Now the fact an Obama supporter who was paid back with an ambassadorship would say this should surprise no one.
Obama Fundraiser and Ambassador Blames Israel for Anti-Semitism (Updated) | The Weekly StandardA little fact of life. Ambassadors (with exceptions like Great Britain, Russia, China) are political rewards. The Deputy Ambassador is the power behind the throne and Belgium in not in the A team of ambassadors. But I did a couple of Google searches and I found that according to Wikipedia is our Ambassador to Belgium is Jewish and his parents are Holocaust survivors. And I also found this from the US Embassy in Belgium.
The U.S. ambassador to Belgium, Howard Gutman, recently told a conference hosted by the European Jewish Union that Israel is to blame for growing anti-Semitism harbored by people of Muslim faith.
“A distinction should be made between traditional anti-Semitism, which should be condemned and Muslim hatred for Jews, which stems from the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinians,” Gutman reportedly said, according to the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth. “He also argued that an Israeli-Palestinian peace treaty will significantly diminish Muslim anti-Semitism.”
According to the account in the Israeli paper, “The legal experts at the event were visibly stunned by Gutman’s words, and the next speaker offered a scathing rebuttal to the envoy’s remarks.”
Gutman was a major fundraiser for President Obama’s 2008 election campaign. He bundled $500,000 for Obama, according to OpenSecrets.org, personally giving at least $2,300 to the campaign.
In 2009, Obama nominated Gutman, a Washington, D.C. attorney, to be ambassador to Belgium.
I said that it is both fortunate and unfortunate that the largest part of the solution for this second type of problem – too often lumped under a general banner of anti-Semitism – is in the hands of Israel, the Palestinians and Arab neighbors in the Middle East. It is fortunate because it means that, unlike traditional hatred of minorities, a path towards improving and resolving it does at least exist. It is crucial for the Middle East – but it is crucial for the Jewish and Arab communities in Europe and for countries around the globe – that Mid-East peace negotiations continue, that settlements abate, and that progress towards a lasting peace be made and then such a peace reached in the Middle East. Were a lasting peace in the Middle East to be reached, were joint and cooperative Israeli-Arab attentions turned to focus instead on such serious, common threats such as Iran, this second type of ethnic tension and bigotry here in Europe – which is clearly growing today – would clearly abate. I can envision the day when it disappears. Peace in the Middle East would indeed equate with a huge reduction of this form of labeled “anti-Semitism” here in Europe.
It is at the same time somewhat unfortunate that most of the cause and thus most of the solution for tension and hatred in Europe, for growing problems at Belgian universities, for epithets in the streets, rest with governments and people a continent away. For, in some respect, citizens, parents, religious and community leaders here in Europe can simply try to promote understanding and patience, while ensuring law enforcement serves its mission, without being able fully to address the most root causes and most efficient cures....
This fool thinks the Mullahs in Tehran hate Israel because of the Palestinians. No, they hate Israel because they hate Jews period. The Palestinians are a conveiant whipping boy to get idiots protesting, writing checks, etc. The anti-Semites out there will not be satisfied until Israel is wiped off the face of the earth. Why Jews in America are supporting the thinking this people can be negotiated with is beyond me. This is just another form of appeasement and I recall the wisdom of Winston Churchill on this:
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
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