Rabbi Levi Brackman, YNet
...But the biggest delusion was the belief during the presidential campaign that Obama would be decidedly loyal to Israel’s interest. In reality, Obama is only pro-Israel when it fits in to his view of America’s national interests which now seem to be on a definite collision path with Israel’s vital security concerns...
No doubt Obama would not want to see genocide in Israel. And he may even be pro-Israel and pro-Jewish to an extent. But to him America’s interests take precedence and in his view they no longer necessarily coincide with Israel’s...
The US President can be a friend of Israel, have a Jew as a senior adviser and an Israeli as his chief of staff and still see Israel’s interests as secondary. This does not mean Obama favors the Arabs or that he hates Jews. However wrong his views may be, all it means is that he sees Israel’s long term interest as divergent from that of the interests his own country.
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