The American President Barack Obama has chosen to ‘wait out the results of the 2012 U.S. national elections’ in the City of Chicago, playing basketball with supporters and campaign workers, while later in the evening granting political interviews via satellite with journalists in certain states – including possibly those states directly affected by the recent hurricane ‘perfect storm’ Sandy.  I hope that the American President changes his mind!

The United States government – under the direction of the American President Barack Obama, who is keen to listen carefully to his many White House advisers – made the decision in late-August 2012 to scale back significantly the joint U.S.-Israel military exercises that were scheduled for mid-October 2012.  It is not known officially that Mr. Obama and his White House advisers have changed their minds.  I hope they have!

At the National Prayer Breakfast meeting this year, the American President Barack Obama – in deeply feeling the moment – said “In moments of prayer, I’m reminded that faith and values play an enormous role in motivating us to solve some of our most urgent problems.”

The American President Barack Obama has repeatedly declared that his policies will ensure that America’s military capabilities will never be diminished.  America will remain strong – enabling the United States to foster and maintain an effective defense against her nation’s enemies (and there are quite a few lurking about these days), while offering protection and sustained security for America’s allies, including Israel.

On October 19, 2012, the Israel newspaper Haaretz reported that the American presidential campaign had come to the Jewish state. 

The YCT chapter at UT honored 9/11 victims by displaying 3000 miniature American flags on the campus's South Lawn -- an undertaking the chapter has done each year since 2002.

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The rebirth of the State of Israel in May of 1948 – heralded by the British Balfour Declaration in 1917; the unanimous decision of the European governments of the Council of the League of Nations in 1922, granting the Jewish people the right to settle the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, and obligating the Jewish people to protect the civil and religious rights of the non-Jewish population living on the same land, and subsequently reaffirming those rights under international law by the adoption in 1945 of Article 80 of the United Nations Charter – was strongly opposed by the Arab League and most of the Arab-Palestinian people in 1949; and during the ensuing 63 years, the objections of the Muslim Islamic community in Israel have not abated.  

ON JUNE 1, 2012, THE CITIZENS  of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA became acutely aware that the leader of the free world, America’s Commander-in-Chief, was slowly – but ever more methodically – bolting the locks on the doors of the people’s White House, barring entry to the Jewish state.  Israel would no longer be welcomed as an honored guest.