Many Jewish groups have been worried about the Obama presidency, especially coming on the heels of perhaps the biggest friend Israel ever had in the White House, President Bush. Well those worries may be justified. It appears that the first call to an international leader that Obama made to to Palestinian Authority head Abbas. One would think that a new president would the head of state of the UK, Germany, Canada..etc. Who would have figured that his first call would be to the head of the ‘Palestinian Authority?’ Sounds a lot like the Clinton administration having Yasser Arafat as its’ most frequent visitor and sending Madeline Albright to Syria every few weeks.
According to the Timesonline: “The spokesman for President Abbas revealed that Mr Obama had told the Palestinian leader that their conversation was his first with a foreign statesman since taking office.”
Wow, that did not take long. It looks like Obama won’t even wait for Israeli elections in 3 weeks to start to pressure Israel to make concessions. Terror organizations like Hamas are already licking their chops. The news.jang.com reports: “We will judge him by his policies and actions on the ground and how he will learn lessons from the mistakes of the previous administrations, especially that of George Bush and his criminal and unjust policies,” Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhum told a press conference in Gaza City.”
Criminal and unjust policies of President Bush? What, like supporting the only democracy in the middle-east, not speaking with terror organizations, holding leaders accountable to uphold agreements, allowing countries under attack to defend themselves? That’s really criminal.
If Obama reverts back to the disastrous policies of the Clinton administration, Israel had better watch out, and be ready to take a stand against the new president.
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