AIPAC Attendees Asked to Not Boo Obama

The poor man-child, the booing might hurt his feelings. He should ask himself why they're inclined to boo him.

President Obama will address the nation's largest pro-Israel lobby today and try to ease tensions raised by his controversial Middle East speech earlier this week.

As a flash of violence erupted again along the Gaza Border, Obama will appear at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in Washington - and speak to thousands of activists who have been asked not to boo him.

Speaking to the gathering for the first time as President, Obama is expected to emphasize the United States' support for Israel and stress that the countries' shared interests far outweigh their differences.

The speech comes just days after Obama had a tense face-to-face meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House.

He'll probably wind up receiving some polite applause, which the media will then tell us was a rousing standing ovation.

How pathetic is it we've got such a thin-skinned whiner White House that people have to be begged to not boo him? His swollen ego just couldn't handle it, I suppose.

Just Words

Barack Obama panders to AIPAC.



Unfortunately for him, he stepped in it.

Big time.

Obama & The Leftist Media

H/T conservativepunk

'These Statements Slash Any Hope of Any Change in the American Foreign Policy'

The Arabs aren't down with hope and change.

Don't they realize Obama is just paying lip service to American Jews?

Arab leaders have reacted with anger and disbelief to an intensely pro-Israeli speech delivered by Barack Obama, the US Democratic presumptive presidential nominee.

Obama told the influential annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Council (Aipac): "Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel and it must remain undivided."

His comments appalled Palestinians who see occupied East Jerusalem as part of a future Palestinian state.

Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, told Al Jazeera on Thursday: "This is the worst thing to happen to us since 1967 ... he has given ammunition to extremists across the region".

"What really disppoints [sic] me is that someone like Barack Obama, who runs a campaign on the theme of change - when it comes to Aipac and what's needed to be said differently about the Palestinian state, he fails."

"I say to Obama ... please stop being more Israeli than the Israelis themselves, leave the Israelis and Palestinians alone to make decisions required for peace."

Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, rejected the statement, saying: "We will not accept an independent Palestinian state without having Jerusalem as the capital.

"I believe that case is clear."

He said: "Jerusalem is part of the six points that are subjects on the negotiations' agenda.

"And the whole world knows that East Jerusalem, Arab Jerusalem and Holy Jerusalem were occupied in 1967."

Sami Abu Zuhri, a spokesman for Hamas, the largest Palestinian resistance group, also condemned the speech, saying on Thursday: "These statements slash any hope of any change in the American foreign policy.

H/T granitebill

Anti-Semitic Democrat Moran At It Again

What is it with the Democrats and their hatred of Jewish groups?

Oh sure, they like top pay lip service and pretend they're friends with Israel, but that's just pandering the the Jewish vote, which, sadly enough, leans heavily toward the Democrats.

But they have a real problem with creeps like Virginia's Jim Moran, who's again besmirching AIPAC.

Moran Upsets Jewish Groups Again

Rep. James P. Moran Jr. (D-Va.) has again come under fire from local Jewish organizations for remarking in a magazine interview that the "extraordinarily powerful" pro-Israel lobby played a strong role promoting the war in Iraq.

In an interview with Tikkun, a California-based Jewish magazine, Moran said the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is "the most powerful lobby and has pushed this war from the beginning. I don't think they represent the mainstream of American Jewish thinking at all, but because they are so well organized, and their members are extraordinarily powerful -- most of them are quite wealthy -- they have been able to exert power."

Unbelievable. Most of them are quite wealthy, he claims, reinforcing one of the more odious stereotypes.

Moran's remarks were criticized by the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington and the National Jewish Democratic Council. Ronald Halber, executive director of the first group, said Moran's remarks are anti-Semitic and draw on ugly stereotypes about Jewish wealth, power and influence.

"He uses several age-old canards that have been used throughout history that have brought violence upon Jews," Halber said this week. "He uses clearly anti-Semitic images such as Jewish control of the media and wealthy Jews using their wealth to control policy."

Naturally, this idiot is surprised people are offended.

In an interview last night, Moran said he was dismayed at the reaction to his remarks, which he stands by. The pro-Israel lobby has not represented mainstream U.S. Jewish opinion in recent years, he said -- most notably with its Middle East policies, which he characterized as directly aligned with those of the Bush administration.

"The problem with addressing the groups who have argued strongly in favor of a long-term American military presence in the Middle East is that they raise arguments that are not related to the point," Moran said. "I would like to have a reasonable, objective discussion about AIPAC's foreign policy agenda. But it's difficult to do that because any time you question their motives, you are accused of being anti-Semitic."

The editor of Tikkun, far-left nutjob and Hillary Clinton's spiritual advisor, Michael Lerner, disputes the fact Moran is an anti-Semite.

"It's the kind of statement I would have made to any religious community, or to any labor movement audience, citing their own failures to act as a critical factor in why we had gotten involved," Lerner wrote in the article.

If you had any doubts where Moran's allegiances lie, just look at his past history and who he's taken money from.

Although hailed for forging ties with the region's Muslim community, Moran has gotten into trouble with the local Jewish community before. In 2001, he angered groups by saying in an appearance before the American Muslim Council that then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was coming to Washington "probably seeking a warrant from President Bush to kill at will with weapons we have paid for."

The next year, Moran returned $2,000 in political contributions from a Muslim activist with ties to the anti-Israeli groups Hamas and Hezbollah.

And in 2003, at an antiwar forum in Reston, Moran said: "If it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq, we would not be doing this. The leaders of the Jewish community are influential enough that they could change the direction of where this is going, and I think they should."

Said Halber this week: "There are only so many mistakes he can make before it's fair to call him an anti-Semite."

It's fair to do so now.

More from Extreme Mortman.

Soros Whines About AIPAC

So in the world of George Soros, it's alright for him to pump millions into liberal and Democrat Party causes, but when a group seeks to lobby on Israel's behalf, there's something sinister about it.

Soros adds voice to debate over Israel lobby

The billionaire investor George Soros has added his voice to a heated but little-noticed debate over the role of Israel's powerful lobby in shaping Washington policy in a way critics say hurts U.S. national interests and stifles debate.

In the current issue of the New York Review of Books, Soros takes issue with "the pervasive influence of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)" in Washington and says the Bush administration's close ties with Israel are obstacles to a peace settlement between Israel and the Palestinians.

Soros, who is Jewish but not often engaged in Israel affairs, echoed arguments that have fueled a passionate debate conducted largely in the rarefied world of academia, foreign policy think tanks and parts of the U.S. Jewish community.


"The pro-Israel lobby has been remarkably successful in suppressing criticism," wrote Soros. Politicians challenge it at their peril and dissenters risk personal vilification, he said.

Read the rest of the piece.

So I guess when Soros funds a radical leftwing groups such as Open Society Institute, that's fine, but if Israel want's to protect their interests, something is wrong.

OSI supports a wide array of leftist organizations, including: the Tides Foundation; the Tides Center; the National Organization for Women; Feminist Majority; the American Civil Liberties Union; People for the American Way; Alliance for Justice; NARAL Pro-Choice America; America Coming Together; the Center for American Progress; Campaign for America’s Future; Amnesty International; the Sentencing Project; the Center for Community Change; the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense and Educational Fund; Human Rights Watch; the Prison Moratorium Project; the Immigrant Funders' Collaborative; the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement; the No Peace Without Justice International Committee; the National Lawyers Guild; the Center for Constitutional Rights; the Coalition for an International Criminal Court; the Abortion Access Project; People of Color In Crisis; The American Prospect; MoveOn.org; the Gay Straight Alliance Network; the Youth Law Center; Planned Parenthood; Jews for Racial and Economic Justice; Project Syndicate (an international association of newspapers that publish anti-American propaganda); the Rocky Mountain Peace Center; the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission; Earth Rights International; the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force; the Nation Institute; the Violence Policy Center; Gun Violence Prevention; Critical Resistance - Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex; the Center for Investigative Reporting; the Million Mom March; Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation; the Death Penalty Information Center, the Death Penalty Mobilization Fund; the Drug Policy Alliance; the Brennan Center for Justice; the Project On Death in America; the Death with Dignity National Center; the Ms. Foundation for Women; the National Security Archive Fund; the Pacifica Foundation; Physicians for Human Rights; the Proteus Fund; the Public Citizen Foundation; the Urban Institute; the American Friends Service Committee; Catholics for a Free Choice; Human Rights First; the Independent Media Institute; and MADRE.

All of these groups directly or indirectly receive money from George Soros. The OSI also funded the defense for radical attorney and terrorist-loving Lynne Stewart, so it's clear which side Soros is on, and it isn't the side of America or Israel.

More on OSI here.