Jewish Author Gives White House Low Grade on Policies re: Israel
by Chad Groening
February 7, 2006
(AgapePress) - - An Israeli author and publisher believes President Bush deserves a failing grade when it comes to protecting the interests of the nation of Israel. Avi Lipkin is back in the United States trying to warn Christians about what he perceives as the foolishness of the president's "roadmap for peace" in the Middle East. Lipkin says the recent election victories in Israel by the terrorist-backed Hamas demonstrate that the Palestinians are not interested in co-existing with the Jewish nation.
Lipkin -- who used to go by the pen name Victor Mordecai -- is convinced President Bush is still willing to sell out the Israelis for a barrel of oil. He says Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice "will sacrifice Israel and will sacrifice Jerusalem."
While the Middle East expert believes the president is making some good decisions on foreign policy, he is not so complimentary regarding moves affecting Israel. "[The president] is doing the right thing in Afghanistan and he's doing the right thing in Iraq. He's doing the right thing in the war on terrorism. But he gets an 'F' when it comes to Israel," he asserts.
The Bush administration's policy woes regarding Israel are nothing new, says Lipkin. He contends the Franklin Roosevelt administration sold out Jews during World War II.
"You've got people in Washington who have been saying for many, many decades ... [that] Jews who died in the Holocaust were killed because the government of the Democratic president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, didn't want the Arab oil to go over to Hitler."
Lipkin elaborates on that statement, referring to Breckinridge Long, who supervised the State Department's Immigrant Visa Section in the early 1940s.
"Breckinridge Long was the assistant secretary of state who refused to give the Jews visas to escape from the Nazis into Europe," he says, "and so Hitler killed them."
Lipkin shares that he was told by the Dallas branch of the Council on Foreign Relations "that the only thing that made America great was the barrel of oil -- the steady price of oil and the steady supply of oil -- and we will not let the Jews get in the way of that." Consequently, says the Israeli author, "Jews died for the barrel of oil."
Lipkin says he is thankful, however, that there are Christians who recognize the importance of Israel and who therefore oppose the president's plan -- which Lipkin believes will ultimately fail.
Chad Groening, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
