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Originally Posted by Hanbali
I got angry at his praise of Israel and attack on Islam.
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It's called Politics
Obama's loyalty toward Israel has been debated in the Israeli press (serach Haaretz/Jerusalem Post Op/Ed archives).
It's not only the
American people he needs, he also needs the approval of the Lobby and the votes of Miami Jews (very imp., FL being a swing state). On the other side, J. Lieberman is pushing for McCain.
Obama's present/former affiliations with
Brzezinski, Robert Malley, Susan Rice, and his former pro-Palestinian stance favor his opponents. Pro-Israeli rhetoric is all he got to defend himself and show his loyalty toward Israel.
Brzezinski, 79, stepped into the crossfire this summer when he published an essay in the summer issue of the journal Foreign Policy, defending a controversial new book about the power of the “Israel Lobby” in American politics.
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“It is a tremendous mistake for Barack Obama to select as a foreign policy adviser the one person in public life who has chosen to support a bigoted book,” said Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz, one of the most visible critics of the Walt and Mearsheimer volume, titled “The Israel Lobby.”
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Malley and his views have recently come under attack from critics, such as Martin Peretz of The New Republic, who has written that Malley is "anti-Israel", a "rabid hater of Israel. No question about it.", and that several of his articles in the New York Review of Books were "deceitful."
On the American Thinker Web site, Ed Lasky wrote that Malley "represents the next generation of anti-Israel activism", and the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), published an article arguing that "Malley’s parents were rabidly anti-Israel" and that his articles on the Middle East "demonize Israel only slightly less than his father".
Until May 9, 2008, Malley was a Middle East-policy adviser to the Barak Obama presidential campaign, which summarily cut ties to him when The Times of London reported that Malley had been in discussions with the militant Palestinian group Hamas, listed by the U.S. State Department as a terrorist organization.
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