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This week while visiting Jerusalem, Obama sought to prove to his audience a deep commitment to Israel. He said this:
“Now, in terms of knowing my commitments, you don’t have to just look at my words, you can look at my deeds. Just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, which is my committee, a bill to call for divestment from Iran, as a way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don’t obtain a nuclear weapon.”
 
The funny thing about this is that according to both the committee’s official website and Obama’s official U.S. Senate website, Obama is not on the banking committee. He tries to prove himself a supporter of Israel by claiming that he helped pass this bill out of committee, and he is not on the committee that passed out the bill.
 
This incident raises any number of entertaining questions:
1. Does Obama realize that Israel can’t vote in this election?
2. Does Obama actually know which committees he’s on?
3. If he doesn’t know what committees he’s on, why are we still paying his salary? (He’s on five. It’s not a whole lot to remember. I was in 5 organizations in college, and I remember them all!)
4. Is Obama actually capable of saying anything coherent without a teleprompter in front of him?
 
Now, a serious question. I know we have several Obama fans who read this blog (and drive some pretty interesting discussions!). I am desperate to know: Is there any way that you can possibly defend this? Leaving aside all parallel situations and dealing ONLY with this one at hand, is there any conceivable way to defend this one? Please, help me understand why he would say something so downright…goofy.
 
I’m sort of insulted that if he had to tell a lie - and yes, it was a lie, and not a mistake, Obama can’t NOT know what committees he’s on - if he had to tell a lie, couldn’t he tell one with a little more nuance? One that does not take three seconds of Googling to blow wide open? Did he think no one would notice, or hope no one would care?

(Hat-tip: National Review Online’s The Corner)

Israel is in a very unique situation. They are right in the middle of several countries that want to do nothing more than to wipe the country and citizens of Israel off the map. Specifically, but not limited to Iran, Syria, and Lebanon.

While I was in Israel many of you may have heard about the terrorist attack in Jerusalem where an Israeli-Arab hijacked a bulldozer from a construction site and began running into people on the street, cars with children in it, and tourist buses. In this attack 57 were injured and I could be wrong but I believe there were at least 3 killed, one of which was a very young girl not older than 12.  I had been on that very street in that very same spot not more than 48 hours before. When I heard about the attack I and the other Americans on the trip were shocked, one girl even cried. However, our Israeli guards were not nearly as shocked as we, not because they do not care, but because this attack and pointless attacks like these are not uncommon in Israel. I know just reading this Israel may sound like a scary place and you would think that the Israeli people might live in fear, but this is not the case. Even with rockets being fired into Israel, bulldozers being hijacked for the purpose of murder, or suicide bombers, Israelis live their life. Even after rockets are fired they are very hesitant to retaliate, because they unlike many of the Arab terrorist committing these unthinkable acts care about life, and look for any and all other alternatives before a military response.

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On July 6 I returned from an 11 day trip to Israel. I was taken by an incredible organization call AIPAC and would encourage all to join and participate in AIPAC activities. What I will do is post this shorter into, then post info on specific topics so it is not just one enormous post and will be easier to navigate through.

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