PELONI: Harry Liberman provides a superb response to Obama and his maliciously false depiction of Israel. Bravo!
Harry Liberman
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Welcome to the Era of Israel’s Sovereign Might and Historical Reckoning
The architecture of modern international law was not carved into stone by impartial deities; it was drafted in the drawing rooms of history’s victors. For centuries, the world’s great colonial empires expanded through conquest, drew arbitrary lines across maps, and displaced populations across continents. Once their hegemony was secured, these same nations established a legal and linguistic framework designed to freeze history in place—legitimizing their own vast gains as “immutable facts” while reserving the right to lecture the rest of the world on territorial integrity.
This is the hypocrisy that shapes contemporary geopolitics. Western settler-colonial nations, built entirely upon lands acquired through historical conquest, routinely direct their moral scrutiny toward Israel. They apply academic theories of colonialism to a nation that represents the exact opposite: the repatriation of an indigenous, ethno-religious population to its documented ancestral homeland of Judea.
The double standard is as glaring as it is absurd.
The global community tolerates and normalizes empires built on conquest because those empires grew powerful enough to write the rules favoring their outcome. Yet, when the Jewish people—numbering a mere 16 million globally—assert their sovereign right to self-determination in the narrow strip of land where their language, culture, and faith were born three millennia ago, the rules are suddenly rewritten.
For decades, Israel has been pressured to negotiate away its security through the framework of a two-state solution—a formula that critics argue demands the compromise of Jewish lives for a peace that never arrives. Meanwhile, the surrounding region contains over 20 Arab states, many of which maintain strict majoritarian frameworks where Jewish populations have been virtually eradicated over the last century.
The reality of state survival in a hostile neighborhood requires a shift from diplomatic capitulation to unyielding sovereignty.
This is the exact realization currently driving Central European security policy. As Polish MEP Dominik Tarczyski has frequently articulated regarding his country’s strict border fortifications, nations that have experienced the existential threat of historical erasure understand that survival requires absolute clarity. Poland, having been wiped off the map for over a century by predatory neighbors, now backstops its border barriers with a statutory mandate allowing the use of live ammunition.
This policy operates on a simple, foundational truth: it is not born out of malice toward the outside world, but out of an overriding, defensive love and civil responsibility for one’s own people.
For Israel, the lesson of history is clear.
Survival cannot be predicated on the approval of foreign powers who justify their own stolen foundations while questioning Israel’s legitimate ones. The time for negotiating with the safety of a globally micro-minority population must end. To preserve its future, Israel must reject the dictates of a rigged international framework, secure its borders, and declare that the survival of the Jewish state is non-negotiable.
The baseline of modern global diplomacy is built on an illusion: that small or historically persecuted nations must constantly seek permission from decaying empires to defend their own territory.
For decades, Western powers have attempted to dictate boundaries to Israel, ignoring the fact that Israel possesses the comprehensive military and technological infrastructure necessary to secure its sovereign interests independently.
The legal foundation for this security is rooted in the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine, a binding international instrument that explicitly recognized the historical connection of the Jewish people to the land and called for the reconstitution of their national home. Rather than operating under a permission-slip model from foreign capitals, modern statehood is maintained through the reality of national strength, rendering the traditional pressures of external vetoes entirely obsolete.
This insistence on self-reliance is a direct response to a two-millennium arc of European exploitation and systemic animus.
The roots of European anti-Semitism are fundamentally intertwined with Western colonialism, beginning in the first century CE when the Roman Empire brutally invaded Judaea, sacked Jerusalem, and plundered the sacred treasures of the Second Temple. Tens of thousands of captive Jews were forced into chains and trafficked to Europe as enslaved labor. In Rome, this captive population was used to build the monumental Flavian Amphitheatre, or Colosseum, financed entirely by the stolen wealth of their homeland. This foundational act of displacement initiated centuries of exile, during which Jewish populations across Europe were subjected to relentless dehumanization, culminating in the industrial slaughter of the 20th century.
The historical trajectory makes it clear that the era of Jewish vulnerability has drawn to a definitive close.
With a global population of just 16 million people, the margin for existential error is zero, and relying on the fluctuating moral clarity of foreign leaders is a luxury that cannot be afforded. This applies directly to contemporary Western commentators and former politicians, such as Barack Obama, whose recent public commentary has faced steep criticism for characterizing the establishment of Israel as merely a modern reaction to European persecution while ignoring thousands of years of indigenous continuity.
For a sovereign nation navigating a volatile landscape, the imperative is to ignore the moralizing lectures of distant observers [ hate filled agenda driven antisemitic frauds like Barack Hussein Obama] and act with the unyielding decisiveness required to protect its population.
In order to buy the Jewish vote Barack Obama explicitly stated that “Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel[Jerusalem Embassy Act 1995 Congress.gov S.1322 – Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995. ] and it must remain undivided” during his speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on June 4, 2008.
“Any agreement with the Palestinian people must preserve Israel’s identity as a Jewish state, with secure, recognized and defensible borders. Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided.” [1, 2]
“There is no room at the negotiating table for terrorist organizations. That is why I opposed allowing Hamas to run in the 2006 election… Hamas must be isolated until it renounces terrorism, recognizes Israel, and adheres to past agreements.“ [1, 2]
Full Video Recording:
You can watch Obama’s full of shit do anything to elected speech archived on YouTube via the Barack Obama at AIPAC 2008 Video. Full Printed Transcript: The complete text of the address is available via the NPR Transcript of Obama’s AIPAC Speech and The New York Times. [1]
The Unmasking of Barack Hussein Obama :Deception, Suppression, and antisemitism !
To understand why the era of Jewish dependency must end, one must look at the systematic deception that characterized the rise of the post-American political establishment. For decades, American voters—and Jewish communities in particular—were sold a meticulously crafted narrative of unity and pragmatic support for the Jewish state.
Yet beneath the veneer lay an entirely different ideological reality.
Award-winning journalist and syndicated author Joan Swirsky brought this exact terminology to the forefront of political commentary with her article titled “Obama’s Malignant Obsession with Jews and Israel.” Swirsky’s thesis argues that the policy shifts seen during the Obama administration were not merely standard diplomatic disagreements, but part of a calculated, deep-seated hostility toward the geopolitical security of the Jewish state, and a deeply ingrained animus within this political faction, detailing how a pipeline of anti-Israel rhetoric was hidden from the American electorate just long enough to capture institutional power.
The strategy relied on structural concealment and tactical timing.
For 27 years, Barack Obama remained a dedicated congregant of Trinity United Church of Christ, sitting under the radical tutelage of Reverend Jeremiah Wright. It was only when Wright’s infamous explosive rhetoric became public during the 2008 campaign that a sudden, politically expedient distance was manufactured. The phrase “God damn America” stems from the sermon titled “Confusing God and Government,” delivered by Reverend Jeremiah Wright on April 13, 2003, at the Trinity United Church of Christin Chicago. [1]
Obama ultimately resigned his membership from the church and severed ties with the pastor in May 2008.[1, 2, 3, 4]
Simultaneously, a highly controversial 2005 photograph of Obama alongside Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhanwas actively suppressed by the photographer and members of the Congressional Black Caucus. The photographer openly admitted that the image was deliberately kept from the public to avoid sabotaging Obama’s presidential prospects, effectively shielding voters from his proximity to a figure with a well-documented history of antisemitism.
The contrast between this modern political maneuvering and authentic American patriotism could not be more stark.
Decades earlier, Irving Berlin, a Jewish immigrant who fled the brutal pogroms of Europe, poured his genuine gratitude into writing “God Bless America”—a track that became a timeless, unifying tribute to a nation that served as a true sanctuary for the oppressed. Berlin’s legacy represents an era of clarity and mutual respect, whereas the modern political landscape has shifted toward a far more cynical standard. Irving Berlin, a Jewish refugee who fled violent European pogroms, synthesized his devotion to his adoptive country by composing “God Bless America” in 1918.
Obama’s betrayal of America and Jews could not be more obvious
“God Damn America” versus ” God Bless America” !
Obama’s God Damn America and the Jews [via anti American antisemites Reverend Wright and Farrakhan ] and Irving Berlin an American Jewish Patriot who wrote America’s other national anthem : God Bless America and America’s favorite Christmas Anthem ” White Christmas “!The Guinness World Records explicitly lists Bing Crosby’s recording of Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas” as the top-selling physical single in history, with estimated global sales exceeding 50 million copies.
Obama’s antisemitic anti American mask fully slipped off in October 2026.
Speaking to an audience in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the former president discarded his past diplomatic nuance and openly declared that Jews who sought refuge in their homeland “took land off people” and were “excessive”. The remarks were a profound historical distortion, noting how Obama completely erased 3,000 years of indigenous Jewish continuity while validating hostile narratives.
For Israel, this serves as the ultimate cautionary tale: relying on the approval or shifting moral metrics of foreign leaders is an existential hazard. The final chapter has been written not with words, but with the undeniable realization that a nation’s survival can only ever be secured by its own unyielding hand. The official historical and linguistic definition of the English word “Jew” , functions as an ethno-religious designation that is etymologically derived through the Latin Judaeus and the Greek Ioudaios from the Hebrew Yehudhi, explicitly meaning a person from Judea (the ancient tribal Kingdom of Judah). Jews are not only a religion but a race or ethnicity . Antisemitism is racism . In contrast anyone can be a Muslim , conclusively Islamophobia is not racism .
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We Jews must stop obeying words spoken by hypocrites…
Who in the Middle -East and in Western Europe has an army that can force Israel to do its bidding?
I say that Israel has its own values forged over many mostly painful centuries that allow it to make its own decisions. Even the friendly US cannot tell the Israelis what to do or not-do.
As Mr. Liberman so aptly says, all dependencies are now null and void.