Obama in Cahoots with Ellison/McDermott?

Apparently the timing and contents of the Ellison/McDermott letter to Obama, signed by 54 members of Congress and J Street and calling for Israel to ease the "unabated suffering" of Gazans, were no accident.

Last week an Israeli Foreign Ministry delegation met in Washington with officials from the State Department and the White House, including U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, Michael Posner, and President Barack Obama's adviser on human rights, Samantha Power. According to an article in Haaretz entitled "U.S.: Easing Gaza siege would help counter Goldstone":

Power did not hide her criticism of Israel's handling of the Goldstone report; she asked whether Israel's thinking on the issue was "strategic or tactical."

"Is the correct strategy fighting Goldstone on all fronts?" she asked.

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Posner, who had held talks on the Goldstone report in Jerusalem a month ago, stressed that the document has two angles: "one humanitarian the other multilateral. Improving the humanitarian situation in Gaza may be an important component of the change in the attitude of the international community toward Israel and will be very helpful against the Goldstone report."

The Americans said they do not believe in the policy of preventing goods from reaching the Gaza population because of the political situation there. "We do not accept the current situation at the Gaza crossings," one of them said.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1147463.html

You will recall that Power was forced to leave Obama's presidential campaign after labeling Hillary Clinton a "monster". I would answer her question as to whether it is the correct strategy to fight Goldstone on all fronts with my own question: Is it the correct strategy to fight anti-Semitism on all fronts? The Goldstone Report is the real "monster".

Open the borders to Gazans and show them the benefits of voting for Hamas and firing rockets at Israel without freeing Gilad Schalit? Posner has obviously never spent meaningful time in the Middle East and doesn't have the remotest notion how this unilateral act would be interpreted: kindness, or, more likely, weakness? Moreover, it doesn't matter what Israel will do vis-à-vis the international community. Jews will always be hated, and there will always be those who would deny them their right to a homeland.

Obama is no friend of Israel and has surrounded himself with persons hostile to Israel. It's not going to get any easier during the next 1,000 days.