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Obama: Israel’s Destruction Would Be Like “World’s Ultimate Late-Term Abortion”

(From WIRES)

Tuesday, May 24^th, 2011

(MONEYGALL, IRELAND) ―President Barack Obama's endorsement of a longtime demand for Israel to withdraw to its pre-1967 borders has stunned the international community and further strained the relationship between the U.S. and its strongest Mid-East ally.  But apparently President Obama's "reassuring" comments on the matter Monday have helped ease the Jewish state’s fears and ruffled feathers.

   While touring Ireland yesterday the President was caught off guard by a question regarding his address last week supporting the reestablishment of Israel’s 1967 borders.   Obama commented that if worse came to worst, and the reestablishment of the '67 borders did not bring peace but instead hastened its destruction, Israelis should simply think of their demise as "the world's ultimate late-term abortion."

   “Israel’s extermination is certainly not something I support,” said the President when asked how he would react if Israel withdrew to its pre-1967 War (also known as the Six Day War) borders only to be annihilated as a result. “…However, if one looks at the strife in the Middle-East, looks at the violence and suffering that has occurred since Israel’s founding, after all the inconvenience this one tiny, fairly young country’s existence has caused the region, if it were to be 'eliminated' it could just be chalked up as the world’s ‘ultimate late-term abortion.'"

   Obama went on to explain to a curious crowd inside a pub in Moneygall, Ireland, "Think about it: you have a very small, young country; it was conceived, it grew, it thrived, but the inconvenience it caused the region it was in was so severe that it could no longer be accepted, so its ending would be an 'abortion’ of sorts.  Just think of it as a late-term abortion, as far as nations go.  It (Israel) would just be a country the world realized it didn't want or couldn’t afford after all… No harm, no foul.”

   Added Obama, “I know Jews have had it rough at times throughout history, particularly the last century.  And the need for a secure home of their own is understandable, but just because we looked at their persecution and became all emotional, and just because the United Nations fell into the ‘heat of passion’ after World War II and made a mistake, I don’t want my fellow world citizens punished with a whole country. ”

Reaction Mixed, But Largely Enlightened

   Some Jewish leaders around the world have responded with shock and disbelief at the President's comments, with the Jerusalem Post stating in a formal op-ed, "How on earth (Obama) reached any comparison between the topic of abortion and the extermination of Israel is a path of logic we dread to imagine."

   Added the Post, "We also dread to imagine this is the state to which international diplomacy has devolved....Perhaps Darwin was wrong after all."

   Famed attorney and Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz said Monday that President Obama made a "mistake" and was "naive" in his conviction that Israel's relinquishing of the territory it gained in the 1967's Six Day War would create peace between Palestinians, Israelis, Israel’s Arab neighbors and ensure safety for the Jewish state.

   However such detracting sentiments appear to be in the minority of reactions to Obama's comments.  And most surprising of all is the reaction of Israel's own Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.  Hailing Obama's "clarification" on the possibility of Israel's destruction, Netanyahu said to a joint session of the U.S. Congress Tuesday, "I'm still skeptical that moving (Israel's) borders back to their 1967 lines would bring about lasting peace, but hearing President Obama wax so philosophical about the idea of our extermination did put my fears to rest.  I guess it's all a matter of perspective."

   Reaction on the Israeli street appears to be equally amiable to Obama's viewpoint.   "Being a nation still so young, I guess if the surrounding Arabs invaded and wiped us out it would be like a giant late-term abortion," said Janis Levy, Professor of Jewish and Women's Studies at Tel-Aviv University Tuesday.  "Many of my colleagues were objecting to Obama's proposal until he equated its worst-case outcome to that of a woman's right to choose, and take a reasonably inordinate amount of time in deciding to choose.  Makes our possible extermination seem manageable, indeed."

   Given that Israel’s greatest longtime ally has now called on it to shrink its size considerably for nations and organizations that have repeatedly called for its extinction and waged war on it is no longer unnerving West Bank settler Zvi Zrahiya.  Zrahiya, 64, a mohel and community leader in the West Bank’s Qarnel Shomron settlement, said for years he had feared what would become of his family and country if Israel relinquished its self-described “defensive borders” it established from the land seized in 1967.  “So much of (Israel’s) strength, all of our deterrence to our enemies used to depend on us holding the land from 1967,” Zrahiya said Tuesday.

   “I use to think if we retreated to our 1967 lines that would signal our weakness and lead to more attacks, or war, or God-forbid a nuclear strike,” added Zrahiya.  “For forty years I have feared that losing that land could lead to our deaths…But Barack Obama’s perspective of that scenario has helped me become more comfortable if we ever are wiped out.  After all, who am I to deny a woman’s reproductive rights?”

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