Posted on 11/23/2007 12:50:17 PM PST by Friend_from_the_Frozen_North
The mood is dark in the IDF's General Staff ahead of next week's "peace" conference in Annapolis. As one senior officer directly involved in the negotiations with the Palestinians and the Americans said, "As bad as it might look from the outside, the truth is ten times worse. This is a nightmare. The Americans have never been so hostile."
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All we can do is pray. Pray this charge will not be laid upon the supporters of Israel.
Typical, its everyone against us type that serves on purpose.
People are tired of hearing the boy cry wolf.
I wouldn’t put too much credit on an anonymous source.
During his first term, most people thought of Bush as Israel’s best friend in the White House for a long time. The State Department has always been full of Arabists, but the administration was basically friendly.
The problems started when Sharon went bananas, and got worse when he had his stroke and left the government to Peretz.
How can the US defend Israel if the Israeli government is unwilling to defend Israel?
I’m hoping this situation will improve, but it looks as if it needs prayers and divine intervention at this point. Peretz is already threatening to throw more settlers off their land, and it’s NOT because the US is pressuring him. Quite the reverse.
Sorry, I meant to say Olmert.
Peretz WAS defense minister. He’s gone now - Barak is DM and Olmert has been PM since Sharon took ill.
This conference will only lead to conflict. All I can think is, either Bush is a dope, or he’s TRYING to trigger Syrian and/or Iranian overt intervention so we can use it as a cassus belli. I don’t think he’s that smart, but there’s a good chance of it ending up that way down the line.
As we become more successful in Iraq, Israel’s days will be numbered. Explanation is geo political. If Iraq becomes stable and becomes the US base in the Middle East, it cames with a domestic political price, the American people do not want another war unless it is absolutely necessary. Iran has become the new threat to US interests in the ME, and Saudi Arabia/Gulf State seening that the Americans cannot be driven out of Iraq by a Sunni insurgency has accepted this reality and also recognize the rising threat of Iran. Her new strategy is contain Iran since the US is in no shape to declare war against Iran and have the US presence in Iraq form the left flank of a anti Iranian crescent shaped coalition. I think war weary US will welcome this coalition to contain Iran, but it may come with a policy price - stop supporting Israel. This is not the first time the US has abandoned old allies. Remember after Vietnam War, the US was war weary while the Soviets invaded Afghanistan and used Cuban proxies in southern Africa. Nixon had to go to Communist China, and form an alliance to contain the Soviet Union, which culminated with Carter abandoning the Republic of China (Taiwan) and recognizing the Communist mainland as the real China. Land size, population size and resources became part of the decision making equation - do you contain the Soviets with a boulder or a pebble???? Same problem is looming with Iran, since the US domesticly is not willing to fight any more wars, do you contain Iran with a Sunni coalition boulder or with a pebble size Israel??? Don’t need a degree from Yale or Havard to make such a choice.
If this story is true it doesn’t surprise me in the least. Bush’s policy vis a vis the Palistinians is so schizoid, inconsistent and dissonant that this story was actually predictable.
We give money and weapons to the Pali’s. That about says it all.
First, save America. Bankrupt the Federal government. Start bartering. Work for unreported cash. Demand handouts. Take everything you can get. That's what the Marxists, the dedicated bureaucrats, and Bush's New World Order corporations subsisting on federal programs do. Play their game but with more vigor.
I am honestly looking for a global peacemaker to step up and offer 7 years of peace to Israel...
Ladies and gentlemen, it is time to buckle your seatbelts, read your Bible, and pray HARD!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Yes, I think of Olmert, Peretz, and Barak as the evil troika. All three only overlapped for a while, but they are birds of a feather.
But it started with Sharon. He was once a hero, but I wonder if he had some kind of minor stroke before his big one. Some legacy.
stabilizing Iraq is in Israels best interest. With a safer Iraq, Iran gets weakened and our overall forces and ressources will be free to counter Iran more decisivly. Syria and Iran NEED chaos in Iraq to distract us from subdueing them.
Well maybe living in an area populated by millions who hate you and having no oil and being totally dependent on outside help for arms and financial health finally caught up with Israel
You can’t keep going to war where the enemy is not totally vanquished and is allowed to arm for another day forever
Israel used to have American popular opinion and congress and the MSM solidly in her corner
No More
Ironic thing is that it is the left wing who has turned against the Jews and is now kissing the Muslim tush
Yeah whatever. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/927783/posts
Once the Arabs learned to use the OIL weapon and nationalized their oil the tide turned
Remember when France used to be Israel’s big aircraft supplier
well the oil cutoff threat caused that to cease and without a Jewish political influence as they had in the USA it wasn’t going to return
Israel’s popular support in the USA was a lot different when it wasn’t perceived as having military /War consequences and affects on US troops etc
The biggest problem is the MSM . It is now Anti Israel
I am 71 and remember when it was a lot different
No worries ... it’s all window dressing. Nothing is going to come of this conference other than some photo opportunities.
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