Posted on 03/03/2015 4:55:22 AM PST by Servant of the Cross
Those who do not confront evil resent those who do.
There is no question about whether President Obama — along with Secretary of State John Kerry and the editorial pages of many newspapers — has a particular dislike of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
But there is another question: Why? And the answer is due to an important rule of life that too few people are aware of:
Those who do not confront evil resent those who do.
Take the case at hand. The prime minister of Israel is at the forefront of the greatest battle against evil in our time — the battle against violent Muslims. No country other than Israel is threatened with extinction, and it is Iran and the many Islamic terror organizations that pose that threat.
It only makes sense, then, that no other country feels the need to warn the world about Iran and Islamic terror as much as does Israel. That’s why when Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the United Nations about the threat Iran poses to his country’s survival and about the metastasizing cancer of Islamist violence, he, unfortunately, stands alone.
Virtually everyone listening knows he is telling the truth. And most dislike him for it. Appeasers hate those who confront evil.
Given that this president is the least likely of any president in American history to confront evil — or even identify it — while Benjamin Netanyahu is particularly vocal and eloquent about both identifying and confronting evil, it is inevitable that the former will resent the latter.
The negotiations with Iran over its nuclear weapons program are today’s quintessential example. Those who will not confront a tyranny engaged in terror from Argentina to the Middle East, and which is committed to annihilating another country, will deeply resent Israel and its leader.
For those who doubt the truth of this Rule of Life, there are plenty of other examples.
Take the Cold War. Those who lived through it will recall that those who refused to confront Communism vilified those who did. Indeed, they vilified anyone who merely labeled Communism evil. When President Ronald Reagan declared the Soviet Union an “evil empire,” he was excoriated by those who refused to do so. Yet, if the words “evil” and “empire” have any meaning, they perfectly applied to the Soviet Union.
But to those who opposed Reagan, these words could not be applied to the Soviet Union. New York Times columnists lambasted the president for using such language. The newspaper’s most prestigious columnist at the time, James Reston, condemned Reagan for his “violent criticism of Russians as an evil society.”
Anthony Lewis accused Reagan of using “simplistic theology.” Reagan was using “a black and white standard to something that is much more complex.”
Tom Wicker wrote that “the greater danger” than the spread of Communism “lies in Mr. Reagan’s vision of the superpower relationship as Good versus Evil.”
Columnist Russell Baker added his contempt for Reagan’s characterization of the Soviet Union. And, in a long Times article under the headline, “Reagan’s Gaffe,” an unnamed “strategist” for former vice president Walter Mondale told the newspaper that “Mr. Reagan had undercut diplomatic efforts of recent months” — exactly as the Times and the Obama administration now describe Benjamin Netanyahu doing to the negotiations with Iran.
(For a detailed description of the reactions to Ronald Reagan’s anti-Communism, see Ann Coulter’s book Treason.)
Some 20 years later, when President George W. Bush characterized the regimes of North Korea, Iraq, and Iran as an “Axis of Evil,” he was likewise lampooned — as if those mass-murderous tyrannies were not evil.
In short, those who refused to characterize the Soviet Union as evil loathed Ronald Reagan and other anti-Communists for doing so; and those who objected to the “Axis of Evil” label placed on North Korea, Iran, and Iraq loathed George W. Bush and his supporters. The loathing of Benjamin Netanyahu is simply the latest example of the rule that those who will not confront evil will instead confront those who do. (It’s much safer, after all.)
Since the end of World War II, there has been a name for the people who refuse to confront evil and who resent those who do: Leftists.
If Netanayu brought money to handout to the politicians none would have any trouble listening to him whatsoever. Their hatred of him is supernatural in origin because they worship The Beast and don’t even know it. The spirit of AntiChrist is strong in DC with The One living there.
Barry hates Netanyahu because he is, by design and direction, a God-less destroyer of a nation that he swore to protect and uphold. Bibi, on the other hand, tirelessly works to preserve the nation that exists in the midst of ravenous wolves.
Barry is God’s punishment for the multitude of sins committed by a nation in absolute moral decline.
I noticed while attending the Methodist Church in the early 2000s no one would say anything was evil. It was “all good.” It is not all good. Evil is evil. But people don’t want to be held to any standards. They want to muck around in the mud.
He hates Bibi because Bibi is a Jew. Mooslims hate Jews.
Dennis is going with the Obama is a wimp theory ?
Ok. Hmm
Prager is being very kind to Obama. Obama hates Israel, due to either his muslim background, or his leftism. Bibi is reviled by both, so it is about Bibi & Israel.
I noticed the same thing in the Methodist church.
“But there is another question: Why? And the answer is due to an important rule of life that too few people are aware of:”
Because Obama and his cabinet are Muslim loving anti semites. No more, no less.
“He hates Bibi because Bibi is a Jew. Mooslims hate Jews.”
The simplest explanation is more often than not the correct one. Complex explanations have the sole purpose of obscuring the simple ones.
It’s simpler than this. Obama hates him because Bibi called him out and won’t agree with him. He cannot stand people who don’t agree with him. Particularly ones that make him look like an idiot as Bibi did with his lecture. It’s personal.
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“Why Obama So Dislikes Netanyahu”
Muslims hate Jews, that’s why.
Not true, EVERY country is threatened with extinction at the hands of devout muslims, even muslim countries (who will never be "muslim enough").
The threat to Israel is merely more immediate.
“Barry is God’s punishment for the multitude of sins committed by a nation in absolute moral decline.”
I think you’re right on with that one. Romans 1 comes to mind.
Amen!
They HATE those who STAND UP for both the God of the Holy Bible and the truth.
That’s exactly what it is. And this piece of rat filth Obama went to New York city 2 -3 times a week for fundraisers held by Jews when he was running. New York city is the absolute capital of self-hating Jews. It would drive me nuts every time I tried to drive home from work, traffic up the wazoo almost everyday because that Islamo mofo was being given another fundraiser from people like Harvey Weinstein who I heard actually forced people to attend like Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel who if you’ll notice never get involved in politics and looked like they were attending a funeral when they showed up. Not only did he hold a fundraiser, he demanded people kiss the Kenyan Muslims butt.
http://deadline.com/2013/05/obama-harvey-weinsteins-fundraiser-dnc-nyc-497896/
Iran has frequently stated it’s goal is to nuke Israel . I believe them.
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