President Barack Obama said it would be a “moral” failure for his administration if Israel was weakened as a result of his policies.
“I would consider it a failure on my part, a fundamental failure of my presidency, if on my watch or as a consequence of work that I’ve done, Israel was rendered more vulnerable,” Obama said in an interview published Sunday with veteran New York Times journalist Thomas Friedman.
He said he would consider it “not just a strategic failure, I think that would be a moral failure,” adding that no disagreements between Israel and the United States could break the two countries’ bond.
Obama also said that accusations that his administration is not doing all it can to ensure Israel’s security have made recent months a “hard period” for him personally.
“It has been personally difficult for me to hear… expressions that somehow… this administration has not done everything it could to look out for Israel’s interest – and the suggestion that when we have very serious policy differences, that that’s not in the context of a deep and abiding friendship and concern and understanding of the threats that the Jewish people have faced historically and continue to face,” he said.
The president appeared to be dampening rising criticism – in the wake of last week’s controversial framework nuclear deal with Iran, and his comments after Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu’s election victory – to the effect that he doesn’t take Israeli security concerns seriously, and that personal animus toward Netanyahu has been driving some policies.
Obama emphasized that he was willing to make commitments to give Iran and others in the Middle East “a clarity that if Israel were to be attacked by any state, that we would stand by them.” Two weeks after calling into question Netanyahu’s commitment to a two-state solution, and suggesting the Israeli prime minister resorted to racism by referring to “droves” of Arab voters during the March 17 Israeli elections, Obama called Israel “a robust, rowdy democracy” in the interview.
“We share so much. We share blood, family,” said Obama. “And part of what has always made the US-Israeli relationship so special is that it has transcended party, and I think that has to be preserved. There has to be the ability for me to disagree with a policy on settlements, for example, without being viewed as… opposing Israel. There has to be a way for Prime Minister Netanyahu to disagree with me on policy without being viewed as anti-Democrat, and I think the right way to do it is to recognize that as many commonalities as we have, there are going to be strategic differences. And I think that it is important for each side to respect the debate that takes place in the other country and not try to work just with one side.”
Read more at The Times of Israel.
{Matzav.com}
Master Demagoguery from the world’s most prolific demagogue.
In American and European countries, written contracts are sacred.
Since the Prophet of Islam was illiterate (he did not read or write), Muslims are more likely to consider written treaties to be worthless pieces of paper.
Also, the Koran urges Muslims to make insincere peace-treaties with non-Muslims, and then violate those insincere peace-treaties, so the non-Muslims can be attacked by surprise and be defeated and slaughtered.
In islam, this type of insincere peace-treaty is called the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah:
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Muhammad/myths-mu-hudaibiya.htm
In other words, Muslims do not share the American and European belief that written contracts and treaties are sacred; it is not part of their Islamic culture.
I pity the fool whose personal safety depends on Muslims complying with a written contract or treaty between Muslims and non-Muslims.
Israel will stay STRONG with or without America ‘cuz Henei Lo Yunim Velo Yishun Shomer Yisroel, but the Obama presidency is going down in history as the weakest and disastrous administration in American history.
Well then YOU FAILED!!!
Well, one more failure to add to a long list.
And I have a bridge in Brooklyn that I’d like to sell to you too!
As Mr. Obama has so many failures, Israel is but a blip on the record of lies, misrepresentations and betrayals.
I wouldn’t believe him. He backstabs us and then says he didn’t mean to.
Echad bapeh v’echad baleiv
Yup. Obama is ALWAYS about Obama.
So somebody is grossly wrong over here: Either Obama or Netanyahu. Right?
I surely know who is correct here: It ain’t our Shakran In Chief — that’s for sure!
Liar, liar, pants on fire. Obamalek continues to be the ignorant, self-infatuated puppet of George Soros and the dozens of self-hating Jews destined to remain in the current Mitzrayim. Pesach seder in Obama’s White House: Quite topsy-turvey!
Show me a non-failure up til now.
Too little, too late. And Mr.Obama needs to clarify his statement: “a clarity that if Israel were to be attacked by any state, that we would stand by them.” By “them” I assume he means the attackers.
Whoever has a bridge to sell, I’ll buy it.
I guess when Israel bombs of Iran than Obama will protect them?