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Cult Watch Title: ADL Criticizes Obama Shift In Policy On Israel Dateline New York: Originally concerned about where Obama policy on Israel was drifting, Abraham H. Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), now is perturbed about where he sees Obama policy has made landfall. The new policy line that first Obama’s advisor's sailed toward and now Obama has embraced openly is that the Arab-Israel conflict undermines U.S. policy in the broader Mideast. ADL considers that line as faulty as any earthquake’s. Beware of the foreign policy edifice collapsing! “The net effect of this dangerous thinking is to shift responsibility for success of American foreign policy away from Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt and directly onto Israel. It is particularly disturbing in light of the blatantly disproportionate number and the nature [i.e., intensely negative] of statements issued by this administration criticizing Israel as compared to what has been said about the Palestinians.” ”The best way to move the peace process between the Israelis and Palestinians forward is for all parties to demand that the Palestinians abandon their tactic of ‘just saying no’ and insist that the rest of the Arab world move toward normalization of relations with Israel.” (IMRA, 4/17/10). Mr. Foxman is perceptive in ruing the new line that excuses the countries that directly affect and spoil U.S. Mideast policy by designating a scapegoat for misconceived and long failed policy on the Arab-Israel conflict. Offering Israel as a scapegoat would serve Obama as an excuse for his own failure. Obama long has been a radical. Most of his advisers have long pro-Arab records. Therefore, the new policy is more likely a rationalization and sound byte for opposing Israel than a well-considered re-examination of prior policy. Western opponents of Israel for ideological reasons have the same resistance to facts as Arab opponents. Thus the Administration persists in what fails. From a Western point of view, ADL is right to suggest that the Arabs simply cease their hostility toward Israel and make peace. They have no justification for war. But the Arabs do not act according to Western logic and the facts. They have their own values and their own narrative. ADL may not be taking into account Muslim Arab and Iranian intransigence on religious conflict, which they conduct or foster all over the world. Their fundamental religious ideology does not permit them to reach permanent peace with non-Muslims. Until they have a religious reformation, they can make truces when weaker but resume violence when stronger. Giving Palestinian Arabs sovereignty would boost them from weakness that might tempt a truce to strength that tempts renewed violence. ADL refers to the jihad against Israel in the popular but misleading new term, “Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” The term misleads, because it implies a limited conflict over borders. But Israel’s main wars were against Arab states’ armies, sometimes several at-a-time. Those same Arab states may mistreat Palestinian Arabs, who, in turn, mistreat them. (The PLO tried to take over Jordan, brought civil war to Lebanon, and betrayed Kuwait to Saddam.) The Arab states’ interest is in the religious conflict, which is territorial only to the extent that Islamic doctrine holds that Muslim duty is to: (1) Recover any territory it previously conquered but lost by non-Muslim independence movements; and (2) Then expand its territorial sway.
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Obama carried 79% of the US Jewish Vote. "He also scores 55 percent approval on how he handles U.S.-Israel relations, which is virtually unchanged since last September, when his handling of the relationship scored 54 percent approval." http://libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=287734 The ADL should work on their own people.
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