In comments that could boost President Barack Obama’s standing with Jewish voters, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak lavished praise on the president Thursday, commending him for being “ready to undertake the fiercest of political risks to his survival, in order to make good on what he believes in” and defending him against those who call him a “soft appeaser.”
“You may not like what he does (but) you discern a man who is capable and ready to undertake the fiercest of political risks to his survival, in order to make good on what he believes in,” Barak told Israel Radio, according to Reuters.
He added, “We are asked, sometimes, whether Obama is really a soft appeaser. To that, I say: ‘Go ask Osama bin Laden.’”
Barak, who met with Obama in Washington last week, also hailed the president’s “internal consistency,” which he said “stems from being a leader,” and also pointed to Obama’s “circumspection that comes from seeing, above, only the heavens and one’s own conscience.”
The flood of positive comments from the Israeli defense minister about Obama follows a series of stern warnings from the Obama administration against Iran’s possible development of nuclear weapons.
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I didn’t know that President Obama was circumspected. I think Ehud Barak brouht that up in a cheap attempt to curry favor with American Jewish voters.
Barak about Barack.
The first one, who is bad for the Yiden, about the other who is bad for the Yiden.
Not surprising that these two are pals.
I think they may end up as roommates in their location in the next world…
Obama for (among many other things) refusing to allow Jonathan Pollard to even attend his father’s funeral, and Barak for (among many other things) destroying Jewish homes and abusing and terrorizing young Jewish families.
Both – bad for Am Yisrael.
Those seem more like remarks aimed toward Netanyahu than anybody else? There must be a subtext to his remarks.