U.S. Muslims fuming over Dermer's White House Iftar tweet

Israeli ambassador to Washington rouses ire over tweet lauding Obama for saying Israel has right to defend itself.

By Haaretz | Jul. 17, 2014 | 10:44 PM

Israel's ambassador to Washington Ron Dermer seems to have very bad luck when it comes to Twitter.

On Monday, days before his #AskDermer Twitter Q&A unleashed a barrage of tough questions from pro-Palestinian Twitter users, the Israeli envoy managed to anger U.S. Muslims with a tweet from the sixth annual White House Iftar dinner.

During Ramadan, Iftar is the meal that breaks the day of fasting, when Muslim families and communities eat together after sunset. This year's dinner was intended to celebrate "Muslim Americans working tirelessly to fight income inequality and creating opportunities for all," according to a White House statement.

Dermer tweeted, "@WhiteHouse for iftar dinner. Appreciate strong statement there by President Obama about Israel's right to defend itself."

During his address, U.S. President Barack Obama said, "No country can accept rockets fired indiscriminately at citizens," Obama said. "And so we've been very clear that Israel has the right to defend itself against what I consider to be inexcusable attacks from Hamas." He added that "the death and injury of Palestinians is a tragedy, which is why we've emphasized the need to protect civilians." Obama also described the pictures coming out of Gaza and Israel as "heart wrenching"

Dermer's tweet created an angry backlash on social media, Al Arabiya reported. "We knew it was all bad when we saw this tweet surface a few minutes into the iftar by none other than Israeli Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer," one website, The Thrival Room, wrote.

Meanwhile, scholar Tariq Ramadan published a statement describing this year's dinner as "political instrumentalisation of (voluntarily) trapped Muslim leaders listening to President Obama justify the massacre of hundreds of Palestinians, declaring Israel has the right to defend itself. One wonders what is the relationship between the Iftar celebration and Israel? What is the U.S. administration’s implicit-explicit intention in putting the Muslim leaders in such an embarrassing situation? To test their loyalty or rather their capacity to compromise or betray? They obviously remained silent."

In fact, Dermer's very presence at the dinner got some people's backs up.

Ramadan wrote, "The Israeli ambassador, Mr. Ron Dermer, also invited (why?), was actually the first to speak," adding that Dermer was "invited to celebrate Iftar with the Muslims meanwhile his Government is destroying Gaza.”

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.605774

Obama humiliates Muslims at Ramadan iftar: Analyst

Thu Jul 17, 2014 11:10AM GMT


On Monday, President Barack Obama invited American Muslim leaders to an iftar (fast-breaking dinner) at the White House.

The invitation was a trap.

Obama ambushed the Muslim invitees by unleashing Israel’s viciously racist ambassador, Ron Dermer, as the first speaker at the event. Dermer has famously said that Arabs and Muslims have “a cultural tendency towards belligerency” that is “deeply imbedded in the culture of the Arab world and its foremost religion.” He even celebrated “the refusal of commuters on a Minneapolis flight to fly until three Arab passengers were removed from the plane” merely because they were Arab.

Imagine a 1980s-era South African ambassador saying that blacks have “a cultural tendency towards belligerency” and celebrating racist whites who refused to fly on the same plane as blacks. Such a demented bigot would have been put on the next plane back to South Africa – even by the right-wing Reagan Administration.

But instead of expelling the racist psychopath Dermer, the reputedly liberal Obama invited him to the White House – to be opening speaker at the President’s biggest annual event supposedly honoring Muslims! What’s worse, at the same time Dermer was speaking to the appalled captive audience of VIP Muslims at the White House, Israel was slaughtering children in Gaza. Mental images of the photos of children with their heads blasted off or their entrails hanging out would be enough to ruin the appetite even of someone who has been fasting all day. And those are the images that come to the mind of every even slightly aware Muslim on earth when faced with the likes of such Zionist war criminals as Ron Dermer.

When Netanyahu appointed Dermer ambassador to the US, even many Israelis were horrified. They correctly saw that the appointment signaled that Netanyahu had closed the door to even the slightest chance at peace.

Israel’s leading newspaper Haaretz reported on Dermer’s appointment under the headline: “Israel’s next U.S. envoy: Right-wing neo-con with close ties to Bush family.” According to Haaretz, “Dermer’s positions on policy are far more extreme than Netanyahu’s. European and American officials have expressed shock by his positions on the settlement issue, on peace talks with the Palestinians, and on the principle of an independent Palestinian state.”

So when the Muslim guests at the White House Ramadan iftar saw who Obama had invited as keynote speaker, they must have felt like vomiting up their first meal in 24 hours.

Then it got worse.

Obama followed Dermer by standing before the nauseated guests and doing his best to justify Israel’s ongoing genocidal slaughter of the children, women, and men of Gaza. Israel, according to Obama, has “the right to defend itself.”

By uttering that genocidal lie, Obama condemned himself as a war criminal. The truth is that Israel is not defending itself. It is committing aggression, and has been trying to eliminate Palestine and the Palestinians for more than six decades. Ever since the Zionists invaded Palestine, they have been the aggressors, and their aggression has been in service to genocide. It is the Palestinians who have the right to defend themselves against genocide.

Lying about the most basic fact about the occupation of Palestine – that the Zionists are the aggressors, and the Palestinians are defending themselves, their homes, their land, their children, and their honor – is a war crime. That crime is called “propaganda for genocide.” It is the crime of Dr. Goebbels, the Nazi propagandist who, like Obama, tried to justify an ethnic cleansing by lying about who was doing what to whom and why.

Though I am one of America’s better-known Muslims, I did not receive an invitation to the White House iftar... which is probably just as well. Had I been present, I would have attempted a citizen’s arrest of both Dermer and Obama for complicity in genocide. Being wrestled to the ground by the Secret Service, and locked up for who-knows-how-long, would have put a damper on my career as TruthJihad.com’s White House correspondent.

Seriously, the President’s decision to invite the lunatic racist war criminal Dermer to speak at the White House iftar was a colossal, monumental blunder. Such ham-handed, shoot-yourself-in-the-foot politics is uncharacteristic of Obama. In the past, the US President has made several gestures aimed at trying to normalize US-Muslim relations, which were nearly destroyed by the Zionist false flag operation of September 11th, 2001. (Polls show that roughly 80% of the world’s Muslims know that the official narrative of 9/11 is a big lie, yet despite the work of groups like Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, most non-Muslim Americans still give at least some credence to the ludicrous and now-fully-falsified official story.)

But since Monday’s botched, genocidal Ramadan iftar, Obama has forfeited what little good will he previously earned by pretending to strike a different pose from that of Zionist-driven 9/11 criminals Bush and Cheney. After this, Muslims all over the world are going to see not just Obama, but America, as a 100%-Zionist-controlled existential enemy.

What can Obama have been thinking? After all, the President is known to loathe Netanyahu and Dermer. (Dermer was Netanyahu’s man in Washington, DC who with the help of Zionist gangsters like Sheldon Adelson, and an army of black-box-voting-machine hackers, tried unsuccessfully to throw the 2012 election to Mitt Romney.)

Maybe Obama was hoping that one of the Muslim guests would throw a shoe at Dermer... or worse.

I would have been more than happy to do so.

So Obama, if you want to see some fireworks at the White House, invite me... and put the genocidal criminal and 9/11 suspect Ron Dermer in the same room.

KB/HSN

Dr. Kevin Barrett, a Ph.D. Arabist-Islamologist, is one of America's best-known critics of the War on Terror. Dr. Barrett has appeared many times on Fox, CNN, PBS and other broadcast outlets, and has inspired feature stories and op-eds in the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Chicago Tribune, and other leading publications. Dr. Barrett has taught at colleges and universities in San Francisco, Paris, and Wisconsin, where he ran for Congress in 2008. He is the co-founder of the Muslim-Christian-Jewish Alliance, and author of the books Truth Jihad: My Epic Struggle Against the 9/11 Big Lie (2007) and Questioning the War on Terror: A Primer for Obama Voters (2009). His website is www.truthjihad.com. More articles by Dr. Barrett

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first day on n/l and 1st to comment

Please you guys should not pay him back. Because i already know what it will be like.

Awon Oloshi gbogbo,ISLAM SAYS BE DISTANCE FROM THEM,NO ALLIANCE,NA DEM DEY DEN DEY GET CLOSE TO

uplawal: Awon Oloshi gbogbo,ISLAM SAYS BE DISTANCE FROM THEM,NO ALLIANCE,NA DEM DEY DEN DEY GET CLOSE TO

dont mind dem. Oniranu niwon. Emi o mo nkan ti won rigba ninu iftar at WH. O beta ki won lo je iftar ni ajegunle ni NY pelu awon alaini instead karimi nonsense tan m ba kiri. Dey deserve the humiliation

Next time they should look at the guest list before attending such iftar!

Munafeq ni won,awon lo ko ba gbogbo musulumi to kun,imagine,like you said,there are homeless people in newyork,prisons dey there,den no go,Olohun Allah will always do ju ti gbogbo Munafiq that are spoiling Islam,The religion of the brave ones now turn to hide and seek,awon were eniyan.

Empiree:

dont mind dem. Oniranu niwon. Emi o mo nkan ti won rigba ninu iftar at WH. O beta ki won lo je iftar ni ajegunle ni NY pelu awon alaini instead karimi nonsense tan m ba kiri. Dey deserve the humiliation

seriously our leaders are the one bringing us down,imagine after the humiliation they will still eat,what a shame,that Obama is nothing but a fool,he thought he had achieved everything in life,we admitted that you humiliated us here on earth but you own humiliation in hereafter will be far worst if you die in this state of mind, how could a non muslim be invited for iftar,we call it iftar not a dinner party,no matter what you do we will still reclaim our land Gaza and your Israelites will be humiliated like the way they were...
Israel the land of non believers,ungrateful, rebellion just check Quran and see the way Allah had described them...
Oh our lord!protect our brothers and sister in Gaza forgive those that have lost their life and cure the injured ones and make us victorious over the kufar(the Jews,Christians and the like)Amin

Why couldn't they just walk out on him?

I come to someone's house and all he can do is insult me with his words. Then i would gently walk out and pick the sand. Never again. It's that simple.

Indeed.. The death in Gaza is a "tragedy" to Obama... But please help me ask him what has he done to prevent such events apart from the usual rhetorics ? No be him fault. Na those good for nothing leaders wey no fit collect mic tell him the truth to his face. Mtschewww.

olaitan009: seriously our leaders are the one bringing us down,imagine after the humiliation they will still eat,what a shame,that Obama is nothing but a fool,he thought he had achieved everything in life,we admitted that you humiliated us here on earth but you own humiliation in hereafter will be far worst if you die in this state of mind, how could a non muslim be invited for iftar,we call it iftar not a dinner party,no matter what you do we will still reclaim our land Gaza and your Israelites will be humiliated like the way they were...
Israel the land of non believers,ungrateful, rebellion just check Quran and see the way Allah had described them...
Oh our lord!protect our brothers and sister in Gaza forgive those that have lost their life and cure the injured ones and make us victorious over the kufar(the Jews,Christians and the like)Amin

Yimu.

olaitan009: seriously our leaders are the one bringing us down,imagine after the humiliation they will still eat,what a shame,that Obama is nothing but a fool,he thought he had achieved everything in life,we admitted that you humiliated us here on earth but you own humiliation in hereafter will be far worst if you die in this state of mind, how could a non muslim be invited for iftar,we call it iftar not a dinner party,no matter what you do we will still reclaim our land Gaza and your Israelites will be humiliated like the way they were...
Israel the land of non believers,ungrateful, rebellion just check Quran and see the way Allah had described them...
Oh our lord!protect our brothers and sister in Gaza forgive those that have lost their life and cure the injured ones and make us victorious over the kufar(the Jews,Christians and the like)Amin

every tongue that rises against the chosen of God shall...