Obama: Israelis Do Not Like Me Because My Middle Name Is Hussein

Ha'aretz reports that during an interview Wednesday with Israel's Channel 2, "when confronted with the anxiety that some Israelis feel toward him, Obama said that 'some of it may just be the fact that my middle name is Hussein, and that creates suspicion.'"

This is insulting to all Israelis, and to intelligent people everywhere. There is plenty in the White House's actual policies toward Israel, which have nothing to do with the President's middle name, that are cause for concern. The treatment of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he visited the last time, the support for a UN Resolution that specifically targets Israel in calling for a nuclear free Middle East, clashing with Israel over building in East Jerusalem, the weak and inexcusable response to the Iranian uprising last year where Obama refused to lend at least rhetorical support to those standing for freedom and immediately condemn the Iranian government, placing continued pressure on Israel to make concessions to the Palestinians rather than the other way around, not taking the Iranian nuclear threat seriously enough, and generally kowtowing to the Muslim world are only some of the things that come to mind besides for the Obama's middle name that are a cause for concern. Tweet