If Obama Is a ‘Borderline Jew-Hater,’ What Does That Make Jake Tapper?
Breitbart News editor Ben Shapiro got some mild pushback from Fox News’ Megyn Kelly when he called the Obama White House a “borderline Jew-hating administration” for urging Israel to show restraint in responding to Hamas rocket attacks, but as criticism of Israel goes, Obama’s diplomatic boilerplate pales in comparison to the going-over that CNN’s Jake Tapper gave to Israeli airstrikes on Wednesday.
The violence in Israel, spurred by the murder of three Jewish teens, followed by the retribution killing of a Palestinian boy, has escalated rocket attacks by Hamas on Israel, and a rain of death from above by Israel Defense Force airstrikes on Gaza. In response, President Obama has urged restraint from both sides, as he did when he spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday (via email from The White House):
President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu spoke today by phone. The President reiterated the United States’ strong condemnation of continuing rocket fire into Israel by Hamas and other terrorist organizations in Gaza and reaffirmed Israel’s right to defend itself against these attacks. The President expressed concern about the risk of further escalation and emphasized the need for all sides to do everything they can to protect the lives of civilians and restore calm. The United States remains prepared to facilitate a cessation of hostilities, including a return to the November 2012 ceasefire agreement.
The President once again expressed condolences to the people of Israel on the kidnapping and murder of teenagers Gilad Shaar, Eyal Yifrach, and Naftali Fraenkel, who was an American and Israeli citizen, and urged that the perpetrators be brought to justice. The two leaders also discussed the situation in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. The President welcomed the arrest of suspects in the abduction and murder of Palestinian teenager Muhammad Abu Khdeir and expressed appreciation for the Prime Minister’s determination to see that they be brought to justice. He expressed concern about the beating and detention of teenage American citizen Tariq Khdeir and acknowledged Israel’s efforts to resolve this case. The two leaders discussed the P5+1 negotiations with Iran and the President reiterated that the United States will not accept any agreement that does not ensure that Iran’s nuclear program is for exclusively peaceful purposes.
That ever-so-gentle statement is what caused Shapiro to call President Obama a “borderline Jew-hater,” as opposed to Jew-haters who favor Madonna’s later work, I suppose. It has become de rigueur on the pro-Israel right to label any criticism whatsoever of the Israeli government as anti-Semitism, so that even liberal journalists with no reason to care what right-wingers think enrobe their critiques in layers of bubble wrap.
On Thursday night’s All In, for example, host Chris Hayes delivered a thoughtful commentary on Israeli airstrikes that was, nevertheless, delivered from atop a bed of perfectly-arranged eggshells. He referred to the “glaring asymmetry” in casualties between Hamas’ recent rocket attacks (zero) and Israeli airstrikes (89 Palestinians, including 15 women and 24 children), and concluding that if enough innocent people are killed, “people stop caring what you meant to do.”
It makes you wonder, then, what Ben Shapiro would make of…READ MORE
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Marcus Shelton July 11th, 2014 at 17:31
Israel is a sufferer of abuse that turns into an abuser in their next meaningful relationship. They have learned the lessons of their historical fathers well and it does this country no good to keep aiding and abetting their bad behavior.
Marcus Shelton July 11th, 2014 at 17:31
Israel is a sufferer of abuse that turns into an abuser in their next meaningful relationship. They have learned the lessons of their historical fathers well and it does this country no good to keep aiding and abetting their bad behavior.
jasperjava July 11th, 2014 at 19:21
President Obama is such a Jew-hater, that the President of Israel awarded him his nation’s highest civilian honor.
Buck Disqus July 26th, 2014 at 16:02
You are referring to Former President of Israel Shimon Peres who is a long-tme and avowed, fellow socialist, and who, like Barack Hussein Obama, has also long-favored carving up Israel (including Jerusalem, the thousands-year-long capital of Israel that is not mentioned once in the “holy” Koran), and are in favor handing over large junks of it to the so-called “palestinians”, so they can launch thousands of more rockets at Jewish civilian areas, and not have to dig their tunnels as far when they want to attack Jewish schools and kidnap Jewish children by the thousands (see todays news).
Obama and Peres and their fellow idiots continue in this plan even though the evidence of the above is directly in their faces in GAZA, where Israel handed over total control of the land and Gaza immediately became the source of thousands of rockets and terror attacks and kidnappings of Jews.
Peres was also one of the architects of the Clinton-inspired Oslocide, where the Egyptian born/fake “palestinians and buddy of the Clintons Yasser Arafat signed BS pacts in English with the commies then running Israel, then turned around and in Arabic told his people that the pacts were BS, and that they should continue the terrorism, at which point thousands of Jews were killed.
Barack Hussein Obama is much more comfortable with muslims than with Jews, he was raised a muslim, he has memorized their prayers,
see:
“…Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as ”one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”
Obama: Man of the World By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF New York Times March 6, 2007 bit.ly/BHOghadPrayer
Obama (with Hillary”s and McCain’s help) ignored one of their own prior inane criticisms of Bush’s toppling of Saddam Hussein (“he was a dictator, but he kept the muslims in line”… which was BS because Saddam paid $100k bounties to the families of homicide bombers), and then went ahead and toppled Mubarak in Egypt and replaced him with the Muslim Brotherhood, which was the forerunner of Al Queda (you remember them , right, they attacked us in 1993, and then again in 2001), and of course, the Muslim Brotherhood was sympathetic to Hamas, as well as to the ISIS scum now taking over Iraq, and whom Barack Hussein Obama is inadvertently arming by sending HALF A BILLION IN ARMS to their cousins fighting Assad in Syria.
So, while Jake Tapper is a typical, jihadi-butt-kissing shill /apologist for jihad against the Judeo-Christian Capitalist West, he’s a piker when compared to Barack Hussein Obama, who clearly has been intent on waging jihad against the U.S. for years, and whom you idiots on the Left gleefully support since he is the enemy of America, just like you.
jasperjava July 11th, 2014 at 19:21
President Obama is such a Jew-hater, that the President of Israel awarded him his nation’s highest civilian honor.
Buck Disqus July 26th, 2014 at 16:02
You are referring to Former President of Israel Shimon Peres who is a long-tme and avowed, fellow socialist, and who, like Barack Hussein Obama, has also long-favored carving up Israel (including Jerusalem, the thousands-year-long capital of Israel that is not mentioned once in the “holy” Koran), and are in favor handing over large junks of it to the so-called “palestinians”, so they can launch thousands of more rockets at Jewish civilian areas, and not have to dig their tunnels as far when they want to attack Jewish schools and kidnap Jewish children by the thousands (see todays news).
Obama and Peres and their fellow idiots continue in this plan even though the evidence of the above is directly in their faces in GAZA, where Israel handed over total control of the land and Gaza immediately became the source of thousands of rockets and terror attacks and kidnappings of Jews.
Peres was also one of the architects of the Clinton-inspired Oslocide, where the Egyptian born/fake “palestinians and buddy of the Clintons Yasser Arafat signed BS pacts in English with the commies then running Israel, then turned around and in Arabic told his people that the pacts were BS, and that they should continue the terrorism, at which point thousands of Jews were killed.
Barack Hussein Obama is much more comfortable with muslims than with Jews, he was raised a muslim, he has memorized their prayers,
see:
“…Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as ”one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”
Obama: Man of the World By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF New York Times March 6, 2007 bit.ly/BHOghadPrayer
Obama (with Hillary”s and McCain’s help) ignored one of their own prior inane criticisms of Bush’s toppling of Saddam Hussein (“he was a dictator, but he kept the muslims in line”… which was BS because Saddam paid $100k bounties to the families of homicide bombers), and then went ahead and toppled Mubarak in Egypt and replaced him with the Muslim Brotherhood, which was the forerunner of Al Queda (you remember them , right, they attacked us in 1993, and then again in 2001), and of course, the Muslim Brotherhood was sympathetic to Hamas, as well as to the ISIS scum now taking over Iraq, and whom Barack Hussein Obama is inadvertently arming by sending HALF A BILLION IN ARMS to their cousins fighting Assad in Syria.
So, while Jake Tapper is a typical, jihadi-butt-kissing shill /apologist for jihad against the Judeo-Christian Capitalist West, he’s a piker when compared to Barack Hussein Obama, who clearly has been intent on waging jihad against the U.S. for years, and whom you idiots on the Left gleefully support since he is the enemy of America, just like you.