Thursday, December 29, 2016

Obama, the man and the President, has been judged and found wanting

"If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period."
“I didn’t set a red line. The world set a red line.”
Dershowitz said Obama . . . told him that he “will always have Israel’s back.”
Obama’s final, most shameful, legacy moment


U.S. President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks at a memorial service for former Israeli President Shimon Peres at Mount Herzl national cemetery in Jerusalem, Friday, Sept. 30, 2016. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

 . . ."People don’t quite understand the damage done to Israel by the U.S. abstention that permitted passage of a Security Council resolution condemning Israel over settlements. The administration pretends this is nothing but a restatement of long-standing U.S. opposition to settlements."
 "Nonsense. For the last 35 years, every administration, including a re-election-seeking Obama himself in 2011, has protected Israel with the U.S. veto because such a Security Council resolution gives immense legal ammunition to every boycotter, anti-Semite and zealous European prosecutor to penalize and punish Israelis.
An ordinary Israeli who lives or works in the Old City of Jerusalem becomes an international pariah, a "potential outlaw. To say nothing of the soldiers of Israel’s citizen army. “Every pilot and every officer and every soldier,” said a confidant of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, “we are waiting for him at The Hague,” i.e., the International Criminal Court.
"Moreover, the resolution undermines the very foundation of a half-century of American Middle East policy. What becomes of “land for peace” if the territories Israel was to have traded for peace are, in advance, declared to be Palestinian land to which Israel has no claim?
Leah Barkoukis, writing at Townhall agrees with Dr. Krauthammer

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