Feeling The Hate

Here is a remarkable video regarding what some young American Jews abroad in Israel think about Obama.

As Joseph Dana writes:

It’s about entitlement, stupid.

Max and I went on to the streets of Jerusalem at ten o’clock on a Wednesday to ascertain the feelings of the young population about Obama’s upcoming speech in Cairo. As is often the case, the streets of central Jerusalem were not filled with native Israelis but American Jews. Doubtlessly anyone who has visited Jerusalem has encountered the droves of American Jewish kids that are sent to Israel to study for a period of time from Teaneck or Westchester. We asked people a simple question, “What do you think of Obama and Israel?” Most of the people that we talked to were dual American Israeli citizens. The answers in this video reflect the education and worrisome perspectives that many American Jews harbor towards Israeli politics. The sense of entitlement that the American Jewish community has when it comes to Israeli policy is on full raw display in the words of these young adults.

Neocon pandering just to a certain strain of Jewish sensibility is what ultimately gave us the Iraq War, and what ultimately might give us an Iran War too. It's time to take back control of American foreign policy, make it more even-handed, and not automatically equate every Arab grievance with terrorism. Not only would that be good for the U.S., but by slowing down Jewish expansion in the West Bank, it'll help calm the waters, and ultimately be good for these folks too.