Posted on 03/30/2015 2:39:21 AM PDT by nikos1121
First, let me just say that I hope Jackson Diehl of the Washington Post is wrong and that President Obama has no intention of making a dramatic break with Israel in the coming months. But alas, the story he tells is very convincing. According to Diehl, the Obama administration is getting ready to back a U.N. Security Council resolution that would, in his words, “mandate the solution to the questions Israelis and Palestinians have been unable to agree upon for decades, such as the future status of Jerusalem.” Why does this matter? If Israel rejects peace terms imposed on it by outsiders, the effort to turn the Jewish homeland into a pariah state will gain enormous ground. This is a consequence that the president must fully understand. If Obama’s champions are to be believed, he is a subtle strategic thinker with a deep understanding of history. So no, his efforts to radically remake our relationship with Israel isn’t a reflection of ignorance or a lack of familiarity with the basics of the conflict. If the president chooses to pursue this dangerous course, let no American who values our alliance with Israel, or for that matter our national honor, ever forget it.
Second, I had a recent conversation with one of America’s foremost strategic thinkers, and he made a compelling point about the dream of a two-state solution: far from putting an end to anti-Zionist hatred in the region, it would likely inflame it. The compromises the Palestinian leadership would have to make to establish a sovereign state in the West Bank and Gaza (on the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their ancestral homes, on territory, and much else) would prove fatal to its legitimacy. Moreover, to Palestinian nationalists, a truncated state that covers a fifth of Mandatory Palestine is not even close to an end goal. This new state will almost immediately be engulfed in a civil war, which would attract many of the Islamist fighters currently drawn to Iraq and Syria. Has Obama given this frighteningly realistic scenario any real thought. If he has, well, does he fret about it even slightly? I can attest to the fact that many Israelis, Benjamin Netanyahu very much included, think about it all the time.
While we’re on the subject of the Obama administration and Israel, I’d like to point you to a Boston Globe column by Jeff Jacoby, in which he observes that while Netanyahu has apologized for his remarks about Arab voters “heading to the polls in droves,” President Obama has yet to apologize for his own incendiary remarks. And there’s much more.
We are seeing biblical prophesy unfolding before our eyes. 1. The Jews return to Israel. 2. The USSR dissolves 3. Muslim nations are at war in the ME and will soon attack Israel.
What a vile Islamist the American people have foolishly voted into office!
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It doesn't take much of an expert to understand this. If Obama does this I expect the Congress to completely defund the UN (that should have happen long ago). This clown will set a whole series of unintended consequences in motion.
“If Obama does this I expect the Congress to completely defund the UN (that should have happen long ago). “
I’d like to see that but history suggests it won’t happen.
And Israel, with her back against the wall yet one more time, will respond with nuclear weapons - this will not end well.
("...this will not end well" - unless you believe in the Lord Jesus, then it means we're almost home).
Yep.
Indeed. I do believe we are living in the end times.
Sad & frightening days ahead.
“We are seeing biblical prophesy unfolding before our eyes.”
As has been since the beginning of biblical prophesies. Your
post is a biblical prophesy. The media is a biblical
prophesy and the same for the internet and electricity. Every
event since the beginning of time is a biblical prophecy.
Even the exchange between prophecy and prophesy is a biblical
prophesy/prophecy. Can’t we just settle on “I told you so”?
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Sen. Cruz: America Should Not Dictate Two-State Solution to Israel
Birth pains....
We are seeing the beginnings of the beginning...the stage is being set...but we are not yet there. Sure is interesting to see the lay out as it develops though.
“You will hear of wars and rumors of wars,.... but see to it that you are not alarmed........ Such things must happen,.... but the end is still to come.
Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.... There will be famines and earthquakes in various places....All these are “the beginning of birth pains”....
Matthew 24
With our so-called “conservative” Congress just as, if not more vile by their hypocrisy.
“We are seeing biblical prophesy unfolding before our eyes.”
I was thinking the very same thing. In the recent months, my thoughts go to the ‘Beast’ reference in the Bible regarding Obama’s treatment of Israel.
nope
actually, the status quo is working. there are two de facto states. The west bank and Gaza are fumbling along. Jerusalem is partitioned but the capital of Israel. Israel is doing pretty well.
All that has been for some time now and change beyond that point is not possible. No outside group including the UN has the ability to change that reality.
Aren’ t we all SOOOO GLAAAD that the RINO “Republicans” took IMPEACHMENT ‘off the table’???
Gutless bucha cowards—now see what we have got.
Let Obama do it. It’s good for Israel and America. Let the lines be clearly drawn.
I would wager that the Palistinians would vote to be part of Israel. Gaza was a thriving community, now look at it. Arabs do well in Israel. I don’t really understand why there’s been in my lifetime so much concern for a Palestinian state. What is the real issue here.
If Obama pulls this stunt I think you are going to see the demise of the democratic party, which is already on the decline. Just look who they’ve go running for offices.
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