Michael Goodwin: Dems betrayal of Israel fueled by Obamas wrath toward the Jewish state

When Barack Obama was president and feuding with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu while apologizing to Arab potentates about America’s history in the region, a friend offered an observation. To wit, that Obama was proving the truth of a deep suspicion among American conservatives that Democrats love Jews but ­secretly hate Israel. Time and milestone events have passed since then, but the evidence that my friend was onto something important continues to grow by leaps and bounds. So much so that the Dems’ hard turn against Israel is now dangerously close to a fundamental party doctrine.And a reasonable explanation is that Obama made it acceptable and even a requirement for officials and candidates to condemn the Jewish state. His animus ran deep when he was in the White House, but didn’t stop when he left office a decade ago.Even now, the former president continues to stir the pot of hatred, as demonstrated by comments he made last week. Accepting an honorary doctorate from Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland, Obama said, in reference to the creation of the state of Israel, that Jews “took land off people, and they were excessive.

And those people understandably said, ‘This is injustice and I want my land back.’ ” By ignoring the fact that Jews were indigenous throughout the Middle East for thousands of years before the state of Israel was created by the United Nations partition in 1947, Obama comes off as willfully ignorant. All the more so when he insists that “the attitude of Israel is, now that we are the strongest, the most technologically advanced in the region, then our security will depend on us simply doing whatever we need and taking whatever we want, and not making any concessions to anyone.” He twisted the knife by saying that Israel has conceded the “moral high ground.” He’s one of those lefties who likes Israel when it’s a victim, but hates it when it hits back and wins. He also avoids any men...