It is very petty for a president who represents a big nation like the USA to be “enraged at the Israeli government,” as Martin Indyk said. It seems that Obama has an inferiority complex that makes him forget that Israel is a friendly nation and that its people had suffered a lot. He also seems to forget that most of the Jewish people voted for him in the United States. I feel sorry to have to repeat that Obama never understood either the Arab world or the Jewish word, despite being an intellectual president.

With regard to Secretary of State John Kerry, I believe that Obama did not make a good choice. Furthermore, no one took into consideration that the kind of negotiations Obama and Kerry wanted Israel so badly to have with the Palestinian Authority have been already held multiple times in the past, without any results. I believe that Obama wanted to twist Netanyahu’s arm. He did not reflect on the sensitivity of the Jewish people and their long history of suffering, and never understood that the West Bank and Jerusalem is the cradle of Judaism. It never belonged to an Arab nation called Palestinians. Even if Arafat pretended that such a nation existed, President George Bush confirmed that Arafat lied to him.  

This confirms what I said above, that Obama has never understood where the Jews come from. By believing that celebrating Passover with a few non-religious Jews in the White House would show his respect for the Jewish faith and the Jewish people, Obama forgets that in both elections the Jews played a considerable role by voting 70% for him. By helping J-Street, Obama thinks that this organization is representative of the Jewish people, but this is not the case.

Furthermore, Obama did not take into consideration the determination of the Israelis to defend their history and the place of their ancestors. Jews have survived over centuries and will survive Obama as well. Notwithstanding his negativity, which he has expressed among others by halting the scheduled arms delivery to US’s ally Israel during war time, while supporting the terrorist Hamas regime, the Jews are loyal to the United States.

Copyright 2014 Emile Tubiana