Obama's Israel: the same tactics used to divide and dismantle America

In the sequel to his 2009 Cairo speech, finally making his way to Israel, many were scratching their heads this week wondering, 'what's he doing here?' Well, the ominous writing was on the wall, literally, with that evaporative map released in an administrative video before the trip that essentially erases Israeli territory...



Obama's trip, particularly his speech to impressionable Israeli youth, university students, Palestinian sympathizers and the like (a.k.a. Israeli liberals), presented a distinctively recognizable indication of what Obama's objective would be: use the same strategy of divide and dismantle within Israel that he's used within America, while of course appearing to unite and assist in fixing relations (another variation on the Limbaugh Theorem, if you will).

Blame Israel for everything that's gone wrong, and give the Palestinians their fair share, all through the auspice of peace...I'd swear we've heard something like this somewhere before (with different words shuffled around of course)...

Note: prepare for the clapping seals...

"The days when Israel could seek peace simply with a handful of autocratic leaders, those days are over."

Right, because Obama's assisted in promoting the rise of an Islamic Caliphate in the Middle East region, so now Israel is left with attempting to seek peace with a gang of radical Arab Springers? Uh huh, I think we all know how that's gonna go over. About as well as with Ahmadinejad and Khamenei.

"Put yourself in their shoes. Look at the world through their eyes. It is not fair that a Palestinian child cannot grow up in a state of their own, living their entire lives with the presence of a foreign army that controls the movements not just of those young people but their parents, their grandparents, every single day. It's not just when settler violence against Palestinians goes unpunished. It's not right to prevent Palestinians from farming their lands or restricting a student's ability to move around the West Bank or displace Palestinian families from their homes. Neither occupation nor expulsion is the answer."

Not fair, not just, not right. Is this not the same divisive language of class warfare that he's cast on the rich, on those of us who believe in a sovereign nation as opposed to a porous one, or even on those of us who revere the sanctity of marriage? It's all the same. It's never the true democratic, or even moral, method of the rule of law. Instead, it's always the wants and desires of a few in which all must be forced to change. And as Obama addresses Israeli youth, it's once again the same declaration, 'it's not on them, it's on you!'

AllahPundit over at HotAir points out one final quote I thought worth mentioning...

Here’s the one passage in Obama’s speech that I can’t get over. Literally no one, except maybe George W. Bush, still believes the following is true; it would have been a tough sell at any time, but at the moment it’s mind-boggling.

"Four years ago, I stood in Cairo in front of an audience of young people. Politically, religiously, they must seem a world away. But the things they want – they’re not so different from you. The ability to make their own decisions; to get an education and a good job; to worship God in their own way; to get married and have a family. The same is true of the young Palestinians that I met in Ramallah this morning, and of young Palestinians who yearn for a better life in Gaza."

Which Egyptian “young people” does he mean? The ~5% of the country that’s liberal and reform-minded and that quickly disappeared from political view after Mubarak was deposed? Or the majority of the population that says they want to tear up the treaty with Israel and then elected a guy known for demanding that Palestinians be returned to “the entire land of Palestine”? If you want a truly honest, bracing explanation of what’s wrong with the peace process, skip O’s shpiel below and follow that last link. It’s all there: Screeching demonization of the “bloodsuckers” plus the ember of Palestinian revanchism that’ll burn forever, whether a “peace” deal is ever struck or not. It’s very, very O-like (O for Obama and Oprah) to think that a speech cajoling one side to understand their neighbor a little better might help resolve a zero-sum game over the most famously disputed territory in the world.

If you really want to understand where Obama's coming from in this speech, look no further than his emblematic hero, Saul Alinksy, of whom is quoted almost verbatim as he speaks to these young Israelis...

WND: In his address in Jerusalem today, President Obama channeled Saul Alinsky, citing the radical community organizer’s defining mantra as he urged young Israelis to “create change” to nudge their leadership to act.

Obama told a crowd of college students at Jerusalem’s main convention center that Israel “has the wisdom to see the world as it is, but also the courage to see the world as it should be.”

One of Alinsky’s major themes was working with the world as it “is” to turn it into the world as “it should be.”

In his defining work, “Rules for Radicals,” which he dedicated to “the first rebel,” Lucifer, Alinsky used those words to lay out his main agenda. He asserted radical change must be brought about by working within a system instead of attacking it from the outside.

“It is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be. That means working in the system,” wrote Alinsky.

Obama related his Alinsky quote to a suggestion that “peace” begins with the people and not just the leadership – a statement some may relate to community organizing.

He further suggested Israelis do an end-run around the country’s leadership and “create the change that you want to see.”

Similarly insisting on the same sort of mob rule mentality that he's promoted within American society today, via Alinsky’s tactics of direct action, confrontation and intimidation. And we know what Obama thinks of us here who would like to do an end-run around his Big Government leviathan in an effort to regain more liberty...that's not the change he believes you should ever see again.

After the trip to his self-imposed territorial redistricting of Israel, Obama ventured to the restriped West Bank state to tell Abbas that he chastised Netanyahu over settlement construction and made clear that the Palestinians were being treated with indignity because of Israel's 'occupation'. And he wonders why only 10% of Israelis (a.k.a. the clapping seals) have a favorable view of him.

Once in the West Bank, Obama pulls the same fair share bit, saying it's 'not fair' that Palestinians don’t have their own state, and that they're not a 'free people' because of Israeli 'occupation'...never mind the fact that WeaselZippers points out:

Fact: Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert offered the Palestinians land equaling 100% of the West Bank and Abbas still said no.

Obama even had the gall to compare the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to a disagreement between the U.S. and Canada. Hmm, can't recall a rocket lobbed over that border...



No one's that naive, B.

Oh, but what of the welcome mat rolled out for Obama's arrival? Or the muslim response to his visit? Just take a gander at the following headlines to get a clear picture of that...

Hamas welcomes Obama to region by raining Qassam rockets down on Israel…
Khamenei: Iran will destroy Tel Aviv if attacked
Gaza rockets slam southern Israel during Obama visit
'Most Palestinians hate Obama'...
Palestinian protesters to Obama: “We want RPGs, not the CIA”…
Palestinian protestors chant “Allahu Akbar,” burn American Flag at anti-Obama rally…

Fact is, no matter what giant depiction he's speaking beneath, an Obama-led America is more hated now than under Bush!

FoxNation: U.S is now less popular in the region than at the end of the George W. Bush administration.

Despite downgrading the trip, many see Obama's arrival as the sequel to his 2009 visit to Cairo, where he announced a "new beginning" with the Muslim world. Four years later, that doesn't auger well for renewed efforts in Israel and the West Bank. According to the latest survey by the Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project, confidence in Obama in Muslim countries dropped from 33% to 24% in his first term. Approval of Obama's policies declined even further, from 34% to 15%. And support for the United States in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Pakistan is lower today than it was in 2008 in the closing year of George W. Bush's administration. That collapse of support has not happened elsewhere.

In his Cairo speech, Obama pledged a relationship between America and Muslims around the world "based on mutual interest and mutual respect." But in 2013, interests are diverging, and respect is in short supply.

ADDENDUM: Check out the first hour of Levin's program last night:

On Thursday's Mark Levin Show: Mark talks about President Obama's trip to Israel and says that Obama hates Israel. Everything he is doing is not in our biggest ally's interest. The Middle East is in disarray and Obama hasn't done anything to improve the situation. Obama also quotes from Saul Alinsky during an Israeli speech saying Israel "has the wisdom to see the world as it is, but also the courage to see the world as it should be." Obama is ashamed of America - as he goes overseas and blasts our traditions and heritage.

...then Friday, Mark reported about an unfortunate strong-armed apology...sigh.