Posted on 03/18/2015 5:21:07 AM PDT by LeoMcNeil
Benjamin Netanyahu won yesterday’s election in Israel. Polling last week seemed to indicate that the election was a dead heat. In reality, Netanyahu’s party won handily. There have been some allegations made that President Obama has been helping to fund Netanyahu’s opposition. Whether that is true remains to be seen. Congress should investigate whether tax money was used to fund the Netanyahu opposition. Ultimately even if Obama did send money to Israel’s leftists it didn’t change the result. If anything it may have riled some Israelis enough to get them to vote for Netanyahu’s party. It’s clear at this point that Israel supports Netanyahu’s position regarding Iran and a Palestinian state.
While it was nice to see Netanyahu win, his victory changes nothing. President Obama isn’t going to suddenly give up negotiating with Iran because Netanyahu won. Obama isn’t going to change his plans concerning Iran or Israel because Netanyahu was re-elected. Obama will remain an opponent of Israel being the only middle eastern nuclear power. This is why he will continue to push for a deal with Iran that would allow the Iranians to check Israel with its own nuclear weapons. Obama would do this whether Netanyahu was elected yesterday or not. The only difference is that Netanyahu will stamp his feet louder than Issac Herzog would have.
Obama isn’t anti-Semitic, though antisemitism has often been supported by the left. Obama is a true American leftist, one who applies left-wing Cold War principles to modern international conflicts. It was the left that argued that the United States shouldn’t be the only nuclear power. They supported a nuclear Soviet Union because they believed it would serve as a check on the power of the United States. Obama has simply applied this reasoning to regional conflicts such as the the Arab world in the middle east against Israel. It has long been understood that Israel is the only nuclear power in the region. Obama believes that makes Israel too powerful and that its power needs to be checked by another nuclear regional power. In this case, he views Iran as a potential check on Israel.
The problem with Obama’s position is that it assumes that the Iranians will behave like the Soviet Union or like China and North Korea in the far east. The communists may have been bombastic and extreme in their threats but they rarely got to the point where they actually considered using their nuclear weapons. The Soviets understood that if they used their nuclear weapons against the United States, we would fire our weapons against them. At the end of the day, the Soviets preferred to live. Iran’s thinking is completely different from the atheist Soviets. Iran actually believes that if they attack and destroy Israel they’re doing the will of their false god Allah. If they die in the process, they believe their false god will reward them.
Obama really believes that Iran won’t attack Israel if they were to obtain nuclear weapons. He’s almost certainly wrong in this assumption. The problem is that his base position is faulty. The notion that evil empires and nations should militarily be on the same playing field as their free opposition is ludicrous. Yet this is the classic left-wing position held throughout the nuclear age. When we had nuclear weapons and the Soviets didn’t, they left demanded we give up our weapons or provide our “allies” with nuclear technology. When the Soviets couldn’t keep up with us in the production of weapons, then the left demanded we simply give up all our weapons. Obama doesn’t want Israel to dominate the region, he opposes dominate countries. His error is that he believes like the Soviets the Iranians love life more than death. In that, Obama has a fundamental misunderstanding of both Islam and the Iranians.
Netanyahu’s re-election doesn’t change anything about Obama’s world vision or his position on Iran. Netanyahu is, frankly, powerless to stop Obama. His speech to Congress did absolutely nothing to change Obama’s position. If anything it only resulted in Obama digging his heals in, refusing to budge. Sure, Republicans were excited by his speech. So were Christians who subscribe to ridiculous pre-millenial end times positions that hold modern Israel as the heir to ancient Israel. For the next two years Republicans in Congress are near powerless to stop Obama’s foreign policy goals, including negotiations with Iran. Netanyahu can lobby the next President but the whole world has to deal with another 22 months of Obama. In that, Obama is free to cut a deal with Iran that gives that nation time to create a nuclear weapon. Israel needs the United States to stop Iran and for at least the next 22 months Israel will not have our help. Netanyahu has made a very powerful enemy out of Obama, his re-election will only push Obama further away from Israel.
No doubt Obama will be even more aggressive toward Israel but it will open more eyes to what he really is.
...sure
True... but his loss would have changed everything... for the worse.
hmm... apparently I misread the intent of your post.
It will mean nothing to OBAMA in terms moving on with his agenda or changing it any way,
except maybe it will piss him off, which is always fun
Wrong. Obama IS anti Semitic, like all Muzzies are.
No need to read farther. River, Egypt.
Maybe he victory changed nothing but it sure might have prevented communists from leading the country into something unmanageable.
IMHO
I disagree with this: This is why he will continue to push for a deal with Iran that would allow the Iranians to check Israel with its own nuclear weapons. Obama would do this whether Netanyahu was elected yesterday or not. The only difference is that Netanyahu will stamp his feet louder than Issac Herzog would have. Obama isn’t anti-Semitic, though antisemitism has often been supported by the left.
First, Obama is an anti-Semite. Occam's Razor.
Next, Obama is not concerned with Iran 'checking' Israel. As an anti-Semite, he would welcome the destruction of Israel.
Well.... Mooshell is worried that her daughter might marry a white dude...(Drudge report).
So...there you go...I guess only white people can be racist...
Barack Obama ran for president as a pro-Israel candidate -- but his record tells a different story.
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Given this administration's failure to alter the course of Israeli elections yesterday, anticipate the wounded ego of the current occupant of the oval office to turn up the volume and frequency of political attacks against her.
http://www.israelvideonetwork.com/the-most-fascinating-video-ever-made-about-the-jewish-people/
Interesting video about the Jewish People!
Nope...try again!
Here’s what it does change, if you don’t mind your assertion being challenged a little (author intended). What it does change is the notion promulgated by Obama and his Leftist MSM buddies that Netanyahu is weak and would soon be gone, out of their hair. He is now not gone and perhaps stronger as PM of Israel than before the election.
From BHO’s perspective, if Israel could be headed by a Leftist PM, he may be able to work out a deal where Israel gives up “land for peace”(the old 1967 boarders meme), giving BHO the gold ring of political achievements... if nothing else, BHO is a narcissist of the highest order, and achieving something no other POTUS has, would be a major narcissistic stroke, and placing him a little higher than demigod status... well that was all changed last night. Now, BHO can only hope for a “deal” with the Iatola of Iran...
But that too has changed... because clout has been removed from BHO to force Iran to the table. It was anticipated that the heavy breathing of BHO would wither the likes of Netanyahu, and once done, would only make his breath hotter, his eyes fiercer, his back bristled (big bad wolf), but after last nigh what do we see, a wimpy blow hard... you think BHO is going to achieve anything useful with Iran, you better think again. He may get a small stroke to quell his narcissism but nothing for the rest of us, or Israel...
Ya, I guess you could say the more things change the more they stay the same, but oh what a pain for BHO... to see his marvelous plans dashed on the rocks. Last night’s Israeli election results was a major poke in the eye to BHO, but for the likes of me and my kind, what a pleasure it was to witness. A few things did change, and BHO only holds a bluffer’s hand, and BHO is way too easy to read. Nothingness begets Nothingness!
There is absolutely no evidence Obama is anti-Semitic. Opposing Israeli foreign policy does not equal anti-semitism. Other than opposing Israeli foreign policy, or at least portions of it, what evidence is there that Obama hates the Jews? Muslim sympathies alone does not equal anti-Jewish. It’s too easy to cry anti-Semitic, there are deeper reasons for Obama’s actions.
Whether or not Issac Herzog would have gone along with Obama’s plans is questionable. Even he wavered on the two state issue. Maybe Obama could have worked something out with him, maybe not. Netanyahu’s victory means the status quo remains, in that sense nothing has changed. He might be a stronger leader within Israel but once he sets foot outside of his country his power at home doesn’t matter much. Especially so when Israel’s one time ally is working against it. Surely Obama isn’t going to cower in a corner because Netanyahu is popular back home. His administration isn’t even gracious enough to congratulate him.
So far some accusations have been made about Obama supporting the opposition in Israel. I think we need more than accusations before we conclude that Obama used tax money to fund Netanyahu’s opposition.
Like State Department’s record of grants to OneVoice and Abraham Fund Initiatives?
Like I said, there needs to be an investigation. Hopefully Congress will do so.
I just think he means it hasn’t been proven yet. I’d like to know why there hasn’t been an investigation called for from Congress and the Israeli government or interested groups. Witnesses should be coming forward and speaking out.
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