Barack Obama and those Damn Jews

By Richard

The other day I was reading another ridiculous article from Ali Abunimah who is the co-founder of the The Electronic Intifada and author of One Country: In his most recent diatribe Ali attacks Illinois Sen. Barack Obama for his supposed support of the state of Israel which he so elequenlty termed "How Barack Obama learned to love Israel". In the article Ali seems to whine about why the Sen.Barack Obama has failed to never seem to attack Isreal for what he views as Human Righst abuses.

He writes "Obama offered not a single word of criticism of Israel, of its relentless settlement and wall construction, of the closures that make life unlivable for millions of Palestinians.

Ali fails to mention that this barrier is a responce to Palestinian terrorism, including suicide bombing attacks, that increased significantly during the al-Aqsa Intifada; it has helped to significantly reduce incidents of terrorism from 2002 to 2005;Once the Palestinians reign in there thugs the wall can come down, but until then it remains.

Imagine someone kept breaking in my house and then I put up a barrier and some protection and the guys breaking in and attacking me demanded to the police (The UN) I take it down for the sake of peace. Such and argument would That sound ridiculous, yet this i the kind of rationile people like Ali use.

He then continues to dribble about his past experinces with Barack as a student when Obama gave a speech at his Univeristy. What Ali fails to understand is that in Democracies people have the right (unlike in the Middle East) to change there mind. Obama with all do respect changed his mind not because of the "Jews" but because he came into contact with different perspectives on this conflict. Different views sharpen you not make you a tool of anyone person in time as with Sen. Obama logic won the day.

Ali and his elk need to put down the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" and reach out to those who share a different views of the conflict than he does; not so as to consider why ideas not money can change a person's perspective. Blaming the Senator's change of heart on making a buck and the Jew connections only go to show the depth of anti semtism within the mindset of many in the Palestian American movement. Lets not forget the real history behind this conflict.

Israel declared its independence in 1948 after the United Nations approved the partition of the British Mandate of Palestine into two states, Jewish and Arab, in November 1947. The Arab countries rejected the plan and attacked the State of Israel the moment it was created.

And what of the Mizrahi Jews (Arab Jews) kicked out of Arab lands? The combined population of Jewish communities in the Greater Middle East(excluding Israel) was reduced from about 900, 000 in 1948 to less than 8, 000 today. Some of these communities were more than 2, 500 years old.Unlike many Arab states took in Israel her refugees the Arab states hung there's
what later became known as (Palestinan's) to dry.

Mr Ali needs to consider that there are many views to this conflict not just his.Perhaps Obama got his advice from a fellow African American human rights activist Dr.Martin Luther King who said of the conflict

"Peace for Israel means security, and we must stand with all our might to protect its right to exist, its territorial integrity. I see Israel as one of the great outposts of democracy in the world, and a marvelous example of what can be done, how desert land can be transformed into an oasis of brotherhood and democracy. Peace for Israel means security and that security must be a reality."

Richard is the founder and editor of HipHopRepublican.com