President Obama
President Obama told the Jewish publication, “Forward,” he was personally hurt and bothered by the accusation he’s anti-semitic, saying there’s no cause for the slinging of such slurs and suggesting he’d simply like to smooth ties with supporters of Israel.
“There’s not a smidgen of evidence” to the claim, he said, the news outlet reported. “Other than the fact that there have been times where I’ve disagreed with a particular Israeli government’s position on a particular issue.”
Obama made the statement as part of his reach-out to the Jewish community to soothe concerns over the nuclear deal he’s pushing with Iran. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and several Jewish groups oppose the deal, saying it’s nearly a gift wrapped nuke for Tehran. And some in the political arena have come right out and suggested Obama’s deal reeks of anti-semitism.
“I think anything is anti-semitic if it’s against the survival of a state that is surrounded by enemies and by people who want to destroy them,” presidential hopeful Ben Carson said during a recent Fox News Sunday interview. “And to sort of ignore that and to act like everything is normal there and that these people are paranoid is anti-semitic.”
Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, meanwhile, said the president’s push for the nuclear deal was like marching Israel to the “door of the oven,” an obvious reference to Nazi Germany days.
Part of the reason Obama’s seen by some as anti-semitic is that, in addition to the nuclear deal with Iran, he’s shown favor to those who aren’t in the friendship camp with Israel while simultaneously snubbing Israel.
In March 2015, for instance, Obama stopped short of congratulating Netanyahu on his reelection win. But as PJ Media pointed, he broke three decades of American silence to call the newly elected Iranian President Rouhani to offer congratulations. Obama also called Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, to offer his congratulations at his re-election success – and that was despite international and State Department accusations of poll rigging.
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