Obama Gets A Kosher Seal Of Approval

In The Eyes Of His Israeli Audience, Including Netanyahu and Lieberman, Obama’s Speech Was Nearly Faultless.

By Chemi Shalev
Published 00:17 22.09.11
Latest update 00:17 22.09.11
Courtesy Of "Haaretz Newspaper"

U.S. President Barack Obama certainly never dreamt that one day he would be so warmly endorsed by Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, of all people. But today, following Obama’s speech at the UN General Assembly, Lieberman was literally gushing with praise.

To contradict the attacks of Texas Governor Rick Perry, the Republican frontrunner, for Obama’s supposedly “arrogant” attitude toward Israel, Obama will now be able to wave to his Jewish voters a kosher “seal of approval” from no less an authority than Lieberman, the “Rebbe,” as it were, of the ruling Israeli right-wing coalition.

And while posters plastered across New York City describe Obama as “not pro-Israel,” inside the United Nations building in Turtle Bay, Obama delivered what is probably thewarmest pro-Israel speech ever given at an annual UN General Assembly meeting by any U.S. president, bar none. 


Not only did Obama refrain from directly mentioning the 1967 borders, much to relief of the Israeli government, but to a large extent he also made up for what he allegedly left out in his famous Cairo speech, expressing his empathy with, and sympathy, for the trials and tribulations of the Jewish people and their Zionist dreams.