Sunday, March 31, 2019

Ben Rhodes Blames Jewish Donors for Obama Not Being More Anti-Israel

By Pamela Geller - on March 30, 2019

Rhodes sounds just like the anti-Semitic Rep. Ilhan Omar: “It’s all about the Benjamins, baby.” But in Obama’s case, it really was. Obama was a Jew-hater from the very start, and surrounded himself with venomous anti-Semites throughout his political career, as I meticulously documented in my book The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War on America. Now Rhodes is revealing that Obama moderated his own Jew-hatred in order to fool Jewicidal leftists into pouring money into his coffers. Nevertheless, while he was President, he did more to damage our alliance with the only democracy in the Middle East than any other President ever did. And the money from the Jewicidals kept flowing in.

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“Ben Rhodes Blames Jewish Donors for Obama Not Being More Anti-Israel,” by Joel B. Pollak, Breitbart, March 29, 2019 (thanks to Todd):

Ben Rhodes, a former national security aide to President Barack Obama, told the New York Timesthis week that the “donor class” had prevented Obama from taking more anti-Israel steps than the administration had wanted to take.

Rhodes spoke to author Nathan Thrall for a feature article titled, “How the Battle Over Israel and Anti-Semitism Is Fracturing American Politics.” The headline describes “politics,” but Thrall focused on policy debates within the Democratic Party, which has seen the rise of an assertive anti-Israel constituency in recent years. That constituency has included overtly and unabashedly antisemitic critics, largely but not exclusively from the Muslim community.

Thrall writes about the “boycott, divestment, sanctions” (BDS) movement, which seeks to isolate Israel as apartheid South Africa was once isolated — a comparison that BDS critics find not only factually wrong, but also offensive.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), whose recent antisemitic remarks sparked turmoil within the House Democratic caucus, supports BDS (though Omar suggested otherwise to voters in her Minnesota’ district during the 2018 election).

One of Omar’s most notorious remarks was, “It’s all about the Benjamins,” followed by a claim that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) bribes members of Congress to support Israel. (AIPAC does not endorse or donate to candidates.) Thrall notes that Jewish donors do figure disproportionately among the Democratic Party’s largest donors — though he allows that few of them “prioritize pro-Israel policies above all other issues.”

Enter Rhodes — one of the architects of the Iran nuclear deal, which was vehemently opposed by Israel and by pro-Israel Americans. He blamed Jewish donors for the Obama administration’s supposed restraint towards Israel:

According to Ben Rhodes, a former deputy national-security adviser and one of Obama’s closest confidants, several members of the Obama administration wanted to adopt a more assertive policy toward Israel but felt that their hands were tied. “The Washington view of Israel-Palestine is still shaped by the donor class,” Rhodes, who does not support B.D.S., told me, when I met with him at the Obama Foundation in October. “The donor class is profoundly to the right of where the activists are, and frankly, where the majority of the Jewish community is.”

Rhodes’s claims were echoed by “[a]nother former member of the Obama White House,” who told Thrall that the Obama administration had prevailed upon the United Nations Security Council to delay a vote against Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) to after the 2016 election. (The resolution also declared Israel’s presence in eastern Jerusalem — including the Jewish Quarter of the Old City, inhabited by Jews for millennia — to be illegal.)

But these claims are contradicted by the fact that after the Obama administration abstained, allowing such an anti-Israel resolution to pass for the first time, Jewish donors (and voters) hardly bolted from the Democratic Party….

THE TRUTH MUST BE TOLD

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