Commentary Magazine


Contentions

In Praise (Not!) of Obama

I won’t give too much of it away, but here’s a sample of Noemie’s exquisite takedown of Obama’s “brilliance” and “bravery”:

How brave is Obama, to speak out as he did against the persecution of Muslims that is sweeping the country, and has swept it in fact since Sept. 11, 2001? Who can forget the riots that engulfed the whole country, the cross (and Star of David) burnings outside the mosques and the homes of innocent Muslims, the lynchings and hideous acts of unprovoked violence; the demands of conservatives, Tea Partiers, and Sarah Palin enthusiasts that Muslims and in fact all Arab-Americans, be confined in camps somewhere out in the country — Wasilla, for instance — as Japanese-Americans had been during the Second World War? …

And how lucky are we to have this rare president, brave enough to look at these friends and relations, spouses and children, of people who died on Sept. 11, and call them out for the bigots they are?

Just read the whole thing. A few times.

Introducing Commentary Complete

0 Responses to “In Praise (Not!) of Obama”

  1. contra says:

    Here is an interesting report.

    Quotes: “All signs show that a bloody Hamas-Fatah confrontation will come soon “
    and
    “Fatah officers openly called for “joint action with Israel against the common enemy – Hamas”

  2. Alex Bensky says:

    Hoping for realism on the part of the Palestinians is usually vain. Their expectations might become reasonable if it ever gets through to them that if there is a one-state solution, that one state will be Israel.

  3. Maine's Michael says:

    Two States: Jordan and Israel.

    Gazans back to Egypt, Westbankers get Jordanian citizenship. Jordan becomes ‘Palestine’.

    Hashemites back to Mecca and Medina.

    House of Saud swings from lamposts or retires to Marbeilla.

  4. Maine's Michael says:

    And then I woke up . . .

  5. Maine's Michael says:

    The ‘palestinians’ are a genocidal weapon, targeted at the Jews, created by the arab world with Soviet help, masquerading as a nationality. Using the lexicon of nationalism and liberation from occupation (as well as terrorism), they have inserted themselves into the west’s consciousness as a counterbalance to the dramatic and just return of the Jews to their native land-and continuously attempt to denie, or, when that is impossible, appropriate or usurp the Jews’ own history.

    They are the best weapon the arab world has ever fielded. They have managed to turn David into Goliath, up into down, and murderers into heroes.

    The palestinian ‘culture’ is about as warped and depraved as could be imagined. It would be non-sustainable without the West’s buy in. Justice would demand that they be reabsorbed and slowly detoxified by the the arab world that created them.