Tag Archive for Barack Obama

| April 11, 2016
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Obama to allow PA-sponsored anti-Israel UN resolution for personal legacy

 

Only a month after Abbas formally rejected the latest U.S. peace proposal from visiting VP Biden, Obama plans to reward Palestinian intransigence by not vetoing upcoming anti-Israel UN security council resolution condemning settlements, to pressure Israel into entering new round of peace talks.

By Nitsan Keidar

 

US President Barack Obama may manipulate a vote over the Palestinian Authority (PA)’s UN resolution condemning Israeli “settlements” to boost his own legacy, White House sources said Monday.

Obama is allegedly willing to remain silent on the vote in order to further his own agenda in the Middle East, officials said, and instead, promote his own outline for a series of US-led talks. Continue Reading »

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| February 24, 2016
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Wikileaks: Obama ordered eavesdropping on top Italian leaders, to watch Netanyahu

 

Wikileaks’ website posts NSA document acknowledging it eavesdropped on Italian officials’ conversations which revealed Israeli PM turning to Berlusconi for help with Obama, after Jerusalem’s decision to build new homes in East Jerusalem.

By News Agencies

 

Wikileaks announced Tuesday night that the National Security Agency (NSA) eavesdropped on conversations which reveal that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu turned to Italian President Silvio Berlusconi to help him deal with US President Barack Obama.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and former Italian President Silvio Berlusconi – Photo: AFP

“Netanyahu pleaded with Berlusconi to help him deal with Obama,” the WikiLeaks website stated . Continue Reading »

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| December 30, 2015
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WSJ reports: Obama orders NSA to spy on Netanyahu

 

WSJ reports that under Obama’s direction NSA’s “targeting of Israeli leaders & officials also swept up the contents of some of their private conversations with US lawmakers & American-Jewish groups.”

By i24news

 

Fearing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is working to derail the nuclear deal with Iran, the White House has authorized the National Security Agency to monitor the leader’s communications, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

Obama & Netanyahu – Photo : REUTERS

The report detailing the minutiae of NSA’s snooping and once more propelling into the spotlight Washington’s mistrust of the hawkish Israeli premier could usher in a new crisis in the already tense relations between Netanyahu and President Barack Obama’s administration. Continue Reading »

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| November 25, 2015
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Saving Face Gesture: Not to Be Shown Up By the Patriots, Obama Calls Ezra Schwartz’s Parents

 

Four days after brutal murder of a US citizen by a Palestinian terrorist, President Obama calls family shortly before New England Patriots hold scheduled ‘prime-time’ moment of silence for their son, Ezra Schwartz.

By Ari Yashar

 

US President Barack Obama on Monday made a phone call to the parents of Ezra Schwartz, the 18-year-old American citizen murdered by a terrorist last Thursday in a shooting attack in Judea’s Gush Etzion.

Ezra Schwartz – Courtesy

In the call to the bereaved parents Ari and Ruth Scwhartz, which came a lengthy four days after the murder, Obama spoke about how Schwartz was studying at a yeshiva and volunteering in Israel during his gap year.
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| September 17, 2015
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White House gives Palestinian killer of US citizens a mere slap on the wrist

 

Although Deif masterminded the bombings in which hundreds of Israelis, as well as a number of Americans were murdered, the State Dept has ‘blacklisted’ him, instead of issuing warrants for his arrest.

By Stephen M. Flatow/JNS.org

 

The Obama administration announced Sept. 8 that it is putting Mohammed Deif and three other Palestinian terrorists on its “designated terrorists” list. That’s basically a slap on the wrist—for someone who should be subjected to U.S. prosecution, not U.S. name-calling.

Deif was trained in the art of bomb making by the infamous Hamas leader Yehya Ayyash, nicknamed “The Engineer.” When Ayyash was killed in 1995, Deif was chosen as his successor.

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| August 25, 2015
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Obama’s Intervention Saves Convicted Terrorists Millions in Federal Case

 

Following White House intervention, a US District Judge orders PA/PLO to post a mere $10 million bond in terror case pending appeal for $655 million compensation to 10 American families.

By Ben Ariel

 

A judge in New York on Monday ordered the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) to post $10 million in cash or bond while they appeal a jury’s finding that they supported terrorist attacks in Israel, Reuters reported.

At a court hearing in Manhattan, U.S. District Judge George Daniels said the defendants must also deposit $1 million each month pending the appeal of a February jury verdict worth $655 million in favor of 10 American families. Continue Reading »

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| August 24, 2015
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AGAIN: White House Tries to Shame Israel To Manipulate Netanyahu

 

Conspicuously timed declassification of secret gov’t documents seems aimed at shaming Israel into supporting Obama’s dangerous nuclear deal with Iran by equating the Jewish state’s nuclear program with that of Iran’s.

By Israel Today Staff

 

While it flew somewhat under the radar of the mainstream news cycle, the Obama Administration last week apparently tried to shame Israel into supporting its dangerous Iran nuclear deal by declassifying historic documents regarding the Jewish state’s own nuclear program.

Many saw it as no accident that the Nixon-era State Department documents were made public just as Israel is leading the charge to have Obama’s Iran nuclear agreement defeated in Congress. Continue Reading »

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| August 17, 2015
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Presidential Candidate Ben Carson: Yes, Obama’s Actions Are Anti-Semitic

‘Anything that is against the survival of Israel, who is surrounded by enemies, and then act like everything is normal there, and that these (Jewish) people are paranoid, I think that’s anti-Semitic,’ says Republican candidate.

By Gil Ronen

 

Republican presidential candidate and retired neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson accused President Barack Obama Sunday of being anti-Semitic, as evidenced by Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran.

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson – Photo: Reuters

Carson told Fox News Sunday, in response to a question on his criticism of the Iran deal, : “Well, all you have to do, Chris, is, like I have, go to Israel, and talk to average people, on all ends of that spectrum.
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| August 13, 2015
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Will American Jews Turn ‘Never Again’ Pledge Into Empty Slogan?

Op-ed: American Jews, who traditionally have been overwhelmingly Democrat, need to choose if the Jewish state’s security & survival trump the legacy of, & loyalty to, a lame duck president that Israel feels is endangering it.

By Shoula Romano Horing 

 

After World War II, Jews everywhere promised that never again would they be silent or sit idly by while evil tries to destroy the Jewish people. Iranian leaders have repeatedly promised to destroy the Jewish state. It appears that the nuclear deal will give them the means to do it. 

Democratic Senator Eliot Engel (L), who has come out against the Iran nuclear deal, with Secretary of State John Kerry – Photo: AP

American Jews, who are overwhelmingly Democrats, will have to choose the Jewish state’s survival and security over the legacy of and loyalty to a lame duck president from the Democratic Party. Continue Reading »

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| June 14, 2015
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MK Michael Oren: Obama changed 40-yr US policy on ’67 lines without consulting Israel

In Michael Oren’s new book, the new Knesset Member describes his impressions from when he was Israel’s  ambassador to the United States between 2009-2013.

By HERB KEINON

 

President Barack Obama endorsed the Palestinian position on the 1967 lines in 2011 and by so doing altered more than 40 years of American policy without prior consultation with Israel, former ambassador to the US Michael Oren writes in a book to be published later this month.

Former ambassador to the US Michael Oren. – Photo: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS/ANNE MANDLEBAUM

Oren, in an account of the book that appeared Friday in The New York Jewish Week, wrote that the Prime Minister’s Office was outraged at the move, and instructed him to call congressional leaders. Continue Reading »

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| June 4, 2015
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Obama’s Interview on Israel TV2 Demonstrated His Embrace of the Palestinian Narrative

Despite his comments on ‘the Jewish experience’, Obama’s interview for TV2 only reassured the Israeli viewers that he supports the Palestinian cause.

By Tsvi Sadan

 

The interview President Obama gave to veteran Israeli journalist Ilana Dayan went very well. In her Hebrew introduction, Dayan said that being the first black president, Obama had “changed America forever.” While she failed to explain how skin color had changed America, viewers at home could tell by the tone of Dayan’s voice that whatever change to which she was referring must have been a good change.

TV2 Screenshot

With such an intro, it wasn’t surprising that contrary to promos suggesting Obama would put all his cards on the table, Dayan delivered an irritating interview showing a smug president having fun with one of his admirers. Continue Reading »

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| June 4, 2015
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Obama Invokes Executive Waiver Delaying Relocation of US Embassy to Jerusalem

President Obama signed the waiver just as successive administrations dating back to Clinton’s, using executive authority to postpone implementation of the law by citing “national security interests.”

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

US President Barack Obama invoked a waiver on Wednesday postponing the relocation of the American embassy to Jerusalem for at least another six months.

President Barack Obama, assisted by Deputy Staff Secretary Ted Chiodo, signs bills in the Oval Office. – OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE PHOTO/PETE SOUZA

Despite Congressional legislation mandating that the US move its mission to the Israeli capital, successive administrations dating back to the Clinton regime have used presidential authority to postpone implementation of the law by citing “national security interests.” Continue Reading »

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| June 3, 2015
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WATCH: Obama Interview for Israel TV2 Threaten to Cut US Support at UN

In an open attack against PM Netanyahu, President Obama says if Israel doesn’t renew peace talks with the Palestinians, he will have to make adjustments in US’s position at the UN.

By Ari Yashar

 

US President Barack Obama gave an interview with Israeli media on Tuesday, in which he threatened that an Israeli refusal to renew peace talks with the Palestinian Authority (PA) will “make it hard” for the US to veto motions in the UN against Israel.

In an interview with Ilana Dayan for Channel 2‘s “Uvda” (Fact) TV show aired Tuesday night, Obama commented on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s statements before elections in which he said that a Palestinian state won’t be founded on his watch. Continue Reading »

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| April 22, 2015
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Pulitzer-prize Winning WSJ Editor Counsels Israel to Ignore World after Obama’s Betrayals

Pulitzer-prize winning foreign-affairs columnist Bret Stephens tells Jerusalem to revive its past strategies, when Israel wasn’t afraid to go ‘rogue,’ because since Obama, the US isn’t the US anymore.

By Ari Yashar

 

In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and deputy-editor of the paper Bret Stephens argued on Monday that due to US President Barack Obama’s irreversible actions, the US doesn’t have Israel’s back anymore – and Israel should learn to stand on its own.

Lee C. Bollinger, President of Columbia University (left), presents the 2013 Pulitzer Prize on Commentary to Bret Stephens of The Wall Street Journal.

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| April 10, 2015
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A Succinct But Complete Chronology of Obama’s Anti-Israel Hatred

During Obama’s presidency, the US had supplied Israel more military aid than any previous administration, but, never has such support to a loyal ally been so diluted by constant political attacks, policy changes and public humiliations.

By Ben Shapiro

 

 

For some odd reason, many in the media and Congress reacted with surprise to Obama’s supposedly sudden turn on Israel. The media, in an attempt to defend Obama’s radicalism, pretend that Netanyahu’s comments in the late stages of his campaign prompted Obama’s anti-Israel action.

Ben Shapiro – YouTube Screenshot

But, in truth, this is the culmination of a longtime Obama policy of destroying the US-Israel relationship; Obama has spent his entire life surrounded by haters of Israel, from former Palestine Liberation Organization spokesman Rashid Khalidi to former Jimmy Carter National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, pro-Hamas negotiator Robert Malley to UN Ambassador Samantha Power (who once suggested using American troops to guard Palestinians from Israelis), Jeremiah Wright (who said “Them Jews ain’t going to let him talk to me”) to Professor Derrick Bell (“Jewish neoconservative racists…are undermining blacks in every way they can”).

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