Obama went to synagogue Rodeph Shalom in Philadelphia today to reassure Jews that he’s always been on our side, Rev. Wright notwithstanding. According to the pool report, Robert Wexler, the Florida congressman, opened up for Obama and assured the audience that "’Obama unequivocally rejects the Palestinian right of return’ because he understands that Israel must remain a Jewish state."
It is a great thing that the Right of Return is at last being debated in American politics. I pray we can open the discussion up, to include Ali Abunimah, who reports that in the eyes of F.W. De Clerk, the last president of apartheid South Africa, who dismantled that system, Israel’s division of land and immigration policies, all in the name of preserving a Jewish state, remind him of apartheid South Africa trying to maintain a white colony.
Myself, I am not even sure where I come down on this issue. I want help; I want an open robust discussion in the great US of A….
