Is Obama Preparing a Parting Shot at Israel?...By Charles Krauthammer

[mystery-ak]

 Is Obama Preparing a Parting Shot at Israel?
He appears ready to go to the U.N. to unveil his own parameters of a two-state solution.
By Charles Krauthammer — October 27, 2016

Last week, the U.N.’s premier cultural agency, UNESCO, approved a resolution viciously condemning Israel (referred to as “the Occupying Power”) for various alleged trespasses and violations of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Except that the resolution never uses that term for Judaism’s holiest shrine. It refers to and treats it as an exclusively Muslim site, a deliberate attempt to eradicate its connection — let alone its centrality — to the Jewish people and Jewish history.

This Orwellian absurdity is an insult not just to Judaism but to Christianity. It makes a mockery of the Gospels, which chronicle the story of a Galilean Jew whose life and ministry unfolded throughout the Holy Land, most especially in Jerusalem and the Temple. If this is nothing but a Muslim site, what happens to the very foundation of Christianity, which occurred 600 years before Islam even came into being?

This UNESCO resolution is merely the surreal extreme of the worldwide campaign to delegitimize Israel. It features the BDS movement (boycott, divestment, and sanctions), now growing on Western university campuses and in some mainline Protestant churches. And it extends even into some precincts of the Democratic party.

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[TomSea]

Probably;

But one won't hear a peep about it from those who accuse others of anti-Semitism.

Obama's the correct party and the UN the correct institution.

[r9etb]

The two central points in the article:

Land for peace would be replaced by land for nothing.
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Soon Obama will be free to deliver a devastating parting shot to Israel and to the prime minister he detests.

What these represent, are the two controlling impulses of Obama's juvenile and narcissistic worldview. 

First, a UN resolution based on "land for nothing" is the culminating example of Obama's irrational belief that if he says something, it will necessarily come true.  This has been the foundation of his entire administration -- and it has inevitably resulted in failure, chaos, and even disaster, because a worldview like that is not constrained or chastened by reality.

Second, Obama is a man who hates.  As a malignant narcissist, he hates and will try to destroy those who attempt to correct or oppose him.  He puts a pretty good public face on it, but it's clear that the man hates with a searing hatred.  He particularly hates Benjamin Netanyahu, who not only opposes him to his face, but uses reality to justify it.

A UN resolution of this sort represents the confluence of these impulses.  Obama the Hero will speak, and the Palestinian Crisis Will Be Solved!  And Netanyahu will be publicly humiliated.

[TomSea]

Wow, where are all the comments about the Democratic party being anti-semitic, which they are?

[TomSea]

Bump: this thread is good practice; well, what party doesn't recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel?