True, the US did back out of Durban II, but they shouldn’t have been in it in the first place.

I don’t think President Obama is anti-Israel. I don’t think President Obama is anti-semetic. But, I do think President Obama will most probably be less pro-Israel than the Republican presidential nominee based on the current slate of GOP candidates. Ultimately, that is what matters when deciding for whom we should vote.

In my opinion the President’s speech last week was stupid..ill timed and gratuitous. But to misquote the speech, or to partially quote it out of context is demagogic and dishonest. Ignoring the significance of his demands that the Arabs recognize Israel as a Jewish State is stupid too.

Significant mainstream commentators, both here and in Israel, have noted that the Netanyahu’s immediate hardline reaction to the President’s speech sabatoged American diplomatic efforts to secure more European UN votes against Palestinian statehood…and that a mood has been created putting Jews in a similar position to the one the Arabs were in in there 1967 “Three Nos.”

Most perturbing to me is the vitriolic anger so many of you exhibit. One may disagree agree with the President, but to angrily denounce those who agree with him in hateful personal terms is dangerous…worse, it seems to me to be more part of fall of American political discourse into ideological vilification than it is a part of anything authentically part of Yiddishkeit.

The President of the ADL is a child holocaust survivor…he came out last week with a comment in support of President Obama’s speech. In an article that appeared in Jewish Week he is quoted as saying he has never in all his life ever received such hate mail as he has…from Jews…in response to this issue. One writer went so far as to tell him he never should have been saved from the camps. Think about that – to what depths have we…many of you…fallen! Shameful.

Is there anyone who believes Rahm – Chicago Politics at its worst, Blago co-conspirator (allegedly), self-hating Jew – Emanuel?

Next, he’ll stand hand-in-hand with “Rev.” Wright singing kumbayas, proudly wearin his yellow star “as a Jew.”

“There are none as deaf as those who won’t hear and none as blind as those who won’t see.”, is how my rebbe explained to me the inability of those on the left to perceive the truth.

Hey Rahm, there’s a world of a difference between presidents negotiating it as a Palastinian outrageus demand, and a president SAYING HE BELIEVES IT SHOULD BE SO.

There’s pleanty room in Chicago politics for your “luckshen selling”… you don’t have to do it to us…