Obama and Jews

Any person who has even the slightest grain of grey matter can make a deduction or thumb-suck that such views of sitting Iran and Syria across the table for negotiations are bound to engender fears and apprehensions among Israeli hawks and among their strident American cheerleaders and others as well as these engagement policies do not chime in with the nuts and bolts of Israel's foreign policy which is based on sabre-rattling.
The diehard Jews had also reamed Obama out when he had asked the Israeli government to make hard concessions in pursuance of reviving the peace process. Being mindful of its over-arching role, Obama is trying his damnedest to dispel the fears making rounds among the Ferris wheels of the Jewish lobby about him. Of late while addressing the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Obama has voiced support for key Israeli demands in peace talks with the Palestinians. Of course, this support will be purveyed to the Israelis at the expense of the Palestinians and their legitimate rights. He has assured Israelis and Jews that occupied Jerusalem should be the capital of Israel and "remain undivided". Obama failed to take note of the fact that Israel unilaterally had annexed East Jerusalem, a move which was castigated by the UN as illegal. He waxed so lyrical and fulsome in his support for Israel that he missed out the fact that occupied Jerusalem's status as part of Israel is not internationally recognised.
To what extent Obama has gone well in ingratiating himself with the Jewish lobby and attenuating its apprehensions, is anybody's guess. It is true that his generous remarks might have won some friends in the US and Israel but the movers and shakers of the Israeli lobby are not lapping up all this, as they find Obama's display of affection for Israel latest and over-the-top also. Above all, his statements regarding Israel are categorised as qualified. So the decision regarding Obama's fate is in the lap of gods as the situation goes down to the wire.
The writer is a civil servant
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