On his radio show today, Dennis Prager said: “President Obama did something so troubling yesterday that it needs to be addressed. The president was in the country in the world with the largest number of Muslims [and he criticized Israel for building housing in Jerusalem, Israel's capitol city].”
Jerusalem is not a settlement.
The Indonesian government (like almost every Muslim country) prevents Israeli citizens from visiting its country.
The president wants America and himself to be loved in the world, particularly by Muslim countries.
He’s using the worst possible way to try to ingratiate himself with a Muslim audience — to crap on Israel. It is the easiest and the cheapest and the worst. All you do is feed the worst part of the Muslim world today — its hatred of Israel. If the Muslim world accepted a tiny Jewish state within its midst, it would be an enormous step forward for the Muslim world.
There aren’t many wonderful countries in the world. Israel is one of them. For us to have a president with deep ambivalence about Israel…
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