From Haaretz.com (think Israeli MSNBC)
A group of far-right activists on Tuesday announced their plan to hang hundreds of posters across the country depicting U.S. President Barack Obama under the headline "agent of the PLO." The banner is already on display in the office of National Union MK Michael Ben Ari.
"The poster is within the limits of the country's freedom of speech act," said Ben Ari's aide, Itamar Ben Gvir.
"I pity those who clapped during [U.S. Vice President] Joe Biden's speech," said Ben Gvir, referring to Biden's address to the Israeli people at Tel Aviv University last week.
"By the end of Ben Arie's term we will teach those Leftists what democracy is," he added. "Obama is anti-Semitic, pro-Arab, an agent of the PLO and we stand behind what the poster says."
It's funny to see that even in other countries, anyone who disagrees with Obama are labled "far right activists".
Remember when Obama went to Cairo and apologized to the Muslim world for "dictating" solutions to other countries and promised to "forge partnerships" instead? A policy that applies to everyone except Israel. Remembe his stunning and obscene comparison of the holocaust with Palestinian dislocation?
Remember his U.N. General Assembly speech when he said, "The United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements,” putting Israel on the chopping block and reinforcing the myth that Israeli settlements are are solely responsible for Palestinian suffering and displacement.
Charles Krauthammer writes
Obama declared that the Palestinian people's "situation" is "intolerable." Indeed it is, the result of 60 years of Palestinian leadership that gave its people corruption, tyranny, religious intolerance and forced militarization; leadership that for three generations rejected every offer of independence and dignity, choosing destitution and despair rather than accept any settlement not accompanied by the extinction of Israel.
That's why Haj Amin al-Husseini chose war rather than a two-state solution in 1947. Why Yasser Arafat turned down a Palestinian state in 2000. And why Abbas rejected Olmert's even more generous December 2008 offer.
In the 16 years since the Oslo accords turned the West Bank and Gaza over to the Palestinians, their leaders built no roads, no courthouses, no hospitals, none of the fundamental state institutions that would relieve their people's suffering. Instead they poured everything into an infrastructure of war and terror, all the while depositing billions (from gullible Western donors) into their Swiss bank accounts
Blaming Israel and picking a fight over “natural growth” may curry favor with the Muslim “street.” But it will only induce the Arab states to do like Abbas: sit and wait for America to deliver Israel on a platter. Which makes the Obama strategy not just dishonorable but self-defeating.
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