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President Barack Obama’s recent alleged controversial statement mirrors that of many others who wrongly believe Israel must be saved from itself.

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US columnist Jeffrey Goldberg’s January 15 Bloomberg article, reprinted in The Jerusalem Post the following day, titled “Obama: ‘Israel Doesn’t Know What Its Best Interests Are’” in which Obama was quoted by Goldberg as having said privately that “Israel doesn’t know what its own best interests are,” is not as shocking as some make it out to be, given the president’s stance over the past four years and the nature of his relationship with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.

Naturally, this is not something any country’s citizens want to hear and this type of thinking has prompted some of our own citizens to jump ship and join the clamor against Israel’s policies vis-a-vis Palestinians, settlement construction, foreign policy and the Iranian threat among other issues.

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