ISRAEL HAYOM 
by Richard Baehr
September 28, 2014

…….As several commentators have noted, as in pretty much every speech to ‎the U.N. or other international bodies or foreign audiences, Obama made sure [in this past week’s speech] to:‎

1. ‎Call on Israel to be more reflective and thoughtful, and to do more to ‎achieve a two state solution to which America was committed
2. Avoid criticism of the Palestinian Authority, which obviously has no ‎responsibility for the failure to achieve peace and a two-state solution
3. Praise the religion of Islam as peaceful, and argue that the dozens of bloody ‎conflicts involving Muslims around the world were an aberration, and ‎committed by those who did not understand the real nature of Islam. In ‎prior centuries, it was the Christian world that was the focal point for many ‎conflicts, so for Obama what we are seeing now with Islamic violence is ‎nothing more than a few bad weeks (months, years, decades, centuries?) ‎for a religion that is, in fact, something very healthy and positive.
4. Criticize his own country for all its historical misdeeds, as well as its own ‎divisive conflicts, evidenced most recently by the shooting by a policeman of ‎a black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, an action that may well have been ‎a justified action in self-defense. In a tragic irony, Muslim beheaders may ‎now be in Ferguson. ‎
5. Point to the really serious threats the world is facing — led of course by global ‎warming or as it is now called — climate change, and this month, Ebola.
6. Call on large nations to stop bullying small nations
7. Persuade Iran that a deal on its nuclear program was possible if it were ‎willing to compromise, and if it wasn’t, not to worry, for the West will keep ‎trying, and keep sweetening the deal.

The president is a redistributionist. That word defines both his domestic ‎and foreign policies. The rich are too rich, the United States is too rich and too ‎militarily strong compared to others, the Western nations need to sacrifice more ‎to help the poorer nations (including helping them survive climate change), and ‎governments needs to grow ever larger so that they can do more to help those left ‎with the short end of the stick. Always, take from A to give to B. That is what is fair. ‎Equality and justice requires equal results and shares of the pie. Equality of ‎opportunity is not enough since it ignores inherent privilege that exists for some…...

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