Jewish Donors Pay $10,000 to Hear Obama Lie About Support for Israel

COMMENTARY | President Barack Obama attended a fund raiser in New York recently, according to ABC News, and told a group of prominent Jewish donors that his administration has done more to help the security of Israel than any previous administration.

One wonders what was more bizarre, the fact that Obama said that or the fact that 30 people paid $10,000 apiece to hear him say it.

We've previously reported the slights Obama has inflicted on the state of Israel. There was the surly reception Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu received at the hands of Obama in the Oval Office in May 2009 in which demands were made about what Israel must do in the pursuit of Middle East peace. It was this occasion when the president left Netanyahu to cool his heels while he had dinner in the private quarters without his houseguest. Then we reported how President Obama voted for a UN resolution that condemned Israel in all but name as a result of the Gaza Flotilla incident. These are just two examples of slights, both petty and serious, that the current administration has inflicted on what was once one of America's best allies.

Earlier this year, Reuters reported that many Jewish backers of Obama were reassessing their support of the president over his hostile stance toward Israel. No doubt this has led the president to tell the group of well-heeled Jewish Democrats that he is a friend to Israel after all, despite a record that suggests the contrary. The question now arises: Are the donors going to buy it? One supposes that they already have, since they've shelled out a combined total of $300 thousand to hear the president try to BS them.

One wonders what it would take for some Jewish supporters of Obama to finally turn on him. The Iranian nuclear threat looms over the Middle East, threatening the entire region. Perhaps if a nuclear bomb were to go off in the vicinity of Tel Aviv because the Obama administration has impeded Israel's attempts to stop the Iranian nuclear program, some of the president's supporters in the American Jewish community might start to really reassess that support. But by then it will be too late.