Israelis Care About Your Deeds, Not Your Middle Name

In mid-July, the President gave his first interview with Israel’s Channel 2 news, and he was asked to explain why he thinks he has only a single digit approval rating in Israel. He suggested that much of the animosity towards him was because his middle name is “Hussein” inferring some anti-Muslim bigotry on the part of the Israelis, and he ruled out anything having to do with his policies or his behavior. Truth is, he was initially quite popular in Israel prior to his election (as July 2008 polls indicate) so the issue of Israeli religious bias against him because of his name is a non-starter.
Could it possibly be that the Israelis have serious disagreements with his policies, or are we to believe that they suddenly woke up one morning, discovered his middle name was Hussein, and decided to distrust him? If the man is polling in the single digits in Israel, could it be because other issues are bothering them?
Perhaps it’s because as candidate Obama, he stated unequivocally that Jerusalem would remain the undivided capital of the Jewish state, yet almost from the get-go, he has demanded that east Jerusalem bethe capital of a new Palestinian state.


Just another way of Obama using his favorite tactic of calling someone a racist ~~ The Munz