Everything that is good for Obama is necessarily bad for Israel. Why that's not hyperbole

Jewish World Review ^ | 11/6/2013 | Caroline B. Glick

[Former Fetus]

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu apparently believes the greatest threat the country now faces is an escalated European trade war. He's wrong. The greatest threat we are now facing is a national leadership that cannot get its arms around changing strategic realities.

Over the weekend, Yediot Aharonot reported that during Secretary of State John Kerry's seven-hour meeting in Rome last week with Netanyahu, Kerry warned that the price for walking away from the talks with the PLO will be European economic strangulation of Israel.

According to the newspaper, "[T]he secretary of state told the prime minister that he heard from his European friends... that if the negotiations fail, Israel can forget about participating in the European research and development program 'Horizon 2020.' "And that will only be the beginning.

>>SNIP<<

Israel is operating under the assumption that there is a cause and effect relationship between our actions and Europe's. To wit, if we ditch the phony peace talks, they will destroy our economy.

But there is no cause and effect relationship between Israeli actions and European actions. Europe made hostility toward Israel the centerpiece of its unified foreign policy without connection to Israeli actions. So undertaking strategically damaging talks with the Palestinians to appease Brussels is a fool's errand.

>>SNIP<<

By clinging to our now outdated strategic assumptions, not only are we engaging in dangerous behavior. We are blinding ourselves to new strategic opportunities presented by the chaos in neighboring countries.

True, the new opportunities cannot replace our lost alliance with the US or Europe as a trading partner. But they will get us through the storm in one piece.

[Former Fetus]

early next year the Obama administration will put forward a bridging proposal in the talks. The proposal will have two parts. First, it will contain the details of a new interim arrangement. Second, it will contain the details of a final settlement.

Will that interim arangement be meant to last for 7 years?

[DuncanWaring]

Anything good for The Won is bad for all of Western Civilization.

[Vaquero]

Headline:

Jewish Vote Goes 69 Percent For Barack Obama: Exit Polls

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[Always A Marine]

Bump to anything written by Caroline Glick. Here’s hoping that Bibi shares her understanding of the new threats to Israel’s existence...

[SunkenCiv]

Whoops, already posted, but the headline was different, so, nada culpa. Or somethin’.

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[GOPJ]

It appears one of the ‘newest threats’ to Israel is Obama via John Kerry. Even Jay Carney is starting to sound like a goon. What’s the matter - what’s happening...