THE TEN PLAGUES: HOW OBAMA DAMAGED RELATIONS WITH ISRAEL
” President Barack Obama heads to Israel today to fulfill a campaign promise from 2012, as Israelis prepare for Monday’s Passover holiday. Though the White House is lowering expectations of the visit, there are signs it may help to repair a relationship that has suffered over the past four years. In the spirit of the Exodus story, here are the “Ten Plagues” that Obama brought to U.S.-Israel relations, in rough chronological order.
1. A weak U.S. approach to the Iranian regime and its nuclear program. When he took office in 2009, Obama had committed to meeting with Iranian leaders “without preconditions”–even though the regime’s genocidal aims toward Israel were clear. The Obama administration dragged its feet on sanctions, failed to support Iran’s democratic uprising, and frustrated both Israel and U.S. allies in Europe with its timid approach.”
Illustration by Nate Beeler
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There was something in the news that Israel is building a giant cast iron canopy to cover and protect Air Force One. The fears are that shoulder fired missiles the U.S. gave to Syria, may now be fired at Obama. Poetic Justice?
Much as I would hate for the taxpayers to have to buy another Air Force One , the pictures of the current one smoldering on the tarmac from one of our own Stingers would be worth every dollar .
I’ll buy a fedora and pass the hat around.
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