I should have fisked the op-ed more completely; it was just that two things really stood out and because of it I didn’t read the op-ed as closely as I should have. I was focused on the past more than on the present.

David

If you have no self-respect, don’t expect that others will.

It was bad enough he broke a campaign promise to every Jew whose heart is Jerusalem to sign the embassy act…IN HIS FIRST WEEK OF OFFICE and 7 years latter proving to all Jews that Jerusalem ‘is not’ the UNDIVIDED CAPITAL OF ISRAEL by not sending anyone from his administration to the ceremonies of the Anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem. In the time shortly before was leaving office after taking a holocaust denier and turning him into a MAN OF PEACE of sitting back and watching the work of his U.S Palestinian trained security forces and all he could say in apology to the Jewish people who trusted him by electing him to office was “Take good care of OLMERT.”

And that poster showing all of Israel, Palestine, that came from Abbas the man of Peace during the time Bush was president.

We had 8 years to make it right for Jews by a person who promised friendship. What do you think the Jew haters of the world thought as to how a friend treats Israel? Imagine how the world would have looked upon Israel if Bush one time called Jerusalem the undivided capital of Israel. Imagine if after the intifada he would have withheld all funding to the Palestinians rather than reward them for terror!! Instead he used every chance he had to tell the world in every public forum he spoke the Palestinians live under the “daily humiliation of occupation” and that the “Palestine should be viable, contiguous and not resemble swiss cheese.” And we yell about Obama’s stance on settlements? What do you think daily humiliation of occupation viable, contiguous and not resemble swiss cheese meant?

Because we constantly leave Bush out of the equation we have learned nothing and will continue to be led astray by both friend and foe alike, I promise. Since Bush left office I have read little if any introspection on the damage he caused for he indeed paved the road for the the narcissist Jew hating Obama. If we continue to overlook it and not speak of it (except at anger toward me) we are no better than liberals and certainly no better than liberal Jews we so love to condemn.

Some of this, I think, is genuinely wishful thinking. Facing the fact that the Palestinians don’t want peace alongside Israel is difficult to grasp and even more difficult to accept, as it renders the situation unsolvable. This is unpleasant and a way of dealing with it is to assume that the other side is at fault, that there is something Israel in this case could do that would change things.

Of course, continual insistence on this line is not missed by the Palestinians. President Obama, for example, has certainly reduced any chance of serious Palestinian negotiations by letting them know that if they sit tight he will continue to pressure Israel. Why bargain when you know the other side will give you most of what you want without your doing anything?