Some Liberal Jews tell us that Barack Hussein Obama’s selection of an Antisemitic spiritual leader and many anti-Israel advisers does not constitute evidence of the candidate’s anti-Jewish bias. According to the apologists there is no need to be alarmed.

Once again, a furor surrounding US Presidential candidate Barack Obama has erupted, this time over a senior military advisor to the Obama campaign with a history of anti-Israel remarks. He has strongly criticized pro-Israel Jews in the United States for allegedly torpedoing peace efforts in the Middle East.

In a 2003 interview with The Oregonian newspaper unearthed by The American Spectator magazine, General Merrill “Tony” McPeak, a former chief of staff in the United States Air Force who is a candidate for secretary of defense in a potential Obama administration, claimed that efforts to bring peace between Israel and the Palestinian Authority failed because there is no US-written “playbook” to create peace.

An interviewer asked General McPeak “So where’s the problem? State? White House?” McPeak pulled no punches. “(The problem rests in) New York City. Miami. We have a large vote here in favor of Israel. And no politician wants to run against it…nobody wants to take on that problem. It’s just too tough politically. So that means we can’t . . . you can’t develop a Middle East strategy. It’s impossible,” he said.

Even prior to the Oregonian interview, McPeak was known as a long-time critic of Israel’s presence in Judea, Samaria, Gaza and the Golan Heights. In a 1976 article in Foreign Affairs magazine, he criticized Israel for refusing to withdraw from areas liberated in the 1967 Six Day War, even as he wrote poignantly about the vital security advantages Israel obtained by conquering those areas.

[ ... ]

The storm surrounding McPeak is the latest in a series of anti-Israel revelations to tar the Obama campaign in recent months. Obama has long been a favorite son of left wing elements in the United States, but has been strongly criticized for failing to cut ties with radical preacher Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Wright has called Israel a “racist country,” said that “Israel” is a dirty word, and claimed US foreign policy was responsible for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Another anti-Israel activist, Arab-American Ali Abunimah, has claimed to know Obama well and to have met him on numerous occasions at pro-Palestinian events in Chicago.

There is also no reason to get overly alarmed by these Obama facts:

1. He has cozy relationships with Islamist terrorist enablers.
2. He regularly attended pro-Palestinian events.
4. Obama’s father was a polygamist who married several wives in Kenya.
5. Obama grew up in an Islamic school in Indonesia.
7. Obama has a large non-American family in Kenya.
8. Barack Hussein sounds like Saddam Hussein.
9. Obama rhymes with Osama.