Virginia Republican Lt. Governor nominee E.W. Jackson has consistently implied that President Obama is a secret Muslim, and in a 2010 American Thinker column went even further by arguing that President Obama condones anti-Semitism and terrorist attacks against Israel by Hamas.
After accusing Obama of remaining “silent” over Hamas rocket attacks against Israel in addition to Helen Thomas’ statement that Jews should “get the hell out of Palestine,” Jackson writes that “given his close association with Islam and with one of Louis Farrakhan’s best friends, his silence must be interpreted as consent.”
When people say “I hate to say I told you so,” they rarely mean it. What they really mean is, “I was right, and I am glad to tell you so.” A year ago, I wrote,
Obama apparently sees the world and Israel from a Muslim perspective. Those who think clearly about these issues must conclude that President Obama is influenced by a quiet strain of anti-Semitism picked up from elements of the black community, leftist colleagues, Muslim associations and Jeremiah Wright. For the first time in her history, Israel may find the President of the United States openly siding with her enemies. Those who believe that Israel must be protected had better be ready for the fight.
I really do hate to say “I told you so.” I did not vote for Barack Obama, but I hoped he would surprise me and not be the kind of president that his background portended. Most Americans, even those who didn’t vote for him, wanted to believe that he would transcend the negative forces which might have influenced his thinking. Perhaps the anti-Semitism to which he had been exposed had not gotten into his intellectual DNA. He attempted to reassure us.
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In his much-hyped speech in Cairo, reaching out to the “Muslim World,” Obama drew a moral equivalence between the “suffering” of the Palestinians and the Holocaust against the Jewish people. He said, “Around the world, the Jewish people were persecuted for centuries, and anti-Semitism in Europe culminated in an unprecedented Holocaust.” But he went on to say, “On the other hand, it is also undeniable that Palestinians … have suffered in pursuit of a homeland.”
To equate these two vastly different historical realities borders on the delusional. There is no equivalence between a systematic effort to annihilate the entire Jewish people and the problem of “dislocation” — as Obama refers to it — of the Palestinians. If there is any similarity at all, it is that many Palestinians, like the Nazis, want to kill all Jews.
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Helen Thomas, an Obama devotee, recently said the Jews need to “get the hell out of Palestine.” Obama is silent. For years, Jews in Israel could hardly sleep for fear that Hamas rockets would land in their homes. Yet when Israel takes reasonable action to search ships to prevent weapons from entering Gaza, she is condemned. Obama is silent. Reuters doctored the pictures of the recent blockade confrontation — editing out weapons in the hands of the ship’s crew — so as to perpetuate the narrative of Israeli aggression. Obama is silent. Perhaps if he had not spent twenty years in the church of a rabid anti-Semite, President Obama’s muteness would not speak so loudly. However, given his close association with Islam and with one of Louis Farrakhan’s best friends, his silence must be interpreted as consent. I wish I were wrong about this president, but facts are stubborn things.
