Erica Ritz
The Blaze
5/30/2012
The day before he mistakenly attributed the German death camps — where millions of Jews were murdered — to Poland, President Obama met with twenty leading Conservative rabbis to thank them for their shared commitment in rebuilding the U.S. economy, and their collective contributions to society.
There, according to the Israeli news site Haaretz, “Obama … stressed he probably knows about Judaism more than any other president, because he read about it.”
“I [am] not going to tell you again how I even feel about Israel, but why [are] we still talking about it?” he reportedly asked rhetorically.
The president also wondered why no one asks Speaker of the House John Boehner or Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell about their support for the Middle East’s only real democracy.
William Kristol of the Weekly Standard responded to Obama’s question in a piece, writing:
“The reason no one asks John Boehner or Mitch McConnell about their support for Israel is … because they really do support Israel. The reason people ask Barack Obama about his support for Israel is because his support for Israel has been equivocal.”…
The article continues at The Blaze.
Update: Big Government has more.
Update 2: Egypt’s Brotherhood would keep Israel treaty: Carter
…”My opinion is that the treaty will not be modified in any unilateral way,” Carter said at a news conference in Cairo to present the preliminary findings of his election monitors…
