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“A year ago, I thought Israel was a trusted ally. What happened? Did racists and bigots suddenly emigrate there? It used to be that both Democrats and Republicans supported the uniquely pro-Western, capitalist, democratic, and tolerant society surrounded by radical Islamists, autocracies, and terrorists. The rest of the world calculated oil, fear of Islamic terrorism, 300 million in the Middle East, and anti-Semitism; we alone valued consensual government, an enlightened society, and freedom as the basis of our support for a tiny state in a very hostile world — and protected the democracy against its countless enemies (there was a Holocaust once, after all, as the world slept). But suddenly the U.S. government sends friendly videos to a theocracy that promises Israel’s destruction while snubbing the Prime Minister of the Jewish state?” [emphasis added]
— Victor Davis Hanson, March 30th, 2010 (PJTV)

Prof. Hanson asks a rhetorical question, of course. But I'm not sure 77% of Jewish American voters (who voted for The Obama Himself) understand this subtlety. So I will pretend it is not rhetorical.

The Obama Himself lied. That in itself is not such a revelation. A lot of politicians lie. I would venture to say virtually all of them do. They do it to get votes. Most rational educated people know this, which is why most rational educated people tend to be skeptical of statements made by politicians campaigning for votes.

So, what is unusual about this particular lie, in which The Obama Himself claimed he would honor and support the unbroken alliance between the United States and Israel, dating back to President Truman's pledge at the modern State-of-Israel's birth 62 years ago? I submit that the unusual factor about this instance was its transparent duplicity.

During the Presidential campaign of 2008, it became clear, to anyone capable of putting 2 and 2 together to get 4, that The Obama Himself had personal associations with Jew-haters, chief among them his own pastor of 20 years, Jeremiah Wright. Oh, but you can't assume guilt by association, you say. Well, no, not in a court of law in the United States, you can't.

But, an election voting-booth is not a court of law. And your decision in a voting booth is not beholden to anything but your own conscience. In a voting booth (if not sooner) is when you must take into consideration everything you know and everything you suspect you know. Any Jewish-American voter, who didn't suspect that The Obama Himself lied about His intentions vis-à-vis Israel, was either lying himself, intellectually challenged, or overdosed on Kool-Aid. Or all of the above.

 h/t Theo 

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