Obama gets a kosher seal of approval

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From Haaretz:

After perhaps the warmest pro-Israel speech given at an annual UN General Assembly meeting by any U.S. president, Barack Obama now has 'seal of approval' from no less an authority than Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman.

U.S. President Barack Obama certainly never dreamt that one day he would be so warmly endorsed by Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, of all people. But today, following Obama’s speech at the UN General Assembly, Lieberman was literally gushing with praise. To contradict the attacks of Texas Governor Rick Perry, the Republican frontrunner, for Obama’s supposedly “arrogant” attitude toward Israel, Obama will now be able to wave to his Jewish voters a kosher “seal of approval” from no less an authority as Lieberman, the “Rebbe,” as it were, of the ruling Israeli right-wing coalition.

What a score for the President!

Literally, the hardest right-wing cabinet member of the hardest right-wing Israeli government is positively gushing with praise for the position President Obama took on behalf of the American people at the UN today.

As far as Israeli politics goes, there is no one remaining to be satisfied in the ultra-conservative current Israeli government.

You should read up on Mr. Lieberman. He is...I think calling him an arch-NeoCon is probably a few orders of magnitude too tame a description for American audiences. But you get the idea.

Of course there are many Leftists in Israel, too. But sadly, their day is not today. Not by a long shot. Not even for center-right politicians like Tzipi Livni.

PB

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1. I do not understand the need to take an apartheid position to support Israel, why

not be supportive without choosing to treat an entire group of people as sub-human (and not to have rights) in the face of a government that has some bad hard right leadership at the moment?

Enabling the harshest of the right wing in that country does not do any favors for it's populace nor it's more sane liberal political voices.

It is almost as if he has Bush envy.