Despite his years of palling paling hanging around with Jeremiah Wright and other antisemites, President Obama has “Jewish friends”. He says so himself, and I believe him. I wonder, though, whether they are as singular in their views as he makes out.
Talking to students in Turkey yesterday, the President offered, according to news reports, the following comparison (noticed by Abe Greenwald:
Obama ended his first overseas trip as president with an appeal to the world to put aside stereotypes and misconceptions: the view by many Muslims that Israel is to blame for all problems [and] similar views in reverse by “some of my Jewishfriends,” . . . . [emphasis added]
Is that true? We’ve all heard about the brisk sales throughout the Moslem world of The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. Do some of the President’s “Jewish friends” mutter similar thoughts about a mullah-led conspiracy to dominate world finance? Large numbers of Moslems cheer murderers of Jews (and Americans, too – Palestinians were photographed dancing in the streets to celebrate the 9/11 attacks). Barack Obama personally knows Jews who applaud random attacks on civilians? Almost all Moslem-ruled countries have expelled almost all of their Jewish residents. Is the Obama family on friendly terms with the heirs of Meir Kahane?
Let me hazard a guess of whose accuracy I am extremely certain: In point of fact, President Obama is not a friend of, and has never even encountered, any Jew whose opinions parallel in the slightest the bigoted notions that are commonplace throughout the House of Islam. I shall not try to guess why he attributes such foul sentiments to “friends”.
"President Obama is not a friend of, and has never even encountered, any Jew whose opinions parallel in the slightest the bigoted notions that are commonplace throughout the House of Islam."
I presume that is a typo and you mean differ, not parallel, otherwise that would be praise and not criticism.
Posted by: Jason Taylor | Saturday, April 11, 2009 at 10:35 AM