If you want to understand how angry Obama is at the Israel lobby and Israel, watch the speech he just gave in Dublin.
He is a generous man (I say as a fellow Leo) and generosity brims in every word of that speech. The speech is filled with love. He is grateful to Ireland for supporting the abolitionist movement, he is grateful to Ireland for helping preserve the union, grateful to it for the American revolution and for the cultural contributions to America today.
But the most direct contrast is Obama’s celebration of Ireland’s ability to end the troubles and struggle toward the goal of human equality, with his grim support for Israel yesterday. There wasn’t a soaring word of praise yesterday. But today, some of the phrases: The Irish obeyed “the irrepressible human impulse to love.” America will stand by you always for this. “You already have surpassed the world’s highest hopes.. A dream has turned to reality…”
You faced an intractable problem. (I believe he used that word intractable– very important, no transcript up yet). The world said, your problems are too big, your challenges are too great, you shouldn’t even try. But America stands by you. “Is feidir linn. Yes we can.”
