Posted on 04/20/2010 3:59:06 AM PDT by Kaslin
Most observers, right or left, pro-Israel or anti-Israel, would agree that Israeli-American relations are the worst they have been in memory. Among the many indications is that only 9 percent of Jewish Israelis think President Barack Obama's administration is more pro-Israel than pro-Palestinian, according to a Smith Research poll taken during the last week of March on behalf of The Jerusalem Post. Given how much Israelis love and admire (and emigrate to) America, this level of mistrust is all the more remarkable.
Commentators on the left, of course, blame Israel. For them, this is a no-brainer; blaming Israel is as natural as breathing. One just does it. Furthermore, Israel is headed by a conservative prime minister, and America is presided over by the most pro-left president in its history.
Meanwhile, commentators on the right are virtually unanimous in supporting Israel. This is not simply an anti-Obama, pro-conservative-Netanyahu reflex, however. It stems from a variety of reasons:
First, Israel is our staunchest ally. Among other things, Israel votes with us in the United Nations more often than any other country, and it provides us with uniquely important technological know-how and intelligence.
Second, conservatives' values are closer to Israel's values than perhaps those of any other nation. As President Harry Truman said, "Israel is the embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization."
Third, while a rift with Israel hurts Israel, it hurts America at least as much (as we shall see) and does not make Palestinians any more likely to make peace with the Jewish state. Recall, the Palestinians unleashed mass terror against Israel after a left-leaning Israeli prime minister agreed to give the Palestinians 97 percent of the territory conquered in 1967 and 3 percent more from Israel itself. Why, then, would the Palestinians make peace with Israel now, when half of the Palestinians are governed by Hamas, whose charter calls for Israel's destruction? Because Obama humiliated the Israeli prime minister during the latter's visit to Washington -- over Israeli plans to build 1,600 apartments in Jerusalem?
Fourth, the greatest international threat today emanates from Iran, a threat that will be exponentially increased if Iran is not prevented from developing nuclear weapons. A weakened Israel means an emboldened Iran. And this frightens conservatives more than it does the world's left and Obama.
Finally, there is a fifth reason tens of millions of Americans, many conservative commentators, support Israel and worry about America if American support for Israel wanes.
To the left in America and around the world, this reason is dangerous nonsense. But for a vast number of America's Christians, many Jews and even many non-religious conservatives, it is deeper than any military or political reason. The reason is based on a verse in Genesis in which God, referring to the Jewish people, says to Abraham: "I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you."
One need not be a Jew or Christian or even believe in God to appreciate that this verse is as accurate a prediction of the future as humanity has ever been given by the ancient world. The Jewish people have suffered longer and more horribly than any other living people. But they are still around. Their historic enemies are all gone. Those who cursed the Jews were indeed cursed.
And those who blessed the Jews were indeed blessed. The most blessed country for more than 200 years has been the United States. It has also been the most blessed place Jews have ever lived in. Is this a coincidence? Many of us think not.
Those who curse the Jews today seem to be cursed. The most benighted civilization today is the Arab world. One could make a plausible case that the Arab world's preoccupation with Jew-hatred and destroying Israel is decisive in keeping the Arab world from progressing. The day the Arab world makes peace with the existence of the tiny Jewish state in its midst, the Arab world will begin its ascent.
The converse is what worries tens of millions of Americans: The day America begins to abandon Israel, America will begin its descent.
Israel shares America's values, such as liberty, an independent judiciary, a free press, freedom of religion, free speech and women's equality. The Arab and Muslim worlds have none of these. Those facts -- and America's Judeo-Christian roots -- make support of Israel, no matter what the Arab and Muslim "street" feels about America, a moral lynchpin of American foreign policy.
This administration's desire to have America liked in the Arab and Muslim worlds therefore has to mean altering that lynchpin. You cannot protect Israel and strive to be liked in the Arab and Muslim worlds at the same time. And you cannot weaken that protection without weakening America's moral values, which form the basis of America's greatness.
Even aside from compromising America's moral essence, weakening American support of Israel will only strengthen the America-hating Islamists. The notion that the primitive monsters of the Taliban, Hamas, al-Qaida and the like will become pro-American -- or just stop attacking America -- if America weakens its support of Israel betrays an ignorance of evil that is frightening.
So there is nothing to gain -- and America's soul to lose -- by weakening, or by even seeming to weaken, American support for Israel.
In 1968, Eric Hoffer, the longshoreman turned philosopher and author of the classic work "The True Believer," wrote in The Los Angeles Times:
"The Jews are alone in the world. If Israel survives, it will be solely because of Jewish efforts. And Jewish resources. Yet at this moment Israel is our only reliable and unconditional ally. We can rely more on Israel than Israel can rely on us."
Hoffer concluded: "I have a premonition that will not leave me; as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us."
Genesis was right.
The left clearly wants to do the same thing with Israel that they’ve done with South Africa and Rhodesia.
Obama: We share unbreakable bond
"On the 62nd Anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel, I join the American people in congratulating the government and people of Israel on this celebration of their independence," Obama said.
http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=173525
Congratulations? Obama's heart is with these folks:
Nakba Day (Arabic: يوم النكبة yawm in-nakbah), meaning "day of the catastrophe",[1] is an annual day of commemoration for the Palestinian people of the anniversary of the creation of Israel.[2] It is held every May 15, the day after the anniversary of Israel's Independence according to the Gregorian calendar and the day marks the expulsions and flight of Palestinians from their towns and villages in the face of Jewish and later Israeli troop advances and their displacement from Palestine, and the loss of their property.[3][4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba_Day
Proverbs 29:18 Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
Obama mocks America, mocks freedom, and mocks space exploration (what a symbol of freedom and vision that is!).
Pray for the safe return of our astronauts!!!!!!
Elections do, indeed, have consequences. When the Israeli PM turned down the thousands of roses sent by a group of Christians, apologetic and mortified by this president's rebuffing (his dangerously insane idea that success with Iran depends first on solving the intractable question of Jerusalem) that should indicate to some people how the PM feels. He thinks people should take responsibility for the outcome of elections, even when the other side wins.
If you won't involve yourself in politics, politics will certainly involve itself with you.
Maranatha
מרנא תא
When the Israeli PM turned down the thousands of roses sent by a group of Christians... that should indicate to some people how the PM feels.
That he’s as gutless as he is secular?
thank you for this.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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“I don’t know how the network news shows have been presenting this issue lately, but I doubt they are playing up the “bad relations” angle.”
If that’s true, it’s only because they don’t want to expose Obama for what he is. They’re afraid that the libbies will lose their majority in November.
“So, it’s clear to me that “most observers” actually represents a small group.”
Just because it’s not on the major news shows? People do get their news from other sources.
THX MUCH
INDEED.
AMEN! AMEN! AMEN! AMEN! AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!
The MSM’s motives are apparent and transparent.
People ge their news from other sources, too? Newspapers? Lib-owned Yahoo news? Who woulda thunk it.
Fox, on-line, talk radio, conservative news sources, etc. Why do you think the lib newspapers are failing?
The AP feeds all the articles to newspapers, which are read by libs. We know what the articles say- haven’t you seen all the BARF alerts here?
Yes, talk radio is growing, but dont delude youself into thinking that MOST Americans get their news from conservative outlets.
We all do the best we can, but sometimes our search for "a variety of news sources" simply results in turning over the same rock time and time again.
Leftist media is a hydra.
“We know what the articles say- haven’t you seen all the BARF alerts here?”
Sure.
“Yes, talk radio is growing, but dont delude youself into thinking that MOST Americans get their news from conservative outlets.”
I don’t. But neither do I believe that the AP line is swallowed hook-line-and-sinker by everyone. The tide is turning....slowly, but in the right direction.
Psalm 83 Conflict on The Horizon? Humanity ought to now heed the war prophecies of the Bible and prepare for war rather than peace in the Middle East! These prophecies are scheduled to occur soon and sequentially each building upon the other. According to scripture the aftermath of these wars will lead to a one world order, construction of a third Jewish Temple, and the arrival of Antichrist.
Obamugabe needs to read and believe.................
“Israel shares America’s values”
And Obama does not share those values.
We are already pretty far along in the descent....
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