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Obamas Celebrate Hanukkah at White HouseHe celebrates Passover, so why not Hanukkah, too?Last night, the “first Jewish President” celebrated Hanukkah at the White House.Barack Obama underscored the nationalistic nature of Judaism by addressingopening remarks to Israeli ambassador Michael Oren and the people of Israel.To cheers from the audience, Obama also mentioned that “One third of the SupremeCourt is here. ” Of course, with his nomination of Elena Kagan, it was Obama himselfwho helped ensured that an ethno-religious group comprising less than 2% of the USpopulation would occupy three of the nine slots on the Supreme Court whilethe largest segment of the US population–Protestant Christians–is wholly unrepresented.After a few more intros, Obama recited an abbreviated version of the Hanukkah story,neglecting to mention, of course, that the ‘Maccabean revolt’ that spawned the holidaywas as much a religious civil war instigated by violent fanatics as it was a revolt against“the yoke of empire.” Today, violent religious fanatics–Jewish and Christian–and theirlackeys head an empire that far exceeds the scope of the Seleucid empire. It is that empirethat insures the Jewish state’s existence and wages wars on its behalf in Iraq, Afghanistan,Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia.Also left out of the Obama’s remarks is any mention ofIsrael’s 2008-09 Hanukkah Massacre that killed 1400 Palestinians or the millions of livingPalestinians “who still suffer under tyranny and oppression”. The clip ends with a saxophoneperformance by Joshua Redman. Too bad the White House didn’t invite Gilad Atzmon.
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