WHY OBAMA IS BAD FOR THE JEWS By David S. Crystal Founder, AnyoneButObama.org © 2008 As the majority of American Jews are born into the Democratic Party, on the surface it should shock no one that the majority of American Jews support Barrack Obama for president. That is, until one actually does research on the ideology of the Obamas and in particular their lifelong personal and political associations. Most American Jews are kneejerk liberals, but if ever in American Jewish history there were an election in which to not jerk one’s knee, for the American Jew, this is it! Cursory research on Obama would give most American Jews cause to reconsider their default liberal position in support of him. Thorough research on Obama, would convince even the most liberal Jews not to vote for him! Unfortunately, in a political climate where the left is so selfrighteous, and the media is cowed by the mesmerizing rhetoric of Barrack Hussein Obama, one has little mobilization or incentive to even begin doing research on Obama. The end result is that the preponderance of a race that has a lot riding on this election has been convinced to deprive itself of the essential information on the candidates necessary to make an informed decision come November 4. This reality makes the role of independent writers and bloggers such as myself that much more crucial in getting the word out. And of course, it makes the role of objective readers such as yourself that much more crucial in passing the word on. The following is a brief synopsis of the main reasons for which Jews should strongly consider not voting for Barrack Obama: 1) Mr. Obama has repeatedly lied to and manipulated the Jewish community, telling it what it wants to hear when the cameras are on, and then retracting or “evolving” his position when the cameras are off. No more egregious an example of this exists than that of the speech Obama gave to the annual AIPAC convention several weeks ago. In that speech, Obama ostensibly moved to the right of Condoleezza Rice, insisting that “Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided.” Those comments clearly moved even the most skeptical of Jewish AIPAC conference attendees, and on that basis many had decided to vote for him. Then of course the truth came out the next day when anonymous sources in the Obama campaign informed Agence France Presse that by “undivided” Obama meant that Jerusalem was “not going to be divided by barbed wire.” Essentially, Obama’s position is that which many in the Zionist community have always feared – that he is still sympathetic towards the Palestinian Arabs and believes the Palestinian Authority has the right to make parts of Jerusalem its capital. Obama was caught telling a crowd of Iowan activists last March, “Nobody is suffering more than the Palestinian People.” Obama has successfully insulted the intelligence of American Jewry by wooing them with ingratiating phrases and one liners such as how he has been in the “foxholes” in Chicago with Jewish friends with whom he worked closely to heal the rifts between local JewishAmerican and African American communities. He also claims that “nobody has spoken out more fiercely against anti Semitism than I have,” yet not once did he avail himself to speak out against the rampant anti Semitism in his church, let alone condemn specific antiSemitic and antiIsrael remarks on the parts
of Reverend Wright, Reverend Meeks, or father Pfleger all of whom have abused the pulpit of the Trinity United Church of Chicago to foment hatred of Jews, as described in ‘6’ below. 2) Whatever short legislative record Mr. Obama has is that of an extreme leftist one that does not bode well for the State of Israel. Obama sponsored 129 bills since his arrival in the Senate, but only 9 of them came out of committee and only one of them became law – an testament to how out of touch he is with mainstream law and politics. Obama was one of the few senators not to support the KylLieberman resolution which designated the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization. Obama also opposed the overthrowing of Saddaam Hussein when Obama was an insignificant Illinois State Senator and Hussein was still a vociferous and stark threat to the State of Israel and actively financing Hamas suicide terror attacks against Israeli civilian targets. Obama made headlines in the primary campaign against Hillary Clinton when he stated his desire to meet with Iranian dictator and vicious antiSemite Mahmud Ahmajinadad, without any preconditions first met regarding either Ahmajinadad’s desire to exterminate the Jews or Iran’s dedicated movement toward acquiring a nuclear weapon. Obama has also recently dismissed the threat posed by Iran, considering Iran to be a “tiny” nation that should elicit less concern than that felt by Israel and the majority of Jews. His exact quote, speaking in Pendleton, Oregon, is as follows: “Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union… In Iran, they spend 1/100th of what we spend on the military. If Iran ever tried to pose a serious threat to us, they wouldn’t stand a chance.” Unfortunately Obama doesn’t seem to realize that it doesn’t take 2,000 nuclear weapons to destroy Israel; it only takes 2! Experts agree that Jews should be forewarned about voting for Obama. MidEast exert Barry Rubin, director of the Global Research in International Affairs Center in Herzeliya, Israel, describes Obama as “not the candidate of the Arab states, but the candidate of the Islamists, whether he knows it or not. . . . If elected, he will be the most antiIsrael president in American history.” Obama was even caught saying that he might have difficulty dealing with an Israeli government headed by Likud, which is particularly ominous as it appears Israelis are about to elect a Likud government. What is surprising is that Obama has expressed more concern about dealing with Likudniks in Israel than he has in dealing with Mullahs in Iran. You can’t make this stuff up, folks!
3) Obama is surrounded by advisors who have historically been very critical of Israel and the Jewish community. The first such advisor is Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security advisor to antiSemitic President Jimmy Carter. Brzezinski, who has stood by Obama’s side in public on several occasions, has accused “some people in the Jewish community” as being “McCarthyite.” Brzezinski has also intimated that Israel may be guilty of war crimes for its defense of itself in the Lebanon War of 2006. The second such advisor is retired general, Tony McPeak, who has been tapped recently as Obama’s military advisor and national campaign cochair. In a 2003 interview, McPeak blamed much of the troubles in the Middle East on those who “vote here in favor of Israel [in] New York City [and] Miami,” whom no “politician wants to run against.”
A third such advisor is former Michigan Congressman David Bonior, who represented the Obama campaign at The DNC Rules Committee meeting in Washington D.C. this past May. While in Congress, Bonior was known to be “the biggest supporter of the antiIsrael Arab lobby in Congress.” In 1990, Bonior was one of only 34 Congressmen to vote against recognizing Jerusalem as the unified capital of Israel. In 1997, Bonior was one of only 15 Congressmen who signed a letter asking President Clinton to pressure Israel into making even further concessions to the Palestinian Authority, despite the PA’s constant abrogation of its commitments under the Oslo Accords. In 2002, Bonior was one of only 21 Congressmen who opposed H.R. 392, which buttressed Israel’s right to self defense and called upon the PA to dismantle the Hamas terrorist infrastructure. Throughout his tenure in Washington, Bonior repeatedly voted against aid to Israel while continually supporting arms sales to Arab states. A fourth top Obama advisor is Robert Malley, a longtime fierce critic of Israel who attempted to rewrite history by claming that the 1999 Camp David Accords fell apart because of actions on the part of the Israeli delegation (and not because of Yasser Arafat’s intransigence, which we know to be the case). Malley has also called for greater legitimization of and accommodations for terrorist organizations such Hamas and Hezbollah, not to mention rouge Muslim states such as Syria and Iran. A fifth such advisor is Samantha Power, who had to formally resign from the Obama campaign after calling Hillary Clinton a “monster,” but is known to play a strong unofficial role in the Obama campaign till this day. Power has called for the suspension of aid to Israel and its redirection to “Palestine.” Power has stated that criticism of Obama is solely on the grounds of what is “good for the Jews.” She also advocated using U.S. troops to invade Israel and force a peace agreement with the Palestinian Authority. Finally there is Obama’s nuclear proliferation advisor, Joseph Cirincione, who has called upon Israel to completely relinquish its nuclear arsenal, while dismissing claims that Syria has been recently building up its nuclear enrichment capacity. It is true that Obama has some highprofile Jewish advisors and supporters, but these, such as Congressman Robert Wexler of Florida, are largely proOslo Jews who have come to expect and support constant concessions from Israel even in the face of mounting Arab terrorism.
4) Obama and McCain speak of Israel and the IsraeliArab conflict in starkly different terms. Obama, in his own words, views the ArabIsraeli conflict as an “open wound” and “open sore” that has a deleterious effect on “all of our foreign policy,” according to Jeffery Goldberg of The Atlantic Monthly who conducted twin interviews with McCain and Obama. This characterization underscores Obama’s belief that that there is some sort of parity between Israel and the Arabs and if only we can get both sides together, we can close this open sore; and furthermore, that all the other problems in the middle east stem directly or indirectly from this “open sore.” McCain on the other hand understands the ultimate threat of Islamofacism and views both Israel and America as targets and victims of the constant assault perpetrated by Islamofascists. Says McCain: “I don’t think the
conflict is a sore. I think it is a national security challenge.” Asked what would happen if the Israeli Arab conflict were resolved, McCain responds, “We would still face the enormous threat of radical Islamic extremism.” When asked about Israel building new homes for Jews in the West Bank, Obama responded by stating that given the prospect of such continual construction, “we’re going to be stuck in the same status quo that we’ve been stuck in for decades now.” McCain, on the other hand, switched the topic of conversation by focusing attention of the plight of Israel’s citizens in Sderot who brave every day the constant barrage of Hamas’s Kassam and Kytusha rockets from Gaza.
5) Both Barrack and Michelle Obama have a long history of associations with radical leftists and Arabists, neither of whom, it should go without saying, bode well for the Jewish people: Barrack Obama’s first political mentor in Hawaii was a relatively wellknown black writer and poet named Frank Marshall Davis who was an activist in the Sovietcontrolled Communist Party USA (CPUSA). Obama continued his communist training and indoctrination at his first college, Occidental. According to Obama’s book, Dreams From My Father, Obama spent much of his free college time with “Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk rock performance poets,” with whom he “discussed neocolonialism.” Before leaving to college, “Frank” warned the young Barrack, “. . don’t start believing what they tell you about equal opportunity and the American way and all that shit.” Barrack Obama’s leftism continued in full force, albeit subtly, on the streets of Chicago. Obama is known to have been friends with leftwing fanatic and Weatherman terrorist Bill Ayers, who is responsible for dozens of bombings between 1969 and 1975, and who also served on two different boards with Obama. Ayers told the New York Times, “I don’t regret setting bombs . . .I feel we didn’t do enough.” When George Stephanopoulos challenged Obama in an interview to explain his relationship with Ayers, Obama dismissed the relationship as “a guy who lives in my neighborhood.” Nothing could be further from the truth! Obama’s political career began with him raising funds in Ayers living room. Ayers and Obama worked together in the context of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge through which Ayers hoped to include leftwing indoctrination in the city’s public school system. Later on in is career as an “organizer”, Obama worked closely with Ayers at the Woods Fund which conveniently gave a $6,000 grant to Obama’s radical Trinity United Church. Ironically, Ayers, the American terrorist, has accused Israel of terrorism after Israel retaliated for vicious Arab attacks against its own civilians. Obama’s initial financial base was none other than leftwing fanatic hedge fund guru George Soros, who is well known for being a strong critic of Israel and who has explored creating an antiIsrael lobby to countervail the activities of AIPAC. Soros has stated that America needs to go through a “certain deNazification process” so that it can extricate itself from Iraq. Soros has also had close relations with the antiIsrael advisors to Obama’s campaign noted above. Obama is known to have been particularly close with exPLO member and now Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi. Obama and Khalidi were fellow board members of a foundation that funded the Arab American Action Network, a fiercely proPalestinian organization. Obama has
admitted that Khalidi has changed Obama’s views and attitudes about the world. Obama is considered in Chicago to be a close friend of the Palestinian Arabs. Not a surprise, given the facts.
6) The Obamas have regularly attended a racist and antiSemitic church for about twenty years and have raised their daughters in same atmosphere. The Obamas had been proud and regularly attending members of the radical Trinity United Church of Chicago for twenty years. The Trinity United Church of Chicago is a proud memberchurch of the Black Liberation Theology movement. Much like the Holy Roman Empire was neither Holy nor Roman nor an Empire, Black Liberation Theology is neither a theology, nor about Liberation, nor strictly about black people. Black Liberation Theology is a subset of the global Liberation theology movement which was founded in Latin America and spawned vicious socialist dictators and rebels such as Che’ Guevara. Black Liberation Theology is and predicated on the notion of saving dark skinned people through the gradual extermination of lightskinned people and their beliefs. The father of the Black Liberation Theology movement is James H. Cone and the bible of the Black Liberation Theology Movement is Cone’s Black Theology and Black Power. The following is a quote from same book: “Black Theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the Black community. If God is not for us, and against white people, then he is a murderer and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill gods who do not belong to the black community. . . . Black Theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy.” This is the theological backdrop for Barrack Obama’ s political activism. This is the church where the bombastic and racist Rev. Jeremiah Wright had served as pastor for the span of that time. Obama has described Wright as his “moral compass,” “sounding board,” “confidant,” and “mentor.” Wright married the Obamas and baptized their children. Only after 20 years, strong political pressure, and Wright disavowing Obama, did Obama finally disavow Wright. But Obama never thought to disavow Wright after any of the numerous racist and antiIsrael remarks made by Wright both at and away from the pulpit over the course of 20 years! Wright is an antiIsrael activist who has given sermons at Trinity United calling for the US to cease and desist from all aid to Israel. Wright also allowed Hamas officials and Arab activists to contribute to the church’s magazine. One such Hamas official accused Israel of building an “ethnic bomb.” Wright is also good friends with fierce and notorious antiSemite, Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam movement. This same Farrakhan, who called Jews “bloodsuckers,” was the recipient of an award from the Trinity United Church. Barrack Obama has yet to publicly condemn the granting of this award. In fact, all the evidence suggests that Obama, himself, has had a close relationship with Farrakhan. Obama even chose to march with Farrakhan in the Million Man March of 1995 despite the AntiDefamation League pleading with African American leaders not to attend. And it wasn’t just Wright who gave antiIsrael and antiSemitic sermons at Trinity. Father Pfleger and Reverend James Meeks, both supporters of Louis Farrakhan, have been regular guest speakers at Trinity over the years. When Jewish members of an Illinois state board, mandated with monitoring
hate speech, resigned after a fellow board member, affiliated with the Nation of Islam, refused to denounce Farrakhan’s antiSemitism, Pfleger retorted with the words, “good riddance.” Reverend Meeks has been known to scapegoat “Hollywood Jews” for corrupting the moral climate in America. So there you have it, Barrack Obama’s church, advisors and best friends heap praise upon black racists, Arab terrorists and sundry other antiSemites, while condemning the Jews at every turn; yet somehow it is Israel and the Jews who are corrupting the moral climate in America! If only these “morally corrupt” Jews would realize who their true friends are, they might finally get an orthopedic surgeon to take a look at that knee.