Uncle Tom Obama Bows Down to the Massa

UPDATINGS 4-6-2009 & 4-9-2009

Is it fair to call Obama an Uncle Tom just because he bowed to the king of Saudi Arabia, a country where slavery was not outlawed --on paper-- until 1962 and continued there in practice? Obama seems to have gone farther in obeisance to the Saudis than previous American high officials. But actually he is only going in the same direction as they did --but farther. After all, John Foster Dulles, a State Department veteran and secretary of state for Pres. Eisenhower, bestowed an expensive pistol on King Saud of Saudi Arabia who visited the United States in 1957. Presidents George Bush I & II were both very considerate of and compliant with Saudi desires and demands. But I don't know that either of them ever bowed down to a Saudi royal. In that way, Obama may be the first. Certainly that is Change that we can believe in.

Here is a still photo of Obama bowing down, taken from the back [hat tip-Flopping Aces]. If you want to be sure that Obama is the one bowing down, if you want see him approach King PastaFazoolah, watch the video showing the scene at the G20 meeting before and after Obama's craven bow [From Michelle Malkin].

John Foster Dulles testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committe in February 1956 on the issue of why the United States was selling war planes to Saudi Arabia but not to Israel. He also justified the US Army policy of not sending Jewish soldiers in the US Armed Forces to bases in Saudi Arabia. Senators had criticized the fact that:

"the agreement for the US airbase at Dhahran permitted Saudi Arabia to exclude any 'objectionable' individuals. The United States was required to submit a detailed list of the names and identities of personnel and employees. Dulles. . . went on to explain why American Jews could not be assigned to an American base. There was an audible gasp when he said that Saudi Arabia practices 'very rigorously certain religious doctrines, and they have felt for a long time --it goes back centuries-- a very particular animosity toward the Jews because they credited the assassination of Mohammed to a Jew' [actually, to a Jewess said to have poisoned him]. Dulles later revised his testimony to read:
'a very particular animosity toward the Jews since the time of Mohammed.' While the Secretary [JFDulles] personally disapproved such practices, we had to recognize that Saudi Arabia was an 'ally.' "'We perforce accomodate ourselves to certain practices they have which we do not like; they perhaps accomodate themselves to certain of our idiosyncrasies which they do not like, but on the whole they have a pretty arbitrary rule, largely dictated by the strict tenets of the Moslem faith.'" [I L Kenen, Israel's Defense Line: Her Friends and Foes in Washington (Buffalo NY: Prometheus 1981), pp 127-128].

What is bizarre nowadays is that the medieval religious bigotry of Islam in general and the Saudi kingdom in particular now enjoy the approval and patronage of what is called the "Left." The catering to and fawning over Arab kings that typified the State Dept, the Republican Eisenhower administration and the US oil companies that were partners in ARAMCO in the 1950s is now identified as "leftist." The Islamic laws that govern life in Saudi Arabia have not much changed in the last fifty years since the heyday of the Dulles brothers, John Foster and Allen, but today it is all done with the approval of the "Left."

On the US Treasury's financial support or hidden foreign aid for Saudi Arabia through the Foreign Tax Credit, see here & here. See our previous posts on Saudi influence in the West here & here.

Can anyone who is intelligent, knowledgeable and serious take seriously the walt-mearsheimer claim that Israel controls Washington policy toward the Middle East??

It is also of interest that Dulles, no friend of Israel as should be clear from the above, traces Arab/Muslim hatred of Jews back to Muhammad. He does not blame it on "occupation" or the Arab refugee problem or any other alleged offense of the State of Israel. Today, of course, anti-Israel [read: Judeophobic] propaganda and psywar have become much more sophisticated.
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More commentary on the Bow and obeisance to the Saudis: here & here & here & David Pryce-Jones here, & a stong Washington Times editorial here.

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UPDATING 4-6-2009 & 4-9-2009 --- John F Kennedy was photographed in a friendly scene with King Saud arriving at the White House in a US Army helicopter. JFK is not bowing however [see here]. On the other hand, Prez George Bush II bows down before the present king, Abdullah, down to only a 30 degree angle approx. [see here from Little Green Footballs] and perhaps only to let the king place a medal or decoration on a ribbon around his neck, whereas Obama's bow is deeper, about 90 degrees. I now have to be slightly more charitable to Obama about his sycophancy, his toadying, to the Saudis --after all, his forerunner, George II did too, apparently not as deeply-- but my conclusion about Saudi influence in Washington is reinforced.

Obamanazi Shows His Hand -- Wants Israel to "compromise"

When fascism comes to America,
it will be called anti-fascism.
[attributed to Huey Long]

Barack Obama, the man who isn't sure who he really is, has shown his anti-Israel hand. He said today, approximately:

Each side "knows the compromises that need to be made."

That's an old line that we are used to hearing from the State Department for many years now. It's a stale line. It's deceitful. The State Department was an enemy of the Jews before WW2, in the 1930s. The head of the German desk, Eleanor Dulles, sympathized with Hitler. Sometimes compromises on both sides are needed to make peace. However, Arabs --and other Muslims-- do not as a rule make compromises. They make demands and once a demand has been accepted or agreed to by the other side, they make a new demand. It has been clear since the disastrous Oslo Accords that the PLO has no intention of making peace but merely have used the so-called "peace process" in order to improve their strategic situation on the ground. That is, they have successfully managed to receive areas strategically vital to Israel by diplomacy and negotiations, not so much their own diplomacy and negotiations but US diplomatic pressure on Israel. The first Bush + Clinton + Bush 2 have all pressured Israel to make concessions [=" compromises"]. The more Israeli concessions the more PLO demands, the more war and the more dead Jews [and dead Arabs too].

More recently, the UK and US have promoted or enabled Hamas control of Gaza. The UK did this more openly, the US less so. However, Condonazzia of the Third Rice, US secretary of state, helped Hamas take over Gaza in two very specific ways:
1) she pressured Israel to allow Hamas to take part in the Palestinian Authority elections in January 2006, although according to the Oslo accords, only parties that accepted those accords were to be allowed to take part in PA elections. Hamas not only rejected those accords but vows never to make peace with Israel and its charter openly, clearly calls for mass murder of the Jews, that is, genocide. This is especially notable in Article 7 of the Charter that repeats the medieval Muslim fable of the Muslims killing Jews at the End of Days.

On Judgement Day, the Muslims will kill the Jews who will hide behind rocks and trees. The rocks and trees will cry out: O Muslim, a Jew is hiding behind me. Come kill him.

Nevertheless, although the Hamas Charter was known to Condonazzia --or should have been known to her-- she still pressured the foolish olmert and/or Sharon to allow participation by the anti-democratic Hamas in the PA elections. Maybe she did this in the name of "democracy" despite Hamas' clear loathing for democracy. The State Dept has also lately held up the sister movement to Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, as a democratic player in that country's politics.

2) Condonazzia also pressured Sharon before the withdrawal from Gaza to also withdraw from the border zone along the Egyptian border, called the Philadelphi Corridor. Without supervision by Israeli forces, the smuggling of heavy weapons, grad/katyusha rockets, anti-aircradft missiles, anti-tank missiles, RPGs, etc., under the border increased manifold. Sharon, who suffered Alzheimer's and had apparently suffered some small strokes before the two strokes that made him into a vegetable, was not mentally fit to contend with Condonazzia and gave in on this vital issue. Now, because Israeli forces did not stay in that border zone --which instead was supervised by reluctant EU or NATO observers who couldn't care less for Jewish lives-- Hamas was able to build up a formidable, very threatening force in Gaza.

On both counts above, Condonazzia helped create the monstrous Hamas Islamo-terrorist statelet in the Gaza Strip. On both counts above, Condonazzia of the Third Rice bears major responsibility --that is, guilt-- for the current war going on there. She is guilty for the hundreds of dead on both sides, as well as those killed in the Fatah-Hamas civil war in June 2007 and before, and for the local Christians murdered by Hamas and other Islamists since the Hamas takeover. This war could rightly be called "Condi's War."

But Condonazzia's policy was a continuation of anti-Israel State Dept policy. Obama is more obvious in his hatred. We have seen this kind of hatred before from State Dept types. Those in the State Dept who didn't want to help Jews under the Nazi threat during and before WW2 were still around when Israel was being created and had not changed their spots. The Eisenhower Administration was ruled in foreign policy by the Dulles brothers, whose sister Eleanor had sympathized with Hitler. The Jimmy Carter regime had zbig brzezinski. Bush I had James Baker. And now Obama seems set on bringing zbig back into policymaking. Maybe james baker too.

What we can do now is to protest against Obama. He deserves no period of grace. We already know that he is a mortal threat. Those of us in Israel could protest at parties held here in Israel by the Democrats Abroad-Israel to "celebrate" the inauguration of this anti-Jewish racist. The DA-Israel wants this to be a "bipartisan" celebration. Some Republicans may want to attend. But decent Jews will not want to go. The party of Jewish rights, of real peace for Jews and Israel, cannot celebrate Obama.

Details of the "celebration":
Where: Zollis Pub in Jerusalem, Rehov Rivlin 5 in the Nahalat Shiv`ah quarter south of Jaffa St [Rehov Yafo]
When: 20 January 2009, while the inaguration is going on Washington. Doors open at 5:30 pm. The inaugural ceremony starts at 7:00 pm [12:00 noon EST] and will be shown on a screen in the pub.
Cost: 65 sheqels per person; 55 for early reservations.

For those who want to go in, it would be appropriate to boo peacefully when Obama appears on screen. Those who wish to protest outside could carry posters saying:
Obamanazi, Hands Off Israel
Obama, anti-Jewish Racist
Obama, Martin Luther King was a Zionist
Obama Is Not My President [for American citizens only]
Obama, Your Peacemaking Is War-making
Obama, Jews Have Rights Too
Obama, Arabs Are Historic Oppressors of Jews
Obama, Why Not Worry about Blacks Oppressed in Sudan by Arabs?
Is Obama Ungrateful for Jewish Civil Rights Help?

One of the interesting things about the anti-Israel demonstrations taking place in various parts of the world, is that the "leftist" demonstrations often recycle old State Dept anti-Israel slogans, as Obama does, and also feature slogans that once would have been considered Nazi. They are still Nazi. Anyhow, it now appears that what much of what is called the "Left" serves the anti-Israel policies of the UK Foreign Office and US State Dept. The "Left's" former devotion to the working class is forgotten while promoting the IslamoNazis of Hamas, Iran, Hizbullah, etc. Whereas Lenin stated that imperialism was an expression of finance capital, the Left today ignores the huge capital possessed by Arab potentates who support Hamas, as well as exploiting --sometimes enslaving-- millions of foreign workers in Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, etc. Most of the "Left" today is a vehicle for Judeophobia and for promoting Islamic jihad.
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More on Obama's position regarding Israel & the Arabs, including quotes from The One that We Have Been Waiting For [here]
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Coming: More on Zbig's schemes, Obama's dishonesty, the "Left's" lies, Jews in Jerusalem, Hebron, archeology, propaganda analysis, peace follies, etc.