Having taken military action against Iran off the table, the Obama administration is considering ways of punishing Israel if it attacks Iran to end its nuclear arms program (and prevent a second Holocaust).
In other words, having failed to contain Iran, the United States is concentrating on restraining Israel.
Administration contingency plans include condemnation of Israel, support for a United Nations Security Council resolution that could include sanctions on Israel, and suspending or seriously cutting military aid to the Jewish State.
One of President Obama’s closest foreign policy advisers, National Security Council member Samantha Power, is a proponent of ending military aid to Israel in order to force it to negotiate with Iran’s Palestinian Islamist proxy, Hamas, and withdraw from all lands taken during the Six-Day War of June 1967. Power also advocates shifting aid to a Palestinian state. Overall, she views Israel as a liability and a historic mistake, in line with the European left position (and that of old-line, right-of-center, American isolationists and anti-Semites). Her antidemocratic admirers in the Democratic Party’s (Hillary-hating) left wing agree and are eager for an opportunity to paint Israel as a Jewish North Korea (although they actually have more sympathy for North Korea than for Israel).
The big question is how the Obama administration would react if Iran retaliated against Israel indirectly as well as directly–by making good on its repeated threats to attack U.S. forces in the Middle East and shut down the strategic, 29 mile-wide Strait of Hormuz, through which an estimated 20% of the world’s crude oil is transported by tanker ships. Would the U.S. fight back with real ferocity or respond in a limited way while blaming Israel for preemptively attacking Iran and appealing to “the Muslim world” for “understanding?”
One wonders how the Apologizer-in-Chief would react.
Holocaust-denying Iran and its Lebanese Islamist Shiite proxy, the Hitlerian Hezbollah, have also vowed to “burn Tel Aviv” if attacked by either Israel or the U.S. Jerusalem’s clerical fascist foes have amassed arsenals of ballistic missiles and rockets to bombard Tel Aviv and Haifa. Israel’s political-military leadership must be taking this into consideration; a “six-hour war,” designed to eliminate Iranian missile installations and nuclear sites could be the result.
Three decades of attempts to appease and accommodate Islamist Iran have led to the present countdown to conflict. Obama’s so-called diplomatic surge–which transcends appeasement in downgrading and ultimately abandoning Israel in order to try to strike a “grand bargain” with Iran for pacification of the Middle East–has put Jerusalem on a political collision course with Washington.
Israelis are understandably stunned by the developments. Prime Minister Netanyahu’s late, great mentor, Menahem Begin, would not recognize today’s political landscape; his late, Labor Party rivals–Golda Meir comes to mind–would also be shocked by the situation. Time was, no Israeli expected Iran–a predominantly Muslim, non-Arab ally of the U.S. and tacit ally of Israel–to emerge as the number-one existential threat to the Jewish State.
But that was before the catastrophic Carter administration betrayed Iran’s modernizing monarch, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, in a craven, failed attempt to hop aboard the Islamist bandwagon.
Jimmy Carter betrayed the Shah; Barack Obama is betraying Israel–already. His “engagement” drive is giving Iran time to achieve its nuclear/missile objectives.
NOTE: About Obama’s apologizing to the world and bowing to the Saudi King–the left loves it. The more the President apologizes for alleged American arrogance and other supposed sins, the more popular he is with the Democratic Party’s left wing. The deeper he bows, the more they appreciate him. The left believes it is high time that America was brought to its knees, forced to submit to the Third World. Like the radical right, the left makes common cause with Islamism in order to cut America down to size and set Israel up for a final solution. Israel is especially despised for its success and power; its defeat is seen as paving the way for the disappearance of the Jews as a people. Like the failed Russian revolutionaries of the late 1800s, the pro-pogrom Norodniki, who sought to ally with Russia’s notoriously anti-Semitic peasants, today’s left believes that “Jewish blood will oil the wheels of revolution.”
Most Jewish Norodniki left the movement because of its anti-Semitism. Will American Jews leave the Democratic Party when the Obama administration’s betrayal of Israel becomes too obvious to ignore?
A Concerned American Jew.
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27 Responses
Very very scary. In my wildest dreams I never would have dreamed that america would become israels biggest obstacle to their own survival. Hashem is showing us never to rely on anyone,we’re still in golus!!
what Obama really needs is a good old fashioned spanking in the form of an attack on our homeland- the only way he would understand what danger the Arabs and Muslims pose. Obama is not a bad person but a very naive and somehow misguided person.
שרים ומלכאים ביד ה’, אנחנו צריכים להתפלל שזה כבר יהי’ אתחלתא דגאולה
well written! derech ha’teva this is a MAJORLY HUGE BIG problem. who would have thunk we would have such a rosha as president of this country? we need to see that CHAS V’SHOLOM the 30s could happen all over again.
Unless Israel used weapons of mass destruction (nuclear, biological, etc.), the US and Europe (and most of the Arab states including Saudi Arabia) would say “naughty, naughty” and breathe a sigh of relief.
Even most anti-Semites hate the Iranians more.
Also remember that most American “aid” to Israel is really “dumping” that hurts Israel’s economy (in other words, subsidizing the purchase of American exports to make up for the fact that Israel could buy or produce the goods cheaper elsewhere – it isn’t like Israel needs the foreign aid).
The answer is no.
There always was Erev Rav mixed in w/ the Jewish people and there always will be.
It is very hard to know who is erev Ravand who is not.
But it would seem that anyone who actively or even paasively works against the interest of Am Yisroel in an instance that has no explanation other than Jew hatred is a member of the Erev Rav.
There is no logical explanation that would explain Hussein’s actions as anythin but catastophic for Israel – What in the world do settlements have to do with Iran’s Nuclear aspirations? That is ridiculous. Only someone who hates the Jews would fall for such an obvious lie.
Ignorance and/or stupidity is no excuse.
What Hashgacha that its Bibi in the PM seat and not Olmert!
akuperma, you are right on the money!
When Israel bombed the Iraqi reactor, then SecDef Cheney sent a secret thank you note to the Israeli PM, while the US and the rest of the world publicly tsk tsked.
Habeit Yamin Urieih V’Ein Li Makir
btw would the senate and house pass this
does anyone remember Obama’s middle name???
its time we all pack outa this country and move to israel!
Word is out that several arab countries are hoping for Israel to take action against Iran.
Yoishev BaShomayim Yischok!
Last I checked, HaShem is still in charge. And although He was in charge in Auschwitz too, I believe B’Emunah Shleima that He knew what he was doing.
Many Gedolim of those times decried the decline of Yiddishkeit in Europe. Rav Miller ZT”L used to quote Reb Yeruchom ZT”L that since people didn’t believe in Gehinnom, HaShem brought it down to this world.
I know that the President Hussein is heading to Cairo to speak tomorrow. Frankly, it doesn’t matter what he says. He may try to push Israel into concessions (again) and American Liberal Jews who voted for this fool will try to be Dan LeKaf Zchus anything he says. (Ask them when the last time they were Dan L’kaf Zchus anything a Rosh Yeshiva said!)
The bottom line is, that HaShem is waiting and waiting for us to do Tshuva and time is slowly running out. What’s He to do if not give us a little tickle here and there to hopefully wake up. Let’s hope that we do take the message from HaShem seriously and realize that the wielder of this stick is trying to speak to us. Let’s not get caught up with Husseins words or actions.
“K’cho Umochem D’vorim V’Shuvu El HaShem”
“Apologizer-in-Chief”?! I presume this article is an editorial and it should be presented as one.
Such language is not respectful and taints anything that follows. It is certainly appropriate to disagree however do so without loshan hara.
In the holy words of Rav Chaim Kanievsky Shlita when asked about Obama when he became President,his reply was ” History has always shown that when an Eved from Cham is in power, Klal Yisroel always had it good”.
akuperma,
Please sit down but I have to say I agree with you BUT to a point which is that so far the missing link here is Obama. We seem to know where he stands on this issue & it is much worse than any other past president. If he wouldn’t be running around apologizing for us saving the world or kissing up to the bad guys, I would possibly see your point morebut alas…
rharris03,
Loshon Hara is not applicable (meaning it is acceptable) against a goy.
16, how come no one else knows he said that? when else has a chumite been in charge?
15, what else would you call him? he runs around the world apologizing for the US saving the world’s backsides when needed. the country would be better off if he shut his mouth!!!
rharris03,
A little time spent learning the halachos of L”H might enlighten you.
When is America officially and legally changing its name to Ameristan?
19 Herod and yes R Chaim did say something of that sort
21 – see the new headline – pretty soon it seems.
Yes, R Chaim compared Obama to Herod.
Being compared to Herod is R Chaim’s way of warning us what is in store. It was not a mere comparison to his race.
“The left believes it is high time that America was brought to its knees, forced to submit to the Third World… today’s left believes that “Jewish blood will oil the wheels of revolution.””
Does anybody think this is just a little alarmist?
why does everyone think they know everything????
“Does anybody think this is just a little alarmist?”
8 months later and it was barely strong enough. This behema is ruining the world.