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The Obama ‘Framework’ for Israel’s Doom
FrontPage Magazine ^ | April 16, 2015 | Moshe Phillips and Benyamin Korn

Posted on 04/16/2015 8:06:26 AM PDT by SJackson

So now it turns out that Israel’s security, perhaps its very existence, will be jeopardized in order to give Barack Obama some post-presidential bragging points.

It was recently revealed that the President intends to publicly endorse specific borders and other terms for a Palestinian state, which he hopes will go down in history as the “Obama Framework.” But it would be more truthful to call it what it is — the Palestinian Framework.

The new “Obama Framework” scheme was reported on March 30 by Jackson Diehl, deputy editorial page editor of the Washington Post, a journalist whom the Obama administration has often used to leak information it wants to float for trial balloons.

Why does Obama intend to push forward with a plan that will be rejected by Israel and lead to a crisis in Israeli-American relations? It would be a “bid by Obama for a foreign policy legacy,” Diehl writes. “At a minimum,” according to Diehl, Obama hopes that “diplomats who now talk of the ‘Clinton parameters’ from 2000 (a proposal by then-President Bill Clinton) would henceforth speak of the “Obama framework.”

So the President’s bid for a “legacy” should become Israel’s security nightmare?

Most disturbing are the specific terms that President Obama intends to embrace, as outlined by Diehl. They mirror the Palestinian position in almost every respect.

• “Palestine’s territory would be based on Israel pre-1967 borders with the West Bank and Gaza Strip, with territorial swaps to allow Israel’s annexation of some Jewish settlements.” However, it takes two sides to swap, so if the Palestinian Authority does not want to swap, there will be no swapping. Let’s call it for what it is: the pre-1967 borders.

That would leave Israel nine miles wide at its vulnerable mid-section. A Palestinian tank column would be able to cut the Jewish state in two in a matter of minutes. A study by the Joint Chiefs of Staff after the 1967 war concluded that in order to have “a militarily defensible border,” Israel would need “control of the prominent high ground running north-south through the middle of West Jordan” [i.e. most of Judea-Samaria].”

• “Jerusalem would be the capital of both nations.” Since it is physically and administratively impossible to have two countries use the same territory as their capital, there would have to be a geographical division. The Arab position has always been that the pre-1967 parts of the city should be the Arab capital–meaning the Old City section of Jerusalem (where the Temple Mount and Western Wall are located), the Mount of Olives cemetery, and the neighborhoods of Ramot, French Hill, Gilo, and Har Homa, among others.

• “A description of security arrangements would glide over the question of exactly how the West Bank and Gaza would be prevented from becoming a launching pad for attacks on Israel.”

Even when security arrangements have been spelled out, the Palestinians ignored them. Recall that the Oslo Accords required the Palestinian Authority to outlaw and disarm terrorist groups, and extradite terrorists to Israel. The PA has ignored Israel’s dozens of extradition requests and never disarmed or outlawed terror groups. The New York Times reported last year that Israeli troops had recently been forced to enter the Jenin refugee camp in pursuit of terrorists because although Jenin is under the “full control” of the PA, “the Palestinian [security forces] did not generally operate in refugee camps.” If this is how the PA has acted when security obligations are spelled out, imagine their response when “Palestine” ‘s obligations are not even put in writing.

• “The thorny question of Palestinian refugees would be dispatched with a call for an ‘agreed solution’.”

This sets up a minefield for Israel. By failing to rule out the right of the Palestinians to flood Israel with millions of “refugees,” the Palestinians will keep on demanding that right, and will threaten war if they doesn’t get their way.

• “A stipulation that Israel would remain the homeland of the Jewish people.”

Whether this stipulation will really be included in the U.N. resolution remains to be seen. If it is, it will be a meaningless gesture intended to mollify Israeli and world Jewish opposition — an attempt to get Israel to trade territory it needs to survive, for words that will be as worthless as Yasser Arafat’s 1993 pledge of “peace.”

In conclusion, Diehl conjectures that “As in the case with restoring relations with Cuba, Obama can also disregard the domestic political considerations that restrained him before he began his ‘fourth quarter’ in office.”


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1 posted on 04/16/2015 8:06:26 AM PDT by SJackson
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2 posted on 04/16/2015 8:06:41 AM PDT by SJackson (I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes)
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To: SJackson

There’s a place this whole thing is going.

People may not want to hear it, but it won’t change where it is going.


3 posted on 04/16/2015 8:10:12 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: SJackson

Obummer could make a mess out of a hand full of wet s**t.


4 posted on 04/16/2015 8:10:24 AM PDT by mongo141 (Revolution ver. 2.0, just a matter of when, not a matter of if!)
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To: SJackson

If anything happens to Israel ,I would think there is no place on Planet Earth that Obama can hide


5 posted on 04/16/2015 8:14:28 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: SJackson

Either God is with Israel or He isn’t. If God is with Israel, don’t worry. If God isn’t with Israel, nothing we can do, it will be the Roman army again.


6 posted on 04/16/2015 8:18:45 AM PDT by ex-snook (To conquer use Jesus, not bombs.)
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To: molson209

Obama could run Boku Haram, or is it Procol Harum ?

I mix them up.


7 posted on 04/16/2015 8:19:59 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: SJackson

If 0bama could engineer the destruction of Israel, he would be the greatest hero of Islam in 1000 years.

Think about it.

I am absolutely sure he does.


8 posted on 04/16/2015 8:20:48 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

[Psalm 83]

2See how your enemies growl,
how your foes rear their heads.
3
With cunning they conspire against your people;
they plot against those you cherish.
4
“Come,” they say, “let us destroy them as a nation,
so that Israel’s name is remembered no more.”

[SPOILER ALERT] :

It doesn’t turn out well for Israel’s enemies...


9 posted on 04/16/2015 8:26:15 AM PDT by CondorFlight (I)
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To: SJackson

Framework? I thought the term was Endlösung.


10 posted on 04/16/2015 8:35:12 AM PDT by omega4412
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To: SJackson

For the 5775 years of the Jewish calendar, kingdoms, and principalities have had to destroy Israel. The Jewish people group have put up with atrocities and attempted genocide. The Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Romans, Hitler and his nazi’s yet here we are in 2015 and Obama has now joined the group that has tried and failed. Neither the US nor the UN has any right to determine the fate of Israel. God set up people group areas but the area of ISRAEL was His and His alone.
And nobody including the best teleprompter reader in history thinks he is.
Freegards
It will get real intresting
LEX


11 posted on 04/16/2015 8:40:20 AM PDT by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: SJackson
I already explained what Obama is in the third verse of my song,The Trayvon Martin Lied. If one examines Obama's career and actions, one will find that is what he is.
12 posted on 04/16/2015 8:40:58 AM PDT by Stepan12 (Our present appeasementof Islam is the Stockholm Syndrome on steroids.)
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To: mongo141
He already has a foreign policy legacy of murder, mayhem and the rise of terrorism. Islamic terrorist took control of entire countries while obola diddled himself.
13 posted on 04/16/2015 9:10:57 AM PDT by peeps36 (Save The Tortoise And Kill The People)
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