The Pivotal Error of the Obama Administration about Israel and the Jewish People
The best situation for Israel is the status quo. Mr. M.J. Rosenberg is wrong by saying that "American Jews care as little about what Israelis think of our leaders as Israeli Jews care about what American Jews think of their leaders." As an American Jew, I can say, that Obama and his Jewish advisors and followers seem to know very little about the Jewish history and the history of the Middle East.
Their knowledge is based on what they learned in college and in the intellectual forums and not by knowing the people on both sides, their language, their religion and their way of life. Do they know that the Muslim religion interdicts to any Muslim to sign any peace treaty with the Jews which would involve recognition and giving away land which once was inhabited by Muslims?
Does Obama know that the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) including Jerusalem is the cradle of the Jewish people and was destroyed by the Romans? That the Jewish people all over the world have been praying and dreaming for thousands of years about Jerusalem, Hebron, Bethlehem, Jericho, and part of the Jewish population have inhabited those places and never left since ancient times? etc., etc.
Does he know about Theodor Herzl, about Moses Hess, about Leon Pinsker, about the Dreyfus affair? Does he know about the struggle with the war against the Greek occupation and about Mattatyahou and his fight against this occupier? About the Roman occupation, the Byzantine occupation, the crusaders, the army of Napoleon, the Ottoman Empire and the British occupation? The Jewish Brigade and the American Jews who fought the Turkish Empire?
President Obama forgets that Jews all over the world are united with Israel for its existence and well-being, whether they say it or not and no Jew would like to be blamed for giving away the cradle of the Jewish existence, in the same way as the Catholics feel for the Vatican and the Muslims feel for Mecca. Jews are offended by the "inference that Israel owes its existence to the Holocaust," which was part of the Cairo address (Glick) The Jews should unite with the Republicans and not stick with the Democrats.
Obama's thinking and policy is that there would be peace if Israel gave away part of the West Bank and that Iran would open the door for negotiations about their nuclear program. Yes, this would be the kind of peace that Israel has known when it relinquished the Lebanon territory to Hezbollah, and the Gaza Strip to the Palestinians. It would also be the kind of peace that opens the door for Iran to mix itself with Hezbollah and Hamas. Is that what Obama has in mind? No! Mr. Obama, With all du respect you are wrongly advised. If you like change, please change this path. Do not dictate, as you promised, their path and their history to any people.
I strongly believe it would have been better if the United States and the world would not have encouraged the Arab revolution. Without any preparation we created a lot of trouble for the Arabs, who never knew what democracy is. Even in the United States of America, our democratic system is not working as you believe it would. We witness fraud and pressure in order to gain power. We should not pretend teaching the world democracy.
Copyright 2012 Emile Tubiana
