Barack Obama describes Israel as having “engaged in a succession of conflicts with its Arab neighbors.” He never describes the run-up to the Six-Day War, in which Egypt’s Nasser, having decided that his forces were now ready to take on the Zionists, had the U.N. peacekeeping troops removed by U Thant, declared a blockade of […]
Barack Obama on Israel: As Ill-Informed as He is Self-Assured
An Israeli MK, Dov Lipman, recently examined those parts of Barack Obama’s just-released A Promised Land that treat of Israel and its conflict with the Arabs. Lipman is appalled by what he found, and he holds up for examination and criticism Obama’s dreamy misinformation about that history and his almost comical self-assurance about matters he […]