So says Reverend Jesse Jackson, who when last heard from was promising to make Barack Obama, er, a new man:
The most important change would occur in the Middle East, where “decades of putting Israel’s interests first” would end.
Jackson believes that, although “Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades” remain strong, they’ll lose a great deal of their clout when Barack Obama enters the White House.
Well, that’s wonderful. The SOL list is getting long…first the plumber, now Israel. What’s next, babies that survived a botched abortion? Israel is a strong United States ally in a region starved of them, surrounded by hostile regimes like Ahmadinejad’s Iran and confronted constantly with the threat of terror groups like Hamas, Hezlbollah, and Islamic Jihad. Our support is critical to their survival.
Obama’s campaign released a statement refuting the good reverend’s interpretation:
“As he has made clear throughout his career and throughout this campaign, Barack Obama has a fundamental commitment to a strong U.S.-Israel relationship … As president, he will ensure that Israel can defend itself from every threat it faces, stand with Israel in its quest for a secure peace with its neighbors, and use all elements of American power to end Iran’s illicit nuclear program.”
Sounds good…maybe Jesse was just hitting the crack pipe with former DC mayor Marion Barry before he said what he did, and Obama really will stand shoulder to shoulder with Israel. Hahaha, just kidding…let’s review his record (h/t Hot Air):
Jeremiah Wright — His pastor for 20 years and a man to whom Obama gave over $26,000 in 2006 alone, Wright has feted and honored Louis Farrakhan, a virulent anti-Semite. Wright also believes that the government created HIV as a genocidal tool aimed at people of color, and that America deserved what it got with 9/11. Wright has also reprinted Hamas propaganda in the church newsletter on several occasions.
William Ayers — The former Weather Underground domestic terrorist employed Barack Obama at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Obama served with him on the board of the Woods Foundation, during which time both of them gave $75,000 to Rashid Khalidi, a Yasser Arafat toady.
Robert Malley — One of Obama’s foreign policy advisers, Malley resigned from the campaign after reports that he met with Hamas surfaced earlier this year. Malley has a history of opposing Israel; in the Clinton efforts to achieve a peace settlement, he was the only American adviser to blame Israel when Arafat refused to accept 95% of what he’d demanded in the final settlement.
Any doubt whom Iran’s Ahmadinejad and the Palestinian terrorists he supports and finances prefer for US President?
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