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03/07/2008: "Barack Obama may be anti-Zionist"

Nonetheless, there is a sense among the Jewish establishment that all is not as it seems—and if the view has not yet crystallized that Obama has a less Israelocentric perception of the Middle East than any major party nominee since Eisenhower, there is foreboding that the times are a-changin’.

That Obama has an Israel issue is not only being stressed by smear artists anonymously circulating emails that the senator is a “secret Muslim.” It’s also a worry percolating at the highest levels of the Jewish establishment. Listen to Malcolm Hoenlein, head of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, at a press conference last month in Jerusalem: “All the talk about change, but without defining what the change should be, is an opening for all kinds of mischief.” It’s not Obama himself, Hoenlein assured. He has plenty of Jewish supporters and advisers.

But, he added, “there is legitimate concern about the zeitgeist of the campaign.” Obama, he worried, had criticized Hillary for putting Iran’s Revolutionary Guard on the list of terrorist organizations. Overall support for Israel is broad yet thin, he warned, adding that an increasing number of Americans see the Jewish state as a “dark and militaristic place.”

[ Interesting. ]

http://www.amconmag.com/2008/2008_03_10/article.html