Daylight: New Film Blasts Obama's Israel Record

[Purveyor]

Posted By Josh Rogin Friday, March 2, 2012 - 5:30 PM Share

One day before the AIPAC conference kicks off in Washington, an anti-Obama pro-Israel group is widening its criticism of President Barack Obama's record on Israel -- while the White House defends its treatment of the relationship.

The trailer for a new 30-minute video, entitled "Daylight: The Story of Obama and Israel," cuts together clips of Obama quotes and outside commentary to put forth the narrative that Obama has made statements and taken actions as president that have put him out of step with the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his supporters.

"We believe that that the borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines," Obama is shown saying, a reference to his May, 2011 speech, where he for the first time explicitly defined U.S. policy as supporting the 1967 borders with agreed swaps as the basis for Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations.

"He didn't quite have a full grasp of what the full region looks like," conservative journalist Lee Smith is shown saying in the video. "This is not how you treat an ally."

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[Cali_Democrat]

1. The video was produced by the "Emergency Committee for Israel"

Who is the ECI?


ECI is run by executive director Noah Pollak and Michael Goldfarb, a former McCain-Palin staffer now working at the consulting firm Orion Strategies and as chairman of the board of the Washington Free Beacon, an new conservative website.
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The ECI board is comprised of Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol, Gary Bauer, who has endorsed Rick Santorum, and Rachel Abrams, the wife of former NSC official Elliott Abrams

[madrchsod]

4. i always wondered why pat robertson was a backing israel years ago.

for years the southern christians hated the jews as much as they hated the catholics but that all changed when the rapture movement began the thing.

well they still hate both but it`s now wrapped in politics.

[frazzled]

2. Funny, because Pres. Shimon Peres was on Charlie Rose last night

and, at least in the preview of the interview, he said that President Obama was the best on Israel of any president (and he's been around a long time). He said it three different ways, and qualified it with "I'm not trying to be political here." I fell asleep before I heard the fuller version of the interview, with an explanation.

[FarCenter]

3. Insufficiently obsequious?