Obama’s Arab Kiss-Up, Jewish Kiss-Off

As a politically correct flipside to his effusive Arab overtures, Barack Obama visited a concentration camp yesterday.

Because an appeal to Arabs is a diss to Jews … or that’s how Obama must see it. Otherwise, why would he, apropos of absolutely nothing, visit some obscure Holocaust holdover?

After his visit to Buchenwald, there can be no doubt that Obama blew off the Jews – intentionally, proudly – in his recent “Arab tush-kissing speech.”

Obama clearly understands the implications of his remarks, even if everybody else chooses to ignore his flagrantly anti-Zionist undertones.

According to Obama, one can do or say anything to the Jews, as long as it is followed by a reference to the Holocaust.

Seeking a “new beginning” with Muslims, on Thursday Obama signaled a de facto end to the sacred American-Israeli alliance. In this way, his concentration camp visit was a denouement of sorts – not the sympathetic gesture as which it’s being spun.

To Jews like me, it felt like a bad breakup. “It’s not you, it’s me,” Obama seemed to be suggesting.

Seriously, what was supposed to be the message, except to say, “I totally screwed you over, but I don’t want to end this on bad terms.”

That’s what Jews like me heard. Other Jews fell for it like love-struck fools.

In Hebrew we have a word for that kind of naïveté.

“Friar,” roughly translated as “fool” or “sucker,” is maybe the most powerful Hebrew epithet. Seriously, there is a storied Jewish aversion to getting suckered.

There is no English slur comparable to “friar” – not even the derogatory slur “nigger” approximates the severity of this term. The ‘n” word, at least, can be said by blacks to blacks in a non-derogatory, often amiable way.

But no Jew wants to be called a friar under any circumstances – least of all by other Jews.

Jews just straight-up can’t stand to be anybody’s fool.

And yet yesterday Obama made friarit – fools – of the Jews who fell for his cheap charade.

That’s why I can’t really blame him for playing both sides, a stance which has generated a lot of debate among the FITS staff.

Our founding editor called Obama’s Buchenwald visit “rank political opportunism.” Sic’s right about that, but he’s wrong to blame Obama for ”reaching at low-hanging fruit.”

That’s because Obama, despite being “The One,” is actually in some ways like the rest of us. He’ll get away with what he can get away with.

And Jews – the ones who swoon over his Holocaust claptrap – are letting him get away with the political equivalent of adultery. Israel – and Jews worldwide – plays the role of needy mistress, the one who’ll put out in exchange for sloppy flattery.

How is that in keeping with Jews’ standing in the world?

Really, “Jews rule.” How else could such a small group – there are less than 13 million Jews in the world – dominate so much of law, medicine, business, entertainment, science, media, literature, and politics?

And since Obama’s brought the Holocaust into it, it’s worth noting that sweeping Jewish influence was the basis for the Holocaust itself.

Yet while Jews are capably of dictating how they will be treated, these days their standards are embarrassingly low.

Obama has obviously picked up on that, which is why he’s behaving accordingly. He’s treating the Jews like cheap suckers … in other words, exactly how many of them want to be treated. So while I see right through Obama’s charade, I can fault him only so much.

Jews need to step up. It’s time that Israel quit playing puppet.

That’s why it could be a good thing that Obama’s breaking up with Israel. Maybe that’s just what Jews need in order to have the courage to start acting like Jews for a change.

So there you have it … maybe “The One” does indeed know best after all?

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