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Tyrone Slothrop
In about the time that it took you to write this silliness, I found this on Obama's website:

• Barack Obama strongly supports the U.S.-Israel relationship, believes that our first and incontrovertible commitment in the Middle East must be to the security of Israel, America's strongest ally in the Middle East. Obama supports this closeness, stating that that the United States would never distance itself from Israel.

And yet:

...Moreover, as Trager points out (along with some on the left), Obama's recent pro-Israel positions almost surely amount to pandering of the most cyncial kind:

• After all, Obama is on record as having called for an “even-handed approach” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in 2000, just as the Palestinians commenced the Second Intifada following Camp David. According to Electronic Intifada founder Ali Abunimah, Obama’s pro-Israel epiphany occurred shortly before his 2004 U.S. Senate campaign—an about-face for which Obama apologized to Abunimah. “Hey, I’m sorry I haven’t said more about Palestine right now, but we are in a tough primary race. I’m hoping when things calm down I can be more up front,” Obama said at the time.

As Trager concludes, the mixture of Obama's advisers (at least two of whom -- Zbigniew Brzezinski and Samatha Power -- subscribe to the Walt-Mearsheimer thesis that that the U.S.-Israel relationship is the product of Jewish power politics, rather than strategic interest) and the candidate's own past statements "are hardly reassuring" when it comes to thinking about what an Obama presidency would mean for Israel.

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