Is the Obama administration trying to sever America's special relationship with Israel? It sure seems that way sometimes. Look at the track record thus far: pressuring Israel to end all settlement activity--including natural growth in existing settlements; demanding that Israel end all construction in East Jerusalem, which is part of the undivded capital of the Jewish State; President Obama's Cairo speech, which lauded Islam and seemed to put Holocaust victims on equal footing with Palestinian refugees; and the administration's soft stance on the threat of a nuclear Iran, which includes a seemingly futile push for "dialogue" with the mad mullahs.
Plus, the President still has not visited Israel since being elected, although he has traveled to several of the surrounding Muslim countries. Now comes the latest move, one that is being labeled by many supporters of Israel as a blatant slap in the face by the administration.
President Obama is set to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to a highly controversial former United Nations official who has been accused of anti-Israel bias.
Mary Robinson presided over a notorious 2001 U.N. conference on racism that was widely condemned as anti-Semitic. The U.S. and Israel walked out of the event due to its inflammatory content.
Robinson has also been a vocal critic of the United States, and some are questioning why President Obama would award her the nation's highest civilian honor.
Seems like insult to injury to me. I wonder if the Israelis feel the same way.
You can watch my piece about the Robinson controversy by clicking here