THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume XIII, Issue # 120, May 15, 2011
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
OBAMA VERSUS ISRAEL
By Alan Caruba
THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY, THE POLITICAL LEFT, ANTI-SEMITISM, & U.S. FOREIGN POLICY RELATING TO THE MIDDLE EAST:
THE SUBTLE & NOT-SO-SUBTLE WAYS IN WHICH THE LIBERAL LEFTIST OBAMA ADMINISTRATION DEMONSTRATES
ITS ANTI-ISRAELI BIAS & ITS PRO-ISLAMIC TILT -- OBAMA SEEKING TO UNDERMINE THE STATE OF ISRAEL -- MAKING IT
POSSIBLE FOR ISRAEL'S ISLAMIST ENEMIES TO REALIZE THEIR ULTIMATE GOAL, NAMELY, TO WIPE ISRAEL OFF THE FACE
OF THE EARTH
FULL STORY:
Is Obama a Muslim? Does Obama hate Israel? Will Israel be attacked again? Will Iran nuke Israel? Has Maghreb and
Middle Eastern turmoil flummoxed the U.S. White House? Why did Obama bow to Saudi Arabia’s King? Questions,
questions, questions?
Watching U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama try to pick winners and losers in the Middle East would be amusing,
if it were not so deadly serious. Not a word about Syria’s slaughter of its protestors. A demand that Libya’s Qaddafi
step aside and a quick retreat behind NATO’s skirts. Throwing Egypt’s Mubarack under the bus when saying nothing
would have sufficed. And, then, there was the infamous and inauspicious start to his Presidency with the “World
Apology Tour” that included a stop in Cairo.
A May 11, 2011, Reuters news article published in the Jerusalem Post was titled “Obama may preempt
PM’s speech to U.S. Congress.” Benyamin Netanyahu, at the invitation of Speaker John Boehner, will address the
Congress on May 24, 2011. If President Obama delivers a speech about “political change in the Middle East and North
Africa” prior to the Israeli Prime Minister, it will be impossible to deny that it is a deliberate effort to rebut in advance
anything Netanyahu says.
Israel just celebrated the 63rd anniversary of its founding. Successive American administrations have struggled and
failed to secure any peace between Israel and its sworn enemies. The reason is simple and obvious. Only Egypt and
Jordan negotiated peace treaties with Israel, and, then, only after having been decisively defeated in war.
Neither the Palestinian Authority, nor Hamas wants peace, nor does Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy group based in
Lebanon. Not all the handshakes, Oslo Accords, and other diplomatic dances will change this.
President Obama’s special envoy, George Mitchell, whose mission it was to fashion a peace between Israel and the
Palestinians just rendered his resignation. He could have saved himself the bother by not even taking the job.
The Israelis have given up territory and made countless concessions to the Palestinians without any reciprocity. Now the
Palestinians are counting on the United Nations to unilaterally declare them a sovereign state. When not killing Israelis,
they kill each other.
The United Nations has a long, ugly record of hostility, passing endless resolutions condemning Israel, while maintaining
the Palestinians as the world’s oldest “refugee” group, to the tune of millions of dollars via the UN Relief and Works
Agency (UNRWA).
The European Union whose World War II member-nations allowed their Jews to be frog-walked to Nazi concentration and
death camps has also demonstrated its hostility.
America, to its credit, has always been Israel’s one true friend. During the campaign, Obama even visited the Wailing Wall
to demonstrate his solidarity. Once elected, however, and, to the astonishment of voters, the new Obama administration
was reluctant to even say that militant Islam was the enemy or to even use the word “terrorism.” It was renamed “overseas
contingency operations”!
Call me a cynic, but I believe that the decision to kill Osama bin Laden was not taken until the 2012 elections became a
priority. Why? Because three terrorist attacks, including the Fort Hood murders, had previously been swept under the rug
by the Obama administration. Moreover, the Obama Justice Department continues to threaten CIA agents with jail for the
aggressive interrogation techniques that led to finding bin Laden.
The Obama administration’s hostility to Israel and the rush to preempt the Israeli Prime Minister’s speech is a reflection the
180 degree reversal of all previous administration’s relations with Israel. The President’s National Security Advisor, John
Brennan, has referred to Jerusalem as “Al Quds,” the Arabic name for the ancient and modern capital of Israel and the U.S.
State Department continues to send funds to Hamas.
In a speech delivered in March, 2010, Netanyahu said:
“The Jewish people were building Jerusalem
three thousand years ago and the Jewish people
are building Jerusalem today. Jerusalem is not a
settlement. It is our capitol.”
The pro-Muslim “tilt” of the Osama administration would be obvious to a blind man. At one point, the U.S. Navy was instructed
to call the Persian Gulf the “Arabian Gulf.” Who can forget the President’s weak response to a proposal to build a mosque
within a short distance from New York’s Ground Zero, the site of 9/11?
New voices out of Egypt are calling for the abrogation of its peace treaty with Israel. Hezbollah has been removing its cache
of long-range rockets (courtesy of Iran) from Syria, as that regime faces internal opposition. Hamas, designated a terrorist
organization worldwide, has joined hands with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), negating any possibility for
peace with Israel.
It is bad enough when various nations openly declare their hostility to Israel, but it is very dangerous when the current
regime in Washington demonstrates its hostility in subtle and not-so-subtle ways.
President Harry Truman recognized Israel when it declared its sovereignty on May 14, 1948. At the time he said, “I have
faith in Israel and believe it has a glorious future, not just as a sovereign nation, but as the embodiment of the great ideals
of our civilization.”
Israel and Americans who support it must wait for the November, 2012, elections before the threat the Obama administration
represents can be removed.
Israel’s enemies may not be willing to wait, seeing the present regime and time as the best and possibly the last opportunity
to make good on their threat to “wipe it from the map.”
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© Alan Caruba, 2011
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Israel & the Arabs -- The Israeli-Arab Conflict
Middle East -- Arabs, Arab States,
& Their Middle Eastern Neighbors
American Foreign Policy -- The Middle East
Islamism & Jihadism -- Radical Islam & Islamic Terrorism
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International Politics & World Disorder:
War, Peace, & Geopolitics in the Real World:
Foreign Affairs & U.S. National Security
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Islamist Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.A.
Osama bin Laden & the Islamist Declaration of War
Against the U.S.A. & Western Civilization
Islamist International Terrorism &
U.S. Intelligence Agencies
U.S. National Security Strategy
Alan Caruba writes a daily post at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com. An author, commentator and business and science writer,
he is the Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about media-driven "scare campaigns" designed
to influence public opinion and public policy.
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