{"id":16084,"date":"2012-10-24T13:19:31","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T17:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=16084"},"modified":"2012-10-24T13:19:31","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T17:19:31","slug":"about-that-wonderful-friendship-between-president-obama-and-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=16084","title":{"rendered":"About That Wonderful Friendship Between President Obama And Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"John H. Hinderaker\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_H._Hinderaker\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">John Hinderaker<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2012\/10\/obamas-real-record-on-israel.php\">Power Line<\/a> posted an article yesterday detailing the relationship between <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biography.com\/people\/barack-obama-12782369\" rel=\"biographycom\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama<\/a> and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Israel\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=31.7833333333,35.2166666667&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=31.7833333333,35.2166666667 (Israel)&amp;t=h\" rel=\"geolocation\" target=\"_blank\">Israel<\/a>. President Obama claimed in Monday night&#8217;s debate that he is a great friend of Israel. Well, the history tells a different story.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the items listed in the story (please follow the link above for the complete list):<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>President Obama has never visited Israel during his time in office, despite having been as close as thirty minutes away in Egypt, and managing to go to <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Saudi Arabia\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=24.65,46.7666666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=24.65,46.7666666667 (Saudi%20Arabia)&amp;t=h\" rel=\"geolocation\" target=\"_blank\">Saudi Arabia<\/a>, Turkey and Iraq.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>President Obama told Jewish leaders in July 2009 that he was deliberately adopting a policy of putting daylight between America and Israel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>President Obama has legitimized <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United Nations\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Nations\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">the UN<\/a> body most responsible for demonizing Israel as the world\u2019s worst human rights violator. The president joined the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United Nations Human Rights Council\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Nations_Human_Rights_Council\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">UN Human Rights Council<\/a> in 2009 and is now seeking a second 3-year term, despite Israel\u2019s requests that he do the opposite.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>President Obama made Israeli settlements the key stumbling block in the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Israeli\u2013Palestinian conflict\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_conflict\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Palestinian-Israeli conflict<\/a>. Starting in 2009 he chose to castigate Israel publicly, often, and in extreme terms at the General Assembly and the Security Council. The Palestinians took the president\u2019s cue and ended direct negotiations until such time as Israel capitulates, even though the subject is supposed to be a final status issue.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>President Obama treated Israel\u2019s Prime Minister to a series of insulting snubs during his visit to the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"White House\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8976694444,-77.03655&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.8976694444,-77.03655 (White%20House)&amp;t=h\" rel=\"geolocation\" target=\"_blank\">White House<\/a> in March 2010.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With friends like that&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=fd82e5f8-dced-477b-acd9-5b0a0bf2d66f\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Hinderaker at Power Line posted an article yesterday detailing the relationship between President Obama and Israel. President Obama claimed in Monday night&#8217;s debate that he is a great friend of Israel. Well, the history tells a different story. Some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=16084\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4235,97,86,4234,245,562,342,223,211],"class_list":["post-16084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2012-presidential-debate-102212","tag-barack-obama","tag-israel","tag-israeli-palestinian-conflict","tag-middle-east","tag-obama","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-united-nations","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16084"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16087,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16084\/revisions\/16087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}