Two Cheers for Netanyahu

Exposure of Obama Complete

Joe Biden got torpedoed in Israel last week, no question about it. Not as bad as the lethal attack on the USS Liberty, but pretty nasty nonetheless. Biden, however, soldiered on, conferring with his boss for some 90 minutes and leaving the food cold at the Netanyahu homestead.

Bibi’s humiliation of Biden and Obama brought out the whole of the punditry, some of it going so far as to criticize the Zionist state. Even Tom Friedman waxed indignant, counseling that the hapless Veep should have packed up and gone home. But, like Biden, Friedman is certain to get over it just as surely as he recanted recently when he had the poor judgment to utter a kind word about China. Uri Avnery captured the Biden fiasco best, observing that a weakling with spit on his face calls it rain. And Pat Buchanan observed that Biden remained in “full pander mode” even as Israel kicked its American poodle. But by midweek the falsehoods had begun to take hold and the punditry was starting to rewrite the story, with Maureen Dowd spinning the incident as a smackdown of Bibi by Barack who had finally “lost his temper.” This insight rivaled her accompanying characterization of Israeli colonies in East Jerusalem as “a domestic zoning issue.” And by Wednesday, op-eds in the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere were blaming the whole incident on Barry for bringing up the “settlement” issue in the first place. Finally toward week’s end on Thursday the Washington Post revealed that Barry and Bibi had reached a secret understanding that the settlement construction could continue so long as they remained out of public view. Sic semper Obama.

Netanyahu, however, deserves the undying gratitude of every real progressive in the U.S. This past year has been like a dance of the seven veils for Obama. They had been all teased away, save for one. The veil of peace, the veil of civil liberties, the veil of environmentalism, single-payer, nuclear disarmament (ripped away by a big new budget for nukes), opposition to the banksters – stripped away one by one. The only remaining vestment was opposition to Israel’s colonies. And Bibi tore that one off between breakfast and (delayed) dinner, leaving Obama standing as naked as Ishtar or Salome.

So thanks, Bibi, for finishing the job. Now that it’s done we can expect all those who aggressively championed candidate Obama to broadcast effusive apologies for so doing. Let us never forget that Obama was not just the candidate of the Democrats but the hands down choice of the most “progressive” wing of the Party, its dream candidate. By revealing Obama for what he is, the limitations of the Dems are laid bare. Obama is all we can expect from them, and it is not much.

By now Obama’s backers surely recognize that they should not have urged him on us, just because he was so “cool” in schooling and appearance, or because all their friends liked him. Surely by now they realize that they were not voting for prom king but for the Emperor of the U.S.

With Obama’s exposure completed by Bibi, we can expect an apology from the leaders of PDA like Norman Solomon, from the message controllers at The Nation, from other gate keepers in the progressive” movement, from Tom Hayden, Medea Benjamin, Phyllis Bennis and other leaders of UFPJ and the official peace movement, even perhaps from MoveOn.org. Surely they will be in print soon, promising no more pigs in a poke that turn out to be rats when let out of the bag. At the least they will apologize profusely for imposing Obama on us.

I can hardly wait to hear from them.

John V. Walsh, @JohnWal97469920, until recently a Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, has written on issues of peace and health care for several independent media. Read other articles by John V..

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  1. bozh said on March 19th, 2010 at 10:36am #

    Well, believing is not seeing and thus not knowing. Let us assume that at least one american knows what is going on and had been going on for the last several decades.
    A better assumption might be that a mn people in US know what is going on; including some corporate scribblers, but cannot or dare not or will not reveal the knowledge limited to, or [re] served for a few americans.

    I go from a postulate that nothing happens to US or in US that is not of the system.
    Insult-injure the system and one wld see what america can do and how angry the system-managers cld get.
    I say let’s asssume the worst or best; depending on ur leanings: it’s a charade or same song with same lyrics. tnx

  2. Deadbeat said on March 19th, 2010 at 12:21pm #

    Thanks John for calling out the culprits on the “Left”. Their sabotaging of the anti-war movement is what gave rise to Obama.

  3. Mulga Mumblebrain said on March 19th, 2010 at 12:29pm #

    Although Chomsky, Nader et al all warned presciently, but understandably, that Obama was a fraud, and, let us be frank,no-one approaches the throne in the US unless they are wholly owned and controlled by the Zionists, we knew with stunning finality how Obama would govern when he landed a mouthful of gob-shite in the face of the patsies by appointing Zionist ultra and dual (make that single)loyalty exemplar Rahm Emmanuel as his Chief of Staff. Thereafter every betrayal, and my, haven’t there been lots of them, was simply the repetition of the same old tune. The efforts of Obama apologists and ‘liberal’ poseurs in the US and the colonies to deny the undeniable for over a year have been laughable and contemptible, once again illustrating just what moral cowards, hypocrites and poltroons ‘social democrats’ really are.