Full Text of Letter from Ronald S. Lauder to President Obama
15 April 2010
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لست افهم لماذا يضيع العالم وقته فى التحليل لمجريات الاحداث دون الاتجاه بقوة لحل مشاكل العالم لماذا لاتتحد الافكار والنوايا لتغير العالم من عالم ملىء بالمشاكل والحروب والمنازعات الى عالم جديد خالى من العنف والتعصب والكراهية - لماذا لا يسعى العالم الى تحقيق حلم العالم الواحد - عالم بلا حدود حغرافية وسياسية عالم تتساوى فيه الحقوق والواجبات فى كل دول العالم -- لماذا يقف العالم عاجزا امام مشاكل الفقر والجهل والمرض فى مناطق عديدة من العالم - لماذا لا تتوحد جهود الجمعيات والمنظمات الغير هادفة للربح فى توحيد جهودها من جعل هذا الالم عالم افضل- لقد قرأت خبرا فى الصحف ان الرئيس اوباما خصص 220مليون دولار من اجعل عمل نظام حماية لآسرائيل من الهجمات الصروخية التى تنطلق من قطاع غزة اليس من الافضل ان تستخدم ال 220 مليون دولار هذه فى تغير مفاهيم العنف وتحسين مستوى الفلسطينيين التعليمى والمعيشى - وايضا من اجعل تفعيل وترسيخ مفاهيم السلام وفوائد السلام ونبذ العنف والكراهية
Israel, you are not alone, many Christians, believe in your right to exist, also as a nation! Bless.
...I am sorry for this 2nd comment. I somehow hit a wrong key and the initial comment was sent without being finished...
I was stating that it would behoove Mr. Obama and his administration to learn the eschatological beliefs because it from this base of knowledge that A-jad is focusing his plans.
I pray that Israel's leaders and people know that there are millions of us in the US and worldwide who support you as a Nation. It is my belief, as a Christian, that Israel is deserving of having ALL of the land that God gave Abraham. God set those borders!! He gave that land to Israel and Israel only. It is her's forever!!!!
I am thankful that this letter was written and I pray it was read by our president. I believe Mr. Obama has made some very naive and, possibly, costly decisions regarding the Nation State of Israel and the other countries in the Middle East.
The assumption that Iran will "listen" to logic and pleas for peace is very dangerous and naive assumption, indeed! Iran is NOT going to listen to anyone! A-jad's quest to cause extreme chaos so as to bring about the coming of the 12th Imam is all that he is focused upon. Because of A-jad's focus, we, the USA need to be just as focused on Iran and A-jad's moves. He is determined to have a nuclear bomb and, I believe, will do whatever he needs to do to get one~people in his way will find themselves either in prison or exterminated.
It would behoove Mr. Obama and his administration to learn the escatological
This was a letter that needed to be read by the current administration. The deteriorating relationship between Israel and the United States has been a deep concern for me and many Americans who are not Jewish but have many close Jewish friends and a love for Israel. Thank you for saying what needed to be said for the sake of both countries.
My heart is breaking, for the division the Obama administration has caused / allowed with Israel. The American people are waking up and speaking up, I just hope it won't be too late .
BH Lag Bomer
Very well said.
BRAVO!!!
Thank you for making our voices heard. We are all very concerned and we need to be heard before it's too late.Thank you again
My concern about this raising up the issues why we are not collaborating to come up all in prayers to address and appealing that God can do and intervene the so-called conflict happen for a long time with out a good relation ship towards others lives and other territories. The plans of God is to prosper not to harm everyone lives. Cos plans of mans sometimes personal interest and greediness especially the power he has been made. Israel is God nation the core heart of all the nations. As for me i believe that everything has like this worst problem God can healed upon people turning their wicked-ways. God will soon to come back for his people not for the unrighteous one we should now be a part Gods love and a compassionate heart. Hope they will bound to surrender this problem to our Lord Jesus Christ and i extend my prayer to bless the nation of Israel and God will work mightily in his country and the rest. I decreed the power of the Holy Spirit , the power of his fire, the light of JESUS and the power of living water will pour out in Israel. Im from Davao City Philippines.
I am concerned about our fellow Jews support for Israel. We can no longer relay on political parties to take care of this situation. We must stand up and avoid being afraid. "If I am not for myself , then who ". We should have learned this lession from our parents. If you do not get the message, they can be at your door. Jewish self hatered... we will not fight your battles.
There are many errors in Mr. Lauder's letter begining with his statement about Iran. Iran has Never stated genocidal intentions towards Israel. Iran's leaders have been miss quoted -They have said that the regime occupying Jerusalem shall pass into the pages of history like the Soviet Union.
In the last 100 years Iran has never attacked another nation. It has ony defended itself against invasion. Israel has attacked Lebanon 2006 - occuyed it for 18 years, Iraq in 1981 or 2, Syria in 2007, Egypt in 1967 and occupied the West Bank and Golan Heights for the last 42 years, etc.
The issue is not that Palestinians do not recognize Israel - THEY DO. I have spoken to Palestinians in the West Bank and Israel who recognize Israel - that includes an elected member of Hamas.
The issue are: land was and continues to be stolen from Palestinians to build Jewish only housing, the Jews killed and violently expelled Palestinians from their homes in 1948, approximately 700,000 Palestinains expelled from Israel in 1948 have never been allowed to return (I met a number in Jordan and Syria), the unjust treatment of Palestinians in Israel and the West Bank, etc.
I have seen the unjust and abusive treatment and policies administered by Israeli soldiers. Have met with the Jewish community leader in Hebron David Wilder. He believes as many in Israel do that all of the West Bank, Jerusalem, Gaza belong to the Jews and all Arabs should leave. Many Israelis believe they are entitled to all of greater Israel. US politicians never stand up to Israel when it breaks International Laws and violates UN Resolutions for fear of having their careers destroyed and not getting the Jewish vote.
I would be happy to discuss these issues with Mr. Lauder next time he is in Aspen.
Dear Mr.Lauder, Marcia and I cannot thank you enough for your position paper..letter..to the President. Your get a "Yasha Koach" for your effort and the way you expressed yourself. We are lucky to have your leadership when others might feel the same way,but become either commentators,or tisk tiskers,but not doers like you. Thank you...Shabbot Shalom, Marcia and Alan Cahn Lincolnwood,Illinois
I pray for Israel to have peace. Israel will conquer, God is on their side!
I believe that Israel has the right to exist peacefully had a proud and independent nation. I believe that the whole world particularly the Muslim nations should recognise this right without any preconditions.
I believe that Iran's nuclear ambitions should be nipped in the bud.
I believe that India and Israel have common interests and should always be allies in view of the hostile Muslim world that faces them
Dear Mr. Lauder:
Than you for your eloquent and brave letter to Pres. Obama. As a Reform American Jew I am very disgusted by the way he treated the P.M. of Israel. In my 62 yrs of observing American Presidents and the White House, I can not ever recall an American President treating any of our guests as rudely as Obama treated Israel's leader. When our President hosts a diplomat at the W.H., it's expected that certain protocols and common courtesies will be extended. If a pres. is not inclined to treat a leader with respect, they simply don't invite them to WH. It appears that Obama dispensed with common sense, as well as hospitality re this incident.
I realize that Israel is not a perfect democracy. In the past, I have also been concerned about the Arab/Muslim Israelies and their treatment. However, when I think of Israel's neighbors and the way they run their countries, the barbaric absense of human rights in so many Middle East countries; I think of Israel with pride. I think worldwide Jewry has benefited from the tremendous progress this young country has made.
Now, we have a sitting President who looks upon Israel with disdain. A President so patronizing of Iran and other dangerous regimes. For the first time as an American Citizen, I do not feel safe. I am not comfortable with his passive approach to Iran going nuclear. I think of all the Jewish support Obama rec'd from America's Jews. Has he no sensativity for how we feel about his treatment of Israel? I thank you again, Mr. Lauder. I pray you will continue to help America's Jewish community unite and stand up for Israel, stand up for ourselves.
Dear Mr. Lauder:
I just read your letter to President Obama. I would like to thank you for your courage and and self respect in approaching President Obama about the disgusting treatment of the Prime Minister of Israel. As a Reform Jew, I sometimes feel/felt that Israel needs/needed to take steps to improve relations with the Muslim/Arab citizens of the their country. I have never thought of Israel as a perfect democracy or utopian community.
For the most part, I love and respect Israel and take pride in that country's triumph time and again, in the face of severe adversity. While the President may have been unhappy about the housing situation in Jerusalem, there was no excuse for his brutal treatment of the Prime Minister of Israel at our White House. In my 62 years of observing White House receptions, I can not remember any of our President's treating a foreign dignitary in such a disgusting manner. Usually, our President's don't invite guests they don't intend to treat politely. I feel as if a part of my soul has been spit at.
Surely President Obama must realize that most American Jews feel a profound sense of kinship with Israel. At this time in history we are very scared the survival of Israel. Shortly after this incident w/Israel, Obama announced he wanted to extend more hospitality to American Muslims. I look at the timing of that announcement and I have to wonder where this man's heart is. I would have thought nothing of his wanting to embrace American Muslims, had this confrontation with Israel not happened. I read in Jerusalem Post that violence has increased since this fateful meeting. I also feel that anti-Jewish feelings here will increase as well. We Jews must act as a powerful united community now. We must impress upon Pres. Obama that we are very disturbed by his hostile treatment of Israel, and by default, his total American Jews!
God Bless You, Mr. Lauder. Help us organize and once again become powerful advocates for Israel and Jewish people everywhere.
Dear Mr. Lauder: This was an excellent letter and very respectful. In the following please find a piece that I sent the Chicago Tribune addressing the same issues:
Has Obama become an impediment to the Arab-Israeli peace process ?
Arab countries have been emboldened by our President’s position on Jewish building in Jerusalem with declarations such as “Israel playing with fire, Jordanian king warns” (Tribune, March 26). We should also expect this week-end a hardening of the Arab position at the Arab summit in Libya.
It all started with a gaffe pertaining to the announcement by a bureaucrat in Israel’s interior ministry of a housing expansion in a Jewish neighborhood of northern Jerusalem. Vice-President Biden protested as he should have since the issue of Jerusalem is complex, and PM Netanyahu apologized about the timing of the announcement. Our Vice-President accepted and appreciated the apology and everything could have ended right there. President Obama, however, decided to make a big deal out of it.
At the AIPAC Policy Conference of 2008 that I attended, candidate Barak Obama declared unequivocally that Jerusalem will never be divided and this was met by a standing ovation. A few days later, facing Palestinian protests, a low key announcement of an Obama aide was made to the effect that the candidate did not really mean it. This was taken as posturing by most attendees of the Conference. Candidate Obama had also visited Israel and shown an unwavering support for the State of Israel. Since then, our President has been traveling all over the World, including the Arab World, kowtowing to the king of Saudi Arabia, giving a speech in Cairo, just one-hour flight from Tel Aviv, but never had the time to visit Israel. He also insisted recently that Israel freezes all settlement activity in the West Bank and Jerusalem. If this is the position of the President of the United States taken without considering all its implications for Israel, how could the Palestinians negotiate with anything less ? PM Netanyahu responded by a moratorium on a temporary partial freeze in the West Bank and excluding Jerusalem, the capital of Israel. The administration appeared to accept this compromise before Biden’s visit to Israel.
The intransigence of the Arab position towards Israel has been fueled by the Obama administration’s position. To Israelis, such a position is tantamount to make East and Northern Jerusalem judenrein, the Nazi term for “clean of Jews”. Arabs have never been prevented to build in Jerusalem. Why should Jews be prevented to build in East or Northern Jerusalem ? And if these areas, following peace negotiations, come under the authority of a sovereign Palestinian state why couldn’t Jews live there as well ? After all, over 1 million Arab Israelis live in Israel. The same should apply to the West Bank. While our administration takes the position that the settlements create an impediment to negotiations, David J. Rothkopf, a former Clinton administration official who has written about the shaping of American foreign policy said “My reaction is, no they’re not. They’re negotiating. They’re sending a message. And Obama is sending a message right back” as reported by Ethan Bronner in the New York Times (March 26). .
It appears that our President with his “new” policy for the Middle East has become an impediment to the Arab-Israeli peace process. Israelis sense that our President humiliated their PM by his treatment at the White House because neither photographs nor ceremony marked his visit. If the goal of our President is to cause the fall of the Israeli government, it won’t happen as Israelis in their majority are rallying around their PM.
Our administration in the months to come should rethink its policy on the Middle East. As an academic, our President likes to listen and seek advice from scholars and politicians who are savvy in shaping American foreign policy. It shouldn’t be hard for him to start from square one on the Middle East.
Isaac Cohen Professor Emeritus Northwestern University Medical School
No comment at this time. I do not agree with some of the commeents about Obama being an anti semite if so then he would be against the arabs as well as the Jews
The Plan; Isolate Israel politically and back her into a corner. This will force Israel to act unilaterally to hit Iran's nuclear facilities. Iran will declare war on Israel followed by Syria and the Hezbollah run Lebanon. The Obama Regime will reluctantly come to Israel's aid, which positions Him to appear to be aiding an ally, striking fast and hard to try and end the matter quickly and keep it a regional conflict.
That is the scenerio as I see it. The negative to this is the US does nothing, hanging Israel out to dry so that Israel has no choice but to deploy their nuclear deterrent. Iran is just itching for either scenerio, it's win win for them. Israel is lambasted and declared outlaw by world opinion for going nuke, and Iran uses the conflict to use the nuclear weapon or weapons they already have obtained in self defense. WW III ensues...
Ugly either way huh???
A bold offer from Israel to Obama today might be to offer Israeli hospitals as nearby substitutes for the usual German venues to treat severely wounded US troops in Afganistan and Iraq. A one and half hour flight from the combat zone to Israel would be a very friendly gesture, and would likely save American lives.
Dear Mr. Lauder,
I support your position. In fact, I wrote the following letter to the President on April 9, 2010. It was just one of a number of emails I have written to him about my concerns. So far, I have received no reply.
April 9, 2010
President Barack Obama The White House Washington, D.C. 20500
Re: Your position on Israel
Dear Mr. President,
I supported you when you were running for president and have continued to do so until most recently when I realized your position on Israel is both dangerous to it and to all the world’s democracies. I am very distraught by your unfriendly position to the only democracy in the Middle East, the nation that is most true to American values. Your negative attitude was demonstratively clear during the recent visit of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. You were patently dismissive, obviously petulant, and you clearly insulted Mr. Netanyahu and Israel. I was shocked and embarrassed by your behavior. It is not worthy of your office. I cannot imagine you treating a friendly leader of another democracy in that manner. Please note that I have written to you by email a number of times about my concerns, but I have received no response, so I am trying this more formal approach.
When I voted for you, I thought you would be a staunch supporter of Israel and debated with many who believed that was not the case. I was wrong. Beginning with your speech in Cairo last year, I have felt uneasy by your courting of Arab nations and other Muslim countries, whose goals, no matter what they say to us, are to bring down Western democracies and establish a worldwide Islamic empire, which, governed by its religious beliefs, is authoritarian, denies human rights and allows no religion other than its own. The tragedy is that these Muslim countries are succeeding, as anti-Semitism rears its ugly head. I cannot but pause and wonder who you are.
It is beyond my understanding that you are so naïve as to believe your approach can solve the problems that not only impact Israel but all democracies. European governments have and continue to placate their growing Muslim populations by taking staunch stands against Israel. This is a travesty and a dangerous mistake, which I think you are about to repeat by arrogantly authoring a two-state solution that, by all reports, will be antithetical to the well-being of Israel, and, yes, to America.
I call your attention to the recent article by Prof. Daniel M. Zucker, Chairman of Americans for Democracy in the Middle-East, which goes into great detail in explaining why your appeasement of the Arab world is not only ineffective, but dangerous. Are you truly blinded by perhaps your own prejudices, and perhaps by advisors who join the Muslim world in their quest to eliminate Israel?
Review your history lessons. Learn from the experience of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain whose pacifism and appeasement accomplished nothing other than emboldening Hitler, which resulted in the death of millions. Prof. Zucker reminds us that appeasing the Arabs and Muslims only encourages them.
The Palestinians have rejected one solution after another, most notably during the Camp David meeting with President Clinton. And as Prof. Zucker notes, Israel and the Jews are the universal scapegoat for Muslim leaders (just as the Jews were in Germany under Hitler), an obvious hypocritical diversion by autocratic and corrupt governments. Prof Zucker notes: “Real concern for the ‘plight of the Palestinian refugees’ is lacking throughout the Arab world; nowhere have the Palestinians received citizenship in their ‘brotherly Arab’ host countries. Even the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, whose East Bank population is 60% Palestinian, recently revoked the citizenship of any Palestinian that did not live within the Kingdom before June 1967.”
Prof Zucker concludes, “Arab and Moslem nations are not likely to change their approach to the West and to the United States because of the creation of a Palestinian state. The Palestinian issue serves as a convenient focal point, but it is not the root of the problem and ‘solving it’ improperly — that is without ‘de-radicalizing’ the Palestinians — will not solve America’s problems at all; it may make things worse: first by introducing another radical nation-state, and secondly by giving the radicals the impression that they are winning, thus emboldening them to a greater degree.”
I think it is critical to attend to these points and not turn away from a friendly nation to do business and meet the unreasonable demands of the Arab countries and the Palestinians, which, with a few exceptions, still don’t grant Israel’s right to exist.
I fervently hope you will rethink your position and support Israel and its many accomplishments and contributions as a free nation, which must continue to flourish and be an icon and model for democracy in an area pledged to a rigid code of intolerance, hatred and disregard for basic human rights. You have many enemies in the Middle East, who are unlikely to vary from their strict beliefs. But, you still have a friend in Israel, one who shares the great ideals of our country.
Very truly yours,
Deborah Forman
I agree 100%, but would have been much more forceful, and less politic.
This is a President who has BOWED before the king of Saudi Arabia. This is a President who pratices a type of book burning when he omits any reference to Radical Islam in government documents. This is a President who does not call terrorism what it is.
I could go on. Needless to say, I feel we should be greatly concerned about the policies of this administration. Its Actions are the polar opposites of the words uttered from this President's mouth. He has (confirmed) radicals in his administration (ONE FORMER CZAR WAS AN AVOWED COMMUNIST, OUTED BY THAT 'DREADED' STATION, FOX NEWS.
Robert Heinlein said it is socially unacceptable to be right to early. That is why history usually repeats itself - we do not take prompt action. We must not permit 'compartmentalized brain syndrome' to prevent us from seeing and acknowledging the realities before our eyes. We need to take quick and appropriate action.
if anyone is really interested in the true history of the fakestinians in the region, read "from time immemorial' by joan peters. it is the classic deconstruct of arab lies and deceit. you can also google 'hadrian's curse' and read how the fakestinians themselves admit the ruse of their 'national identity' as a way to delegitimize israel. israel was around way before america and europe...it will be around way after.
I believe the most potent enemies of Israel are the American Jews who overwhelmingly voted for Obama. In addition, many of the leading figures in the liberal pro Obama groups are Jews. You never learn and consistently undermine and despise the very people who will always stand with Israel, the conservative Christian middle-class Americans.
I agree with Moshe. Impeach Obama. He doesn't represent the true American. Oh L_rd we pray, remember the remnant in America who Love You and Loves Israel. The L_rd blesses those who bless Isreal, The L_rd curses those who curse Isreal.
The message that the US Administration is sending to the world is that of a mix of hesitation and wishful thinking. Mr. Obama is trying to become a new Yalta Conference master. He wants to master new borders, forgetting about locals and self-government in Israel. Those who deny the past are condemned to repeat it, and history has never been as present as now. Mrs. Clinton is seeking partners by means of putting aside old allies, like the UK and Israel. US voters need to mobilize. Mr. Obama is sending very bad signs to US friends. US, Israel and freedom enemies are rejoicing. Helping delegitimize Israel is just the tip of an iceberg of self-denial that this Government is promoting. Openly.
Please support Israel. They are our only friends in the Mideast. We need them and and they need us. Do not desert them.
Nr, Lauder has written a comprehensive and factually analytical opinion paper on the present condition between Israel and The United States. I would like to have confidence in the political pressures extant today in Israel. Can the right and the left assure Americans that they are acting in the very best interests of Israel rather than their narrower interests? Bea Tannenbaum
Mr. Lauder,
Thank you very much for sending the letter to President Obama. It was long overdue. You are the only one I am aware of, who has the guts to say what needed to be said.
The fact that he is blaming Israel for the impasse in the negotiations is not enough. He has said the lack of peace in the region has cost the United States lives, and assets. What does he really mean by that? To my knowledge, the wars is Iraq and Afghanistan are not the fault of Israel. Nor have any American military lost their lives in Israel.
All this argument is a moot point....it matters not what any American President does or how any of us feel. The outcome of this struggle has been prophesied in the Bible, Daniel and Ezekiel. All that matters is where YOU stand. Where do you?
Along with other Jewish activists I am very concerned about the Administration's off the wall reaction to the building permits in Jerusalem and the the diplomatic slap in the face by Clinton, Biden and Obama to Israel's PM. Israel gets slapped for building homes for its people, while there is practically no diplomatic effort to remove terrorists who fire rockets at Israeli civilans. This administration needs some experience under its belt about the pitfalls of dealing with the Arab world. Hopefully this experience will not be gained at Israel's expense.
Dear Mr. Lauder, I agree with the comments you expressed in your letter, but I feel that they are falling on deaf ears. I am sure that President Obama has already decided that Israel is expendable and one point that I feel that by surrounding himself with Jewish advisors, albeit one's that want to prove that they are American's first and jews second, they are prepared to bend over backwards to prove to the Muslim world that they are "more Catholic than the Pope". Look at the western nations of today and you see the same thing happening in other western countries, David Milliband in the UK and Georges Kouchner of France. We in Israel, are determined that which ever government leads us, that Jerusalem is not on the table for discussion for a permanent peace with the Palestinians. Yours Sincerely, Tzemach Bloomberg.
This letter is so timely. I am in support of allowing Israel to handle its lands and political issue. I believe that we should be in support of them as they do just that. I don't believe we can be blessed without blessing Isreal according to the holy scriptures. If we call ourselves Judaic Christains and don't believe the promises to the Jews of the holy scriptures, we really have to examine our faith. Please Mr. President, consider this in your decisions about Israel and support them.
The one and only action needs to be taken in order to save America... Impeach!!! The Anti American, Anti-Semite, Anti Jews, and Anti Israel, AlBurak Husain Obama!!!
I am an American Jew and Mr. Lauder does not speak for me. I firmly support President Obama and the balanced position he has taken in working toward genuine resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The settlements are illegal under Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention (look it up and read it). Israel is a signatory to the Fourth Geneva Convention. A just peace is within our grasp if we lower the rhetoric, stop demonizing those who disagree with us and practice true humility and self-restraint.
Its about time the organized jewsh community started to defend Israel and its Prime Minister. The lack of courtesy shown to him was inexcusable. Why aren't all the elected officials who ran on a platform of supporting Israel nor being heard. If former Pres . Bush would have done this , the Schumers and Rothman's would be screaming by now. Just because there is a Democrat in the White House , they have lost their tongue. Such hypocrisy! The WJC should be asking them thses questions!
OMG just do what every modern day country did at some point in their history to secure the whole of their nation when it was divided by sub groups, races or cultures. Assimilate them, kill them or exile them. Every time you do not do one or all of these 3 you have generations of lingering problems. It hurts sure but look at history, it works.
What happened to all my Jewish Brothers and Sisters embracing Our Great Leader Obama ? I think you need to look at the ADL ,SPLC , Hollywood and lets not forget the Jewish owned Media for Obama being President !
'' The dog bites the owner '' You were all suckered face it and now your all crying :
Obama treated Israels Leader like a Fool / It was sad to see this treatment of a true Hero ---------- As a Jew I sure am happy I didn't vote for the man from KENYA :
STAY STRONG ISRAEL /
Thank you!!! I recently ran for public office in Texas as a Democrat, but in light of President Obama's administration's overt hostility toward Israel, I will struggle with voting for any Democrat that continues on such a dangerous foreign policy course.
The enemy is within and his name is Barack Hussien Obama/Barry Soetoro...we think anyway. Nobody really knows his real name or anything of his past. All we do know is that he's got a lot to hide, 2 million dollars worth! As that's the latest assessment that he's paid to the law firm Perkins and Cole to hide all his records...especially his Birth Certificate. The powers that put him in office own the mainstream media and are clearly anti-Israel. Sadly enough 80% of Jews in USA voted for him amid all the red flags! So I guess the "useful idiots" that voted for this man might learn a valuble lesson...maybe. Too bad the innocent intelligent people must suffer too! USA is already a Communist nation, it's just a secret the federal govt. don't want to come out yet. Thank You George Bush Jr. AND Sr. 2 men that are worthy of the worst kind of punishment, with their partners in crime Clintons,Pelosi,Ried,Napalitano,Gates and all the other COMMUNIST'S now operating in the highest levels of USA federal govt. They will soon bankrupt us and we will no longer be able to back Israel, that's their plan. It's breaking a great nation 101.
Letter from the President of the World Jewish Congress
I am sorry to say, there was a really dumb mistake by the Israeli government here and someone has to take responsibility for that. Even if you love Israel (as I do) you would have to admit that making the housing announcement while the Vice President of the United States was visiting, was a stupid thing to do. Somebody in Israeli government should be fired for this. Yes it may have been a bureaucratic mixup but even so, the symbolism of not caring how it looks for the United States, that was a big mistake.
IT'S NOT ABOUT ISRAEL!!!
Israel is being used as a scapegoat for all of the waring nations surrounding it. These Middle Eastern countries are waring with each other as they have been for centures and would still be if Israel didn't exist. Let's be realistic and be cognizant of this. The UN's position, against Israel at every turn, is unconscionable! WHAT PART OF IT DON'T THEY UNDERSTAND? Don't they see and don't they realize that redical Muslims are trying to conquer the world. Do they want to live under that kind of non-government? Aren't they able to see those factions pushing their way into Europe? France and England are inundated and threatened and are sorry they've allowed so much immigration. There are sections in Paris and London that are hotbeds of radicalism. The UN, US and world are blind and jealous of what Israel has accomplished in just 65 years. No other country in history of the world has been able to to this. ISRAEL CHAI!
Most of the Jewish world is applauding the bold and brave move by World Jewish Congress president, Ronald S. Lauder, who printed an open letter to US President Obama in today's Wall St Journal and Washington Post. In this letter, Ron Lauder asked the president to end the public feud with Israel, to focus more attention on the Iranian nuclear threat and to commit to Israel's security.
While the letter sounds nice and defensive of Israel, it is actually nothing more than a hypocritical bunch of nonsense written by one of the people mainly responsible for the dangerous situation in which Israel finds itself!
Allow me to explain - using the same style as Mr Lauder - only this time writing a hypothetical open letter from US President Obama to WJC President Lauder:
15 April 2010
Dear President Ronald S. Lauder,
I read your open letter today in the Washington Post and have the following reply:
By the time I was born, you already had a degree in International Business from the prestigious Wharton School of Business at the University of PA. In 1984 you were appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO policy at the Pentagon. In 1986 President Ronald Reagan appointed you as US Ambassador to Austria. In 1989 you ran for mayor of NYC. In 1998 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appointed you as his personal representative in peace negotiations with Syria. During your tenure at this position, you authored the work, "Treaty of Peace between Israel and Syria," which advocated Israeli surrender of significant amounts of land in exchange for peace.
I write all of this to show that - clearly - you are a man of the world. You are a trusted advisor to both Presidents of the United States and Prime Ministers of Israel. Many top leaders in both the USA and Israel consider you their personal friend.
Today, among your many other jobs and responsibilities, you are the president of the World Jewish Congress, whose slogan is, "Representing Jewish communities throughout the world".
Clearly, you are a leader in the Jewish world, and have been for many years.
When I became interested in politics, I realized that I had to learn from experts in the field. Those experts would help me shape my foreign policy, especially regarding the most volatile region in the word; the Middle East. While you may not know it, I chose you as one of my leading role models. You had the experience, the knowledge and the respect of exactly the kind of people I needed on my side. I therefore studied your policies very closely.
YOU, Ron Lauder, supported - and continue to support - the Oslo Peace Process, which brought about the death of over 1,000 Israelis. In addition, over 250,000 Israelis have been seriously harmed either physically or emotionally because of this process. That number is growing as Jews in Sderot, Ashkelon, Beersheba and Ashdod live in constant fear of attack.
YOU, Ron Lauder, supported the destruction of Jewish homes, synagogues and businesses in the South West Coast of Israel. 10,000 Jews were forcibly dragged from their beach-front property, houses of study and kindergartens in a process that YOU said was necessary in order to achieve peace.
YOU, Ron Lauder, advocate forced removal of Jews from their homes, businesses and Yeshivot in the beautiful Golan Heights as a method of achieving peace with Syria. You further support the digging up of Jewish graves in these areas as a gesture of good will to the peace process.
YOU, Ron Lauder, speak openly and publicly about the need to create a Palestinian State within the tiny State of Israel. In your open letter to me you actually used that expression, "tiny State of Israel" yet you support dividing that tiny state in half!
YOU, Ron Lauder, write about the need to focus on Iran and their threat to the region yet you ignore the FAR bigger combined threat to Israel by Hizbollah, Hamas, Syria and Egypt! These armies border Israel and in some cases are inside Israel, yet you ignore their threat as if they don't exist. These 4 armies have tens of thousands of missiles that can reach every coffee shop in the country and can cause 10 times the damage of nuclear weapons. Your response to these threats? Land for peace. And you accuse ME of appeasement?
President Lauder, I could go on for many pages but allow me to simply say that you were the one who convinced me that the land of Israel does not belong to you. After all, if it was truly your inheritance - and given to you by God Himself - why would you so easily be willing to part with it?
As a matter of fact, NOT ONCE in your open letter to me did you write the word GOD. You wrote about "freedom" and "democracy" and "security" and "peace". Never once did you mention that God gave this land to your father Abraham, who passed it down an unbroken chain of 3,300 years directly to Ronald S. Lauder. Never once did you mention the Torah, the Bible, the Jewish tradition or state 4 very simple but awesome words: This Is My Land!
Until you - and every other Jewish leader in the world - can say those words, you have no business writing to me. Go and study your heritage. Go and study the one religion - YOURS - that taught the world about God and spirituality and then become a true and authentic Jewish leader. Until then, leave the Middle East to me - with what I learned from you!
Sincerely, Barack Obama President United States of America
Nice letter but it will never be seen or read by b.HUSSEIN o. He does not care about Israel and truly wishes ALL non-muslims dead.
Is this any wonder? Look, remember cassius clay?...now muhammad ali? I can't think of his given name, remember ali haji-sheik? The point is these are muslim converts. Do you see the barry soetoro to BARAK HUSSEIN OBAMA connection? He is a MUSLIM as was his father. Need I say more???
A-Men
Lauder's open letter to Obama is similar to lodging a complaint with Hitler that his general's are antisemitic . . . deaf ears. This president is the Islamic sleeper in our midst who has fully awakened. So what if so many of his advisers are Jewish. They are just shills who want to keep their cushy jobs so they keep quiet. Our nation is focused on one thing -- the economy and the price of gasoline. Foreign policy runs a distant second in importance to the voters. Those of you who keep saying that Obama is a one term president are delusional. If he gets the economy rolling before November than he will have enough resolve to continue with his anti-Israel campaign. Courting Saudi Arabia is his way of keeping gas prices stable. Never mind that a compromised Israel becomes part of the collateral damage. The solution is to work on your own congressional candidate. Get him or her to take an affirmative stand for Israel. Forget the economy as an issue. It will repair itself as it has always. Do not forget your state legislature either. They are the real grass roots people. When Obama sees that state legislatures are united for Israel then he will listen. I am also disappointed with Hillary. She is just another shill of Obama's. She has made complete fools of her Jewish constituency in New York. Doing a 180 on her stance with Israel has destroyed her credibility with me. Again, it is Saudi influence that is at the root of this. Who else is going to pay for Bill's library?
Dear President Obama,
I wholeheartedly share the concerns expressed in the letter of Ronald S Lauder and the straight logic of action that derive from the facts mentioned.
I wish therefore to add my voice to the request to end the feud with Israel and conjoin forces between all Western democracies to face these very real threats to our security and way of life by those who wish to destroy it.
Yours sincerely,
Robert Fried
There is no crisis in US-Israeli relations. If the US really had a problem with Israel's (illegal) settlements in the West Bank they would have stopped funding them. Heck, if the US really was angry with Israel there's no way they'd keep giving them billions of dollars in military aid.
I wouldn't think much of this whole settlement "tension". It's nothing more than a stunt. Just watch how the US votes in the UN.
I applaud Mr. Lauder's courage and eloquence, but it is absolutely necessary that othe Jewish leaders stop thier silence and make their views known to Obama about how unacceptable his appeasement policy and abandonment of Israel is.
It is absolutely astonishing that noone in Obama's inner circle has the courage to explain the disastruous consequences of his appeasement policies if continued; facts and reality don't seem to matter to this administration.. A world gone mad.
Well done Ronald Lauder. We salute you. Obama must be stripped of his power and his position. When naked without the D for Democrats behind his name, he will be what he is: A Muslim out to destroy Israel and to promote his brethren all over the world. It is clear. While we needed to take the words of the leader of the Nazi party at his word (I refuse to pronounce his name), for he meant what he said, and it came to pass with 6 million of our brethren, including my grandparents, aunts and uncles and sixteen of my mother's first cousins wiped out. Words are not idly spoken. Obama in turn means what he says. Why cannot American Jews listen and take it in. He is out to destroy our little land, that was fought and won with blood sweat and tears. He cares not a whit for Jewish history, Jewish national pride, Jewish security. All a sham to promote his inner agenda. It was stated in his books, What are you waiting for Americans. All his posturing, health care, nuclear etc etc, all a sham for his basic driven agenda.
They are expressing alarm NOW?!!! That's like the victims of the holocaust finally realizing what is happening as the gas chamber doors were closing. I'm afraid it is a little late now to be smartening up. Israel better have a couple of Aces up it's sleeve or it's curtains. Hey, the liberal Jews of America gave you this guy. Let's face it, he would have never have made it without the American Media, the NYTimes, Chris Wallce,George Soros et all, and all of them Jews. Didn't Soros make his first money by directing the Nazis to hidden Jews and selling their belongings after they were dragged off? I guess he's got an even bigger play up his sleeves.
Stop beating about the bush and call a spade a spade.
Until the USA understands that the two-state option is dead after 17 long years of trying - then no progress on transforming the lives of Jews and Arabs living in the West Bank as well as the Arab refugees living in Syria and Lebanon will occur.
The only solution that can achieve a reasonable outcome to change their lives is for Jordan and Israel to negotiate the division of sovereignty of the West Bank in face to face negotiations.
The heavily populated Arab areas will become part of an expanded Jordan and the heavily populated Jewish areas will become part of an expanded Israel.
Not one Arab or Jew will have to leave his home or abandon his business.
Aim for the possible not for the stars.
The time for indulgent day dreaming is over. Face up to it and take the hard decision now to end further death, injury and continuing trauma for both Jews and Arabs.
Don't let Jordan and Israel off the hook. Demand they start negotiations without delay. If they refuse - spend your energy and time resolving other world disputes where your efforts will be more appreciated.
Mr Lauder - what about another open letter to the President along these lines?
The Jewish community was lied to by Obama and his supporters throughout the 2008 campaign. Obama is no friend of Israel. So, how will they react? The majority of American Jews will continue to donate to and vote for Obama and the Democrats regardless.
Its amazing that certain religious groups continue to vote for a person because of the letter behind the name instead of looking at what the person stands for. I am speaking specifically to the Jewish and Roman Catholic communities who continue to vote for Democrats. You have been shown over and over that Democrats could care less about your values and religious tenants. Its like watching the mentally and physically abused wife return over and over to her husband until her life is destroyed or she is dead. Wake up and research people, Obama's views were out there before the election and you ignored them so deal with your vote now and stop complaining, you asked for it.
I am very sorry about all of this, but I tried my best to plead to the Jewish friends I have not to vote for this Charlatan. I was treated so rudely, one a rabbi who waved her hand at me like I was too stupid to realize where I was when I told her I was fearful for the security of Israel if this man (one who obviously has no favor for this country, let alone Israel) was to be elected to the Presidency. I wash my hands now. The contempt I was treated with made my blood boil, especially as they laughed at me like I had no idea what I was talking about (there is no way Obama would risk upsetting the Jewish vote, even though I told them he intends on one term and will do as much damage as he can in that one term, they laughed more). Obama was the man they were waiting for. At the least they could have thanked me for my concern, but explain they don't see it that way. I don't talk to two of them anymore. Well, my Jewish friends, I have always had the utmost respect for the nation of Israel, but I guess you all just found out, elections have consequences. I have to work now to try to save this country, don't have time for Israel. Hope that hope and change thing you all lined up to vote for was worth it.
Well said, Mr Lauder. I pray that someone is listening to you- and positive action is taken to continue support of our Jewish homeland.
Sorry to say this folks, but I forsee Mr. Obama Giving acutal Nuclear warheads to Saudi Arabia. You will say, that is ridiculous, won't you? Just think, for one minute what President Obama said at the latest Nuclear Summit: That the likelyhood of nuclear war between nations has decreased, but went up for terrorism. Another way to interpret this is that he trusts nations, in general (except Iran, North Korea), but again, In general he trusts them. I believe the day will come that the SAUDI's will demand to have retaliatory capability against their arch foe (ostensibly); IRAN. And, they will not let the U.S. on their soil anymore, so they will DEMAND that we give them the bomb. And, once the Saudi's have Nukes, Israel is really in trouble. Another potential is for Turkey to want Nukes. Just look for this folks, it is very frightening, indeed. Sorry to say, but I don't think Bush handled things well in the Middle East either, and now we have Neville Chamberlain in office. We are in real trouble!
I have been waiting for American Jewish leadership to find its voice, and with this brilliantly reasoned letter -- and similar eloquent statements by former New York City mayor Ed Koch -- I'm finally beginning to hear that voice at last. Like it or not, Obama is going to be our President until 2012, at least. And until then, he retains significant autonomy over foreign policy even assuming voters have wised up sufficiently by this November to pull both houses of Congress out of his enablers' hands. It is absolutely necessary to make it clear to this President that his vindictiveness toward Israel will have potent and immediate consequences for him: i.e., the loss of Jewish support.
ALL UN RESOLUTIONS pay no attention to the targeted murdering of israeli civilians, men women and children, and repeated rocket and mortar attackes from enemies from every direction. they are a joke.
no group of people has tried so hard to get their own civilians killed in battle as the palestinians do and no group of people has tried harder than israel to keep its enemies civilians safe as israel does. they go house to house searching fot murderers losing soldiers to ambush along the way while the whole time being able to destroy every palestian in existence but deciding not to do so.
if the palestinians could kill every jew or every israeli on earth you think they wouldnt. you think iran wouldnt? just because they dont have panzer tanks and arent blond doesnt mean they are any better that genocidal nazis. they simply dont have the power to do what the nazis did. they would if they could and when asked they say that is their will. taking over the world.
Obama is gonna get you all killed in Israel
and then get a smile on his face........
Acknowledging that we have a Muslim President will answer almost all questions stated and submitted.
Thanks Shimon Cohen! Well said. This is what I meant earlier! Somebody like you who knows history to make a summary of Israel that people will get the real truth. England messed up with Israel and the Jews just because of money and oil in the Middle East. They forsake the Balfour treaty , they put the Jews who just came out of the Nazis camps into their camps to avoid them to come to Israel, they took away our weapons so it would be impossible for us to defend against the Arabs in the years 40. The British are just antisemitics and never care about anybody but themselves. Noe America and his puppet Obama is taking the same direction as Great Britain.
Thank you, Mr. Lauder. It's feasible that the President might even see this, given the importance of WJC and your position in this country.
Putting aside my love of Israel for a moment, doesn't being one of the USA's strongest allies count for anything to Obama? He has absolutely no sense of history whatsoever. The Arab world, no matter which conflict it's been, has always been on the opposite side from us. WWII they allied with Hitler. Cold War, they went with the USSR, and so it will continue. On the other hand, Israel has always been our friend.
And we thought Jimmy Carter was bad news!
Pretty weak request, I must say. "Pretty please, Mr. President". I suggest everyone read Natan Sharansky's "Defending Identity". If there is no Jewish identity then there is no Israel. Please don't capitulate on this! Obama (aka Abu Husein) is no friend of Israel or the Jews.
I applaud your efforts Mr. Lauder, Israel needs all the support it can get. However Israel should never trust Obama or anyone in his employ. What Israel should do is stay its course, be prepared for war and wait, if possible, for Obama to be retired in 2012. This is not a pleasant alternative but it is the least dangerous that I can see.
Mr. Lauder's letter to president Obama regarding his anti-Israel position is timely and necessary. I am grateful to Mr. Lauder for having the courage to confront a US president who has embarked on a most dangerous and thorny path regarding our only viable ally in the Middle East. Appeasing the enemy and alienating one's friends has never succeeded, as history has proved over and over that in the end all one is left with is no friends and plenty of enemies! President Obama has much to learn from world history, however, he appears to display an alarming disregard for it. I am afraid that the much admired Obama's smarts do not translate into wisdom, and the American people will end up paying dearly for it if they do not wake up in time to take appropriate action. Write your congressmen, write your senator, and let them know that you care deeply about how badly the current Israel-US relations are and that you are deeply concerned about the un-charted and dangerous course US is embarking on regarding the peace process in the Middle East.
The countries and peoples that surround Israel should realize that it is the model that they should be emulating. Israel like Singapore achieve so much despite their surrounding environments.
Very good letter, straight to the point. I also agree with JP as a fellow Christian, keep the faith brother :)... Now for my own little two cents. People not only in Israel and the US, but all over this world need to wake up and realize that unfortunatly Islam is not an understanding and peaceful cult (and before you go getting mad at me look up the definition of a cult). They have one agenda and that is to spread Islam around the world no matter what the cost. They are not compassionate or reasonable. Read your history books. The only thing they have changed is that they now use AK-47's instead of swords. And you may say this and that about Christians. While we may not agree with things people do or say or even like other peoples lifestyles or religions. But we arent going to kill you for it.
My letter to the editor of The Columbus Dispatch was published on April 11, 2010
Dear Sirs: Re: Thomas Friedman's article in The Columbus Dispatch dated March 30, 2009, entitled Middle East issues are all connected.
Unfortunately, Mr. Friedman's analyses have become very superficial. One would expect a better understanding of the real reasons for the conflict.
One of the problems is the rampant corruption among the Arab leaders and if the conflict were settled, they might have to account to their own people how the tremendous amount of money generated from oil and other commodities is being squandered without being shared with their people. The 22 members of the Arab League occupy 5.4 million square miles with great natural resources while Israel, barely the size of New Jersey, is only 62 years old in its recent re-creation, has few natural resources and yet is a thriving democracy with high-tech industries dependent on no one for its own welfare. That is why many hard-working Arabs, with few economic opportunities, wish to leave their own countries and come to the U.S. and Western Europe to live and raise their families.
The Arab leaders can't make peace and it has absolutely nothing to do with a few measly square miles that Jews now occupy in Jerusalem or the West Bank. Israel's success and presence remains a constant reminder to the failure of the Arab leaders; that is why they want to destroy Israel. Can you imagine if the roles were reversed and there were 22 Jewish countries and one small Arab country, wanting to be left alone and preserve their own culture what the Jews would say? We all know what that answer would be.
Sincerely, Albert H. Soloway 1209 Clubview Blvd. North Columbus, OH 43235 Telephone No.: (614) 436-0164 e-mail:
Thank you Ron Lauder!!!! It is discouraging that the Obama administration has not shipped weapons to Israel since inauguration. It is also my understanding that they will no longer let scientists from Dimona have visas to come into the USA. Israel is being treated like like a threat instead of a friend. Our country is in peril on so many sides but Israel must be a priority. Obama has no intention of backing her up unless we force him into that position. If we are too timid... Sandi Fuller
Do any of the rocket scientists that call themselves "Palestinian" not realize that the bulk of Jordan is their true homeland? Of course not. Propaganda and misinformation, laziness and the need to excuse their heinous behavior are the prime motivators for their efforts. I wonder to this day why there is not more attention paid to the real perpetrators of chaos in the middle east . . . . Arabs. The problem is that the U.S. decided to make their bed with the Arabs, which is a very serious mistake. Let us not forget that during WW2 the Arabs were the third leg of the axis stool and they neatly slid under the radar during the defeat of the axis forces. I will say what I have always said. Return Mecca and Medina to the desert and their children of hate with them.
Despite the fact that the closet Muslim Obama will not support Israel, America's far left liberal Jews will continue to support him with money and votes in 2012. The reason is that it validates their liberal cred. These Jewish voters have come to believe Israel is the problem in the middle east and if Israel ceased to exist the Arab countries would love us. Once more they are cowards and will fight for no one including this country. If attacked they will run for Canada or even Israel if it still exists.
Thank you very much MR. Lauder. I'm originally from Israel. I think it is about time American Jewry does something to insure Israel's safety. I must add my very urjent question though; why are most Jewish Americans democrats? Do you really believe that they're better for the 'tiny' person? Obama is on his way to 'kill' us with taxes.
People have to understand that Israel is a very tiny country(it is the size of Rhode Island). With that said, Israel tries everything it can do to have peace. The question is, who do you start with? Palestinians, Hamas, Syria, etc? Seriously,there are just to many of them, and cannot be trusted.
Israel gave them Gaza, what happened? They got closer and closer to the main parts of Israel, kidnap soldiers, torture, and kill them. They also notorious for constantly firing misiles towards Israeli schools, hospitals, and populated areas. Everyone with a brain knows that their main goal is, to rid of the one and only Jewish state in the world, the only Jewish homeland.
How is that right in Hussein Obama's opinion? On his campaign tour in Israel he said: "If someone would try and hurt my two daughters, I know I would do everything in my power, to protect them" That's your president who favors Islam. It is so obvious, isn't it? Netanyahu is a great leader. At least he sees Israel's safety first, unlike Hussein Obama. Bibi should give some leadership lessons to Obama, starting with what does it mean to be a leader?
I totally agree with Mr. Lauder's message to the President of OUR United States of America. It is unthinkable that any leader of this nation would have the attitude that has been displayed by our nations leadership for the past 15 months.
Arrogance is not a desired personality trait that leads to progress in solving problems or in making and keeping friends and allies. I know Mr. Lauder is speaking with his heart because if the roles were reversed, we would feel the same way. In fact, during the Cold War years, our nation did feel exactly the same way about Russia's confrontational attitude.
I wonder what our president would think if our Native Americans or the Mexican government started demanding we give up the land that has become the USA when it was first the possession of those people?
We won't win this stalemate with behavior such as we have seen coming out of our current leadership. Nor for that matter the State Department and its officers.
It is time to realize that Israel is a nation which was ratified into existence way before the USA, Britian, France, Russia, etc were ever known. They don't need to fight the world for the right to exist. They already do!
WJM
Well, 78% of the American Jewish community voted for this man. American Jews need to stop their reflexive, mindless voting for Democrats.
So why did so many idiot left wing Jews vote for this muslim? Are they stupid? Do they hate themselves? Are they trying to be the most unJewish they can to continue to feel safe in the USA? Why is Rom Emmanueal and Axelrod and other Sr Jewish advisors so anti Israel? What will they do if Israel gets more right wing in the face of Iranian nucs and Leiberman takes the PM office? I beleive Sarah Palin would nuc Iran first. I beleive Obama would let Israel and the US burn. He made 5.5 million dollars last year. How much did Ehud Olmert make? Kahana Chai!
Wait until the radical Muslims in USA make their proposals. Although I have had great Muslim friends, they are not in charge.
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Obama's secret power grab Obama seems to believe that most of his sweeping agenda to transform the country can be accomplished without even a vote of Congress. (( no to defense )) Obama has a pattern of sidestepping Congress that will only get worse in the aftermath of the health care fight and the pending financial “reform” legislation. For a full explanation of all of these threats as well as action items on how to stop them, please check out the interactive version of the chart on www.ObamaChart.com obama don't see much future for the Americans ... it's a decayed country. And they have their racial problem, and the problem of social inequalities ...obama feelings against Americanism are feelings of hatred and deep repugnance ... everything about the behaviour of American society reveals that it's half Judaised, and the other half negrified. How can one expect a State like that to hold TOGTHER.They include the angry left wing bloggers who spread vicious lies and half-truths about their political adversaries... Those lies are then repeated by the duplicitous left wing media outlets who “discuss” the nonsense on air as if it has merit… The media's justification is apparently “because it's out there”, truth be damned. STOP THIS COMMUNIST OBAMA ,GOD HELP US ALL .THE COMMANDER ((GOD OPEN YOUR EYES)) stop the communist obama & pelosi.((open you eyes)) ,the commander
Sadly, very sadly, it falls to deaf ears. The only way to peace in the middle east is for the Jewish state to keep and proclaim Jerusalem as the Capitol and build the Temple after removing the Moslem filth that sits upon the site.
Being I am a kinsmen of David Ben Gurion, I plead with all the Jews to never forget the fact of the total of the Torah and to begin to ACT like Jews!
You lot sound racist. If you replace Arabs or Palestinians with the word 'Blacks' then you'd see what kind of discrimination you are spewing.
Please stop pulling the anti-semitic card. People from Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, Syria etc. are all semitic. Look it up.
Finally, you are all fundamentally anti-human and have no love for one another.
My humble observations tell me that, while this letter is very well written and very much to the point, it will have no effect on Obama. His arrogance and self appointed messianic aura don't allow other opinions to be of influence. He appears via his (incessant) speeches and photo ops to not be aware of what is going on around him. The most recent case in point: holding a large anti proliferation conference minus the major conspirators.
I could never understand why the US is not mentioned in Biblical prophecy. It's becoming very clear. Israel will have to go it on their own (the Lord may choose to help out, of course). The day the US stops supporting Israel is the beginning of its decline. While our moronic politicians would like to throw Israel under the bus, I'm confident that the vast majority of Christians and Jews here are still in full support.
THE DEMORATS HAVE DID NOTHING BUT DESTOYED U.S.A AND THEY WILL NOT CHANGE ! WE NED TO GET THEM OUT BEFORE /ISREAL AND U.S.A. ARE NOLONGER...
As a Christian I support the Jewish people.I am saden the way Isreal has been treated by U.S.A ! It's not the U.S.A. Citizens who is doing this.it's Washinton/Obama doing this all.Look what he is doing in U.S.A ..HE IS DESTORYING OUR COUNTRY AND WE SEE IT..
God Bless Isreal God Bless U.S.A.
THE PEOPLE itizens stands with Isreal. I say this Isreal as we here in U.S.A. IN FIGHTING TO SAVE OUR COUNTRY ..WE ARE VERY MUCH THINKING OF YOU ALL IN Isreal and praying for you !
We are being striped of everything.We are loseing jobs -homes-business- everything all due to Obama and demorats in U.S.A.
We are millions and millions even the ones now who voted for this fraud now are against him..we are fighting to save our ountry pray for us Isreal pray for the people of U.S.A. AND WE ARE PRAYING FOR YOU ! GOD BLESS
Three out of four American Jewish voters are getting what they asked for. So what's the beef. By their vote, it is clear that most American Jews don't care what happens to Israel. It isn't like he didn't tell you ahead of time--it's all over his books. You just weren't paying attention--or didn't care.
in the words of the immortal john denver: RIGHT ON
Mr. Lauder,
As an American who loves Israel and it's people, I would like to thank you for the letter to Obama. I give thanks for your diplomacy for I would not have been as kind as you. I understand why you were but I think you were too polite. He doesn't care. Obama (I can't bare to call him President) hates Israel and is anti-Semitic to be sure. Many of us believe he is deliberately orchestrating an attempt to destroy Israel. Of course, God will never allow Israel to be destroyed. Please continue to closely monitor this man and his partners in crime regarding Israel, Iran and Russia. I pray every night for Israel as I think we can all see the "writing on the wall". In you next letter to Obama, let him have it! He deserves no respect.
God Bless You and God Bless Israel!
Pamela Etie
Mr. Lauder: you are a brave man. Thanks for speaking for so many of us who are concerned by what's going on with this US administration
All have remained silent TOO LONG! Thank-you Mr. Lauder for finally speaking out! And to all of us who put our faith in a man instead of HaShem... now is the time to speak out. Now is the time for prayer...
In the scriptures.... 1 Samuel 8
This article is totally avoiding the fact that Israel gets more than $3,000,000,000 per year from the USA, no questions asked, no strings attached. They are feeding their population while millions in America go hungry. IF American Jews are so supportive of Israel and its racist, cunning, lying policies then you are more than welcomed to pack your bags and go to Israel. I as American feel great shame that a lot of our politicians are kissing upto the Jews when they are supposed to be Americans first and not be dictated by this stupid letter.
(Opinion #2 above plus the following comment ) This will remain the case or become even worse so long as Obama remains President, Just as Hitler made clear his intentions in "Mein Kampf", so has Obama made it clear in "Dreams of My Father" that when push comes to shove he is on the side of the Muslims. –
My blessings on all the incredibly stupid Jews who voted this momzer (in both the literal & the figurative sense) into office in the first place.
I find three very important issues missing in your very important letter that can bring PEACE to the middle east and the world;1) Committment:the U.S.Congress (100%) and President Harding signed the Balfour Declaration in 1922 making it a moral and legal committment of the USA(Road Map/freeze has not been approved by Congress or signed by any U.S.President);2)Adminstration actions violating the Constitution losing our standing as a democracy:actions against religion vioalte the first clause admendment of the constitution by policy of "Road Map/freeze" where in the Bible "Occupy and settle-Numbers 33-53" as borders and population are religious issues(see U.S. Federal Court on the 10 Commandment Monument as an unconstitutional promotion of religion by government);A Treaty between USA&England in 1924 made "Balfour" supream law of the Land:Article VI of the Constitution making Balfour International Law;3)The Monroe Doctrine of 1823 of non-interference of foreign governments in U.S. affairs which means the USA must no interfere in affairs of foreign governments
As a Christian I support the Jewish people. The reason for this is that the Gospels make it clear that Jesus laid down his life for his love for the Jewish people first, and, not the least, for us Gentiles as well. too. So, like many Christ-centered, Bible-believing Christians I feel a special concern for the welfare of the Jewish people and for the sate of Israel. It is a kind of feeling you have for your relatives abroad. Many people may find that strange but that is the way it is. Let us say that it is not natural, because it is supernatural.
As a citizen of the free world, I support the state of Israel. It is a beacon of democracy in the Middle East, a staunch and reliable ally whose loyalty and friendship the rest of the western world have enjoyed for a long time without fail. I believe that we should face the issues in that part of the world with stern pragmatism, that we are dealing with terrorist regimes that do not recognize UN resolutions recognizing the right of the state of Israel to exist, that actually teaches young children in schools that annahilation of Israel is their objective, that are playing diplomatic and propaganda games with the rest of the decent world. We must let Israel know that we are on their side, and let the other side know that we are aware of their tricks.
Israel and Jews need to understand in no uncertain terms that Palesatians are human beings too! Just like jews were fighting (and terrorised) to establish Israel, so are Palestians fighting for their freedom and their independence and and their own country. Israel should not and must not and cannot dictate the manner in which the Palestians run their affairs. Israel is in volation of all the UN security council resolutions. Israel is in violation of the human rights Israel is violation of the war in Gaza as was mentioned in the recent report. Israel is destroying and controlling the Palestians and lying about the all these in the media.
USA is independent and its foreign policy cannot be dictated by Israel or Jews in America or anybody but the Americans. So the approach this Administration has taken absolutely correct. Be fair and Be Honest. If this is hurting or bothering Israel, so be it.
Mr Lauder, I salute you!
- Israeli citizen
I saw this letter in this morning's Wall Street Journal.
BRAVO!!!!!
A lifelong loyal Democrat, I constantly get emails from the National Jewish Democratic Committee, DCCC and DSCC asking me for donations. I reply that I will not give the Democratic party one dime until it stops sympathizing with the forces of war and again re-establishes US support for Israel.
On most domestic issues I am a fan of President Obama, but his record on Israel is appalling. He our nation's first anti-Israel President and his administration's attacks on Israel are getting increasingly strident and damaging.
It is no coincidence that the first significant Hamas attacks in over a year occurred just days after the Obama administration's verbal attacks on Israel.
Thank you for standing up to the White House, and thank you for standing up for Israel.
Michael Halperin Southborough, MA
I applaud Mr. Lauder's position in his letter to the President. I too am most concerned about the current administration's attitude towards Isreal vs the rest of the middle east. One must wonder what motivates this.
S.B.
We Israelis are ready for deep concessions. We do not see this approach from the other side.
Did President Obama read the following books? They should be compulsory reading for the members of the administration:
1. They must be stopped " by Brigitte Gabriel
2. "Future Jihad" by Walid Phares
3. "Muslim Mafia" by P.David Gaubatz & Paul Sperry
Muhammad Abdullah:
Our God is not the same person as your God. Our God has a son, Jesus Christ, our Savior. Our God does not condone a religion but rather a Way. He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. We believe Him to be same God that the Jewish people worship. The Jewish people are God's Chosen People and the Christian Church belongs to Christ. When the Jews and Gentiles reunite into the one True Vine, the gates of hell shall not prevail against that church, as it is written in our bible. Therefore, Christians do stand with Israel because we recognize that He gave them that land and He will defend it unto the very end. All Israel's enemies will be destroyed by Almighty God.
I believe that the American administration, headed by President Obama, has lost its way. For Obama to believe that by being 'nice' to the leaders of the Arab states, he will persuade them to ---- what? Does he actually think that any of them will listen to him? In reality, all that he has achieved so far is mockery and an increase in intransigence, from Iran to the Palestinians. He can expect more of the same, in increasing doses if he continues his current policy.
It would seem that because of the above, Obama must show the Arab countries that Israel is no longer an ally to be worked with in a positive and helpful way. He caters obsequiously to the Palestinians, to the Saudis and to Iran and also sends missives of thanks to the Afghanis! At the same time, he insults his friends, such as Britain, Poland and the Czech Republic as well as Israel.
Let's hope the man is still open to reason and mends his ways before it is too late for all of us.
Mr. Lauder, well written but unfortunately way too little, too late.
It's obvious that BHO is trying desperately to function well 'above his pay grade'. What we are seeing is an amateur at work who have no idea what he is doing. Consequently, he will bluff and bluster and lash out, but above all, never admit he is wrong about anything. The best we can hope for is that the situation doesn't deteriorate any more than it has already and that American voters will come to their senses in 2010 and 2012.
As for a 'solution' to the Arab-Israeli conflict, the very existence of Israel conflicts with the Muslim narrative of continuous expansion. Islamists will never accept Israel period. All the negotiations in the world will not change that. IMHO, the only hope for a long-lasting solution is the secularization and democratization of the Arab world. Democracies do not fight each other. They negotiate. It is probably also the only hope for the region. Anyone who thinks Arabs are unable to join the modern world, is simply racist. The same goes for Iran, which is now embroiled in a low level civil war between the corrupt mullahs and the people.
This President is getting mileage from throwing Israel under the bus. He does not care about Jewish heritage or history. In Egypt, he spoke of Israel's creation along Arab lines - that the Europeans dumped the Jews left alive after WWII into Arab lands. The President never spoke of the several thousand year connection between the Jews and the Land of Israel. Mr Lauder did not object to the President's speech then; neither did any leader of Israel. The President's view follows his speech. Since he believes that the State of Israel is the European storehouse of the remnant of the Jewish people, what is the difference if they live in Jerusalem or somewhere else? Better to appease the Arabs - he hopes. Israel is going to lose US aid. Our country is headed downhill. Israel, despite all of their challenges is headed up hill. Thank the Almighty that Bib is captive of the pro-Jewish Zionist parties. Don't give in to OBama. He does not care if Israel exists or not.
thank you for making it clearer than clear to the few americans who still didnt realize , that its jews loyal to israel on one side and american citizens on the other. in the words of obama "bring it on" we might not have all voted for obama but well be dammed if jewish interests in our country are going to insult our president and undermine our country on behalf of a third world toilet just because jews feel loyalty to israel/jewish interests is more important than our country .
IN THE NAME OF ALLAH - THE BENEFICENT - THE MERCIFUL:SAY:HE,ALLAH IS ONE.ALLAH IS HE ON WHOM ALL DEPEND.HE BEGETS NOT, NOR IS HE BEGOTTEN.SAND NONE IS LIKE HIM.[QUR'AN:112]-THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD IBN ABDULLAH [PBUH ] SAID:" ISLAM IS DOMINAT.ISLAM IS NOT TO BE DOMINATED." [MUSLIM]." OF ALL OUR STUDIES HISTORY IS BEST QUALIFIED TO REWARD ALL RESEARCH.' [MALCOLM X].ISRAEL WAS CREATED IN 1948 AND THIS IS NOT BY A DIVINE DECREE THIS IS A ZIONIST ACT OF AGRESSION AGAISNT THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE AS ENVISIONED BY THEODORE HERZL AND AND HIS COMRADES.PRE AND POST ISRAELI MASS MURDERS HAVE BEEN COMMITTED BY THE ZIONIST AGAINST THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE AND OTHER ARABS AND AFRICANS IN NORTHEAST AFRICA.HEBREW WAS ADOPTED BY THE EUROPEANS FROM EUROPE AND THEIR LANGUAGE IS YIDDISH WHICH IS GERMAN.THE PEOPLE IN AMERICA MUST BE EDUCATED TO ZIONISM AND THEN WE WILL SEE HOW POLITICIANS REACT BECAUSE TO OPPOSE ZIONIST AND ZIONISM IS POLITICAL SUICIDE IN AMERICA AND EVERY POLITICIAN KNOWS IT." THE TRUTH HAS ARRIVED AND FALSEHOOD PERISHED.FALSEHOOD BY IT'S NATURE IS BOUBND TO PERISH." PRESIDENT OBAMA IS NOT OPPOSING ISRAEL LIKE HE SHOULD.AIPAC CONTROLS HIS POLICIES AS WELL."JUSTICE DELAYED IS JUSTICE DENIED." [ DR.MARTIN LUJTER KING,JR.].WE NON EUROPEANS CANNOT BE ANTI SEMITIC BECAUSE WE ARE SEMITIC AND HAMITIC.THANK YOU.dawah_ma_90221@yahoo.com-TAIF'TUL'ISLAM-P.O.BOX 338-COMPTON,CA.90223
The fundamental problem is that Obama and the Democratic Party believe they can take both the financial and electoral support of Jews for granted. Nothing will change unless we make them see that they cannot .
American foreign policy will not change until Obama is voted out of office. He has not only failed in foreign policy but is moving the United States of America toward fiscal insolvency through his reckless socialist economic agenda.
I applaud your efforts-thank you for standing up for Israel. The Obama administration has been freightening to those who stand for a democratic & safe middle east.
And yet this article fails to address the fact the the world does not recognize Isreal's right to annex all of the lands gained in that 1967 war. Here is a summary of how Israel was created.
In November 1947, the United Nations voted in favor of the partition of Palestine, proposing the creation of a Jewish state, an Arab state, and a UN-administered Jerusalem. Partition was accepted by Zionist leaders but rejected by Arab leaders, leading to civil war. Israel declared independence on 14 May 1948 and neighboring Arab states attacked the next day. Since then, Israel has fought a series of wars with neighboring Arab states, and in consequence occupies territories, including the West Bank.
To now claim that continuing to build in these occupied areas is an unalienable right for Israel is absurd, and yes, it does significantly contribute to the lack of a lasting peace in the area.
President Obama is gradually developing his anti-semitic agenda. I am British and not American, so I can criticise him freely, without being attacked as un-patriotic. General Petraus has clarified that there is no linkage between the Palestinain conflict and US casualties. There are however, other casualties - which are due to American conflicts. British soldiers, as well as many other allies, have been fighting along side US in the Iraq and Afgan wars. They also fought in the first Iraq war. British troops have been killed by american "friendly fire", as well as enemy fire. On the other hand, Israel has supplied protective kits to US vehicles, saving the lvies of many US soldiers - whcih unfortuantely the British have not been quick to adopt. Is Obama following an Islamisation agenda? It seems that way.
I love the letter ronald lauder wrote to obama,but myself do not trust the actual president as I believe that he intends to pacify the arabs at the depend of our beloved israel. The only solution i see is to bring all the jews to fight obama with his nasty intentions.I voted for obama but no more as i believe he is teaming against us with our enemies,no more begging, fighting is the only way.
You Jews never learn! It is what it is, Barack Obama is a Muslim and not sympathetic to Israel in the least. What more do you need? Is this Nazi Germany all over again, when you can't believe it's really happening so you march of to the gas chambers? Wake up people!!! Wake up!!! Obama knows you will vote for a Muslim who loathes you only because of the D in front of his name. His actions could not be more obvious, but yet you support him. You people are defective.
Kudos to Ronald Lauder. It's about time someone called a spade a spade. We should not harbor any illusions about this administration's intentions. All the lovey-dovey rhetoric notwithstanding, Obama intends upon dismantling Israel to appease the Arab world. If past actions are any indication, it will literally require an act of God to change the president's stance. God help us and God help Israel.
Thank you Mr. Lauder! I applaud your courageous, well stated and inspiring letter. You have made a remarkable step by breaking the silence and taking action against inaction. I thank you most sincerely.
Gornisht Helfen
Spot on, a great letter, very forthright in stating the true facts as they are! I will be greatly interested in the answers to your questions from President Obama!
Thank you Mr. Lauder for writing this letter. All Jews, no matter who they voted for must come to the realization that President Obama is NOT a friend of Israel and is doing his best to lead a course to its destruction. We are running out of time....
President Obama has single handedly brought relations between the US and Israel to alarming new lows. While previous US adminstrations have favored Israeli land concessions for "peace," aka: two-state 'solution,' Obama has made himself uniquely anti-Israel in several respects: * MADE AN OVERT EFFORT TO REACH OUT TO THE MUSLIM WORLD WITH HIS SPEECH IN CAIRO. No previous president has done this. * TOLD ISRAEL NOT TO STRIKE IRAN. No previous president has done this. * SUPPORTS A DIVIDED JERUSALEM No previous president has done this. * STOPPED A SHIPHMENT OF BOMBS DESTINED FOR ISRAEL No previous president has done this. * THREATENED TO ABANDON LONG STANDING US POLICY OF VETOING ANTI-ISRAEL RESOLUTION IN THE UN No previous president has done this. * PREVENTING ISRAELI NUCLEAR SCIENTISTS FROM ROUTINE TRAVEL TO US No previous president has done this. * AT ONE POINT HE THREATEND TO LINK US PRESSURE ON IRAN WITH ISRAEL'S WILLINGNESS TO MAKE TERRITORIAL CONCESSIONS WITH THE ARABS. No previous president has done this. * HIS TREATMENT OF ISRAELI PM NETANYAHU HAS BEEN ABHORRENT. No previous president has done this. * CONGRESS IS SO ALARMED THAT TWO SEPARATE LETTERS, ONE FROM THE HOUSE AND ANOTHER FROM THE SENATE, SIGNED BY 75% OF MEMBERS OF BOTH, WERE SENT TO OBAMA TELLING HIM TO TREAT ISRAEL BETTER. No previous president has gotten such letters.
Bottom Line: President Obama is the most anti-Israel president in history.
Don't focus on what a united state president disliking for Jews! remember the man was rared in a muslin space as a child and has those views to this day he is their inside man: Israel must learn to rely on Jesus remember you are his people: do what he ask of you remember who will be there to save Israel rear when all the world is in front of her with their armies and guess who crack the sky on white horses to the rescue the church lead by none other than Jesus himself: so trust me the outlook of the first black US president should not be your concern; your concern should be what does Chirst disire of us as a nation ....as for the right to exist ... well Isreal is no better with respect to Jesus right to exist as your nation's Lord and King [read the Bible]...which he is but you all don't acknowledge his right to exist in that class.. you all are headed for the third world war and the nation must get ready: Praise Jesus always he will save you in that time: not obama
excellent letter obama is a very dangerous man
I pray that this letter to the Obama Administration brings about the necessary changes to renew positive relationships between US and Israel. I voted for Obama in the last election, when he promised that he was supportive of Israel. I won't vote for him again if he continues deligitimizing Israel.
The letter is well written. Standing ovation for president Lauder.- Whoever is wise to understand the problems in the ME, knows Israel is the only, and most responsable allied for the USA. Iran's nuclear proyect runs along while Mr. Obama focus on the palestinian's claim. - May the Lord uncover Obama's intentions and may the Lord all mighty bless the state of Israel, and Jerusalem for ever.
These are well-asked and well-thought-out questions. If anyone in the U.S. gov't. took time to read the scriptures related to those who turn their back on Israel or go against Israel, they might be sober regarding that issue. The other side of the "coin" is a blessing. Which would be the best choice????
The Blood of the 6 million Jewish martyrs was the atonement for the re-start of Israel. Jews do not even own the Land, only Hashem, Who gave it to the Jews. Jerusalem is in the first place the Throne of G-d, from where hamashiach will reign according to our most holy Torah, which will serve as international law!! How unsurpassably arrogant to challenge the Almighty. Baruch Hashem. Do not wonder about nature's caprices and disasters. G-d is very, very angry. May He have mercy on the U.S. 's president and its citizens. Thank G-d for the thousands who do wholeheartedly and sacrificially support that tiny threatened state in a sea of hatred. AN YISAREL CHAI!!
Thank You Ronald Lauder for expressing the views of the Jewish community. We need strong leaders like you to express our concerns.
Finally, a public outcry from a respected source. Israel needs and deserves more demonstrations of strong public disapproval of the Obama Administration's abominable behavior.
I see many letters asking how they can help Israel. It is very simple stop voting for the far eft leaning liberal democrats.
Israel Forever!
Israel has just realized that we have a marxist, Palestinian leaning president. He has cooled the relationships with our long standing allies and instead embraced dictators, and condesended to countries that would like to see the U.S. and Israel fail. Obama feels that if he is nice to our enemies they will in turn be nice to us. Mr. President please read a history book about Neville Chamberlain. I cannont fathom why any Jew in the U.S. would ever vote for a deomcratic party that puts the terrorist states on equal footing with our good friend Israel.
Thank you Mr Lauder, well done. Perhaps you should concider a letter to fellow Jews in America who fail to see the truth.
Thank you, Mr. Lauder, for expressing these feelings so strongly and eloquently to the President. As Norman Podhoretz said in an interview on PBS, Jewish Americans who voted for Mr. Obama are now experiencing buyer's remorse. Nowhere do I feel that more strongly than in Obama's anti-Israel actions. Actions, which are proving time and again, to speak far louder than any words of pseudo reassurance this administrations profers in support of Israel.
This is really a good letter but was it send to Obama personally? Could the author wrote a bit more about all the concessions Israel made with examples that evry time the Palestinians did not respect like bombing Israel every day after having given Gaza back? Could someone write a good resume of Israels history? Because when the first Jews arrived they did not stole the land they bought it from the Arabs living there and they were willing to sell their land. They let the Jews settle in "so called Palestine". The Arabs in the beginning were not against the Jews but because of the British playing a double game things got worse plus the Mufti of Jerusalem being friend of Hitler that also made things worse. Could someone write something that we could distribute to people to acknowledge them. Something not to complicated that evrybody can read like the Youth in Highschool. people are note aware about the real history and this is why they are misguided by the medias. As Jews we should have documentations that we can distribute around us. Thanks to take my idea in consideration. Sorry for my English, I am Dutch and French.
I think the letter is very since, but Obama will not listen. Because of Obama's Muslim roots, his hatred for Israel will keep showing up in his policies.
Mr. Lauder, I applaud what you have written in your letter to President Obama.
Mr. Obama is not a friend of Israel or the Jewish people. He has made that abundantly clear by his actions during his presidency.
I am not only afraid for Israel , but also afraid for the United States. We are headed in the wrong direction on every front due to the ineptness, indecisiveness and inexperience of President Obama.
I hope and pray that the American people realize what is happening and vote him out of office in the next election.
I hope that the WJC will continue to lobby for Israel and correct the current situation.
I think some Israelis (and apparently the President of the WJC) have the dynamics of this relationship backwards. The US spends significant sums - both money and blood and political/diplomatic capital - in the Middle East and on Middle East issues.
It is the responsiblity of any US administration to defend those interests first and foremost. Should a viable, secure Israel be a priority for the US? Yes, but only in so far as it advances our national interests. The moment any government acts in a way that undermines said interests it is the obligation of the US administration to call them out on it - full stop.
It's insulting and a little disconcerting to watch an foreign prime minister visit the US and lobby members of congress against a US administration's polcy. No other nation is afforded such a privilege.
Mr.Lauder, you say Israel supports the Two States solution, however, the ruling Likud's party's charter states just the opposite. Have you not read it? Why not also write a letter to P/M Netanyahu to ask him the status of the current Likud charter. The word Likud means to consolidate land, not swap land for peace!
Thank you Ronnie Lauder for calling a spade a spade. Perhaps it's time to ask Americans where they stand on the Israel issue. Latest polls indicate a very significant pro Israel majority. If so, they need to let their President know that they are not supportive of his Israeli stance. Every new US administration seeks to push Israel into a corner by demanding concessions from Israel for peace with the Arab world. The Arab world has not moved from their position for 62 years. Perhaps the State Department needs to reconsider their anti-Israel bias and pressure the Palestinians. It's easy, cut off their billions of aid that leaves them comfortable, corrupt and not in need of peace.
No such thing as TWO Jerusalems or a NEW Jerusalem or EAST & WEST Jerusalem or a Christian or Muslim Jerusalem - but there is unceasing agendas to rob Jerusalem. Even the Holy One cannot change Jerusalem's status - based on the Holy One representing truth and ONE WHO DOES NOT TAKE HIS OWN WORD IN VAIN.
But this is not what the Holy One is saying or doing. Just like one who screams Allah is great does not mean the one slitting a child's throat while screaming is also great; so also any Christian claiming belief as their right to negate the Jewish Capital will not stand - this falsehood will not set anyone free.
When we zoom out of the scenario, we see that two of the world's biggest religions are emersed in a battle based on coveting, robbery, mass murder, denial & falsehoods - both fronting up with their beliefs - both beliefs being in abject contradiction of themselves - and of history and factual historical truth. They must have a very difficult time when alone by themselves - they know their doings by Israel is wrong. Yet they have no place to turn to - Jerusalem has become a burden unto them, via Israel and their Jewish Problem - by their own deeds.
The problem for the Jews is - they have again become the 'Jewish Problem' for the world - while also the only light unto the nations drowning in their own chaos. Belief must not be assumed as the exclusive property of any religion; belief is a generic, inherent trait in all life and predating all religions - it is also the easiest factor to exploit. One can believe in pink elephants, and this is their right - but it is not their right to use that belief as a means of robbery and the negation of another's rights. Check with the Judiciary laws if in doubt - the guilty verdict comes on earth and in heaven. Guilty down here - guilty up there.
Religious doctrines, when it becomes a compulsion - is also a test, to see how one acts and behaves. Thus was Abraham tested when he refrained from being obediant before an evil command, striving instead to save even one innocent person in Sodom. Abraham said to the Holy One: THIS EVIL BE FAR AWAY FROM YOU. And Abraham passed his test and was blessed. Why are Christians and Muslims doing the reverse - chanting why should muslims pay for christian crimes - when both were equally hand in glove with the Nazis?
Christians and Muslims are also being tested, and make no mistake - their test is just as difficult as the one presented to Abraham. It appears while Jews have proven to the world numerously they can survive loss of nation, Capital and holocausts - it appears the two King Kongs are desperate for a new golf course on soccer sized Israel. All their lands and substance have become superfluous. Think about it from a big picture view - that is how it is seen from up there?
The Hebrew bible has never been wrong. Note the word 'ALL' here:
"I SHALL PROVE ALL YOUR ACCUSATIONS AGAINST THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TO BE FALSE"
Dear Mr. Lauder, thank you for standing up to this administration. BUT, let's not forget that President Obama had an anti-Semitic reverent for twenty years. He could have gone to someone else, but he CHOSE the anti-Semitic one. I don’t believe he REALY cares if Israel is isolated or in danger by Iran.
I think President Obama is all wrong.He grew up under Muslem teaching,that preacher from the church he attended is something else,Only God knows what,he has been a source of embaressement to us,the citizens of the United States of America,bowing to leaders of countries tthat are our enemies,refuging to meet with the President of Isrel.There is no excuse for such rude behaviour from him that represents our country.Thankfull,We, the people do not feel the way he does.I read my Bible and know God will not allow such things to be done to his chosen people.He says He will bless them that bless them,but will curse them that curse them.LOOK OUT UNITED STATES,GOD TAKES CARE OF HIS OWN!!He sees and hears what all is going on. We better get on our knees and seek God's help in these matters. Linda Forshey
This letter is a good step in letting Obama know that he is on a wrong trek. We have to be though more direct in pointing out to him that he is losing his Jewish voters, and the fact remains, that majority of the American Jews were his supporters. I hope they understand now how things really stand. Sooner or later, the anti-Israeli position in international politics translates into Antisemitism in national political climate. All historical lessons teach us this, and, if we are to have future Jewish life in this country, we can not afford to be so blind.
I applaud Mr. Lauder. His letter was to the point and very eloquent. I only hope that this adminstration will listen to its people.
Dear Sir:
As I read the letter from Ronald Lauder, I wanted with all my heart to reach out to him and thank him for standing his ground with our current administration. I personally choose to support Israel on all accounts and come alongside Mr. Lauder in his quest and response. Myself, and many others are very concerned about what is taking place here in the United States regarding our once solid stand we had with Israel. Should this adminsitration continue down this path, we as a nation will realize the consiquences of their action. Please know that there are an incredible number of Americans who choose, with all their hearts, to bless and to bring blessing to Israel. I praise Adonai for the strength and solid stand Israels Prime Minister maintains regardless of the demands of the United States; and I praise Adonai for the stand and words of truth from Ronald Lauder. May Israel be covered by His hand and His protection both now and through what ever days are before us. The finest of American Presidents spoke these words: "We, even we here, hold the power and bear the responsibility." Let us as a nation and as a people, stand with the power and responsibility that we were blessed with and choose this day, whom we will serve. Blessings to you sir, and blessings and strength to all of Israel.
As an American I am very ashamed of our current administration and its obvious efforts to negate the wonderful relationship that we have had with Israel. I am a Christian and I read in the Old Testament that The Lord will bless those that bless Israel and curse those who curse Israel. I also read in the New Testament that Jesus warned Christians that the Jew was the pure Olive branch and that the gentiles could only be grafted in through faith. He also charged us with standing with the Jew and this is why I believe that America has been blessed of God. I fear that if relations break down between Israel and the United States that the protection of God will leave this country. Simply put, where are the Hitittes? where are the Jebuzites, where are all of the past enemies of Israel? The mere fact that the Jews are still in existence is living proof that there is a God. It is prophesied that He will return you to your land. Have faith in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. He alone is your provider. He alone is your protector. I fear for my country but have no fear, He will protect Israel. He has brought you back to your land and He will do as He has said. My love and prayers are with you.
Dear Mr. Lauder - thank you for writing this letter to your president. As an Israeli citizen, who have served in the army, studied, and now live and work in Israel, the support of our Jewish brothers in the world and the US is EXTREMELY important!
Please keep saying loud what you think, and help us to bring our concerns and thoughts to the current administration.
It is comonly believed in Israel, that we are facing a tremendous deterioration in our bilateral relations with the US - because of this administration's new approach toward the Muslims.
Please keep doing what you do for the Jewish people and the state of Israel.
Thank you and all our Jewish brothers in the US - who support us here in Israel!
Dear Mr.President Barak H.Obama, as a German native Christian, living only 20 miles away from the filigran bridge you passed from Kehl to Strasbourg on the occasion of the NATO birthday remembrance in April 2009 I want to join and underline the petition of Rabbi Ronald S.Lauder and even focus your intention on the holy scripture that the people of Israel has revealed to the humanity: The G_D of Israel is the creator of the universe and takes care for Israel. If you struggle against G_D in hitting the State of Israel, you will hit the pupil of your own eye. That means, you, as the legitime ruler of the USA will destroy the prosperity of the USA. This ist written in the prophet Zekharyahu 2:8-9: "For this is what the LORD Almighty says: "After he has honored me and has sent me against the nations that have plundered you—for whoever touches you touches the apple of his eye- I will surely raise my hand against them so that their slaves will plunder them. Then you will know that the LORD Almighty has sent me. "(NIV) and G_D explains even more: "I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves." (Zecharyahu 12:2). Please don't follow the way of the Islam by offending and trying to deteriorate the state of Israel but the way of the biblical Shalom! Then you and the nation of the USA will be blessed by G_D the Almighty.Thanks.
I am a Jewish person, both sides of the family, and believe the Messiah has come in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. My disciplin is in the Tenach, and entire Bible, and have spent the last 30 years of my life, raising support for the Nation of Israel, by teaching the Jewish scriptures in places of higher learning, and in churches: as to G-Ds unequivical future plans for the Nation. I will be teaching evangelical Christians over there next month, and firmly stand with Israel, would fight for Israel if I was younger. You may post this wherever you want: there are tens of thousands of us, and the Whitehouse should be advised of the history of thoses nations who have turned there backs on G-Ds people. Blessings, Gary Morris
Dear Mt. Lauder, Thank you for standing up to tHE wickedness of this administrtion. There is no other way of putting it. This poll is reaching disenfranchised and Israel bashers. What can we do here in grass roots Brooklyn. The situation in this country is certainly changed and must be stopped. THE PARTY OF CHANGE MUST BE HALTED IN ITS TRACKS. MORE POWER TO YOU Mr. LAUDER Kol Hakavod lecha. Thank you thank you thank you!!!! a GOD FEARING ORTHODOX PROUD JEWISH AMERICAN. ANNE CAHNA zAGORSKI
Liberal Jews still have their heads in the sand. American Conservatives tried to say that Obama is too pro-Arab to care about Israel but liberals always write off conservatives as being "crazy."
The vast majority of American Jews wanted anti-war, pro-Arab Obama, and now you have him. Have fun.
Be prepared, Israel, to "Cry 'havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war."
Applause.
Well said Mr. Lauder. You are to be commended for taking a firm position publicly in the commercial press and for pushing back on the Administration's miss-guided strategy in the Mid-East.
Your support depended on the active pursuit of peace. Stop it then you lose that support. This isn't 1967. What a bunch of liars you are becoming. One day the Palestinians will demand the vote in the Israeli elections. Your members laugh, snicker and sneer. What's the use?
Revelation 21:1 "And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea." Revelation 21:2 "And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven. . ." Can someone tell me: If heaven and earth are to pass away and a new Jerusalem is to come down from heaven, why is there fighting over the present-day Holy Land?
"History is clear on the matter: appeasement does not work. It can achieve the opposite of what is intended"
This is what US was doing for the past 3-4 decades, Appeasement of Israel and the second line above says the rest.
Yes, it is true that President Obama is asking more of the Jews than he is asking of the Palestinians. He is asking the Jews to be the grown-ups, not to lower ourselves to the level of those who would destroy us. And yes, it seems so unfair. But who said life is fair? It does no good to whine, as Lauder does, "it is the Palestinians, not Israel, who refuse to negotiate." What kind of attitude is that to take? Yes it is us, the Jews, who must lead the world to a better way, as we have for over 4,000 years. We must take responsibility for solving the problem, and never give up. The greatest minds among the Jews would never have given up on the possibility of peace, never give up on finding a new way. That is not who we are. If it were, our people would have disappeared long ago. Yes, the easy way, the tempting way, is just to blame the Palestinians for the situation, and to throw our hands in the air, to say, "You see, it is impossible." But Obama is asking the Jews to be the grown-ups, to show the world what is possible. It is not a burden. Instead it is an honor the President is asking of us. Because if not us, then who? Is this not what it means to be the chosen people?
Zec 12:2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling to all the peoples all around, and it shall also be against Judah in the siege against Jerusalem. Zec 12:3 And in that day I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all peoples. All who lift it shall be slashed, and all the nations of the earth will be gathered against it. Zec 12:4 In that day, says Jehovah, I will strike every horse with terror, and his rider with madness. And I will open My eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness. Zec 12:5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The people of Jerusalem shall be my strength in Jehovah of Hosts their God. Zec 12:6 In that day I will make the governors of Judah like a hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire among cut grain. And they shall devour all the peoples all around, on the right hand and on the left hand. And Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her place, in Jerusalem. Zec 12:7 Jehovah also shall save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the people of Jerusalem may not be magnified above Judah. Zec 12:8 In that day Jehovah shall defend around the people of Jerusalem. And it will be, he who is feeble among them at that day shall be like David; and the house of David shall be like God, like the Angel of Jehovah before them. Zec 12:9 And it shall be in that day I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
This letter is just too weak. It also reinforces the misconception that the Israeli-Arab conflict is part of the cause for general hatred of American democracy - democracy itself - by Muslim politicians and clerics. Muslim clerics and politicians don't hate the US for its past support of Israel; they hate democracy as it threatens their grip on power and control of the masses. The sad fact is that there is not a single Muslim country where the citizenry enjoys democracy. One could argue that the Turks have a semblance of democracy; however, a closer examination will reveal the opposite.
Nearly all Muslim countries deny civil rights, deny womens' rights, deny childrens' rights, deny freedom of religion and expression and are ruled by fear and intimidation.
Yes, America and Israel are threats to these regimes of repression. Israel happens to be closer from a geographic standpoint and, with its democracy, it is a more immediate threat to the privileged classes - the clerics and politicians of the Muslim countries. That's the core of the problem. Let's admit it and let's not skirt the core issues.
Insofar as Mr. Obama is concerned, he is more like the Chamberlain of England prior to WWII than any politician since then. He can bow to the Saudi king and appease the dictator of Persia and he can be the first American president to put the US at a disadvantage. The Jewish community, along with Americans who believe in the value of freedoms and democracy should take advantage of these freedom and the democracy while it still exists to correct the error made in 2008 and to make Mr. Obama a one-term president before it is too late.
Sadly, this 30 year Bush Sr. White House (under the Vatican) is now showing its true colors with this president. Please search: Bush Nazi Family Connections to learn the worst. Shalom to all who love Israel and the Jewish people! Yahweh does!
RESTORE THE BAFOUR & RECONSIDER THE REGIMES CREATED BY BRITON:
"IT WILL BE A HISTORIC COMPROMISE TO GRANT 2-STATES IN PALESTINE - ONE FOR THE JEWS AND ONE FOR THE ARABS" - Churchill.
That was and remains an illegal deed, perpetrated under extreme duress when the Jews were totally helpless following W.W.11. The Islamic Regime states created by Briton have no historical legitimacy, disregarded a host of peoples who predate both Islam and the Arab race in this region, were created in secret and without the nations voting [as with Israel] - via corrupt deals and for 30 barrels of oil.
Nor is the premise of carving off 80% from a tiny landmass allocated for the Jews a *COMPROMISE*.
Those who now call a Death-to-Israel 3-State as a 2-State must be deemed as criminals justifying genocide of Jews all over again. Christianity and Islam do not need a new golf course on soccer sized Israel by the invention of neo Pretend palestineans and terms such as apartheid, genocide, occupation, etc, etc. They are shaming God fearing Christians and Muslims every day and the cause of all of today's mayhem globally - because the truth does not set you free.
I fully share Mr. Lauder's concerns. There are times when plain talk should push aside the "contructive ambiguities" dear to diplomats and most unhelpful for the past 17 years.
President Obama, his foreign affairs advisors and the State Department should also be made aware of the legal rights of Israel which have been enshrined in international law since they were codified at the San Remo Conference on April 25, 1920. The United States recognized those rights in 1924 in a separate treaty, which is part of U.S. law.
Coincidentally, on April 24-25, 2010, the 90th anniversary of the San Remo Conference will be commemorated in Sanremo, Italy. This is a day to remember. (please see www.ec4i.org for further details).
Thank you for writing this letter to President Obama. I, too, am very concerned about this administration's apparent disregard for the past relationship the US has had with Israel and it's appeasement of muslim countries. I fear the future of our country if we turn our backs on Israel. I truly believe the LORD God will take care of Israel. I love Israel and pray for her peace. Sincerely, Jamie Howen
Until recently those of us who were saying that President Obama is not a friend of Israel were ridiculed and laughed at. See how sweet he talks about Israel? See how he swears that Israel is America s best friend? See how many Jewish members of congress are behind him? See how many rabbis are praising him? See how many Jewish votes he gets?
Yes, I see,I saw. I am amazed, perplexed and disgusted at the same time. My question to my brothers is very simple are you crazed, blind, deaf or is self-preservation that deeply rooted in you? I do not see any other explanations of why you would love, adore, cherish and praise Obama after what he is doing to us and to our nation. Yes, we are Americans first, but Israel is where our roots are, where our religion started, where legends were born, where for thousands of years our dreams lived.
Next year in Jerusalem was what our grandfathers were saying to bear the unbearable life they lived. How will you feel after *Ahmadinejad** *nukes Israel while America is looking the other way? The Obama White House will of course strongly condemn this terrible and barbaric deed while thinking that now their relations with the Muslim world will not be spoiled by this insignificant country called Israel. This is obviously insignificant for Obama, but very significant for me. My Parents "rest in piece" there, my sister's family lives there,my friends. And it is significant for millions of Christians, who are much more vocal in defending Israel than most of us, Jews. Maybe all the brave Jews have left America? Maybe only the weak and the cowardly remain?
Will you, my Jewish brothers, feel guilty even for a second if Israel disappears from the map? If it will be overrun by Muslims, the blood of killed Jews will be on our hands as well.
What will you say to yourself to excuse your silence? For how long will you be in sorrow? Until the next appearance of your new God Obama? Or it is Marx? Lenin? Mao? Who is it this time? David Axelrod? Rahm Emanuel?
Let me repeat to you what you yourself know very well. Israel was created in 1949 by the United Nations because six million Jews were killed by Germans > and German sympathizers. The world for a brief moment felt guilty and decided to create a home for the Jewish people. Starting from its formation in 1949 Israel has fought for its existence against all its neighbors with population of about hundred times larger than Israel. Those nations have resources that are about a thousand times richer than Israel, except for one small insignificant thing called gray cells. Here Israelis finally having an advantage over their enemies. Jews are by far best researchers in the world, best chess players in the world, best mathematicians, physicians, electronic experts, and as a matter of fact are great doctors, musicians, legal experts and to their own surprise superb military strategists.
Israel has never initiated any wars with its neighbors. Israel however is constantly attacked and provoked by each and every one of its neighbors and other anti-Semitic countries of the region and outside. Can you imagine that in your city or hometown on average there are two or three rockets and bombs a day going off and killing your children? How you would react? Would you be demanding from your government and generals to stop this every day massacre? Would you be calm and live happy life in between explosions?
Israel signed dozens of treaties, each and every time the other side breached every agreement that was ever signed. Israel wants peace. It wants to raise their kids, swim in warm waters of the Mediterranean, worship their God and create new electronic gadgets and cures for thousands of illnesses.
The neighboring countries want to erase Israel and its population from the face of the earth. They said it thousands of times and repeat at every festive occasion.
Israel is the size of Los Angeles County. Its neighbors proved several times that when they occupy hills at the Israeli border, every car and train that goes between Haifa, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem is a subject of an artillery or rocket attack. It is impossible to live in Israel if the heights on the borders are in the hands of Arabs.
Millions of Muslims live in Israel; they vote, they are members of the parliament, practice their religion and travel abroad. They even give speeches about how terrible their life is under Israeli occupation. No one yet was punished for those speeches they constantly repeat on Israeli television. Muslims are lawyers, physicians, teachers and business people who have in Israel equal right with Jews. Go to Israel and see for yourself. No Jew however can peacefully live on a territory of any neighboring Muslim country.
Such a Jew will be killed, tortured, his family will be raped and crucified and their home destroyed. It was done thousands upon thousands of times. No proof needed any more. There are no Jews in Lebanon, Syria or Jordan. They all left or were killed.
There is a territory now called Palestine. It was once part of Jordan, but after several attacks by Arabs on neighboring Israeli villages, the territory was taken by Israelis and now is under Israeli control.
Israel agreed to return most of it back to Arabs, but it will never return the hills on the borders to Arabs. It would be suicidal. Israel will not build a wall dividing its capitol in two parts. It is the capitol of their state.
Can you imagine your sworn enemy occupying half of Washington DC, and teaching their children that for every American killed they will be awarded (72 ) seventy two virgins and 300 young boys by the mighty God? Israel will not stop breathing, producing, creating, living. Israel will never give up its right to be a nation under God, equal with other nations, with the same rights that other nations have.
Obama demands that Israel stop building homes on its own territories, in its own capitol and within its own Jewish neighborhoods. Even Arab leaders never asked Israel to stop building housing in Jerusalem. Palestinians have never ever demanded as a pre-condition to any negotiations to stop construction in Israeli neighborhoods. The first one to demand construction of housing in Jerusalem to stop was the mighty President of the United States of America Barack Hussein Obama.
Now Palestinian leaders, in order not to look less demanding than American president, insist on freezing construction in Jerusalem. Jews can't stop building homes for their own citizens. Palestinians can't now drop this demand. This ends any possible peace accord or even negotiations. That is not a simple flop in Obama s foreign policy. It is a manmade disaster. And we know which man has created it. When Obama did a similarly unwise move for the first time, we all thought that he did it because of his inexperience in International affairs. When a person whom everyone calls smart does it for the second time, we understand that it is done intentionally. There are a couple of possible explanations of what those intentions can be. All of the possible explanations are ugly. I however am not discussing Obama or his policies. I am talking to you, Jews for Obama. We are demanding that moderate Muslims condemn terrible acts of their fanatical brethren. Isn t it about time you come out of your closets and condemn actions of your wonderful progressive president who is destroying our best ally, the only democracy in the middle east, a country populated by children and grandchildren of those who was burned in Hitler's crematoriums and by those who were silent, who looked the other way when Hitler was killing six million Jews? There are exactly six million Jews in Israel now.
Where are you, why you are not all over this new Holocaust? Iran has promised to nuke Israel out of existence the moment they are able to. They will be able to very soon.
Obama will not stop Iran and will not help Israel to prevent it from happening.
It was you who said Never again! You keep saying that every Passover.
It is about to happen again and now with your help.
Raise your voices! Get out of hiding! Say no to Obama. Say, Mr. President, you will lose our votes and our support. You will lose us if you will sell Israel for Arab's oil, or for whatever it is you want them to give you in exchange. If you think that when you will sell Israel, the Arabs will become our friends, think again.
Maybe they will be your friends Mr. President, but not America s friends.
America is the Great Satan they are fighting with. You will sell our friends and bombs will come to our doorsteps.
Popularity of Obama in Israel dropped from (70% )seventy percent year ago to (7%)seven per cent twelve months after the inauguration.
Jerusalem Post wrote that it falling deeper and deeper and now is about ( 4%)four percent. Tell your brothers,sisters who live in Israel, tell all your relatives and friends, to all Israelis that you never raised your voice because of political correctness, (pure socialist brainwash) .
Tell them that their lives are not that important for you to speak up. Or do not say anything at all. ........... Go to your bedroom and put your head under a pillow. And feel sorry for yourself! May G-d have a mercy on you....
you liberal American so called Jews voted for a radical socialist a Muslim Obama!!! you are guilty ,YOU.You will not have a place in heaven,you are traitors !!!!Nothing gonna change that. Hell with you...
Congratulations to Mr. Ron Lauder. Very good and polite words, Israel deserve respect. Keep on the good job for the Jewish Congress.
excellent letter ,Mr Lauder must be commended for expressing what we feel all over the world , South Africa included.
I am not a Jew but I am an American that supports Israel. Good luck and may you someday have peace.
Finally, a leader in the Jewish community is speaking out boldly about collision course we are on. Thank you Mr. Lauder.
Every day the situation for Jews in Israel, in America and around the world is becoming increasingly perilous. The Jewish community needs to wake up and speak out. They need to look around and see the incremental but steady steps that can are moving us to the brink. We're approaching the 11th hour of the 11 hour. Jews, and those who care about Jews and Israel, must awaken from their naive slumber. We're headed toward the unthinkable abyss and need to turn this ship around while there's still a window to do so.
The United States has always supported Israel with every new administration. The Israeli nation situated between the hate from the Arab world and now a rift from the USA is a deplorable situation. Israel is a democracy and has always been a thoroughly true ally to America and for all it stands for. I hope with all my heart that this unusual rift will be ammended as soon as possible. There are too many atrocities happening all over this world. We cannot be a watch dog over them all, but we certainly do not want to start having a bad relationship with our one little democratic country, Israel in the Middle East
Keep appeasing the amalek and good people on earth will suffer.
Its time for the Obama showmanship to stop and realise what he is maent to do and that is take the hard decsision and flatten Irans nuclear installations now.
Quote Of The Year: "Surely something must be terribly wrong with a man who seems to be far more concerned with a Jew building a house in Israel than with Muslims building a nuclear bomb in Iran ."
Columnist Burt Prelutsky , LA Times
I am very glad to see the WJC finally speak out. I am saddened however at the timid tone you have chosen to take with an Administration that makes Jimmy Carter look like a friend of Israel. The blind and slavish support that the Democratic Administration enjoys from American Jews is, frankly disgusting. It is like German Jews in the 1930's who voted for Hitler.
We need to take a firmer stance and move to the public figures and candidates (primarily in the Republican Party) who actually support Israel, who do not vainly seek to appease the Arab street, and who are prepared to do more than Obama's policy of "saying much and doing nothing" about Iran's development of nuclear warfare capabilities.
Every American Jew who voted for Obama now owes a great debt to our progeny and to the people of Israel which can only by expiated by a strong, unified and explicit rejection of Obama and all of his supporters in the Democratic Party. You owe the rest of us a sincere apology and so much more than that - a concerted effort to teach the Democratic Party that Jews are not going to continue to support them, when they allow their leader to delegitimize, villify and degrade the Jewish Homeland and the Jewish people.
This letter is a start, but you must offer much more than this timid response.
Kudos to Mr. Lauder for expressing that which most other Jewish "leaders" and politicians are too timid to recognize, namely, that the specter of appeasement permeates President Obama's new Middle East policy. Will the people of Israel be asked to make unilateral concessions that pose existential risks to their to their security? Can any government of Israel consider President Obama as a trustworthy arbiter? Certainly not when the stench of a contemporary Munich Agreement emanates from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
The conservative wing in Israel is destroying the country from the inside. No thinking human being believes only one side is ever at fault, as the ultra right wing does. Israel has the power to make peace, and as the stronger and wealthier side they are obligated to compromise fairly. The first thing Israel needs to do is admit its nuclear arsenal to the world and become signatories to the NNPT. Until this necessary step is taken peace will elude Israel and they'll have themselves to blame. The world is sick and tired of this unending conflict as both parties don't appear mature enough to solve their own problems.
Time for ALL Jews to wake up and see what this president's agenda truly is for the Middle East. He assumes he can say and do anything to sovereign nations as he does his own. This is a very big mistake with our true ally Israel. They deserve better from our president and our state department. This rift may blow over, but that doesn't change the ideology of Obama. He is most definitely slanted toward the Palestinians and Arab interests in this region. It is time for Jewish leadership to take a stand and begin to reassess this president and his policies.
Yes, I agree with this 100%. I am relieved that this statement was made. I am just surprised that the people who voted for this president are surprised, or disappointed. It was so clear. . .
What is even sadder is that it will be easier for Americans to fall back on blaming the Jews ( although if one reads widely this sort of old nonsense is back stronger than ever, in this country and "civilized Europe") and not recognize that we Jews are just the canary in the mine- the Iranian government hates us Americans about as much as it hates Jews of every country.
It will be interesting to see if this president, the consummate politician if ever there was one, decides that his treatment of Israel will cost his political career too much. We can hope. . .
The letter is tepid, but it's a start and at least Lauder has a voice, unless the deafening silence of the other Jewish organizations (except for the anti-Israel J St.) The letter could have mentioned B.O.'s one-sided Israel bashing and silence in the face of murderous incitement. It could have mentioned the immense benefit Israel offers to the U.S. It should accurately refer to Israeli homes or apartments, not inadvertently adopt the pejorative term "settlements." But it's a start, and a signal. Maybe it will inspire the other Jewish organizations to grow a set of huevos, and the Israeli government to stand up to B.O.
Finally a Jewish leader is saying what needs desperately to be said in a very clear and articulate statement. It is good this is being done publicly for all to see, and not in secret behind closed doors. The world can learn from this statement.
Yeshar koach and thank you Mr. Lauder! I eagerly await the administration's response.
B'bracha,
Chashi
Thank you Mr. Lauder. I would like to ask President Obama who is Israel supposed to negotiate with? Abbas-Erakat and the "Palestinian Authority"? Hammas? Hezbollah?. Who is the true representative of the Palestinian people? They were having a war between Gaza and the West Bank. Palestinian vs Palestinian. Muslim vs Muslim. Who does Israel negotiate with? Is it fair to say that we will not negotiate with any representative of the palestinian people, until the palestinian charter is edited and changed. In this charter, they do not recognize Israel's right to exist. In this charter they have photos and maps depicting Israel proper as non-existant; and wholly Palestinian controlled. Is Israel supposed to negotiate with these people? President Obama, and the free and 'civilized' world should say that until the charter is changed, Israel talks to no palestinian about peace. There was fury against Israel when the wall around Jerusalem was built. Has anybody complaint or mentioned that Egypt erected a wall with Gaza to prevent the decent and loving palestinian people to enter Egypt. Muslim brother to muslim brother ? There is a war in the muslim world. A war between the moderate and the extremist. A war between Shiite and Sunni. There is bloody, barbaric and inhumane treatment between Muslims in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Sudan, Egypt, Lybia, Syria, Lebannon, etc...what does Israel have to do with these typical muslim problems? Are the pre-1967 borderrs the issue? Is Jerusalem the issue? The muslims are simply issuing Israel as the reason for every one of the muslim world's problems. The koran does not mention Jerusalem. The muslims pray away, with their backs to Jerusalem. The muslims go to Mecca and Medina. Nobody goes to Al-Acqsa. I would ask the President to visit the Middle East and confirm with his own eyes, where is the only place in the Middle East where democray, justice, peace, tolerance and understanding exists? We can confirm to him, before the trip takes place, that Israel is the only place. And the center of Israel and the whole Jewish World is Jerusalem
I am utterly convinced that several facts are missing from Mr. Lauder's beautifully written note. 1) Either Obama has no knowedge of history as demonstrated by his calling to Israelis building homes in Jerusalem as building SETTLEMENTS or he chooses to be a revisionist and pretend the 6 day war and its end results didn't happen. 2) He is as deeply a Muslum in his soul as many of us believe he is OR he merely believes in giving UNequal treatment to opponents - hoping to win favors from the team he is rooting for. It is clear who he is rooting for. I have included a letter I received yesterday - I can't swear who wrote it - but it brilliant nonetheless!
Sent: Wed, Apr 14, 2010 11:50 am Subject: Next year in Jerusalem I am not a creature from another planet, as you seem to believe. I am a Jerusalemite-like yourselves, a man of flesh and blood. I am a citizen of my city, an integral part of my people.
I have a few things to get off my chest. Because I am not a diplomat, I do not have to mince words. I do not have to please you or even persuade you.
I owe you nothing. You did not build this city, you did not live in it, you did not defend it when they came to destroy it. And we will be damned if we will let you take it away.
There was a Jerusalem before there was a New York . When Berlin , Moscow , London, and Paris were miasmal forest and swamp, there was a thriving Jewish community here. It gave something to the world which you nations have rejected ever since you established yourselves- a humane moral code.
Here the prophets walked, their words flashing like forked lightning.
Here a people who wanted nothing more than to be left alone, fought off waves of heathen would-be conquerors, bled and died on the battlements, hurled themselves into the flames of their burning Temple rather than surrender, and when finally overwhelmed by sheer numbers and led away into captivity, swore that before they forgot Jerusalem , they would see their tongues cleave to their palates, their right arms wither.
For two pain-filled millennia, while we were your unwelcome guests, we prayed daily to return to this city. Three times a day we petitioned the Almighty: "Gather us from the four corners of the world, bring us upright to our land, return in mercy to Jerusalem , Thy city, and swell in it as Thou promised." On every Yom Kippur and Passover, we fervently voiced the hope that next year would find us in Jerusalem .
Your inquisitions, pogroms, expulsions, the ghettos into which you jammed us, your forced baptisms, your quota systems, your genteel anti-Semitism, and the final unspeakable horror, the holocaust (and worse, your terrifying disinterest in it)- all these have not broken us.
They may have sapped what little moral strength you still possessed, but they forged us into steel. Do you think that you can break us now after all we have been through? Do you really believe that after Dachau and Auschwitz we are frightened by your threats of blockades and sanctions?
We have been to Hell and back- a Hell of your making. What more could you possibly have in your arsenal that could scare us?
I have watched this city bombarded twice by nations calling themselves civilized. In 1948, while you looked on apathetically, I saw women and children blown to smithereens, after we agreed to your request to internationalize the city. It was a deadly combination that did the job-British officers, Arab gunners, and American-made cannon. And then the savage sacking of the Old City - the willful slaughter, the wanton destruction of every synagogue and religious school, the desecration of Jewish cemeteries, the sale by a ghoulish government of tombstones for building materials, for poultry runs, army camps, even latrines.
And you never said a word.
You never breathed the slightest protest when the Jordanians shut off the holiest of our places, the Western Wall, in violation of the pledges they had made after the war- a war they waged, incidentally, against the decision of the UN. Not a murmur came from you whenever the legionnaires in their spiked helmets casually opened fire upon our citizens from behind the walls.
Your hearts bled when Berlin came under siege. You rushed your airlift "to save the gallant Berliners". But you did not send one ounce of food when Jews starved in besieged Jerusalem . You thundered against the wall which the East Germans ran through the middle of the German capital- but not one peep out of you about that other wall, the one that tore through the heart of Jerusalem .
And when that same thing happened 20 years later, and the Arabs unleashed a savage, unprovoked bombardment of the Holy City again, did any of you do anything?
The only time you came to life was when the city was at last reunited. Then you wrung your hands and spoke loftily of "justice" and need for the "Christian" quality of turning the other cheek.
The truth- and you know it deep inside your gut - you would prefer the city to be destroyed rather than have it governed by Jews. No matter how diplomatically you phrase it, the age old prejudices seep out of every word.
If our return to the city has tied your theology in knots, perhaps you had better reexamine your catechisms. After what we have been through, we are not passively going to accommodate ourselves to the twisted idea that we are to suffer eternal homelessness until we accept your savior.
For the first time since the year 70, there is now complete religious freedom for all in Jerusalem . For the first time since the Romans put a torch to the Temple , everyone has equal rights (You prefer to have some more equal than others.) We loathe the sword- but it was you who forced us to take it up. We crave peace, but we are not going back to the peace of 1948 as you would like us to.
We are home. It has a lovely sound for a nation you have willed to wander over the face of the globe. We are not leaving. We are redeeming the pledge made by our forefathers: Jerusalem is being rebuilt. "Next year" and the year after, and after, and after, until the end of time- "in Jerusalem"!
Stanley Goldfoot
Founder Editor
The Times of Israel
What a powerful statement of support from the World Jewish Congress and it's proud President, Mr. Ronald Lauder
"Land for Peace" as proposed by Saudi Arabia (where women and minorities have no rights) and parroted by Mr. Obama, the UN, Europe, and most countries is a purely hypocritical form of Israel bashing and and a sure prescription for war and not peace!
It's time people that speak for Israel to use the correct language. 1) There in no "Peace Process). 2) There are no such people as "Palestinians". 3) Judea and Samaria is the proper name for what the Arabs and other ignorant people call the "West Bank".
It's also time that we explain to the Dept. of State, that there is no one to negotiate with. Machmood Abass is a Holocaust Denier, not to mention paymaster of the 1972 winter Olympics massacre of the Israeli athletes.
Arabs already have 57 states to which they can go, Obama knows this because he visited all of them when he campaigned for president of the world.
I think this letter is pretty good but needs to be stronger or maybe PM Netanyahu should state this clearer to the Pres. of the US and the state dept.
Finally--- Someone has confronted this administration with logic and fact!!!! I hope and pray that not only those in Washington will take Mr. Lauder's pleas to heart, but this will cause America to WAKE UP!!!!! We are nearing a point of no-return if we don't make our voices known: Americans support Israel and we will longer be the "Silent" majority. Thank you, Mr. Lauder.
Three cheers for the World Jewish Congress for finally standing up against the Obama administration's anti-Israel stance.
Thank you so much for writing such a thoughtful, polite and informative letter. There are many, many of us out here in middle America who agrees with you 100%. The president might ought to consider what he stands to lose should he continue in his current path.
Ron Lauder deserves praise for being a true leader of the Jewish community. It is time for Jews to stand up to the destructive foreign policy of this administration. Abusing Israel to curry favor of others is a dangerous game, both for Israel and for the rest of the world. It will not buy disarmament by Iran. It will not secure our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, which Obama claimed he was going to withdraw but has increased. It will encourage the forces of evil in the world and discourage our friends and allies. President Obama has to know that Jerusalem is not a "settlement", that the area in question has been viewed as going to Israel in any future peace agreement, and that "settlements" is not even close to a major concern that is worth totally altering our longstanding ties to Israel.
Mr Lauder's comments echo the feelings of millions of Jews world wide as we watch to widening gulf that separates President Obama's words from his actions.
Make no mistake. I'm no disgruntled Republican. I'm a yellow dog, Minnesota farm labor Democrat. I campaigned relentlessly for President Obama because I believed in the policy's that he endorsed.
Today, I'm feeling cheated by what feel like antisemitic attacks coming from the very president that I had so much faith in.
It hurts......
One of the biggest mistakes is thinking that you can please the "Palestinians." The Hamas and Hezbollah can never be pleased with the existance of a Jewish state. Why try to please them on small issues that just weaken Israel when nothing gets returned? Why does Obama want to force Israel to make concessions?
East Jerusalem never belonged to Jordan. Why is it illegal for Jews to build in East Jerusalem when it wasn't illegal for Jordan to destroy all evidence of Jewish life there between 1948 and 1967?
All we want is peace in Israel. All the Muslim world wants is Israel's destruction.
Ron
I do not see Eye to Eye with some aspect of Prime Minister Natanyahu policy drive or behavior but when it comes to Jerusalem that is a RED LINE: this historic city should and will forever remain the undivided capital of the state of Israel. May GOD bless and strengthen all who support this cause: Nations and Men.Rather than be conrontational with the Obama Adminstration, Jews and lovers of the state of Isreal must as a matter of principle find an intelligent and more constructive way to unequivocally transmit their concerns, influence policy without trying to divide the President and Congress. Because if the latter is done and Obama can move the American Economy to a path of Steady growth and significant job creation path the President will be more powerful and a 2nd term will definitely be a done deal.Confrontation with a very powerful and popular President of the United States is not in anyway in the best interest of the state of Isreal or the Jewish people.Let reason and forberance previal over blackmail and confrontation.
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I commend Mr. Ronald for his effort to appeal to No-bama to change his policy towards Israel, this latter should have been sent 6 month ago second the Jews should have known better then to vote for this Illegal alien Muslim, he has no intention of changing his policy, he is Muslim, he is against the USA and Israel, he is against the Christians, he will try to turn the US to a Muslim country so I still don’t get it how blind people still are in regards to No-Bama he must go… nothing else is good enough don’t you all get it Obama is the enemy of freedom… enemy of our amendments… enemy of Israel .. enemy of the US borders… he is Public enemy #1