Obama Meets With Jewish Leaders

Hussein Obama tells leaders of Jewish organizations that Israel must engage in self-reflection. How about the arab-muslims engaging in serious self-reflection. Fat chance for that to happen. Israel is not the problem, the arab-muslims rejection of the right of the Jewish state to exist is. The intolerance of muslims toward others in general is the root cause of the bloodshed occurring around the world. Once again obama is full of crap. Yet in spite of his anti-Israel policies, Jewish groups continue to trust that he will do right by Israel.

These are useless organizations, including AIPAC. The only true Zionist Jewish organization I can think of is the ZOA. And of course they were not invited to the meeting. As far as these other groups, their identities as liberals and democrats trump their identity as Jews. Israel would be better off turning to Evangelical Christian groups in America for support rather than Jewish groups, sad to say. However thankfully there is a new group, Z Street being launched to counter the likes of the leftist anti-Zionist J-Street and perhaps replace the increasingly counterproductive AIPAC.

Obama to U.S. Jewish leaders: Israel must engage in self-reflection

By Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent, and Reuters

U.S. President Barack Obama met with 15 American Jewish leaders at the White House for the first time on Monday. The president and the Jewish officials huddled for talks aimed at clearing the air following allegations that his administration was taking a tough line with Israel over settlement activity.

At the meeting, Obama told the leaders that he wants to help Israel overcome its demographic problem by reaching an agreement on a two-state solution, but that in order to do so, Israel would need "to engage in serious self-reflection."

On the Iranian nuclear issue, Obama told the leaders that "the door to dialogue is open. If the Iranians do not walk through it, however, we will have to see how we proceed. But it would be a mistake to talk now about what we're going to do and how we're going to do it." Advertisement

One of the participants at the meeting asked the president to take a lower profile regarding the public differences between his administration and the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the United States' demand that Israel freeze all settlement construction activity in the West Bank.

"This situation is not helpful," he told the president, who rejected the request, saying that during the eight years of the Bush administration, such disagreements were never made public but that such an approach was not helpful in advancing the peace process.

Obama added that there is a narrow window of opportunity for advancing the peace process and that he plans to speak openly and honestly with Israel - "a true friend of the U.S." - just as he did with the Arab nations in his speech at Cairo University in June.

Among the groups attending the meeting were the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the Anti-Defamation League, Hadassah, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, the National Jewish Democratic Council, the Orthodox Union, the United Jewish Communities, the Union for Reform Judaism, the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, the American Jewish Committee and the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, which is led by long-time Obama acquaintance Alan Solow, who requested the meeting.

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