In Part III of my last post (Why Do Democrats Want To End The U.S. - Israeli Relationship), I briefly touched on Obama's comments about Israel (4th paragraph down). I would like to elaborate on that because not only does it bear repeating, it is deserving of a further discussion. In speaking in Belfast, Obama agreed that it was undeniable that Jews in Europe had been persecuted. Nice of him to concede that. Actually, however, Jews were not just persecuted. They were slaughtered en masse during the Holocaust. And, of course, expelled from countries like Spain and Britain.
Obama: Jews "took land off people and they were excessive." Let's ignore the 3000 year history of the Jewish people in the land. It was the land of Canaan. Yes, we had the Philistines. Then we had the Romans renaming the area Syria/Palaestina. But 2000 years ago there was a country of Israel on the land. Then more invaders. There was never a country of Palestine.
Let's ignore that after WWI, much of the land that had been under the control of the Ottomans for 400 years, was then controlled by Britain and France. Britain had a Mandate from the League of Nations to have control over the land that later became Israel and Jordan. France had control of the area that later became Syria and Lebanon. Let's ignore the fact that the Arab world announced in advance of the UN vote partioning the Mandate, that they would never accept a Jewish state on that land, land that had been the Jews for thousands of years. Ignore the fact that the UN resolution divided what had been the British Mandate into a Jewish state and an Arab state.
Not surprisingly, Obama has had no hesitation campaigning for the most extreme Democratic candidates - Leftists/socialists and Islamists. Such as Angie Nixon, running for the US Senate in Florida. And Abdul El-Sayed, running for the US Senate in Michigan.
Let's ignore the fact that the Jews accepted the tiny piece of land given to them by the UN vote. But rather than make a state for themselves, the Arabs made war on the Jews. Ignore the fact that Arabs had been killing Jews in the Mandate area back in the 1920's. Ignore that Jews actually bought land from Arabs. Something which the Palestinians no longer allow. In fact, it is a crime that can be punishable by death. Apartheid anyone?
And then, apparently justifying the atrocities of October 7, 2023, Obama said this: "those people understandably said, 'this is injustice, and I want my land back.'" Really? Maybe the Jewish people/Israel want all the land taken from them over the millenia. Maybe the Native Americans want America back. Who gets Kashmir - India or Pakistan? What about the over one million Christians displaced from their homes throughout the Middle East by Muslims? Homes and communities that they lived in for centuries. When do they get their land back? What about the approximately 800,000 Jews displaced from their centuries long homes in Arab countries, after Israel declared its independence? Do they get anything back?
Does anybody notice that all these people on the Left have no problem singling out Jews as being the problem? Imagine if people were singling out blacks. Would anybody on the Left tolerate that? I don't think so. But all kinds of lies can be told about Jews by prominent Democrats. And the rest of the party just goes along with it. Can you imagine the Democratic Party openly supporting a member of the KKK (yes, I know they did in the past)? But open support for a candidate with a Nazi tattoo? No problem. Support for an Islamist, who expresses horrible anti-Israel and anti-Jewish comments? No problem.
To recap. The DSA says support anti-Israel BDS or else. El-Sayed says Israel is not actually an ally. One Democrat after the next lies about Israel committing genocide, about Israel being an apartheid state, about the Jews being colonizers in their own land. And let's not forget the lies being told about AIPAC (the American - Israel Public Affairs Committee). After all, today's Democrats cannot wait to publicly announce they refuse to accept any money from the AIPAC. Let's explore that further in Part III.