— At least, that’s the new spin coming from the leftist sharks and at least one “rightwing” Trig truther who clings to their bellies like some hirsute drug-addled Remora.
And if you think about it, a lot of people did immediately conclude that Obama and his talk of a “contiguous” Palestinian state, which is to be made possible by Israel’s relinquishing of the buffer land it uses to guard against attacks (land itself secured after Israel was attacked yet again in 1973 by Arabs who to this day assert Israel has no right to exist), seemed to be presenting Israel with an unworkable ultimatum.
It therefore follows that because such an up-swell of instant agreement on the “right” can’t possibly be attributed to anything Obama actually said — he is, after all, like, totally pro-Israel, an indisputable fact made indisputable by Obama having told us so; and besides, it’s not like he sandbagged Netanyahu and delivered without warning a speech in advance of the Prime Minister’s visit (or rather, the President did do that, but only because that’s the kind of relationship good friends have) — it must of necessity be part of a well-orchestrated conspiracy of propaganda, funded and fueled by a rapid-response Jew-controlled media whose reach is beyond comprehension, deploying blogs and radio personalities and Tweeters whose “reporting” happened in what appeared to be “real time,” but was actually some trick of Jew physics.
So. Q.E.D.
(h/t Doug Ross, who has more).
update: also, do note the trackbacks at Hurley’s site. Head Lizard Charles Johnson so wants back in the lefty clique that he’ll link to just about anything anti-right these days — hoping that none of us remember how, at one point, some on the left were actually calling him a Nazi for his Mideast politics. I guess in time, every lefty eventually reaches the conclusion that, if it means they get patted on the head by the wannabe intelligensia, Israel can go fuck itself.)
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update: RSM weighs in.
like some hirsute drug-addled Remora.
heh, that’s a keeper.
From the Turley post or was it also elsewhere?
Hey, here’s a fun fact about Charles Johnson: he has no scruples. This is just demonstrably true.
Pro-Israel?!
Anti, pro, what’s the difference really?
Up is down, black is white…
Lefties get hard when you talk dirty about Israel. They love that rough trade talk. Teach the dirty Joooos a lesson.
Dead Jews have absolute moral authority. It’s the prickly, wanting-to-live kind that cause so many problems.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/05/21/kiss_gene_simmons_obama_has_no_fing_idea_what_the_world_is_like.html
No Gene. He is not a good guy. He might not shoot a man in Reno, but he would dig watching Israel die.
I second Darleen. That’s effin’ brilliant.
[…] best to out-Carter Jimmy Carter when it comes to Israel. Jeff Goldstein has a few thoughts on the President’s throwback policies as well.Yet another Socialist government in Europe has gone down to crushing, and entirely deserved, […]
Krauthammer: Obama adopts Bush Middle East doctrine.
Elliot Abrams: Obama rejects Bush Middle East doctrine
Jeff Fortenberry: Obama reframed Middle east policy stressing the philosophy of just and free societies.
James Jay Carafano: Obama is Martin Luther King Jr. for non-violent change, “vision” and cheerleading the “Peace Process”.
And as linked in post.
Jonathan Turley: “{S}ame policies put forth by George W. Bush”.
Hirsute Remora: “[S]tandard position … did not strike me as anything new”.
I reiterate, Obama is a human Rorschach test. A swirling cloud of mist upon which all are persuaded by him to project all their hopes, which got him elected, and fears which may be his downfall yet.
And to set the record straight on Bush:
Letter From President Bush to Prime Minister Sharon:
How about the June 10th 1967 borders? Workable?
Fill me in on this, plzkthx?
Is the bolded statement true? I’m not very hip to the vicissitudes of Mideast policy.
hirsute drug-addled remora.
Weird thing about remoras? The suction cup is on the top of the head; they don’t cling with the mouth. I didn’t know this until I saw some remoras in a pet store in Ithaca, NY, of all places. Dangdest thing.
You want mouth-clingers, getcha some lampreys.
Ramoras are too good to be associated with Tina Brown’s latest bitch. This is more appropriate.
This is a close second.
geoffb–nice borders. Sharm el Sheikh as a Israel diving resort again.
dicentra,
Yes and no:
Previous administrations had no illusions that the 1967 borders could ever be viable or even a reasonable goal. The current administration, based on the concept of a “contiguous Palestine” which would necessarily split Israel in two or require the Israelis giving up substantial territory inside the 1967 border – basically the southern 1/3 of the country – appears to believe it is the starting point moving the other direction.
Note that the George Bush letter (the one geoffb also links to) is prior to the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, which Hamas immediately converted into an armed camp and a base from which they have launched continuous rocket attacks against southern Israeli towns.
President Obtuse and his supporters seem completely oblivious to the “realities on the ground” of the entire last decade.
Obama and the ‘Teutonic Shift’ in the Middle East
As well, anyone who still believes Hamas/Fatah are honest negotiating partners is willfully deluded. That is a “fact on the ground” the left refuses to recognize.
I’m still not seeing how the relationship between Israel and Palestine is our problem. I’d let both sides go at it hammer and tongs until one side is convinced that it’s defeated. That’s the only way that you’ll end up with a peace of any kind.
I think, however, that the Israeli’s would have to become a lot more vicious in order to convince the Palestinians that trying to extinguish Israel is a Really Bad Idea™. I don’t know if they have that in them.
Well, they are our ally, our only true friend in the region. We’ve always stood with Israel. It’s a good thing that we’ve done so. It’s what we do. It’s who we are.
Or, were, until the far-left Democrats came undermining and knocking down our basic goodnesses.
OK Sen. Inhofe gave a speech in 2002 outlining 7 reasons Israel should keep her land. The speech, here, is a jumble; I’ve rearranged and picked out the seven points he’s clumsily making…
There’s some overlap. Well, he’s a Senator, speaking sans teleprompter, so there you have it.
He’s a Good Man.
“You can forget about 1949” is the same as “1967 is the shiznit!”?
lolwut?
RC
It is our problem is our Prez gives the implicit green light to the Arabs they get a redo of 1967 – with this time succeeding in pushing the JOOOOS into the sea.
Obama’s own words at AIPAC
Look at a freakin’ map … this means cutting Israel in two and the “border with Jordan” means giving up the security zones in the Rift Valley. Such a “Palestinian” state is being set forth in Obama’s own language as a demanded “result” of any “negotiations”.
It is astounding to note that after all those years of blogging the RoP, and with the ascendency of the Muslim Brotherhood and the mainstreaming of Hamas, Charles now finds that the root of the Middle East problem is the GOP.
Ferchrissakes, Charles, hie thee to Iowa and just get yourself gay married already.
Say’s later in his AIPAC speech “borders of June 4, 1967” not June 10, so yes Obama is insisting that “negotiations” start with the 1949 lines (which Arabs never accepted at the time) and the 6 day war be ignored. “Land swaps” starting with Israel having no claim to Jerusalem and the Western Wall.
But Obama is Israel’s friend! He said so!
Hey, if Obama didn’t divert from previous policy, why is the left so bent about what Netanyahu said in the Oval Office? We’re all still on the same page, no?
…and Muslims in control of all of it. That the al-Aqsa mosque was built upon the Temple Mount is obviously no coincidence. So, who wants to help them finish what they started?
No, Adolph, I wasn’t asking you.
Bibi stung BHO’s ass, in the White House. All the Party’s comrades will now gather ’round to give it suckle, to make it all better.
Hey Bmoe!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phjcf-OPFKY
Pretty cool.
Harry Hamlin is Jewish, as is Henry Winkler. And after you find out, you don’t then say, “Really? Maybe Harry shouldn’t have played Perseus in the original ‘Clash of the Titans'”, or “Maybe Fonzie wasn’t that cool”. You don’t say that, because who else’s acting method can hold up to horribly over-dubbed claymation, or who else could pull off a catch phrase like “Ayyyyyyy” (thumbs up)? Nobody, Jew or Gentile, that’s who.
So, you don’t worry about the Jew thing. Yet, those Jew folks sit in their seats and applaud Obama as he does what he does constantly and best: explain his failures. What makes a liberal? Someone who is always making excuses for failure. What makes an old-school American? Someone who is strategizing for his next success.
So, if the liberal Jews keep voting for these cluster-fuck-explainers, a lot of people will get the feeling that they really don’t want the support of Americans.
So does “Teutonic Shift” mean that they’re going full-on Nazi?
President Obtuse and his supporters seem completely oblivious to the “realities on the ground” of the entire last decade.
They’re not obtuse; they just have different goals.
TOTUS: “Damn you, auto-correct!”
This just in: President Obama has asked the People’s Republic of China to revert to its 1945 borders.
How about if the U.S. reverts to its, say, 1897 borders, retroactive to 1961?
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How about we revert to our 1803 borders?
Ward Churchill and a big chunk of the Academic Left would probably take that as a “starting point”, Slart.
54° 40′ or fight!
Stanley Fish writes a decent piece on JOOOOOOOS! (at the NYT) seemingly (to me at least) devoid of intent or spin. He’s good like that.
I really must share this comment from Gene Simmons:
Gene Simmons summed it up best this weekend, “Obama hasn’t a F@cking Clue, he doesn’t have to live in Israel”…… now before some dope troll starts whining about what does some old rock star know about Israel that the lord messiah Obama doesn’t…… Simmons, aka Chaim Witz, was born in Israel, has family there and actually cares to save Israel, unlike the guy in the white house who only cares about Jews come donation time.