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PRE-ELECTION THOUGHTS ON ISRAEL

By: longtimeconservative (Diary)  |  February 26th, 2012 at 12:29 PM  | 

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When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits our country and the White House this time, it will be far different. He’ll be welcomed, permitted to enter through the front door and cameras, television media, the press and a public Presidential handshake will greet him.

Barack Obama wants Jewish voters to overlook three years of snubs and treating Israel as an enemy rather than loyal friend and ally. He hopes they will ignore his unwillingness to publicly criticize Hamas terrorism and rockets reining down on innocent men, women and children.

He wants everyone to ignore his decision that the small nation return to “indefensible” 1967 borders and make unilateral concessions to neighboring enemies who refuse to even admit Israel exists. He wants people to forget his recommendation would deny access to Jewish people’s holiest site, the Western Wall of Jerusalem. He also advocates Islamist terrorist organizations be rewarded with return of the Golan Heights to Syria, a state sponsor of terrorism both home and abroad.

In anticipation of this visit, the President sent both military and diplomatic envoys to Tel-Aviv in an effort to forestall a pre-emptive attack on Iran’s nuclear bomb-making facilities. He wants Israel to overlook Holocaust denier Mohmoud Ahmadinajad’s vow to completely annihilate the country with one nuclear bomb. More than anything, he worries that military conflict might further increase gasoline prices prior to Election day. To believe the Administration now supports Israel over the interests of Palestinians is the height of chutzpah.

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  • Dave_A

    Israel is simply our greatest ally in the Middle East.

    In terms of world-wide, our relationship with the British is absolutely unique.

  • Agelaius

    What other nation has stood by us to the same extent? And the Obama Administration rewards this by refusing Knesset member Ben Ari a visa, calling him a member of a “terrorist organization”. Shame. Netanyahu would like Obama defeated and I hope he is able to work with his allies in the United States to influence the election. We do the same around the world, and in this case Netanyahu would have our interests, as well as Israel’s, at heart.

  • tnguy

    One of the biggest reasons God has continued to bless America in spite of its sin is its continued support of Israel. And that if that support goes, so will those blessings.

  • aesthete

    Israel hasn’t served alongside us in any war, and it has in the past been recalcitrant to share intelligence and coordinate with us. The Anglo countries, in turn, have been much surer allies for much longer on issues. The Israelis and us share similar, but in many cases divergent, interests on many issues both in the Middle East and elsewhere — overstating that would lead to some very unfortunate foreign policy choices for both Israel and ourselves.

    That said, I know absolutely nothing about Ben Ari’s situation.

  • aesthete

    Looks like Dave_A beat me to it.

  • retrocon87

    Can you give examples of when Israel “has in the past been recalcitrant to share intelligence and coordinate with us”?

    The UK/Canada/Australia are the cultural allies who have fought with us in our major wars for the last 100 years… Israel is the strategic ally in the Middle East who solidly aligned with us against the Russians/Arabs during the Cold War and is now the outpost of Western interests and values in the Middle East. We need all of them, and comparing them seems a little on the “apples to oranges” side.

  • lizzie

    since WW1. The UK did not deploy to Korea.

    Never mind. I do appreciate the intentions of this post – just like to note that there are no such thing as “1967 borders”. Those lines on the map are the 1949 Armistice lines, and Israel is technically still at war with Lebanon, Iraq, and Syria. Frozen conflict.

    What voters continue to hold against Obama and his minions is that he made building permits for apartments in Ramat Shlomo into a public diplomatic rift with PM Netanyahu in March, 2010.

    Why? Because Obama thought he could topple Netanyahu’s center-right governing coalition, and get Tzipi Livni’s Kadima Party in control.
    Oops. Did not work. A truly bad understanding of Israeli politics, where changing demographics, the Mizrahim and their descendants who were expelled from Muslim nations, and the infusion from the former Soviet Union, have made Likud the center.

    Ramat Shlomo is a neighborhood of about 20,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews, built on what had been, until after the 1967 war, a rocky hillside used for goat grazing. Ramat Shlomo is in North Jerusalem, but does happen to be ‘east’ of the 1949 armistice lines. (btw, Romney refuses to state that Ramat Shlomo is NOT a “settlement”, which makes him just like Obama on Israel).

    PM Netanyahu’s visit next week will NOT include Obama-fawning. Obama can not hide his disdain for the former commando.

    Both are speaking at the annual AIPAC conference, which will be broadcast live on cable – Jewish cable – and I am so looking forward to hearing what Bibi and Newt have to say. Obama should consider wearing a thermal underwear to avoid the polite frost from the audience. Maybe he will apologize for choosing the 24th anniversary of the First Intifada as the date for the official White House celebration of Hanukkah, the holiday that commemorates the success of the Maccabean rebellion that restored the Kingdom of Judea from Greek rule.

    Israel IS a key ally of the USA even though Israeli policy is to never ask for a single US soldier, pilot or sailor to fight with the IDF. (even tho there is not a single sailor or airman who does not rank their Israeli counterparts as #1 preference)

    The alliance today is based on Israeli technology – in cyber-war, avionics, drones, even the blood absorbing bandages.

    well. It would also be nice if America had a President who knew how to read maps, and history. Good thing Israel has all those Texans helping to develop all that offshore natural gas and onshore shale oil.

    Thank you, Governor Rick Perry, for your twenty years of seeing Israel as a natural trading partner with Texas.

  • texasref

    just ask Sheldon.