Sen. Barack Obama visited a Conservative synagogue in Florida in an effort to win some votes from a skeptical Jewish community.

“The bottom line is this. Nobody can find any statement that I have ever made that is anything less than unequivocally pro-Israel, that says Israel’s security is paramount,” Obama told the crowd at B’Nai Torah Synagogue. “There is not a single trace of me ever being anything more than a friend of Israel and a friend of the Jewish people.”

He asked the audience to move past his name and his skin color, to delete the emails claiming he is a Muslim and to ignore the “rumor-mongering” aimed at raising suspicions about his character or his associations.

“This is part, I think, of the tradition of the Jewish people is to judge me by what I say and what I have done,” he said. “Don’t judge me because I have a funny name. Don’t judge me because I am an African American. People are concerned about memories of the past. … That is exactly what I am fighting in the African American community when I hear anti-Semitic statements. We are bigger than that.

“If my policies are wrong, then vote against me because my policies are wrong. If I am not honest, if I am not truthful, don’t vote for me for that reason,” he went on to say. “But don’t vote against me because of who I am, and I know you won’t.”

Now I did find this from IsraelNationalNews.com

When Obama first ran for the Senate in 2004, the Chicago Jewish News interviewed him on his stance regarding Israel’s security fence. He accused the Bush administration of neglecting the “Israeli-Palestinian” situation and criticized the security fence built by Israel to prevent terror attacks: “The creation of a wall dividing the two nations is yet another example of the neglect of this Administration in brokering peace,” Obama was quoted as saying.

There is no doubt that Obama is trying hard on this issue.  The question remains is he sincere?

 

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