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BARRY RUBIN: WHY ISN’T OBAMA VISITING ISRAEL……?

 

Obama treats Israel like a vassal state, being more content in issuing J’lem decrees from afar, than in visiting it as an ally.

Why Isn’t Obama Visiting Israel?

By Barry Rubin

By now it’s clear that President Barack Obama isn’t going to visit Israel in his term of office. And yet that’s pretty curious, isn’t it? After all, American politicians who seek Jewish support usually find a trip to Israel a pretty good way to claim pro-Israel credentials. And Obama has been desperate to do so, especially this year.

Why, then, isn’t Obama going to visit Israel? Of course, we cannot definitively answer that question but here are some thoughts:

–His personal distaste for Israel is so great that he doesn’t want to come here. Of course, he did do so once as a senator but now Obama may feel he can give freer rein to his feelings. While it is silly to say that Obama hates Israel and wants to destroy it, if you believe that he has a single warm feeling toward the Jewish state I have a bridge in Brooklyn you might want to buy. Certainly, Obama has an extreme personal dislike for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu–as he revealed to a microphone he didn’t know was on when meeting with French President Sarkozy. And while some of Obama’s best friends were Jewish they were also anti-Israel or, at best, in the we-know-better-than-those-dumb-Israelis camp.

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One Response

  1. Why hasn’t the Queen visited Israel (which was a British Mandate territory) considering she’s been to 130 other countries.

    I’m not sure Obama not visiting is a bad thing. Let’s face it he’s not popular in Israel.

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