u.s. presidents & israel: a blessing or a cursing?
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U.S. Presidents & Israel: A Blessing or a Cursing?
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Woodrow Wilson: 1913 - 1921
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Arthur James Balfour and Chaim Weizmann
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The Balfour Declaration: November, 1917—Arthur James Balfour
His Majesty's government view with favor the establishment in Palestine
of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best
endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object. . . .
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WOODROW WILSON: First U.S. President to
get behind Zionism
“How proud I am that because of the teachings
instilled in me by my father, it has been my privilege to restore the Holy Land to its
rightful owners.”
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Louis D. Brandeis
• Supreme Court 1916
• Served until 1939
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Warren G. Harding: 1921 - 1923
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Warren Harding & Immigration
Emergency Quota Act of 1921 limited Jewish immigrants and turned Jews
against him.
Anti-Semitism was rising in the 1920s.
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Henry Ford: 1920
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Calvin Coolidge: 1923 - 1929
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Reed Johnson Act: 1924
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Herbert Hoover: 1929 - 1933
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“I have watched with genuine admiration the steady and
unmistakable progress made in the rehabilitation of Palestine…”
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The Promised Land in Uganda?
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• Aided Jews devastated by WWI and the pogroms
• Supported Jewish State
• Supported rescue of Jews from Holocaust
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Franklin D. Roosevelt: 1933 - 1945
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Jeremiah 16 warning
• “Behold, I am going to send for many fishermen,” declares the LORD, “and they will fish for them; and afterwards I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain and every hill and from the clefts of the rocks.”
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Exposed Roosevelt’s abandonment of the Jews: 1967
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In office one week and first concentration camp opened: Dachau
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May 1939: 900 German Jewish refugees sent home on St. Louis
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Yalta Conference: February, 1945
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What about bombing the railroads to the concentration camps?
“Such an operation would in any case be of such doubtful efficacy that it would not warrant the use of our
resources.”--Roosevelt spokesman
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Harry Truman: 1945 - 1953
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Sgt. “Eddie” Edward Jacobson
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Chaim Weitzmann & Harry Truman: 1947
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Truman on May 14, 1948:“One of the proudest days of my life occurred at 6:12 p.m. on Friday, May 14, 1948, when I was able to announce recognition of the new
state of Israel by the government of the United States. In view of the long friendship of the
American people for the Zionist ideal, it was particularly appropriate that our government should be the first to recognize the new state.”
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Truman’s burden: Jewish refugees—80,000 Jewish refugees entered U.S.
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War of Independence
• U.S. State Department wanted no
involvement.• U.S. would not
arm the Jews.
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War of Independence: On their own
• Air Force of 9 obsolete planes
• Ben Gurion: We only have a 50-50 chance of survival.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower: 1953 - 1961
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Eisenhower years:
• Called the coldest years in Israel-U.S. history including the Carter years.
• Israel’s socialism bothered Eisenhower.
• The Arabs offered “containment” of Communism.
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John Foster Dulles
“The Israeli embassy is practically dictating to Congress through influential Jewish people in America.”
“Jewish influence dominates the scene…”
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February 2, 1957
• Eisenhower joined with 75 other nations in the UN General Assembly in passing a resolution "deploring"
Israel's occupation of Sinai.
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John F. Kennedy: 1961 - 1963
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Joseph Kennedy
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March, 1956:
Sen. John Kennedy: “It is time that the nations of the world, in the Middle
East and elsewhere, realize that Israel is here to stay; she will not surrender, she will not retreat, and we will not
let her fall.”
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John Kennedy & Golda Meir
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Israel’s friend: Robert Kennedy
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Kennedy’s Focus: Gamal Abdel Nasser
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John F. Kennedy Memorial, Jerusalem
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Lyndon B. Johnson: 1963 - 1969
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LBJ’s Grandfather:
“Take care of the Jews, God’s chosen people. Consider them
your friends and help them any way you can.”
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1945: Dachau
• Shaken• Stunned• Bursting with
overpowering revulsion and incredulous horror
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A Righteous Gentile
Lady Bird: “Person after person plucked at my sleeve and said, ‘I
wouldn’t be here today if it wasn’t for Lyndon Johnson. He helped me
out of Europe.’”
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Johnson & the Six Day War: Neutrality
The war could have been avoided if
America and NATO had warned Egypt and Syria against
aggression.
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America benefited with defeat of Egypt and Syria
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Following Six Day War
• Lyndon Johnson urged Israel to
keep all territory it had won. That kept
secret.
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Richard M. Nixon: 1969 - 1974
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Golda Meir and Richard Nixon
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Golda Meir to her American sister:
“If it hadn’t been for Richard Nixon, Israel would have been destroyed” (in the 1973 Yom
Kippur War).
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U.S. – Soviet Conflict
• U.S. Sixth Fleet and Soviet fleet nearly engaged in a battle as U.S.
warned Russians to stay out of the war conflict. WWIII could have ensued. Soviets backed down.
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Henry Kissinger
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Gerald R. Ford: 1974 - 1977
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Gerald Ford: December, 1974:
“….Israel will not negotiate with the PLO. Negotiations between Israel and the Arabs should be quid pro quo. If
Israel gives something up, she should get something in return.”
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Gerald Ford in 1976
“I cannot conceive America selling out Israel.”
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Jimmy Carter: 1977 - 1981
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Camp David Accords: March 1979
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SHAH OF IRAN
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Ayatollah Khoumeini: 1979
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2007
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Good friends: Carter & Arafat
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Ronald Reagan: 1981 - 1989
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Reagan and Soviet Jews
The Soviet Union treatment of the Jews was a primary reason Reagan called them
“the evil empire.” He was burdened by
Soviet Jewry.
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Yitzhak Shamir: This is the best administration we have worked with.
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George H.W. Bush: 1989 - 1993
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Persian Gulf War: Israel attacked January 1991
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Tel Aviv Struck: January 1991
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Bush, James Baker, closed dialogue with PLO
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Bill Clinton: 1993 - 2001
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Rabin, Arafat, Clinton: September, 1993 – Oslo Accords
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Clinton, Arafat, Ehud Barak: July, 2000
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Camp David, 2000
“Arafat’s rejection of my proposal,
after Ehud Barak accepted it, was an
error of historic proportions.”--Bill Clinton
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ARAFAT IN 2000
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George W. Bush: 2001 - 2009
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George W. Bush & Palestine
• Wanted Palestinian State by 2005
• Came up with “Road Map for Peace”
• Endorsed disengagement from Gaza
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Secretary of State: Condi Rice
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Eye to Eye: Facing the Consequences of Dividing Israel: 2004—Bill Koenig
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Gaza Withdrawal
Land for peace leaves
Israel in pieces . . .
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Barack Obama: 2009 -
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Ingrid Mattson: ISNA
Islamic Society of North America
Part of inauguration festivities for Obama, 2009
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Mahmoud Abbas
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Cairo, June 2009
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Compared suffering of Palestinians as comparable to the suffering of the Jews
during the Holocaust.
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Israel Ambassador to U.S. Michael Oren
“Israel’s ties with the United States
are a crisis of historic
proportions.”--2010
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Mohammed Elibiary
• Homeland Security Advisory Council: 2010
• His mentor: Ayatollah Khoumeni
• Supporter of Caliphate• Proponent of Muslim
Brotherhood.
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The liberal Washington Post: “Obama is treating Benjamin
Netanyahu like an unsavory third world dictator.”
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Barack Obama: 2011
“Israel’s Palestinian
partner is sincere in wanting a
peaceful settlement.”
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Israel’s Knesset: November, 2012
“Israel can only rely on herself. Obama prefers the Arab world over the Western world, including Israel.”
(A response to his re-election)
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Secret Negotiations with Iran: November, 2013 – P5+1
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March, 2014
Obama states that the Palestinians do not have to recognize Israel’s legitimate
existence.
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Chuck Hagel, Secretary of Defense
• Warns against Christian Zionists
• Calls them the “roadblocks to peace.”
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John Brennan: CIA Director
• Converted to Islam
• Calls “Hezbollah” moderate
• Calls Jerusalem “al Quds”
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Gaza War: Summer 2014
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July, 2014
• Obama calls for an immediate,
unconditional ceasefire that will
leave Hamas’ rockets and attack
plans intact.
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The Times of Israel: July 27, 2014
• Obama/Kerry intervention
empowers the terrorist
government (of Hamas) bent on
destroying Israel.
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Gaza War
• Obama and Kerry offered Hamas $47 million to rebuild their terror network to further destroy Israel.
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Netanyahu’s response to Obama- Kerry
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NATIONS SENDING AID TO GAZA
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Ynet News
This administration is closer today to Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood or to
Iran, which encourage terror, than to Israel. This is an astonishing blindness, an abandonment of the West's leadership,
and a cultural decline at an inconceivable magnitude.
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OBAMA AND ISIS/ISIL: CALIPHATE
• He uses the term ISIL as it includes the Levant which would mean the jihadists would also capture Israel and Jerusalem. That is part of the Levant.• Not just Syria and Iraq.
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Jeremiah 31:31
• Pharaohs• Generals• Kings• Haman• Fuhrers• Mullahs• Ayatollahs• Presidents
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Verses that warn . . .
Genesis 12:3: “And I will bless those who bless you, and the one who
curses you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth will be
blessed.”
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Verses that warn . . .
• Joel 3: 1-2: God will judge nations for their treatment of My people and dividing up My
land….
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Verses that warn. . .
• 2 Chronicles 20:29: And the fear of God was upon all the kingdoms of those countries, when they heard that the Lord fought against the enemies of Israel.
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Zechariah 12:3
• It will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who lift it will be severely injured. And all the nations of the earth will be gathered against it.