Why exactly is Obama in Israel?

[ScreamingEagle]

“Why is US President Barack Obama coming to Israel today?” Caroline Glick — a former Israeli soldier with a Harvard degree — asks in a lengthy op-ed in the Jerusalem Post. And it’s not just a rhetorical device — she genuinely can’t figure it out. Her conclusion after trying: “The is truth we don’t know why Obama is coming to Israel. The Obama administration has not indicated where its Israel policy is going. And Obama’s Republican opposition is in complete disarray on foreign policy and not in any position to push him to reveal his plans.”

But it’s how she gets there that’s scathing. We’ve included some excerpts below.

7. The only revealing aspect of Obama’s itinerary is his decision to on the one hand bypass Israel’s elected representatives by spurning the invitation to speak before the Knesset; and on the other hand to address a handpicked audience of university students – an audience grossly overpopulated by unelectable, radical leftists.

3. There are two possible policies Obama would want to empower Israel’s radical, unelectable Left in order to advance. First, he could be strengthening these forces to help them pressure the government to make concessions to the Palestinians in order to convince the Palestinian Authority to renew negotiations and accept an Israeli peace offer. [...]

This leaves another glaring possibility. Through the radical Left, Obama may intend to foment a pressure campaign to force the government to withdraw unilaterally from all or parts of Judea and Samaria, as Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip in 2005. If this is Obama’s actual policy goal, it would represent a complete Europeanization of US policy toward Israel.

1. What we can say with certainty is that the administration that supports the “democratically elected” Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and did so much to clear all obstacles to its election, is snubbing the democratically elected Israeli government, and indeed, Israel’s elected officials in general.

Why Exactly Is Obama in Israel? Israeli Columnist Tries to Figure Out His ?Mysterious? Trip in Scathing Op-Ed | TheBlaze.com

 

[Politico]

That's what presidents do.

 

[LoneLaugher]

State visit. Dummy.

 

[Agit8r]

If i recall, he is receiving a medal from their president

also, he gets to be somewhere that has sensible gun regulations

 

[ClosedCaption]

To kiss Israels ass.

Why?

I have no friggen idea. God told the US to do it?

 

[ScreamingEagle]

what a bunch of empty-headed answers....did nobody read the op...?

why would BO go to Israel primarily as a 'State visit' if he refused an invitation to address the Knesset....for those low-info voters the Knesset is the Israel legislative body which is the leadership group in Israel.....and the group that Presidents typically address when doing a 'State visit' to Israel....

instead BO addressed a bunch of hand-picked left-wing university radicals......thereby snubbing Israeli leaders....

 

[ClosedCaption]

what a bunch of empty-headed answers....did nobody read the op...?

why would BO go to Israel primarily as a 'State visit' if he refused an invitation to address the Knesset....for those low-info voters the Knesset is the Israel legislative body which is the leadership group in Israel.....and the group that Presidents typically address when doing a 'State visit' to Israel....

instead BO addressed a bunch of hand-picked left-wing university radicals......thereby snubbing Israeli leaders....

Fuck that person and their one sided opinions...Opinions are like assholes and I'm not going to stare that theirs.

 

[Votto]

Maybe he is trying to convince them to ban all assault weapons.

I just wonder what would have happened had one of the Palestinian rockets come down and killed President Obama.

What then?

 

[konradv]

At least he went and visited an important ally. That's more than Reagan or Bush Sr. ever did. It's weird that the right has been complaining that he never visited during his first term, while the aforementioned presidents ignored them for twelve years!