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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With President George Bush leaving office, it’s important for Israel supporters to take a minute and thank the President. History will no doubt show that he was among the greatest of friends to the Jewish state. After the tragic 9-11 terror attack, Bush declared a war on terror, and unlike his successor, fully understands how the world has changed. His ” either you are with us or against us” doctrine may sound simplistic but it actually highlights the Bush ideology of right versus wrong. You don’t negotiate with tyrants and terrorists, rather you aim to defeat them.

Eliminating Israeli arch enemy Saddam Hussein, helped make Israel a safer place, and his approach of giving Israel free reign to defeat the Hizbullah and Hamas, should have helped create a new middle east had Israel not dropped the ball and failed to wipe these terror organizations off the map. The sincere understanding with which Bush understood the existential issues that Israel faces, has not been seen among many international leaders. And who can forget his moving speech at the Knesset 8 months ago, where he laid out the case for an Israeli state, even quoting biblical sources, in a way that almost all local Israeli leaders couldn’t do themselves.

Sadly for Israel, the incoming Obama looks like a Jimmy Carter redux. My hunch is that we are going to miss the moral clarity of the Bush administration.

May God Bless George Bush.

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