I följande artikel hos Real Clear Politics förklarar Koch också att Obamas agerande mot Israel och Netanyahu är chockerande där han bland annat skriver:
In portraying Israel as the cause of the lack of progress in the peace process, President Obama ignores the numerous offers and concessions that Israel has made over the years for the sake of peace, and the Palestinians' repeated rejections of those offers. Not only have Israel's peace proposals, which include ceding virtually the entire West Bank and parts of Jerusalem to the Palestinians, been rejected, but each Israeli concession has been met with even greater demands, no reciprocity, and frequently horrific violence directed at Israeli civilians. Thus, Prime Minister Netanyahu's agreement to suspend construction on the West Bank - a move heralded by Secretary of State Clinton as unprecedented by an Israeli government - has now led to a demand that Israel also halt all construction in East Jerusalem, which is part of Israel's capital. Meanwhile, Palestinians are upping the ante, with violent protests in Jerusalem and elsewhere. And the Obama administration's request that our Arab allies make some conciliatory gesture towards Israel has fallen on deaf ears.
Vidare beskriver han Obamas inställning till Israel, som skiljer sig från tidigare presidenters:
Prior American presidents, beginning with Truman who recognized the State of Israel in 1948, have valued Israel as a close ally and have often come to its rescue. For example, it was Richard Nixon during the 1973 war, who resupplied Israel with arms, making it possible for it to snatch victory from a potentially devastating defeat at the hands of a coalition of Arab countries including Egypt and Syria.
President George W. Bush made it a point of protecting Israel at the United Nations and the Security Council wielding the U.S. veto against the unfair actions and sanctions that Arab countries sought to impose to cripple and, if possible, destroy, the one Jewish nation in the world. Now, in my opinion, based on the actions and statements by President Obama and members of his administration, there is grave doubt among supporters of Israel that President Obama can be counted on to do what presidents before him did - protect our ally, Israel. The Arabs can lose countless wars and still come back because of their numbers. If Israel were to lose one, it would cease to exist.
USA:s stöd för Israel är förstås vida större än en enskild administrations bristande stöd för Israel - vilket demokraten Ed Koch är ett utmärkt exempel på, tillsammans med otaliga andra demokrater - vilket inte minst visade sig under årets AIPAC. Samma stöd finns naturligtvis också hos republikanerna och i Kalifornien handlade det republikanska primärvalet för några veckor sedan i princip om vilken kandidat som älskade Israel mest. Således lär Obama-administrationens Israelpolitik inte långsiktigt kyla ner relationen mellan USA och Israel. För närvarande ter den sig dock likväl tämligen kall.
Se även tidigare inlägg:
AIPAC 2010 - del 8: Tony Blair 20100324
Varför Obama borde byta ut Rahm Emanuel mot George W. Bush 20090817
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