Both Jews and non Jews alike are expressing alarm over Obama’s willingness to sacrifice Israel in order to placate the Arab world.
Atlas Shrugs has been monitoring this situation closely; here is a recent post which spells out precisely what is going on:
Obama committed to Expelling Jews from Jewish Homeland
The increasingly creepy President’s latest act of anti-semitism. From Israel Today:
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday told reporters in Cairo that he is convinced that US President Barack Obama is firmly committed to finally ejecting the Jews from Judea and Samaria.
Abbas spoke to the press after briefing Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on his visit to the White House late last week, during which Obama apparently agreed with his guest that existing Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria must not even be allowed to experience “natural growth.”
“When the American administration talks about Israel’s duty to stop the settlements – including natural growth – it is a very important step,” noted Abbas.
Following their meeting last Thursday, Obama said that he also told Abbas to make a bit more of an effort to halt what he described as isolated and sporadic anti-Jewish incitement in Palestinian schools, mosques and media. Documentation by Israeli and international watchdog groups shows that the incitement is far from isolated or sporadic.
Meanwhile, Israeli officials cited by Ha’aretz decried the Obama Administration’s stiff demands that no more houses be built for Jews beyond the pre-1967 borders.
They noted that under former President George W. Bush, Israel reached understandings that the natural growth of existing towns would not subject to Israel’s commitments to halt settlement activity (commitments many Israelis see as null and void anyway since the Palestinians have failed to honor their reciprocal obligations).
But one official said those understandings are now “worth nothing,” and that the US is taking an unfair position by completely siding with Palestinian demands that go far beyond the original peace agreements.
Other officials attributed Obama’s hard line positions against Israel to his efforts to reconcile with the Arab and Muslim worlds, which will be the focus of a much anticipated speech he will give in Cairo this Thursday.
Israel to U.S.: ‘Stop favoring Palestinians’
UPDATE: The Lid compares Obama to Pharaoh: “This week the President of the United States declared that the Jews living in the West Bank cannot have children, and if they do those kids cannot live with their parents. Oh, that’s not what he said, but the result is the same. What he said is that there cannot be natural growth in the West Bank settlements:”
‘Obama’s decrees are like Pharaoh’s’
JPost.com Staff , THE JERUSALEM POST
“The American demand to prevent natural growth is unreasonable, and brings to mind Pharaoh who said: Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river,” Science Minister and Habayit Hayehudi head Daniel Herschkowitz said Sunday, referring to US President Barack Obama’s demand to freeze all settlement activity, even that ensuing from natural growth.
Speaking ahead of the weekly cabinet meeting, mathematician Herschkowitz furthered his point with a simple equation. “If there is a family that expands from one child to four or five, what should we tell them – to ship the children off to Petah Tikva? This is an unacceptable demand, even if it comes from the Americans, and Israel should reject it decisively,” he affirmed.
Interior Minister Eli Yishai said, “The American demand to freeze construction means expulsion for young people living in large locales. I hope the US administration understands that. If not, I don’t want to be an apocalyptic prophet saying we’re facing struggle and confrontation. The concessions they’re demanding of us are a security impediment we cannot withstand.”
Information and Diaspora Minister Yuli Edelstein chose a positive perspective on the dispute threatening an Israeli-American rift.
“The recent days prove what luck we have that it is [Prime Minister Binyamin] Netanyahu’s government conducting talks on West Bank natural growth and construction in Jerusalem,” he said. “Just imagine someone else, he would have led us to an entanglement lasting generations.”
“We aren’t headed for a confrontation with the White House, but rather for understandings, and Netanyahu’s visit there proved it. President Obama is a friend of Israel, and I’m sure we can resolve the disagreements,” Edelstein added.
Welfare and Social Services Minister Isaac Herzog of the Labor party stressed the importance in preventing a head-on collision with Obama.
“The current American administration sees things differently than the last two presidents did. Construction is being undertaken around Jerusalem according to understandings with previous administrations. Israel wants very much to reach understandings, and Defense Minister Ehud Barak’s upcoming trip to Washington proves it,” Herzog said.
A Jew With A View 
Goldberg is a good voice to listen to to get an idea of what’s going on in the middle ground. We hear many loud voices from the radical anti-Zionist left and the conservative ultra-Zionist right, but too few (I feel) from people like JG, who I would call a liberal Zionist. He is steadfastly pro-Israel, yet not afraid to criticize what he sees as bad policy no matter what government is in charge. He has been viciously attacked as a Zionist thug by the Chomskyite left and as a liberal douchebag by the hard line Zionist right. Perhaps that means something, perhaps not.
Good points as always Marc 🙂
I’ll reserve opinion as to whether Obama is Amalek… I agree that of course he is nothing like Ahmadinejad or Hitler. But if it does turn out that he passively sits by after having turned his back on Israel purely in order to placate the Muslim world…. well, I’d be less than impressed….!
Many thanks for that link, I will definitely be checking out that article!!
I hate to be a devil’s advocate, but the “Obama as Pharoah” bit is really pushing the logic of useful criticism. I mean, why stop at Pharoah? Many supporters of Israel–and I am among them, as you know–have perfectly good reasons to question the sagacity of the Obama administration’s current position on Israel. But, as Alan Dershowitz says, let’s not be more Israeli than the Israelis themselves. Can we criticize Obama’s policy without ad hominem attacks (pace Sultan Knish)? Excellent parody, no doubt. But so was the New Yorker cover during the 2008 campaign. Obama is the president of the United States, and to criticize his policy is a duty. If he makes bad decisions, voices must be raised. But he is not Ahmadinejad, or Hitler–or even Amalek.
Jeffrey Goldberg has some worthwhile thoughts on the matter. http://jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/06/the_unbearable_narcissism_of_t.php
Best to all.
No worries Steven, I realised 🙂 I think readers will also 🙂
I agree with your comments totally – thanks for posting!
I did mean of course, ” I can not understand.
I can understand how the Israeli government can be expected not to allow “natural growth.
Maybe Barrack Obama, and Hillary Clinton, can let them in to the secret.
Steven