JERUSALEM POST
by Isi Leibler
June 10, 2015

Obama is clearly determined to undermine the standing of the newly elected Israeli government by embarking on a campaign to promote an utterly fictional narrative of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

It is time to stop making excuses for American Jewish leaders and their failure to respond to US President Barack Obama’s latest charm offensive, expressing “admiration” for Jews and “love” of Israel as a mantle to cast moral aspersions against the democratically elected government of Israel. Obama is clearly determined to undermine the standing of the newly elected Israeli government by embarking on a campaign to promote an utterly fictional narrative of the Arab-Israeli conflict, even in advance of the June 30 deadline of the “negotiations” with Iran. He orchestrated interviews with journalists Jeffrey Goldberg and Tom Friedman, whom he uses regularly to convey his distaste for Israeli policies – and Ilana Dayan of Israel’s Channel 2 TV. Considered a tough investigative journalist, Dayan on this occasion acted as though she were launching an Obama fan club. READ MORE