Barack Obama uses Israel visit to reassure Jewish voters

Tim Butcher
London Telegraph
Thursday, July 24, 2008

Throughout a hectic day Mr Obama repeatedly drove home the message that a White House led by him would continue to back Israel.

It appeared to be a pre-emptive strike against Right-wing Republicans who hint at Mr Obama’s weakness on the issue of militant Islam by using such devices as repeatedly referring to his middle name, which is Hussein.

But on the Iranian nuclear programme, Palestinian terrorism, the status of Jerusalem and all other issues he stuck closely to the script of robustly supporting Israel.

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Mr Obama also deliberately did something his Republican rival, Senator John McCain, failed to do during a recent visit to Israel, by aligning himself with the moderate Palestinian leadership of Mahmoud Abbas.

While Mr McCain did not visit the occupied territories, Mr Obama went to Ramallah in the West Bank to meet Mr Abbas, the president of the Palestinian national authority. He also denounced Mr Abbas’s militant Hamas rivals, who control Gaza.

While this went down well with his hosts, his intended audience was Jewish voters in America who, according to analysts, threaten his chances in the presidential election if they judge him a weak supporter of Israel.

Aluf Benn, a leading columnist in the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, caught the true flavour of the visit in a piece headlined “Obama Visit Is All About Wooing Jewish American Voters”.

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9 Responses to “Barack Obama uses Israel visit to reassure Jewish voters”

1. WIZARD-OF-OZ Says:
   July 24th, 2008 at 4:27 am

   And give them $2B in foreign aid a year. After all why not it just means staying at the printing press for another 10 minutes.

2. Giant Shadows Says:
   July 24th, 2008 at 10:35 am

   Do not accept what is-
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V5iCUBEUx4

3. MotherBrain Says:
   July 24th, 2008 at 11:26 am

   He is a zionist jew? PEOPLE HS IS NOT JEWISH. He is kenyan. Take a reality check.

4. Aunty Z Says:
   July 24th, 2008 at 11:42 am

   Aren’t Alex and his Jew wife ZIONISTS?

5. Aunty Z Says:
   July 24th, 2008 at 12:23 pm

   So is the answer to my question yes, or no? Get unbrainwashed.

6. Steven Says:
   July 24th, 2008 at 2:56 pm

   I hope Obama remembered to say “thank you massa” when he finished speaking with the jews. If he wins those kikes will be pulling his strings.

7. Jeff Says:
   July 24th, 2008 at 3:25 pm

   The people that end up voting for this guy, are the same ones that fell for the other social experiments: (”Let’s watch and laugh as they pay $2 for 10 ounces of tap water in a bottle.”) (”Let’s get them to think jogging in rush hour traffic is a healthy low risk behavior.”) (”Let’s see if they will resist a candidate with a last name that rhymes with a name associated with 911 terror, is religiously linked with a religion associated with terror, and who has a middle name that will remind them of a lie about WMD’s. Let’s really run this out to the perimeter to quantify how fuckin’ STUPID these people really are…LOL!”)

8. Useless Says:
   July 24th, 2008 at 9:16 pm

   Israelis are voting for the Americans…as are a multitude of European nations? Hmmmmmmm…………….We are in for a VERY rough next couple years…

9. Gregory Fegel Says:
   July 25th, 2008 at 12:24 am

   After the Revolution, there will be no place in the new America for Zionists. Period.