Free Post-American Presidency by Robert Spencer, Pamela Geller

Q: How much does the U.S. fund Israel a year?

A: $5 billion

48. Q: How many nuclear warheads does Israel have?

A: Over 400

49. Q: Has Israel every [
sic
] allowed UN weapon inspections?

A: No

50. Q: What percentage of the Palestinian territories are controlled by Israeli settlements?

A: 42%

51. Q: Is Israel illegally occupying Palestinian land?

A: Yes. 14

    Wright demonstrated his own anti-Semitism anew when he complained in June 2009 that “them Jews ain’t going to let [Obama] talk to me.” In the same interview, Wright echoed jihadist propaganda regarding Israel: “Ethnic cleansing is going on in Gaza. Ethnic cleansing of the Zionist is a sin and a crime against humanity, and they don’t want Barack talking like that because that’s anti-Israel.” 15
    In fact, it was Obama’s new rigid and strident policies toward restricting Jews from living in parts of Israel that mandated ethnic cleansing: the ethnic cleansing of Jews from parts of the Jewish homeland.He pressed Israel to freeze construction of settlements on land that belonged rightly to Israel, and in November 2009 issued a veiled warning: settlement construction, he said, “embitters the Palestinians in a way that could end up being very dangerous.” 16 In other words, Jews had to clear out of Jewish land, or risk terror attack.
    During the campaign, the mainstream media yawned and generally did not publicize information about Wright’s anti-Semitism or ties to Farrakhan. One thing is certain: if Barack Obama had been a Republican presidential candidate with analogous ties to pro-Israel spokesmen and groups, the mainstream media would not have considered this story a matter of indifference.
    During the campaign, Obama aide David Axelrod said that Obama disagreed with Wright about Farrakhan. 17 But after a year of the post-American presidency, the question of Obama’s ideological kinship with these anti-Semites cannot be so easily dismissed. It should come as no surprise to anyone that an Obama presidency would prove lethal for Israel. It is not an illegitimate question to ask whether the views of Wright and Farrakhan influenced Obama and formed his opinion of Jews and Israel, and helped form in turn the policies of Obama’s administration toward Israel. Wright was his spiritual mentor.
    And Obama has other ties to anti-Israel entities that the liberal media generally found unworthy of notice. Obama’s mentors, friends, and comrades tell us
his story
. These associations show us who he is. And his record during the first year of his presidency demonstrates that these associations were not casual and tangential to his intellectual and ideological development.
    KHALID AL-MANSOUR

    In September 2008, the eighty-seven-year-old Percy Sutton, former Manhattan borough president and lawyer for Malcolm X, reminiscedin a New York 1 television interview about when he first met Barack Obama: “I was introduced to (Obama) by a friend who was raising money for him,” he recalled. “The friend’s name is Dr. Khalid al-Mansour, from Texas. He is the principal adviser to one of the world’s richest men. He told me about Obama.”
    Al-Mansour, said Sutton, wanted a favor from him—he wanted Sutton to write young Obama a letter of recommendation for Harvard Law School. “He wrote to me about him. And his introduction was there is a young man that has applied to Harvard. I know that you have a few friends up there because you used to go up there to speak. Would you please write a letter in support of him?” Sutton complied: “I wrote a letter of support of him to my friends at Harvard, saying to them I thought there was a genius that was going to be available and I certainly hoped they would treat him kindly.”
    But why was Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour, who was already winning renown as a lawyer and black nationalist and would later become notorious as an associate of Saudi prince Al-Waleed bin Talal and unabashed anti-Semite, taking such a keen