one from among your brethren you shall set as king over you;
you may not set a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.
Deuteronomy 17:15
Posted on 10/30/2014 7:05:46 AM PDT by servo1969
Obama’s foreign policy was supposed to reboot America’s relationship with the rest of the world. Old allies would become people we occasionally talked to. Old enemies would become new allies. Goodbye Queen, hello Vladimir. Trade the Anglosphere for Latin America’s Marxist dictatorships. Replace allied governments in the Middle East with Islamists and call it a day for the Caliphate.
Very little of that went according to plan.
Obama is still stuck with Europe. The Middle East and Latin American leftists still hate America. The Arab Spring imploded. Japan, South Korea and India have conservative governments.
And then there’s Israel.
The original plan was to sideline Israel by focusing on the Muslim world. Instead of directly hammering Israel, the administration would transform the region around it. The American-Israeli relationship would implode not through conflict, but because the Muslim Brotherhood countries would take its place.
That didn’t work out too well. Instead of gracefully pivoting away, Obama loudly snubbed Netanyahu. A photo of him poking his finger in Netanyahu’s chest captured the atmosphere. Netanyahu delivered a speech that Congress cheered. And Obama came to see him as a domestic political opponent.
The torrent of anti-Israel leaks from the administration is a treatment usually reserved for political opponents. The snide remarks by White House spokesmen and the anonymous personal attacks on Netanyahu in the media echo domestic hate campaigns out of the White House like Operation Rushbo.
Netanyahu wasn’t just the leader of a country that the left hated. He had become an honorary Republican.
When Obama met with him, Netanyahu firmly but politely challenged him on policy. He has kept on doing so ever since, including during his most recent visit. At a time when most leaders had gotten the message about shunning Romney, Netanyahu was happy to give him a favorable reception. Netanyahu clearly wanted Romney to win and Obama clearly wished he could pull a Clinton and replace Netanyahu. But Netanyahu’s economic policies were working in exactly the same way that Obama’s weren’t.
The two men hate each other not only on a personal level, but also on a political level.
Netanyahu had successfully pushed through a modernization and privatization agenda that on this side of the ocean is associated with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper or Wisconsin governor Scott Walker. It’s likely what Romney would have done which is one more reason the two men got along so well. Obama’s visible loathing for Romney is of a piece with his hatred for Netanyahu.
He doesn’t just hate them. He hates what they stand for. That’s why Harper and Netanyahu get along so well. It’s part of why Obama and Netanyahu get along so badly.
But the bigger part of the conflict is neither personal nor political. Obama wanted to sideline Israel; instead he’s stuck dealing with it. Hillary’s lack of foreign policy ambition allowed the Jewish State to come through fairly well in Obama’s first term. For Hillary, being Secretary of State was just a stepping stone to the White House by making her rerun candidacy seem fresh. Her relationship with Israel was bad, but her first job was not to make any waves.
John Kerry ambitiously jumped into multiple foreign policy arenas. His bid for a deal between Israel and the PLO was a predictable disaster. And he took Obama along for the ride. It’s unknown if Obama blames Kerry for the mess that ensued when his proposals collapsed into war, but there’s little doubt that he now hates Netanyahu more than ever.
The war dragged Obama deep into the confusing political waters of the region. His attempt to back the Turkish and Qatari empowerment of Hamas in the negotiations ended with Egypt and the Saudis scoring a win. It was hardly Netanyahu’s fault that Obama once again chose to side with a state sponsor of terror, but it’s safer to blame Netanyahu for the humiliation than the leaders of Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
And then there’s Iran. Netanyahu remains the loudest voice against an Obama agreement to let Iran go nuclear. No matter how many talking heads defend the deal, he blows away all their hot air.
Not only did Obama fail to sideline Israel, but he’s stuck dealing with Netanyahu. And no matter how much he may view Netanyahu as an Israeli Romney, he can’t quite openly treat him like Romney because there are plenty of Jewish Democrats who still haven’t realized his true feelings for Israel.
Both men are stuck together. Egypt hates Obama more than it did before he overthrew its original government. Iraq and Syria are war zones. The Saudis are actively undermining Obama’s policies. Israel is still America’s best ally in the region and that interdependency frustrates him even more.
Obama wanted to destroy the American-Israeli relationship. Instead he’s entangled in it. He blames Netanyahu for the situation even though the mess is mostly of his own making.
Despite the myths about the vast powers of the lobby, Israel has never been at the heart of American foreign policy. And under Obama, it’s been on the outskirts in every sense of the word. Israel is back to being a major concern of American foreign policy mostly because of Obama’s massive failures in every other part of the region and Kerry’s belief that he could somehow succeed where everyone else failed.
Netanyahu’s presence reminds Obama of his own failures. If everything had gone according to plan, America would be experiencing a new age of amity with the Muslim world. Instead he’s stuck bombing Iraq and reaffirming the special relationship with Israel almost as if he were on Bush’s fourth term.
It’s not the way that the international flavor of Hope and Change was supposed to taste.
Obama hates Israel. He hates Netanyahu. And their continuing presence in Washington D.C. reminds him of his inability to transform American foreign policy. Their very existence humiliates him.
He knows that directly lashing out at Israel would alienate the Jewish supporters he still needs. Despite his effort to displace pro-Israel voices with J Street, the Jewish community is still pro-Israel. And so he resorts to passive aggressive behavior like snubbing the Israeli Defense Minister or anonymous officials in the administration taunting Netanyahu as a “coward” and “chickens__t” in the media.
It takes a courageous administration to anonymously call the leader of a tiny country a coward. It’s childish behavior, but this is an administration of children overseen by a man whose response to his opponent’s accurate reading of the world situation was to taunt him about the “1980s” and “horses and bayonets.”
While Obama’s people anonymously taunt Netanyahu as a coward, it’s their boss who acts like a coward, stabbing Israel in the back, slandering its leader anonymously through the media and then trying to sell himself to Jewish donors as the Jewish State’s best friend in the White House.
Because he’s Jewish....................
The owner of the company where I work is a person much like Obama. The failures described in this article remind me of the failures in our company. All are due to having a malignant narcissist in charge. Narcissists are always destined to fail, because in their own eyes, their failures are really successes, or else somebody else’s fault.
“One thing that lifts my spirits is imagining the private hell that awaits Obama once he is out of office...Maybe he can build some houses for the homeless like Jimmy”
Hate to burst your bubble, but Obama is on track to be king of the world for all practical purposes. Obama will be wealthy, guarded, secure. Obama will be celebrated by Hollywood, sports stars and various other celebrities. Obama will be paid enormous sums for his speeches and opinions, and will finally, really, actually be accountable for none of it. No pretense of being competent, or caring. If that’s a private hell, sign me up.
One is a MAN and the other is a squeaky little mouse.
It doesn’t take an entire article to explain it. Bibi being a Jew is reason enough for Obama.
Why the water is wet? It is a bad kept secret that muslims don’t like Jews much.
Envy, plain and simple. Bibi Netanyahu is everything as a man that barack obama is not. And never will be.
The hell comes later...something about gaining the world but losing your soul.
LOL....
I certainly was wondering about Reggie....
until your post finished the story.
000’s future will last for about 30 more years.
Then what for him?
Still not good what awaits him if he doesn’t repent.
How to get the message across to Netanyahu & Israel that the real America is their friend & Obama is not.
***Obozo of Ishmael.****
I thought a turtle crapped on a rock and the sun hatched him!
Or his daddy J***ed off in a flower patch and he came up a blooming idiot!
Or, ...well that’s all for now!
It’s easy for “O” to hate “America’ because it is NOT his country and never has been.
He has no spiritual connection to this place that a person BORN HERE would naturally possess.
In that sense, “O” is a nomad and he will always be one…because, he CANNOT/WILL NOT claim allegiance to a thing or a place. That would place him AMONG the others in that place and he first and always regards himself as ABOVE others.
His only public, whole hearted and unconditional connection to any ‘American’ organization was his long-standing, personal and direct association with the ‘church’ of ‘Rev. Wright’ ... and THAT says a lot.
America as WE know and love it, is just a thing “O” has appropriated, along with his faux American identity.
To say “O” loves America is like saying the guy who won the 8 million dollar lottery loves his money..... The lottery winner only loves his money because he was lucky enough to get his hands on it.
I always thought obama was more of a pant-load...
Then what for him?
72 virgins which he'll ignore,
18 young boys like pearls which he'll adore.
That’s gross ....
and sickeningly funny at the same time.
But, hey, what you post is true.
Jews have never been welcomed with open arms by black Americans. Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and other black “leaders” have all made anti semitic comments. Reverent Wright Obama’s bosom buddy is a fanatic anti semite.
There it is at the root of it.
Obola and his ideological ilk despise God’s people, Christians and Jews.
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