Posted by
Bob Siegel on Friday, June 05, 2009 6:32:42 PM
I know that as a Jew I'm supposed to appreciate Obama's words about the Holocaust in both Egypt and Germany. I do believe in giving credit where credit is due and I have done this for Obama in the past. Unfortunately, he made it difficult this time and none of that smooth flowing rhetoric can wash away his actual words.
Oh, I suppose that these days I should be grateful just to hear someone admit that the holocaust even happened at all. And yes, I do appreciate Obama's reminder to the world that it must never happen again. Here's the problem: It may just happen again despite Obama's "reconciling speeches" and his policies (albeit unwillingly) will help to usher in Holocuast 2: The Final Chapter (Or Final Solution, as Iranian President Ahamadinnejad might call it.) One only has to read between the lines of Obama's oratories instead of fainting every time the man opens his mouth.
The Egyptian version of Obama's speech is the most obvious one. You have to see the irony when Obama skips Israel and instead talks about the holocaust in a country with a heritage of Nazi connections and threats to exterminate the Jews. Of course that's only the past. In the present, Egypt continues to financially support Hamas, which will not recognize Israel's right to exist. Oh wait! I almost forgot! Obama told Hamas in this very same speech that they must recognize Israel. Whew!!! That will do the trick. In exchange, Israel is instructed to continue making deals with people who want her dead even after they applaud Obama.
In this same little homily, Obama dreamed of a time when Jerusalem would be a place where Christians, Muslims, and Jews could all worship in peace. Excuse me, Mr. President, but that is just exactly what is going on in Jerusalem today and it's going on because Jerusalem is under Israeli control. When it was under Muslim control, the Jews were not allowed to worship even at their own Western Wall. Obama received applause from the Muslims when he spoke of Jerusalem but they were applauding because they want Jerusalem turned over to them as part of Israel giving back its "occupied territory."
Feeling he had offered enough obligatory platitudes to Israel, Obama (always wanting to appear even handed) then compared the treatment of the Palestinians to the treatment of African-American slaves. Mr. President, I don't know what you paid for your history classes in college, but you've got to believe me, it was too much! I think we all know that black slaves were captured and brought to America against their will. The "Palestinians" (who never used that title until the sixties but instead called themselves, Arabs) were a free people who refused to accept the U.N's partition of a separate Jewish and Arab state. Many of them either fled their homes to make way for Egyptian and Jordanian armies on their way to annihilate Israel, or they joined the armies themselves. As for the Arabs who stayed in Israel, their children remain there to this day and they have more rights in Israel than any Arab in any Arab country. (See link to blog below)
Obama was also greeted with cheers when he said Iran has a right to develop nuclear power. Since Iranian President Ahamadinnejad promises he will create nuclear bombs for the purpose of wiping Israel off the face of the earth, one has to wonder if this statement didn't water down Obama's holocaust lament just a tad bit.
Our president also spent a good deal of time talking up Islam. I know there are many peaceful Muslims in the world, but these are nominal Muslims who do not know what their own book teaches. Neither does Obama, evidently. The Koran is filled with antisemitic statements and anti-Christian sentiments:
"The most implacable of men are the Jews and the pagans."
Surah 5:82
"Believers, take neither the Jews nor the Christians for your friends."
Surah 5:51
Moving on now to Obama's other holocaust speech in Germany at Buchenwald Concentration Camp: Yes, indeed, our president made some powerful comments about the sheer evil and horror of the holocaust. He then preceded to talk about other hatreds such as, "homophobia." That is a word defined many different ways but the most current usage is a designation for anyone who disagrees with the gay lifestyle. If we have become the kind of culture which equates the attempted genocide of an entire Jewish race with mere discussions of contrasting moral values and sexual standards, then we live in a time that future historians will look back at, shake their heads over and try explaining to their students. What will they explain? How a once great country like America could have turned so incredibly stupid.
The lessons from Obama's speech: The holocaust was evil but no more evil than Israel's treatment of the poor Palestinians and no more evil than the attitude Conservatives have toward homosexuals. As for those of whom we could draw a genuine comparison? Those who would commit new holocausts today? He tells them they're entitled to nuclear power. He tells them Israel must make deals with them, and he embraces the religion through which terrorism and modern anti-semitism find their justification.
President Obama, how I wish you could have just five minutes to meet with the ghost of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.
Also by Bob Siegel:
The Truth About Israel and Palestine
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