no religious belief. How can we understand people who would attack a music festival for peace and kill 260 people who were there to promote peace with the very people who had come to kill them? Hatred and religious fanaticism, pure and simple. They hate the music. They hate the women dancing in skimpy outfits. They hate the idea of peace with them. They want to violate them, humiliate them, murder them because the partygoers believed they were free to do what they were doing when Allah said they were not. This is the belief of these people. It’s not a thought process. There’s nothing rational to it.
Walter Sieruk says
Biden backed and and still basks and supports the awful scheme to divide the State of Israel into two. Meaning the so called “two state solution” is not really a valid idea and not a genuine solution. It will definitely not stop this awful Israeli –Muslim land conflict.
For a “two state solution” is out of the question. .This is because a “two state solution” not really a “solution” but an Islamic ploy of deception , a smokescreen and hoax and a fraud.
For example those Hamas rocket attacks in to Israel from Gaza reveals that even the idea of some people of dividing Jerusalem as well as other parts of the State of Israel between the Jewish people of the Muslim/ Arabs is nothing but folly. To engage the madness of such “talks” is a hoax and a farce .This is because in the so called “negotiations” between the heads of the Jewish nation of Israel and the leaders of the “Palestinians” the Muslim /Arabs the “Palestinian” leaders will speak the truth only when in happens to fit their agenda. The rest of the time the will be speaking half-truths and outright lies. For their goal is to obtain all of the land of the State of Israel. Even in it takes much time and it means getting the land piece by piece. Therefore, those “peace talks” are a hoax.
For the “Palestinian” leaders are employing what is the Islamic doctrine of Taqiyya . Which is the Islamic dogma that lying and deception are good things to do as long as it’s done for the cause of the advancement of Islam. The insidious scheme is part of the stealth jihad .Otherwise known as “Islamic Gradualism.” This sly and something subtle strategy of disingenuous speech, lying deception of achieving the goal of all the land of Israel a war ploy that will be a disaster if the heads of the State of Israel are foolish enough to agree to divide the land of Israel with Muslim /Arabs ,the “Palestinians.” For if such a “peace dialogue” results in a divided land, the outcome will literally be murder. For “Palestinian” leader will allow the jihadists use that land as a base to launch murderous rocket attacks in to Israel. As for example, Hamas of Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Doris M. Armstrong says
Mr. Sieruk You are so correct. I have read the book ‘The Israeli Solution’, A one state plan for the middle East, written by Caroline B, Glick and think all these people replying, should read this book also.
This woman makes sense.
Walter Sieruk says
Barack Obama says that he’s “a Christian” but he denies that Jews prayers at Judaism’s holiest site is appropriate, is Biden so very ignorant and outright stupid that he doesn’t know that Jesus Himself was a Jew ? Maybe Obama does know that but being a godless and wicked man doesn’t’ care.
Likewise Obama keeps on pushing for a for a division of the land State of Israel , which is so false called “the two state” solution. through his useful idiot and tool, Joe Biden.
That fool idea contradicts the Wisdom of Jesus Who taught that “If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.” Mark 3:24. [N.E.B.]
Dr. Don Rhudy says
We know for certain a few things about Barack Obama, but history will never know all that ought to be known. His name is not Barack Obama. His established history is a lie. His sexual preference is chiefly homosexual. He is a sociopath. He is a regular user of illegal drugs. A variety of influences have influenced his political ideology. Those are the things we know for certain. We suspect he is the puppet master pulling the strings for Joe Biden because we know most of Biden’s close advisers and attendants are Obama acolytes. Since 1860 the national government of the United States has never dealt in truth. Truth is the one thing survivors of the civil and world wars to come will never know. Current historians who do uncover the truth cannot get it published.
Will says
And to think that Malala Yousafzai has a Nobel Peace Prize…and so does Barrack Obama.
Vincent Meijer says
It is not so much a Jewish thing to worship heroes.
But Daniel Greenfield is a 100% personal hero of mine.
I hope of many more Americans too, but the damage Obama did also domesticly with his stupid anti common sense woke agenda and how cooperate media are his disciples still (?)
Prospects are dubious for Israel, America, and the world, to say the least.
Eventually the human race shall overcome this too anyway. Just more death people unfortunately.
Heaven will sort it out, who was good and who was bad, i.e. who was a decent person, and who deserved this onslaught by following the pied Piper Muslim bro disguised as a nice gay friendly dude.
Be it that the G’d of Israel is not advicing that last thing either, by no coincidence.
CharlieSeattle says
Obama should be in prison along with the RNC asssoles that protected him from impeachment!
RNC scuttles impeachment in committee vote
By J.B. Williams | January 16th, 2016
newswithviews. com/rnc-scuttles-impeachment-in-committee-vote/
At the opening of the January Republican National Committee meeting in Charleston South Carolina Wednesday, the RNC Resolutions Committee was forced to vote on a RNC Resolution known as the Agema Resolution, supporting the proper Impeachment of Barack Hussein Obama for his many crimes of treason, tyranny and treachery against the United States and the people.
The nine member Resolutions Committee chaired by Carolyn McLarty of Oklahoma, voted unanimously to kill the Agema Resolution in committee, preventing the full body of the RNC from ever having a vote or voice on the measure in the full meeting scheduled for Friday January 15.
tnalc. org/impeachment-resolution-introduced-at-the-rnc/
Not one member of the RNC Resolutions Committee supported the Agema Resolution to impeach what is admittedly the most impeachable administration in U.S. history. Not even known acts of treason and tyranny by the Obama Administration, not the Iran deal, or even Obama’s recent unilateral gun grab EO (Executive Order) just a week ago, was enough to cause the leadership of the Republican Party to support a resolution on impeachment.
The nine members of the RNC Resolutions Committee who blocked the measure from the full body are as follows…
Carolyn McLarty (Oklahoma) Chair
Melody Potter (West Virginia)
Paul Reynolds (Alabama)
Tamara Scott (Iowa)
Steve Scheffler (Iowa)
Pat Longo (Connecticut)
John Frey (Connecticut)
Rosie Tripp (New Mexico)
Linda Acherman (California)
Dennis Ardell says
Really appreciated the commentary.
A cut above of what I have seen of late.
I am inspired to read “ Atlas Shrugged,”
and,, the” Fountainhead,”
Thanks to the insights on socialism .
Andy Halmay says
Israel never needed to say “Nice Doggie,” it had rocks all along and should have used them. As for Obama, he needs to be indicted and prosecuted for a long list of crimes against America.