Obama Joining the Jackals

"When Jimmy Carter betrayed Israel in the UN with his self-defeating, cheap parting shot in December, 1980, The Washington Post wrote: 'The American vote against Israel in the Security Council Friday... the essential Carter.' In abandoning its 'friends,' the editors charged, Carter 'join[ed] the jackals.'...

Obama's vindictive, counterproductive Security Council bludgeoning of Israel proved he didn't just stumble into duplicating Carter's errors – these were premeditated blunders. Joining the UN's Israel-bashing-fest is an act of bullying, beneath America's dignity. The UN lost its credibility regarding Israel in 1975 with its bigoted 'Zionism is Racism' resolution.

Friday's reprehensible Security Council vote came nearly 25 years after the General Assembly tried restoring its credibility by revoking that modern blood libel, on December 16, 1991. Alas, the UN has continued to skewer Israel, like a high school thug addicted to bullying, even after reform school.

That 1991 repeal highlights why the new resolution is so terrible. The resolution masquerades as anti-settlement and pro-peace in intent, but is pro-settlement and anti-peace in effect...

Like Jimmy Carter, Obama has joined the jackals. He will now lead the Carter-Obama school of foreign policy weaklings who cower before anti-American dictators but kick Israel, reflecting an obsession with the Jewish State echoing the traditional antisemitic obsession with 'the Jew' – despite their many Jewish friends and enablers..."