http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/20/world/middleeast/20israel.html?ref=world “There is a confluence of two very worrying events,” said Michael Freund, a rightist columnist for The Jerusalem Post in a telephone interview. “One is the Iranian threat, an existential threat. Add to that the fact that for the first time in recent memory there is a president in the White House who is not overly sensitive to the Jewish state and its interests. You put the two together and it will affect anyone’s mood, even an optimist like me.” A new BBC poll of how people around the world regard other countries puts Israel among those least favorably viewed, including Iran, North Korea and Pakistan.
I don't really make a distinction between Jews, Muslims, or Christians. They all have agendas that are not mine. As far as the president goes, it is not his business to deal with religious factions. He deals with countries. If a country behaves badly like North Korea, Iran or Israel, they need to be called out. I'm sure that you are a person wedded to the Jewish agenda and that is entirely your business. If you choose to support all things that go along with that agenda regardless, then be ready for the consequences of that choice. The good and the bad.
Secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square. Frederick Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, Williams Jennings Bryant, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King - indeed, the majority of great reformers in American history - were not only motivated by faith, but repeatedly used religious language to argue for their cause. So to say that men and women should not inject their "personal morality" into public policy debates is a practical absurdity. Our law is by definition a codification of morality, much of it grounded in the Judeo-Christian tradition. BARACK OBAMA, Jun. 28, 2006