Avi Davis
The Intermediate Zone
28 March '10
Over the weekend I was a victim of a hoax. An internet scenario played out a scene in which Barack Obama tells a visiting Israeli delegation to the White House, headed by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, that he believes the cause of peace would be advanced if the words “Next Year in Jerusalem” were excised from the Passover Haggadah.
The prime minister, squirming uncomfortably in his seat, looks from aide to aide before finally offering to remove the words from the Yom Kippur service but not the Haggadah. Not satisfied with the response, Obama stands up to excuse himself for dinner, indicating that he will be back later. ” I’ll give you some time to think about it and will return to have you sign the new edict.”
I believed it for a moment because, like all parody, it possesses an inkling of truth. Given this administration’s impatience with the Netanyahu government’s obduracy in attaching itself to a united Jerusalem, one would think that there is indeed some substance to the idea that the Obama administration not only wants to sever East Jerusalem from West, but the Jewish people’s attachment to the city in general.
Maybe that is why an unconfirmed rumor circulating the Internet, that the Obama White House seder will not conclude with the traditional words ” Next Year in Jerusalem” for fear of offending Palestinian sensibilities, has gained such currency.
It may all be nonsense but still it leaves many with the sense that things seem to have gone very wrong. During his electoral campaign, Obama’s own platform called for a united Jerusalem and the U.S. Congress itself has been behind that very notion since at least 1995 when it passed The Jerusalem Embassy Relocation Act.
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The fancy high-dollar Jewish donors who get to spend this evening with the couple that followed anti-Semitic Jeremiah Wright and employed Farrakhan acolytes for decades, don’t even realize that they are the new stars of the Barack Hussein’s Matzoh Minstrel Show. Don’t they realized they are being patronized? They are holding a Seder with the man who has been negotiating with HAMAS since last summer. Hello . . .? I guess it’s lost on those Jews that while he eats some matzoh, Obama has been partying with and reaching out to those who allege that Jews make matzoh out of gentile blood.
ReplyDeleteIncidentally, the "Seder" wasn't even kosher, unlike similar events BO has held for his Muslim constituency, which were catered with strictly halal food.
It's getting harder and harder to separate hoax from reality. Too often, what appears to be a hoax IS reality.