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“breathtaking.” Glick noted that “it isn’t every day that you can see an American President leaving the Prime Minister of an allied government twisting in the wind for weeks before deciding to grant him an audience at the White House.”
    But it wasn’t just the wait. Glick reported that Netanyahu was “brought into the White House in an unmarked van in the middle of the night rather than greeted like a friend at the front door”; was “forbidden to have his picture taken with the President”; was “forced to leave the White House alone, through a side exit”; and finally, was “ordered to keep the contents of his meeting with the President secret.” 1
    The oddest and most puzzling thing about it all was that the American Jews who voted so overwhelmingly for Obama could have seen it coming all along. It never dawned on Jews, Christians, or Americans that a presidential candidate would be so patently dishonest. But he was more than just a skillful dancer. In hindsight, Barack Hussein Obama turns out to have been a bald-faced liar.
    Yet those of us who were aware of Obama’s troubling past met his newly minted pro-Israel sentiments with grave skepticism. Sarah Silverman and the other pro-Obama Jews should have been aware, for example, of a March 2007 account by the pro-Palestinian blogger Ali Abunimah at a Web site called
The Electronic Intifada
. Abunimah alleged that Obama adopted a pro-Israel position as a matter of political expediency as his national aspirations developed. “The last time I spoke to Obama,” Abunimah recalled, “was in the winter of 2004 at a gathering in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood. He was in the midst of a primary campaign to secure the Democratic nomination forthe United States Senate seat he now occupies. But at that time polls showed him trailing.”
    When Abunimah greeted him, Obama “responded warmly,” and volunteered an apology for not being more outspoken against Israel: “Hey,” said the candidate to Abunimah, “I’m sorry I haven’t said more about Palestine right now, but we are in a tough primary race. I’m hoping when things calm down I can be more up front.” Abunimah added: “He referred to my activism, including columns I was contributing to the
Chicago Tribune
critical of Israeli and US policy, ‘Keep up the good work!’” 2
    As the various Democratic rivals for the 2008 presidential nomination competed for Jewish support, major pro-Israel donors should have seen Abunimah’s account. A false supporter for Israel was the last thing the free world needed in the fight against the global jihad. But his ruse was dazzling the eyes of men who should have seen clearly.
    Abunimah’s piece—and Obama’s anti-Semitic associations—got little attention. The Jewish people and lovers of our most important strategic ally missed a big opportunity. But it wasn’t just Abunimah. Voters had only to scratch the surface and look into his background to see through Barack Obama’s deception—and find not one, not two, not three, but numerous associations with virulent anti-Semites and haters of Israel. (I reject the leftist/Islamic supremacist claim that one can be anti-Israel but not anti-Semitic. The two are essentially related and inseparable; in fact, the claim that they can be separated is part of the modern anti-Semitic narrative.) Throughout his life Barack Obama has been close friends with numerous virulent anti-Semites: Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Khalid al-Mansour, Rashid Khalidi, and others.
    It may be an old cliché, but it’s true: show me your friends, and I’ll show you who and what you are.
    American Jews should have noted this, and noted it well. Instead, they fell for Obama’s smooth talk at the American Israel PublicAffairs Committee (AIPAC). One speech became the litmus test. And a lifetime of anti-Semitic associations, alliances, mentors, and troubling actions were summarily dismissed.
    The mainstream media, of course, took little notice,