WorldNetDaily editor Joseph Farah is a liar; it’s what he does. So it’s no surprise that Farah’s March 29 WND column attacking President Obama over his purported stance on Israel is yet another pack of lies.
The column begins with an ominous-sounding editor’s note: “Joseph Farah wrote this column before the Obama administration betrayed Israel in the most shocking way by revealing classified information about its nuclear program.” In fact, as Media Matters documents, the declassifed 1987 document in question was released only after the Department of Defense spent years fighting its release — due to a Freedom of Information Act request, not from any demand from Obama — and the Washington Examiner reports that the Pentagon asked Israel to review the document before releasing it.Media Matters also noted that the Bush administration released information about Israel’s nuclear program, and we don’t recall Farah getting bent out of shape over that.
In the column proper, Farah listed things he claimed prove Barack Obama’s (remember, Farah doesn’t consider Obama to be the president) “latent anti-Semitism,” and he piles up more lies:
— “Obama used taxpayer money, his own political operatives and a nonprofit front group to interfere in the recent Israeli election, specifically with the intent of toppling Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister.” As we’ve documented, none of the evidence WND’s Aaron Klein compiled actually prove any of that happened as Farah describes, and Klein’s focus on former Obama operatives working for the opposition ignores the fact that Republican operatives were working for Netanyahu’s campaign.
— “Obama’s anti-Israel bent has been palpable since his first full day in office – Jan. 21, 2009 – when he gathered his new national-security team in the Oval Office and laid out a tough new policy toward Israel. … Obama’s White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel famously told Abe Foxman in a private meeting: ‘This is Israel’s moment of truth. This president is determined to make peace between Israel and the Arabs.'” Funny, this sounds almost exactly — like, almost to the word — what noted Obama-hater and fabulist Ed Klein wrote in his book “The Amateur”:
he Jewish problem with Obama can be traced back to his first full day on the job. On January 21, 2009, he summoned his national security team to the Oval Office and laid out a tough new policy toward Israel.
[…]However, a clue to the president’s true intentions came in March 2009, when Abe Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, met with the president’s then chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel.
“This is Israel’s moment of truth,” Emanuel told Foxman. “This President is determined to make peace between Israel and the Arabs.”
For this example, Farah is actually less of a liar and more of a plagiarist.
— “Then came Obama’s even more famous call for a return to Israel’s pre-1967 borders – which more accurately should be termed ‘Auschwitz borders.'” In fact, Obama said negotiations over a Palestinian state should start with the 1967 borders, not end there — which has been the starting point for the past several presidents.
Farah harrumphed at the end of his column: “He looks like an anti-Semite. He walks like an anti-Semite. And he talks like an anti-Semite. I am forced to conclude there’s a malignant anti-Semite in the White House. It’s time for Jews who have been reflexively supporting him for too long to see if for themselves.”
Meanwhile, we are forced to conclude that a malignant liar runs WND. No wonder nobody believes them.