Thursday, April 8, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Shuley Boteach: Obama and the Deafening Silence of American Jewry - 'When it came to protecting the right of the Libyan Ambassador to the UN living immediately next door to me in Englewood, my Democratic Congressman, Steve Rothman, found his voice, issuing a three page press release about a deal he had brokered with the State Department 27 years ago for the Libyans to bizarrely remain in a New Jersey suburb. But when I asked Rothman, who is Jewish, to give me a comment on Obama's degrading treatment of Israel's elected officials and the Administration's opposition to Jews building in all parts of Jerusalem, his Chief of Staff sent me an email that said the Congressman was "away for the holidays so we won't be able to provide you with a statement." Attitudes like these on the part of influential Jewish members of the American establishment explain why Obama has been allowed to get away with his appalling treatment of Israel...'
