by Jeff Davis

With friends like New York’s mayor Michael Bloomberg, Obama doesn’t need enemies. Obama has been currying Jewish favor for weeks now, trying to dispel any notion that he would be a less obedient puppet than McCain. Personally, I don’t think the Jews are buying it.

The Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz, Israel’s equivalent of the New York Times, says: “New York mayor Michael Bloomberg urged Jewish voters to denounce the whisper campaign that for months has pushed the false rumor that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is secretly a Muslim. Bloomberg warned a Jewish group in Boca Raton, Florida, on Friday that the attempt to portray Obama as a shadowy Muslim with a hidden agenda often targets Jewish voters online and with e-mails.”

If Bloomberg really didn’t want to give the rumors currency, then why did he mention them in the first place? The best way to scotch a rumor is to not repeat it. That particular rumor (if it is a rumor) has been going the rounds for months, and the Obama-worshipping liberal media have pretty much dismissed it. Only the most fervent neocons on Fox News seem to nurturing it hoping it will become true if only they repeat it enough times. Now here comes Mr. Bloomberg bringing it up again.

Ha’aretz goes on: “The deceptive campaign against Obama, who is Christian, ‘threatens to undo the enormous strides that Jews and Muslims have made together in this country,’ the New York mayor said. The lies are ‘cloaked in concern for Israel, but the real concern is about partisan politics,’ said Bloomberg, who is Jewish. ‘This is wedge politics at its worst, and we’ve got to reject it- loudly, clearly and unequivocally.”

First of all “enormous strides” in Jewish-Muslim relations –is he nuts? Most Jews see Muslims as their racial enemies. So by repeating the rumor over and over, Bloomberg claims he is fighting it. Very sneaky –even for a Jew.

And of course, every article that “rejects” the Obama-is-a-Muslim rumor must contain something like this from Ha’aretz: “Some have questioned Obama’s commitment to Israel; this stems partly from his stated willingness to talk with leaders of rogue nations, which McCain and others have criticized as a sign he underestimates the threat posed to Israel by Iran and others in the Middle East. There is also uneasiness about Obama among some Jewish people because his former church pastor has praised black Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan, who has made anti-Semitic remarks.”

This is going to be interesting. Obama is doing back flips to please the Jews, and the Israeli-neocon branch is clearly not amused. That middle name “Hussein” just doesn’t go over well with the Israelis, those photos in Muslim garb don’t help and there was that matter of the madrassah. Could there be a split among Jews –with liberal Jews finally getting a non-White candidate for president that they can salivate over while the Israeli and neocon Jews sit by a little bit distrusting of Obama, but tolerating him anyhow?

In recent years, Israel has been like a spoiled three year old that always gotten its way. It would be a major change if the Israelis didn’t get exactly what they want in terms of the US government.