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Another Of Israel's Useful Idiots
Palin: Obama administration selling out Israel

Former VP candidate tells hundreds in Virginia, 'While the president is getting pushed
around by the likes of Russia and China, our allies are left to wonder about the value
of an alliance with our country any more.' Ex-Senator Allen: Administration too fond
of apologizing for US military might

By Yitzhak Benhorin, AP

June 28, 2010 "YNet" - -WASHINGTON - Sarah Palin on Sunday painted President
Barack Obama's administration as a cowering giant intent on surrendering the
nation's mantle as a superpower and willing to sell out its allies.

The former John McCain running mate addressed a paying audience of several
hundred people in Norfolk, Virginia and accused Obama of selling out ally Israel in
over its naval blockade of Gaza and treating Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu shabbily.

On May 31, Israeli naval commandos killed nine pro-Palestinian activists in clashes
aboard a Turkish ship headed for Gaza, setting off a world outcry and forcing Israel
to ease its three-year-old blockade.

She also said Obama lacked the resolve to stand up to Russia and China.

"Do they think, really, that we're getting anything in return for all this bowing and
kowtowing and apologizing? No, we don't get anything positive in return for this,"
Palin said at the event spearheaded by a Norfolk talk radio station.

"So while President Obama is getting pushed around by the likes of Russia and
China, our allies are left to wonder about the value of an alliance with our country
any more. They're asking what is it worth," she said.

Shortly after the flotilla raid, the Weekly Standard posted Palin's Facebook post on the
incident. "Far too many in the media, and in various governments, rush to condemn
Israel, we must put the recent events off Israel’s coast into the right perspective. This
'relief' convoy was not about humanitarian aid, as the liberal mainstream media keeps
reporting," she wrote at the time.

"The whole operation was designed to provoke Israel, not to provide supplies to
Palestinians held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza. Anyone who sees the video of
Israeli commandos being attacked as they land on that ship knows the people aboard
were vicious thugs, not 'peace activists.' The media insults our intelligence with their
outright mischaracterization of who these enemies are," said Palin.

"We can only hope the Obama Administration does not join the anti-Israel chorus in
the aftermath of this staged confrontation. Please, Mr. President, we need to let
Israelis know we stand with them in their fight against terrorists and those who arm
and support them. America and her ally, Israel, stand by waiting for your response."

'Sanctimonious, pompous social engineers'

Palin, former Virginia Sen. George Allen and Iran-Contra figure Oliver North, who ran
for a Virginia Senate seat and lost, each took turns decrying what they said was the
deterioration of US military might and will under Obama's watch.

Palin said that Obama and an allied Democratic Congress had cut military spending
while showing no such restraint on other expenditures, running up trillions in new
deficits.

North and particularly Allen had already whipped the crowd into a lather.

North, who lost his 1994 bid to unseat Democratic Sen. Chuck Robb, also ripped into
the "potentates of pork along the Potomac and their headlong rush toward
socialism."

But Allen, most clearly returned to the pugnacious, locker-room rhetoric that often
distinguished the namesake son of the Hall of Fame football coach as governor in the
early 1990s as he embarks on his own political comeback.

Allen has published a book for what Republicans say is a bid to win back his Senate
seat from Democrat Jim Webb in 2012. Allen was a prohibitive favorite in 2006 to
easily defeat Webb, but lost his re-election bid and a promising spot in the GOP
presidential nomination race.

He referred to the Democrats who now control Congress as "sanctimonious, pompous
social engineers" and accused them of "spending on someone else's credit card like a
bowing and kowtowing ."

Obama's administration, he said, had become too fond of apologizing for US military
might.

"We don't need to apologize as Americans. Americans throughout history have
liberated more people than any other country on earth, including the liberation of my
mother from the Nazis," Allen said.

His mother, Etty, is Jewish and grew up in Tunisia. Her father had been detained by
the Nazis while they occupied Tunisia. But during his campaign four years ago, Allen
bristled when asked at a debate about his mother's Jewish heritage rather than
acknowledging or embracing it.

That helped doom Allen's re-election bid already hobbled in August when he pointed
to a Virginia-born Webb campaign volunteer of Indian descent during a campaign
speech and called him "Macaca," which is a slur in some cultures.