ISRAEL HAYOM
By Richard Baehr
April 30, 2014

The biggest story in America this week is not the revelation that Obama adviser Ben Rhodes masterminded a White House cover-up of what really went down in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012 — when four Americans were murdered — and in the weeks that followed when a fake story was created by the administration to explain the attack.

The fake story held that a video made in the U.S., and seen by pretty much no one in the Middle East, was the cause of the anger among people on the street that led to a spontaneous demonstration and then to the attack on the consulate in Benghazi. The lie was needed both to protect Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the lack of security at the consulate, and more importantly, to prevent Benghazi from becoming an embarrassment to President Barack Obama as his campaign for re-election neared the finish line with a small lead in the 2012 presidential race.

Another story that is not getting the attention it deserves concerns Secretary of State John Kerry, who was forced to backtrack after describing Israel as a nation that needed to choose between the two-state solution and becoming an apartheid state.

The story that is front and center on The New York Times website and the Drudge Report is the same one — the anger over a recorded conversation between Donald Sterling, the 80-year-old owner of the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team, and his girlfriend, which contained some nasty racist sentiments, including a comment suggesting that blacks were not Sterling’s favorite audience to attend home games for his team. The NBA commissioner fined Sterling $2.5 million (about 0.1% of the owner’s net worth) and suspended him for life from any connection to the league, which will force a sale of the team, and a chance for the league to “move on” so that sponsors can be comfortable buying advertising time on TV during the league’s playoffs, and for the shoe companies to sell more over-priced sneakers “designed by” the game’s greatest current or former stars.

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