ADL’s Foxman: Obama ‘putting too much weight on solving’ the Israel-Palestine conflict.
ADL’s Foxman: Obama ‘putting too much weight on solving’ the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Earlier this week, President Obama met with a number of prominent Jewish leaders to discuss the Israel-Palestine issue and to ask “to give him time to try his tactics for a Middle East peace.” The Anti-Defamation League’s Abe Foxman, one leader who attended, described his experience on a Jerusalem Post blog, saying that Obama gave some “grounds for reassurance” that he is handling the situation properly. But Foxman soon ran through a series of grievances with Obama’s policy, including his “outreach to the Muslim world…at Israel’s expense.” Shockingly, he then veered into his biggest complaint — that the Obama administration might actually achieve peace:
Still, I continue to sense that the administration is putting too much weight on solving the conflict. We all want to see progress and I have no problem with the administration view that the US must be much more engaged to achieve progress. But I am concerned when expectations rise dramatically, as when the president says that he expects the problem to be resolved in two years.
Foxman has previously criticized Obama’s Middle East envoy George Mitchell for being too “meticulously even-handed” and “fair” in his approach to the conflict.
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July 16th, 2009 at 3:02 pmSomeone send a telegram to heaven. Obama is trying to find peace in the Middle East! How dare he!
July 16th, 2009 at 3:03 pmA foreign policy of outreach to the Muslim world does not equal an anti-Israel stance, Mr Foxman.
July 16th, 2009 at 3:04 pmFoxman has previously criticized Obama’s Middle East envoy George Mitchell for being too “meticulously even-handed” and “fair” in his approach to the conflict.
Thank you for revealing that you’re a Republican , Fartman ……
July 16th, 2009 at 3:06 pmWe couldn’t have peace breaking out now could we, Fauxman? This zionist sounds suspisciously like all the neocon regulars here in the US…war for the sake of war. Constant conflict is needed to guarentee billions of dollars from the US and in turn keep that war machine rolling along. Well Mr. Foxman, sadly for your agenda, Bush is no longer our President, you will just have to get used to even-handedness and equal respect. Sorry.
July 16th, 2009 at 3:07 pmADL’s Foxman: Obama ‘putting too much weight on solving’ the Israel-Palestine conflict.
– - My, my, how unintentionally revealing.
July 16th, 2009 at 3:09 pmWhy does this person’s opinion matter? Does he officially speak for the government of Israel? I doubt it. It would be like saying William Donohoe, the self-appointed president of the Catholic League, speaks for the Vatican.
And if he isn’t looking for an even-handed person to negotiate peace, then he isn’t looking for peace.
July 16th, 2009 at 3:10 pmHow long have people like this been keeping the violence and instability going between Palestinians and Israelis? These kind of people are a cancer that must be cured before we can have peace and put the evil days of conflict behind us.
July 16th, 2009 at 3:12 pmIsrael doesn’t want peace, they want the Palestinian’s land. All of it.
July 16th, 2009 at 3:14 pmBut, but but, if peace breaks out what will we do with all those stockpiles of willy pete and deepU rounds and tanks and jets and, and and….
July 16th, 2009 at 3:15 pmBut Foxman soon ran through a series of grievances with Obama’s policy, including his “outreach to the Muslim world…at Israel’s expense.”
Yeah , because look at how successful Chimpy McFlighsuit’s bullshit macho posturing and branding of Muslims as terrorists was …………………….
July 16th, 2009 at 3:17 pmJUST LIKE EVERY KKKULT INCLUDING KKKRISTIANITY….THEY NEED THEIR HATE AND FEAR…..WITHOUT IT THEY HAVE NO EXCUSE.
July 16th, 2009 at 3:20 pmWayne A. Schneider says:
Why does this person’s opinion matter? Does he officially speak for the government of Israel? I doubt it. It would be like saying William Donohoe, the self-appointed president of the Catholic League, speaks for the Vatican.
July 16th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
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No, but he does speak for the Israel Lobby, which holds much more power in Washington than the government of Israel and the Vatican combined.
So his opinion is something to be paying attention to.
July 16th, 2009 at 3:31 pmIt would be like saying William Donohoe, the self-appointed president of the Catholic League, speaks for the Vatican.
The Vatican is well aware of Donohue’s comments in the past. They could simply disavow them if they didn’t agree but the RCC never has.
Odd that.
July 16th, 2009 at 3:31 pmBut if there’s a peacful solution who would become the reseller/blackmarketeer of all the products of the military-industrial complex? We can’t afford peace in the Middle East as the economies of the U.S., but more importantly Isreals’, would collapse. The real point is that Obama is naive and that AIPAC runs this country and the president should be told of this sooner rather later so he doesn’t increase the dreams of people who seek justice. That Obama-he just doesn’t get it.
July 16th, 2009 at 3:45 pmWillowOrchid says, “Israel doesn’t want peace, they want the Palestinian’s land. All of it.”
How much better off would America be if we didn’t spend so much time and money, fighting and dying in the Middle East for all the Zionists in Israel and America?
July 16th, 2009 at 3:46 pmtranslation:
Obama won’t let us murder Palestinians indiscriminately anymore, and that’s just wrong.
July 16th, 2009 at 3:50 pmThe problem is that many American Jews don’t want a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They don’t live in Israel, so they really don’t have to endure the consequences of that conflict. So they can sit pretty in the U.S. and make hawkish comments all they want, confident that nothing they do will ever come back to bite them in the a**.
The situation is quite different for people who actually have to live in Israel. That is why Israeli polls consistently show a willingness to end the conflict (although there is strong disagreement around the *way* to end it).
Armchair warriors, one and all.
July 16th, 2009 at 3:51 pmMCMetal says, “Yeah , because look at how successful Chimpy McFlighsuit’s bullshit macho posturing and branding of Muslims as terrorists was.”
It’s curious how the “Israelis” stopped murdering the Palestinian refugees in Gaza the very same day that George W. Bush left the White House.
July 16th, 2009 at 3:57 pmHey, I’m thinking that Israel doesn’t want to lose their cash cow in the USA. If there is actually peace in the ME, then we won’t be needing to send Israel millions of dollars each year for them to buy weapons.
I really do wish that President Obama would simply cut off Israel NOW!
BTW, can anyone tell me what Israel has ever done for us to have earned their favored nation status?
July 16th, 2009 at 4:01 pmWe don’t want it to be fair, and, Good God, we don’t want it to work!
July 16th, 2009 at 4:07 pmBilbo Hussein Baggins says, “If there is actually peace in the ME, then we won’t be needing to send Israel millions of dollars each year for them to buy weapons.”
I think the dollar amount we give Israel every year is in the billions. And if you include the cost of wars that we fight for Israel, then the amount comes close to a trillion.
July 16th, 2009 at 4:07 pmConflict, not peace in the ME, is advantageous to Israel at this time. They voted for Netanyahoo.
July 16th, 2009 at 4:17 pmIsrael has had free healthcare for decades because of our taxes.
July 16th, 2009 at 4:26 pmkuvasz says:
translation:
Obama won’t let us murder Palestinians indiscriminately anymore, and that’s just wrong.
That and Obama won’t let us drag our feet on a peace agreement while we continue to build settlements in the West Bank.
July 16th, 2009 at 4:32 pmFoxman is a schmuck.
I’m hoping that J-Street will supplant the ADL, AIPAC, and other organizations as the lead American-Israeli policy group. (Look them up)
July 16th, 2009 at 4:46 pmPeople like this idiot are the principal reason there has been and will continue to be a protracted mess in the Middle East. When alive the last thing Arafat ever wanted was a peace accord with Israel – with one he no longer had a rallying cry. Now the tide had turned and the Zionist who support the terrorist state of Israel are operating with the same mind set. For the good of all of us I hope Barack succeeds where nobody else has – a state of Palestine and a state of Israel and no more tit for tat murdering of each other just to keep the flames fanned.
July 16th, 2009 at 5:08 pmIt sounds like Foxman doesn’t think Isreal has finished building all of the West Bank settlements on their drawing board. Why else would he want to delay a peace plan unless it was to finish an ongoing project like settlement construction.
July 16th, 2009 at 5:35 pmI can sum up the middle east pretty easily. If all the Arab nations had no weapons the violence would end. If Israel has no weapons, the Arab nations would wipe Israel off the face of the map. Think about that.
July 16th, 2009 at 6:12 pmIs this Schmuck a registered agent of the Israeli government? Is he an American citizen or an Israeli citizen? He needs to choose where his loyalties lie. If they are for America, then he should STFU. If they are for Israel, then he should get his fat ass out of the country.
July 16th, 2009 at 6:48 pmkwsventures says:
I can sum up the middle east pretty easily. If all the Arab nations had no weapons the violence would end.
Funny how the lack of weapons didn’t help Lebanon or Gaza…
July 16th, 2009 at 7:02 pmI do not think any Americans are fighting for Israel in particular. The soldier goes where his Gov’t sends him, and our Government is mostly interested in Oil. Is appears that keeping the Mid-East in turmoil is to the USA’s advantage so far as oil goes. If the oil fields of the mid-east ran dry, so would most of our “aid” to Israel.
It appears that a majority of Israeli’s want the constant wars to stop, may even acknowledge the Palestinians plight. But like the 75% of Americans who want Health Care, the people of Israel are being ignored by those in power.
July 16th, 2009 at 9:14 pmAbe Foxman proves himself once again to be the human piece of sh*t that he is.
“Too much emphasis” on peace in the Middle East? I’m a Christian, Abe. My religion is just as credible as yours is. Peacemaking is part of that.
If peacemaking isn’t part of your religion, Abe–and over and over you have proved that it isn’t–then God damn you to Hell. Pal.
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