Obama’s meeting with 100 Cleveland Jews is taking on the same kind of resonance as Kennedy’s talk about the Pope to the Protestant ministers in Houston in 1960. Except Obama came to kiss a ring, not unkiss it! Now the Washington Post has picked up the meeting. Soon it will be on national television.
Note that The Post refers to a"recent book about the ‘Israel lobby’", as Newsweek also did this week, without giving credit to the authors, Walt and Mearsheimer.
And note when Obama talks about his controversial church:
It is true that my pastor, Jeremiah Wright… is somebody who on occasion can say controversial things…. He was very active in the South Africa divestment movement, and you
will recall that there was a tension that arose between the African
American and the Jewish communities during that period when we were
dealing with apartheid in South Africa, because Israel and South Africa
had a relationship at that time. And that cause — that was a source of
tension. So there have been a couple of occasions where he made
comments with relation, rooted in that. Not necessarily ones that I
share. But that is the context within which he has made those comments.
This is a significant comment. It is reminding Jews of a time when Israel was flat wrong, when it sought to prop up apartheid South Africa. Obama’s being tactful as all get-out, but he knows his leftwing history. And you know what side he was on.
P.S. Oh and which way did history go on apartheid South Africa?
