Post-American Presidency (46 page)

1
. Caroline B. Glick, “Obama’s Failure, Netanyahu’s Opportunity,” Jewish World Review, November 13, 2009.

2
. Ali Abunimah, “How Barack Obama learned to love Israel,” The Electronic Intifada, March 4, 2007.

3
. Pamela Geller, “Obama’s Anti-Semitic Perspective… Show me your friends and I’ll show you who and what you are,” AtlasShrugs.com, October 7, 2009,
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs
/2009/10/obamas-antisemitic-
perspective.html
.

4
. Peggy Shapiro, “Reverend Wright: The Bible and No Jews,”
American Thinker,
March 19, 2008.

5
. Ryan Lizza, “The Agitator: Barack Obama’s Unlikely Political Education,”
The New Republic,
March 19, 2007.

6
. Tony Vega, “Barack Obama’s Church Honors Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan,” Associated Content, January 8, 2008.

7
. Richard Cohen, “Obama’s Farrakhan Test,”
Washington Post,
January 15, 2008.

8
. Robert Wistrich,
Hitler’s Apocalypse: Jews and the Nazi Legacy
(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1986), pp. 189–90.

9
. “Farrakhan In His Own Words,” Anti-Defamation League, May 5, 2009,
http://www.adl.org/special_reports/farrakhan_own
_words2/farrakhan_own_words.asp
.

10
. Ibid.

11
. Stanley Kurtz, “History of Wright and Farrakhan,”
National Review
’s The Corner, April 29, 2008.

12
. Dana Milbank, “Could Rev. Spell Doom for Obama?”
Washington Post,
April 28, 2008.

13
. Nathan Guttman, “Farrakhan Casts Long Shadow on Campaign Trail,” Jewish Daily Forward, March 7, 2008.

14
. Rev. Jeremiah Wright, “War On Iraq IQ Test,” Mindfully.org, 2003. Quoted in Ed Lasky, “Barack Obama and Israel,”
American Thinker,
January 16, 2008.

15
. David Squires, “Rev. Jeremiah Wright Says ‘Jews’ Are Keeping Him from President Obama,”
Newport News (VA) Daily Press,
June 10, 2009.

16
. “Obama: Israeli Settlement Construction Could be ‘Dangerous,’” VOA News, November 18, 2009.

17
. Cohen, “Obama’s Farrakhan Test.”

18
. Kenneth R. Timmerman, “Obama Had Close Ties to Top Saudi Adviser at Early Age,” Newsmax, September 3, 2008.

19
. Jacob Gershman, “Saudis Funded Columbia Program At Institute That Trained Teachers,”
New York Sun,
March 10, 2005.

20
. Adam Daifallah, “Said Chair At Columbia Also Backed By Saudis,”
New York Sun,
July 23, 2003.

21
. Gershman, “Saudis Funded Columbia Program At Institute That Trained Teachers.”

22
. Aaron Klein, “Obama worked with terrorist: Senator helped fund organization that rejects ‘racist’ Israel’s existence,” WorldNetDaily, February 24, 2008.

23
. Ed Lasky, “The Said-Khalidi-Obama Connection,”
American Thinker,
October 22, 2008.

24
. Klein, “Obama worked with terrorist: Senator helped fund organization that rejects ‘racist’ Israel’s existence.”

25
. “McCain Campaign Accuses L.A. Times of ‘Suppressing’ Obama Video,”
Los Angeles Times,
October 29, 2008.

26
. Peter Wallsten, “Allies of Palestinians see a friend in Obama,”
Los Angeles Times,
April 10, 2008.

27
. Wallsten, “Allies of Palestinians see a friend in Obama.”

28
. Federal Election Commission, “Foreign Nationals,” July 2003,
http://www.fec.gov/pages/brochures/foreign.shtml
.

29
. “Obama’s Gazan Contributions,” AtlasShrugs.com, July 31, 2008; Pamela Geller, “Obama’s Foreign Donors: The media averts its eyes,”
American Thinker,
August 14, 2008.

30
. Video at
http://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=21YF7ggCG6g
.

31
.
http://watchdog.net/p/barack_obama
.

32
. Mohamed Akram, “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America,” May 22, 1991, Government Exhibit 003-0085,
U.S. vs. HLF,
et al, pp. 7–8 (21–22).

33
. Ibid.

34
. Glenn R. Simpson, “Tangled Paths: A Sprawling Probe Of Terror Funding Centers in Virginia,”
Wall Street Journal,
June 21, 2004.

35
. “Muslims in fed terror probe making donations to Obama,” WorldNetDaily, August 29, 2008.

36
. “Gaza’s Obama campaign,” Al-Jazeera English, March 31, 2008,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21YF7ggCG6g
.

37
. “Obama advisor calls for a military invasion of Israel,” YouTube, September 7, 2008,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oFkmcZT4OO
.

38
. Shmuel Rosner, “Obama’s Top Adviser Says Does not Believe in Imposing a Peace Settlement,”
Haaretz,
August 27, 2008.

39
. Michael Rubin, “Obama Adviser Samantha Power on Israel, ‘Jenin Massacre,’”
National Review
’s The Corner, February 11, 2008.

40
. Sholto Byrnes, “Interview: Samantha Power,”
New Statesman,
March 6, 2008.

41
. “Statement by Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on the Appointment of Two Senior Officials Responsible for Iraqi Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons,” White House press release, August 14, 2009,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/
Statement-by-Press-Secretary-Robert
-Gibbs-on-the-Appointment-of-Two-Senior-
Officials-Responsible-for-Iraqi-
Refugees-and-Internally-Displaced-Persons/
.

42
. Aaron Klein, “Obama Policy Adviser Raises Israeli Concerns,”
Jewish Week,
January 30, 2008.

43
. Tom Baldwin, “Barack Obama Sacks Adviser Over Talks with Hamas,”
Times
(London), May 10, 2008.

44
. “Obama Promises Improved Ties With Egypt, Syria,”
Middle East Newsline,
November 5, 2008.

45
. Klein, “Obama Policy Adviser Raises Israeli Concerns.”

46
. Alex Spillius, “Obama supporter accuses Jews of ‘McCarthyism,’” Independent.ie, May 27, 2008.

47
. Gerald Posner, “How Obama Flubbed His Missile Message,” The Daily Beast, September 18, 2009.

48
. Rosa Brooks, “Israel Can’t Bomb Its Way to Peace,”
Los Angeles Times,
January 1, 2009.

49
. Rosa Brooks, “Criticize Israel? You’re an Anti-Semite!,”
Los Angeles Times,
September 3, 2006.

50
. “Obama Names Israel Critic to Intelligence Board,”
Jerusalem Post,
October 29, 2009.

51
. “Indecisive Senator Hagel has Questionable Israel Record,” National Jewish Democratic Council, March 12, 2007,
http://njdc.typepad.com/njdcs_blog/
2007/03/indecisive_sena.html
.

52
. “Obama Names Israel Critic to Intelligence Board.”

53
. Sammy Benoit, “Obama Appoints Another Israel-Hating Adviser: Chuck Hagel,” The Lid, October 28, 2009,
http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-
appoints-another-israel-hating.html
.

54
. “Terms of Service,” Organizing for America,
http://www.barackobama.com/terms/
.

55
. Tom Burnett, “Open discussion includes all points of view,” Organizing for America, June 23, 2008,
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community
/post/tcburnett/gG5hnt
; Pamela Geller, “Obama Bans His Own Words But Sanctions Overthrow Of Congress & Jew Hate,” AtlasShrugs.com, July 1, 2008,
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs
/2008/07/obama-deletes-h.html
.

56
. Bill Levinson, “Obama’s Web Site Blows its Disclaimer, Now Responsible for All Hate Speech,” Israpundit, June 28, 2008,
http://www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=1427
.

57
. Bill Levinson, “Obama Blogger: ‘Jews owe Africa and Africans everything they have today,’” Israpundit, April 7, 2008,
http://www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=687
.

58
. Bill Levinson, “‘Nazi Israel:’ Obama’s Official Web Site Equates Israel to Nazi Germany,” Israpundit, October 4, 2009,
http://www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=17346
.

59
. “Israeli intel warns Netanyahu on Obama policy: ‘We have become an obstacle,’”
World Tribune,
April 21, 2009.

FOUR: OBAMA AND ISRAEL

1
. Caroline Glick, “Our World: Obama’s New World Order and Israel,”
Jerusalem Post,
February 9, 2009.

2
. Helene Cooper, “U.S. to Give $900 Million in Gaza Aid, Officials Say,”
New York Times,
February 23, 2009.

3
. Josef Federman, “UN halts aid to Gaza, cites Hamas disruption,” Associated Press, February 6, 2009.

4
. Caroline Glick, “Column One: Obama’s Green Light to Attack Iran,”
Jerusalem Post,
May 7, 2009.

5
. Barak Ravid and Natasha Mozgovaya, “Obama Gets Tougher with Israel on Palestinians, Iran,”
Haaretz,
May 5, 2009.

6
. Glick, “Column One: Obama’s Green Light to Attack Iran.”

7
. Louis Charbonneau, “U.S. wants Israel, India in anti-nuclear arms treaty,” Reuters, May 5, 2009.

8
. “Sen. Obama’s Letter to U.N. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad,” Organizing for America, January 22, 2008,
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community
/post/adamweissmann/g G5hjN
.

9
. “Obama under fire for comment on Palestinians,” Associated Press, March 15, 2007.

10
. Justin Elliott, “Obama’s Israel Shuffle,”
Mother Jones,
February 2008.

11
. Lynn Sweet, “Obama’s AIPAC speech: Text as prepared for delivery,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
March 2, 2007.

12
. “Obama under fire for comment on Palestinians”; “Democratic Candidates Debate,” FactCheck.org, April 27, 2007,
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008
/democratic_candidates_debate.html
.

13
. Thomas Beaumont, “Obama Urges More Compassion in Mideast,”
Des Moines Register,
March 12, 2007.

14
. “Transcript: Obama’s Speech at AIPAC,” National Public Radio, June 4, 2008,
http://www.npr.org/templates/story
/story.php?storyId=91150432
.

15
. Sarah Silverman, “Sarah Silverman and The Great Schlep,” YouTube, September 25, 2008,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgHHX9R4Qtk
.

16
. Josh Gerstein, “U.S.: Facts Tie Muslim Groups To Hamas Front Case,”
New York Sun
, July 11, 2008.

17
. “ISNA Admits Hamas Ties,” IPT News, July 25, 2008.

18
. “Hamas Charter: The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas),” MidEast Web Historical Documents, August 18, 1988,
http://www.mideastweb.org/hamas.htm
.

19
. Mohamed Akram, “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Brotherhood in North America,” May 19, 1991,
http://www.investigativeproject.org
/document/id/20
.

20
. Charles A. Radin, “Islamic Leader Urges Jews be Wary of Fundamentalists,”
Boston Globe
, March 14, 2007.

21
. “Valerie Jarrett, Ingrid Mattson: White House Opens Wider to Islam,” Maggie’s Notebook,
July 23, 2009,
http://maggiesnotebook.blogspot.com/2009
/07/valerie-jarrett-ingrid-
matton-white.html
.

22
. “State Sponsors of Terrorism,” U.S. Department of State,
http://www.state.gov/s/ct/c14151.htm
.

23
. “Ahmadinejad, Hezbollah chief Nasrallah meet in Damascus,”
Haaretz,
July 19, 2007.

24
. “Iran’s Larijani meets Hamas in Damascus,” Reuters, January 7, 2009.

25
. “Obama returns US ambassador to Syria,” FOXNews.com, June 24, 2009.

26
. “Obama preparing to lift sanctions against Syria,” World Tribune, February 9, 2009.

27
. “Obama returns US ambassador to Syria.”

28
. “Syrian envoy: ‘US lifts ban on air industry,’”
Jerusalem Post,
July 27, 2009.

29
. Aaron Klein, “Obama opens up billions in business for Syria: Damascus gets crucial deal without promising to drop alliance with Iran,” WorldNetDaily, October 9, 2009.

30
. “Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel in Press Availability,” WhiteHouse.gov, May 18, 2009,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office
/Remarks-by-President-Obama-and-Israeli
-Prime-Minister-Netanyahu
-in-press-availability/