Israeli Minister of Defense Claims Obama Is Doing ‘More’ for Israeli Security Than Any Other U.S. President
- Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:01am by
Billy Hallowell
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President Barack Obama has frequently faced criticisms from Republicans who believe that he isn’t defending Israel with the fervency that other U.S. presidents have embraced. In fact, conservative Jews have called Obama a “train wreck” and a “con man” in the past. Despite widespread criticism — especially following the president’s past call for Israel to return to its 1967 borders — Israeli Minister of Defense Ehud Barak has nothing negative to say about the U.S. leader.
Quite the opposite, Barak praised Obama, telling CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, “I should tell you honestly that this administration under President Obama is doing, in regard to our security more than anything that I can remember in the past.”
Blitzer seemed somewhat taken aback by the assessment that Obama is the most supportive in the history of relations between the U.S. and Israel. Naturally, he pressed Barak to clarify and reiterate his statement. CNN explains:
Pressed if the Obama administration has been the most supportive ever, throughout history of U.S.-Israeli relations, Barak affirmed, saying that from his recollection of President Carter forward – “the defense relation between Israel and the United States are extremely stable and good.”
Barak continued, “It doesn’t mean that we agree on everything, it’s very well known that differences between our government and the American administration about peace process about other issues, but I believe that in regard to world turmoil, in regard to Hezbollah, in regard to what happens in Syria, in regard to Iran, we basically – basically agree on the diagnosis. We don’t agree on the prognosis on some of the issues.”
In addition to offering accolades to the president, Barak also said that he sees support from both sides of the political aisle in America.
“From my point of view as defense minister [US-Israeli relations] are extremely good, extremely deep and profound,” he told Blitzer. “I can see long years of both sides of the political aisle deeply supporting the state of Israeli and I believe that reflects a profound feeling among the American people.”
Watch the interview, below:
(H/T: Mediaite)
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Comments (63)
Individualism
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 9:35amthat is a shame but hopefully he doesn‘t fight their wars by putting our troops to occupy Iran and Syria or others they don’t like. they still shouldn’t get tax payer money when many more Americans are struggling to get by.
Report Post »Mutiny
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 10:03amThe only sane middle eastern policy is to pull out. We cannot fix the Muslims. We have been bankrupting ourselves for nothing. If Israel was attacked, we should help them. Not with land units and occupation but with air and naval power. We cannot and shouldnt not be in Syria. Iran does nothing more than sabre rattling. If Iran had the missile tech and a bomb Israel would have already hit them.
The best foreign policy we can have with Israel is we quit giving them and their enemies money. We pull out of the region outside of a few naval and air bases. Finally we pull out of the Israel hating UN. If they need us, we will always be there. But if we go bankrupt chasing Muslim boogie men around in each Muslim nation we will be bankrupt and Israel will be on its own.
Report Post »progoyim
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 10:56amNOT ONE MORE DOLLAR NOT ONE MORE US LIFE FOR THE SAND PIT AT THE EASTERN END OF THE Mediterranean
Report Post »I find it disgusting the way both candidates pander to this sand pit of a country and the traitorous APRICK group
Obama giving more money for The iron dome and Romney playing bobbing for shekel’s
lketchum
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 10:57amIsrael does not get cash from the U.S. Israel receives low-interest loans and loan guarantees.
The coujtry uses these guarantees to buy defense materials from largely U.S. private sector firms.
Israel is a great customer – she pays her bills, with interest on time.
Defense and related industries constitutes 20% of the U.S. economy.
Be careful; be accurate, about judging U.S. aid to Israel and or others – the U.S. usually ends up on the better side of any deal with foreign countries. Germany and Japan both paid the U.S. billions for placing troops on their soil during the occupations and cold war. That’s right, THEY paid US, not the other way around.
Report Post »tzion
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 11:01am@Indy
Report Post »At least Mutiny here has reasonable views, even if we disagree on some. Unlike you, he doesn’t see police and big business as the biggest threat to the US.
KidCharlemagne
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 2:52pmlketchum
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 10:57am
Defense and related industries constitutes 20% of the U.S. economy.
Be careful; be accurate, about judging U.S. aid to Israel and or others – the U.S. usually ends up on the better side of any deal with foreign countries.
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That’s just proof that President Eisenhower was right:
“This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence — economic, political, even spiritual — is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.”
Report Post »-President Dwight D. Eisenhower, January 17, 1961
seagoat
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 9:18amEhud Barak Isreal out if he had a chance, he was a close friend of Bill Clinton in Fact it was Dick Morse that helped him get elected prime minister over Netanyahu when Clinton was Prez.
Report Post »TEARS FOR AMERICA
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 9:01amSecularism rules and reigns in Israel and in American Jews…they cannot see what is happening…many of us see with our spiritual eyes the destruction coming and even Israel’s own people do not…reminds me of the days before the destruction of Israel by Rome- not a stone of the Temple was left on top of another and was totally destroyed and the people were asleep and had no idea…God open their eyes to the truth…awaken them…
Report Post »Guerrino_P
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:59amWho really cares about Israel? If they are the ‘chosen’ people, God will take care of them. Worry about this country you knuckleheads.
Report Post »crypticguise
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 2:24pmWhy do you bother to read The Blaze when you have no understanding of World, Israeli or American History?
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:57amWill the lies ever stop?????
Report Post »watersRpeople
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 9:03amI just find it interesting that Conservatives are supposed to be all about small government; little government intervention, meanwhile Conservatives Jews are saying Obama isn’t doing enough.
Report Post »watersRpeople
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 9:15amSometimes I think it might be because a Conservative in the Northern Hemisphere isn’t the same thing as a Conservative in the Southern Hemisphere, and neither identical between the east and the west.
Report Post »watersRpeople
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 9:21amThat‘s why I really don’t like labels, because the outer shell of the label stays frozen, and yet the waters rivers keep flowing beneath.
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:55amHow much did he get paid to say this?
Report Post »RamonPreston
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:53amIf Obama is your friend, you don’t need enemies.
Report Post »dannyo
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:51ampost on theblaze, wait twenty minutes or so, and your post will appear…how pathetic…not a good thing in an instant gratification society, feel sorry for posters with ADD (like myself)…
Report Post »the_system_disconnect
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 12:56pmI wonder when I’ll see this.
Anyways, I hope it’s true, but somehow I‘m not too sure we’re quite as good to Israel as I think we should be…
Report Post »WakingSheep
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 2:16pmSquirrel!!!
Report Post »iamsaved
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:50amIsn’t he the same guy who tried to give a large chunk of Israel away to Yasser Arafat? Thankfully, Yasser turned him down.
Report Post »dannyo
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:47amsupport of israel and $3.40 will get an unemployed american a gallon of gas…
Report Post »marybethelizabeth
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:46amI don’t know who wrote this headline.
It is not a claim.. It is a statement of fact.
President Obama — Mitt Romney — Same Guy
Report Post »We will be worse off 4 years from now if either man’s Presidential bid is successful.
sawbuck
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:46amYep…. Get back to your 67’ borders ….Screams Love
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:45amI like Ron Paul’s approach with Israel, get out of their way, let them handle their own security issues…..
Report Post »AllLost
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:45amThat whole Egypt thing has been wonderful for Israeli defense.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:43amEhud Barak is and always has been a far lefty…….
Report Post »BaldSouthCarolinaMan
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:32amGot to keep it REAL until after the elections.
Report Post »randy
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:31amOMG, Orange juice just flew out of my nose and could not stop laughing when I read this.
Report Post »ourig
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:30amheud barak is a moron
Report Post »historyguy48
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:54amHe is the most “progressive” of all the Israeli leaders. If you don’t know what that means yet, you’d better do some homework!
Report Post »barber2
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:29amLeader in the Labour Party: says it all. The international Lefties hang together….
Report Post »jkjk
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:33amI wonder how much worthless in chief gave to this idiot under the table. I can’t wait until dumbo packs his things and leaves. These commies are trying to do anything sleazy to win.
Report Post »jkjk
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:35amOh ya, dippitty hasn’t even visited Israel since hes become president.
Report Post »The Realist
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:29amYes, either playing both sides and/or a self-hating Jew. Plenty of them out there that vote for Obama.
Report Post »Dushman Kush
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:26amComrade Obama fully supports the Jewish Bolshevik Revolution. Comrade Barack Obama 2012!!!! Long Live the Jewish Bolshevik Revolution!!!!
Report Post »mayihelpyou
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:21amThe soon-to-be-replaced-Israeli Minister of Defense appeared on CNN…..
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:28amThey better hope!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:32amIndeed, interesting bit of trivia that answers the question of his comment…
Ehud Barak is a member of the Israeli Labor Party; and combines with many socialist and marxist groups of Israel. Hence he agrees that Obama is actually working strongly with Israel along the lines of their shared Marxists and Socialist ideology.
There is the link – a common, radical, utterly failed ideology.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:09amThat’s a lie! The Bible, GB and Krathammer says he hates Israel. What does the Israeli minister of defense know anyway?
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:19amEhud Barak, God bless him and I do respect this 35 years spent in the IDF. But, until just last year he was the leader of Israel’s Labor Party, which has ties to the European Socialists. Essentially, they are the extreme left of Israel.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:26am“HIS” not “this”
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:34am@RJJing:
Exactly. Ehud Barak is a match with Obama for his ideology on the lines of Marxism and Socialism; even with his service in the IDF, this shows why he is supportive of Obama, in claiming that our POTUS has done more for Israel than any other President.
What I wonder now is if Obama is providing financial support for the various Socialist groups pressing for uprisings and civil protests across Israel?
Report Post »marybethelizabeth
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:55amMr. Justangry
You just named 3 experts in hating. It’s just psychological projection
I think if you found 3 experts in truth telling, the facts would be the opposite of the misguided opinions you referenced.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 9:01amThat’s actually not encouraging to know that a high ranking Israeli official is a socialist and they have so much influence on us. I’m actually concerned their racist immigration policy has left them vulnerable to a large number of eastern European athiest Marxists moving there and influencing their state. I don’t know that this is what is happening, but it is not outside the realm of possibility. To know this is a possibility and so many, at least on this site, will unconditionally stand with them because of a couple of passages in a religous text I don’t believe in… But you know me, live and let live and mind our own business, and leave us alone is what I’d prefer.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 9:04amMBE, I was being sarcastic. I’m an agnostic, think GB is supporting fascists, and despise Krathammer’s warmongering.
Report Post »tzion
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 10:59amEhud Barack was one of the most left wing Prime Ministers Israel ever had. I may have him mixed up with someone else, but I’m fairly certain he was the one who offered to hand over over 95% of the territories to the Palestinians (that offer was rejected by the way).
Report Post »resme
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 11:00amIsrael was founded on socialism and communism.
Report Post »TheArbiter
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 2:35pmlol @ the bible says he hates israel
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:06amI’m Barrack 0bama and I approve of this paid message.
Report Post »Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:04amTranslation: We’re not burning our bridges. Let him think we think he’s a good guy.
Report Post »IslandMama
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:15amI agree – exactly what I was thinking!
Report Post »HKS
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 8:23amNow who would ever think of doing that, playing both sides. Brilliant.
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