I remain, broadly speaking, a cautious optimist about President Obama’s intentions and basic decency as a human being. Of course, I also remain less than enamored by some of his staff.

Why did Obama pick Zionist extremists with obvious first loyalty to Israel for a range of key positions – men such as Richard Holbrooke, Dennis Ross and Rahm Emanuel?

The Obamas Dance: graceful, but which way is he leading?

Pessimists argued it was Obama showing his true spots as a Zionist and stooge of the Illuminati, Bilderbergers or (insert your favourite term here…)

Well, maybe. I’d have thought at least some consideration should be given to an alternative hypothesis. Barak Obama isn’t Superman, after all. He can’t turn the Titanic round in 5 minutes. It’s going to take time. Meanwhile, the Zionist Lobby in the USA is simply too strong to take on by frontal assault. Obama understands the need for a change of course, domestically and in international affairs. But he has to work at it gradually – and meanwhile, give the Zionists some of the goodies they consider reward for ‘allowing’ his rise to the Presidency.

This issue – Obama’s real intentions – remains obscure to me and to many. Both the man and his administration are an enigma.

Take Palestine policy. Obama seems genuinely keen to see a fairer deal in Israel/Palestine, based on the so-called ‘Two State solution’. His willingness to politely face down the Israeli Government on the settlements issue – in public – has Zionist foot soldiers in a state of apoplexy. Yet the deal he’s proposing can’t really work; for Palestinians, it’s just the latest phase of a 92-year con.

Not much left for the 'Second State'

The Israeli leadership have no intention of being a ‘partner for peace’; they never tried. The only Palestinian State Israel might allow would be overcrowded, fragmented, starved of water, unable to defend itself, permanently at Israel’s whim and corrupted by Zionist infiltration. Such is the brutal, supremacist momentum of Israeli Zionism.

But was it ever on the cards that Obama demanded something else, something genuinely more fair and workable – such as a pluralistic single state (the South Africa solution), with equal rights for all citizens?

Such a radical departure from the international ‘consensus’ of recent years, into which the Palestinian President and his coterie have also been corralled, would have been nice -, but it was always too much of a stretch for Obama to move fast in that direction. A political leader can surf historical waves if the conditions are right – but he can’t make a wave out of a ripple.

If the land that used to be called Holy is to end up a genuinely sane and normal society, based on the rule of (equal) law for all its citizens, more groundwork must be done first. Part of what’s necessary, perhaps, is to pursue the existing ‘Peace Process’ with real vigor, something that hasn’t happened for eight years. If the ‘Two State Solution’ proves inherently unworkable and impossible, it will become evident through the process. Perhaps we need to approach closer before we can see the ‘Two State Promised Land’ is just a mirage.

That, for what it’s worth, is my gloomily optimistic appraisal of what Obama is up to in his Israel/Palestine policy, Undoubtedly I’m missing a lot of nuance; major things may be going on behind the scenes unknown to the public, as was the case during the JFK Administration.

It’s also quite possible my analysis is way off mark. Perhaps Obama is truly a super-salesman for the Zionist-biased American Military Industrial Complex? Perhaps his push for Middle East peace is pure charade? That’s possible. Time will tell. For now, I don’t think there’s enough evidence to abandon all hope in Obama as a force for good.

Assuming he’s essentially a good guy, Obama faces great dangers.

Lee Harvey Oswald: too risky to reincarnate him as an Al Qaida operative

Assassination is on peoples’ minds, but I think that unlikely.

The only group of terrorists with the potential (as well as the motive?) to murder Obama are the same combination of forces who almost certainly slaughtered JFK: a motley assortment of discontents to do the deed, orchestrated by a devious conspiracy of Zionists, in and out of Israel, with the mass media covering up.

And there’s the rub – far too many people are aware, by now, that the Zionists have a track record of assassination that makes the Roman elite look like wimps. If Obama does get shot – even with the usual trickery one can anticipate (e.g. blame it on Bin Laden, Iran, White Supremacists and/or ‘Holocaust deniers’) – far too many informed people would START with the idea that Israel probably plotted the murder. It would make life for Israel – and American Jews – very uncomfortable.

Obama most obvious challenges are the twin policy giants: a global economy in turmoil and global environment in peril. They are historical challenges of unparalleled magnitude. But there’s more…

Obama also faces the momentum of what I’ll call the 21st century ‘legacy of lies’. The previous Administration was up to its neck in criminal behaviour, aided, abetted and often controlled by right-wing Zionists. 9-11 was the quintessence of insider criminality. Huge numbers of people now know that the official Bush era story of 9-11 is sheer bunkum. The ‘War on Terror’ was a lie from the start. Bin Laden is essentially a fictional bogeyman.

Presumably Obama knows this. Yet he allows the lie to continue – even reiterates it himself. Why? It’s a good question. As with Palestine policy, it’s possible to make excuses for Obama. But getting sucked into lies until they become your own is really playing with fire. It is also these lies that are used to justify the war that Obama does seem to be stoking up, not watering down: conflict caused by US interference in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

A fair and sustainable future cannot be built on foundations of lies

The key, I think, is to pressure the Obama Administration to set up an independent, competent and honest 9-11 inquiry. This can be achieved only by an unprecedented public clamor – unprecedented because it would run completely against the tide of mass media opinion. The western mainstream media are desperate to prevent such an inquiry. Elements within the mass media risk exposure to criminal charges – quite apart from the devastating impact the overturning of the 9-11 myth would have for Zionist momentum.

When the penny finally, drops for a critical mass of Americans, that Israel was behind both the killing of JFK and the atrocity of 9-11, solving the Palestine Question may become a whole lot easier…