David Harris, the Holocaust and Obama http://blogs.jta.org/ENTRY_PERMALINK_HERE/david-harris-the-holocaust-and-obama/ This notion that President Obama, in his speech addressing the Muslim world last month in Cairo, rooted Israel’s founding in the Holocaust, started as a partisan proposition: I noted its citation yesterday by David Frum, a former speechwriter for President Bush. en-us rkampeas@jta.org Copyright 2009 2009-07-23T;21:04:00-05:00 Comment by Walter H. Steinlauf ssanetwork@comcast.net I could not agree more. Obama’s lame assertion that the existence of Israel is predicated on the Holocaust is crass and insensitive and politically explosive. Especially for anyone “willing to listen.” One might reasonably ask, “Which Holocaust, Which Pogrom?!?!?!?!, Which Pale?” These events have been going on almost since before TIME! The inanity of The Obamaite Idea is akin to stating that all BLACK contribution in culture and the whole spectrum of that participation is based on the Abolition of Slavery. ... This hypothetical view presupposes that Black people have no inherent artistic, cultural or aesthetic stand whatever. By his linkage of Israel and the Holocaust and the State of Israel, Obama makes a great case for the Final Denial of The Jewish People to Exist. PLEASE DON’T BUY INTO IT! I could not agree more. Obama’s lame assertion that the existence of Israel is predicated on the Holocaust is crass and insensitive and politically explosive. Especially for anyone “willing to listen.” One might reasonably ask, “Which Holocaust, Which Pogrom?!?!?!?!, Which Pale?” These events have been going on almost since before TIME!

The inanity of The Obamaite Idea is akin to stating that all BLACK contribution in culture and the whole spectrum of that participation is based on the Abolition of Slavery. ... This hypothetical view presupposes that Black people have no inherent artistic, cultural or aesthetic stand whatever. By his linkage of Israel and the Holocaust and the State of Israel, Obama makes a great case for the Final Denial of The Jewish People to Exist. PLEASE DON’T BUY INTO IT!

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