Posted on 05/06/2009 7:44:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Washington Times reports that Barack Obama may counter demands from Israel to confront Iran over their nuclear program by confronting Israel over theirs. Eli Lake has the exclusive on the Obama administration’s strategy to force Israel under the umbrella of the non-proliferation treaty, apparently as a condition to getting Iran to surrender their nukes. The effort will include India and Pakistan, and comes from a 2006 Saudi peace plan that would leave Israel at the mercy of the armies surrounding the state:
"President Obama’s efforts to curb the spread of nuclear weapons threaten to expose and derail a 40-year-old secret U.S. agreement to shield Israel’s nuclear weapons from international scrutiny, former and current U.S. and Israeli officials and nuclear specialists say."
The issue will likely come to a head when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Mr. Obama on May 18 in Washington. Mr. Netanyahu is expected to seek assurances from Mr. Obama that he will uphold the U.S. commitment and will not trade Israeli nuclear concessions for Iranian ones.
Assistant Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller, speaking Tuesday at a U.N. meeting on the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), said Israel should join the treaty, which would require Israel to declare and relinquish its nuclear arsenal.
Gottemoeller has a track record of demanding Israeli disarmament:
" However, Ms. Gottemoeller endorsed the concept of a nuclear-free Middle East in a 2005 paper that she co-authored, “Universal Compliance: A Strategy for Nuclear Security.”
“Instead of defensively trying to ignore Israels nuclear status, the United States and Israel should proactively call for regional dialogue to specify the conditions necessary to achieve a zone free of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons,” she wrote.
The paper recommends that Israel take steps to disarm in exchange for its neighbors getting rid of chemical and biological weapons programs as well as Iran forgoing uranium enrichment.
The Obama administration appointed Gottemoeller, fully cognizant of her thinking on this issue. One has to assume that her appointment to the senior position at State constitutes an endorsement of those positions. It wouldn’t be the most radical thinking about Israel from this administration; Samantha Powers, who works between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and UN Ambassador Susan Rice, once called for a Western occupation of Israel and forced disarmament of their entire army.
Gottemoeller’s speech had to have been cleared by the Obama administration, and so appears to represent their foreign-policy position. The Bush administration and its predecessors handled the situation more tactfully, supporting a “nuclear-free Middle East” without naming names. Why? The position of Israel in the Middle East is unique. They are not just simply another nation among many. They had been the one successful continuous democracy in that region, save Turkey, and quite obviously surrounded by nations explicitly threatening to annihilate them. Israel had to develop a deterrent that would keep a nation of 5 million people alive among 100 million enemies.
Over the years, some of those neighbors have moderated their stance somewhat towards Israel; Egypt and Jordan have diplomatic relations with Israel, but in Egypt’s case only because Washington pays them to do it. None of the rest of the nations in that region even recognize Israel’s existence, and two of them — Syria and Iran — have a long-running proxy war of terror running against Israel. Under those conditions, Israel can be forgiven for thinking that a deterrent is still a damned good idea.
Besides, the Iranian nuclear program threatens the US as well. We want to stop Iran from building nukes to keep them out of the hands of terrorists, and not just those aimed at Israel. They don’t call us the Great Satan out of respect, after all, and Iranian leadership has been just as annihilationist towards America as it has been towards Israel. Instead of disarming our allies, maybe we should just concentrate on disarming our enemies.
Nope.
From KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE: “THAT’S ARMAGEDDON!”
That's what Biblical prophecy predicts. Some one will guarantee their safety if they comply and sign a 7 year peace contract.
If this happens (through Oboma) , "we" won't be there for them like "we" promised. Our leader would have lied to them - on purpose.
This is only too likely.
Of course, Israel has had nukes for about 40 years and has never made use of them, even when attacked on all fronts by Muslim armies. Does anyone doubt that if Iran gets nukes, however, that they will use them?
Israel has never publicly admitted having any nukes, although it is generally known. At least never until that idiot Olmert said something about them publicly a year or two ago. That was a stupid breach of an old and sensible policy, never to talk about them.
It will, of course, be incredibly damaging if the subject is even raised. But Obama won’t hesitate.
(In best cockney Accent) NOT BLOODY LIKELY!!!!!
People need to remember that there is a law (don’t remember the name of such) passed in the 70’s under Carter, I believe, which states that the US doesn’t give foreign aid to countries who are “known to be in possession of nuclear weapons” who aren’t members of the international nuke club.
At the time, that was Israel and South Africa.
This is part of why Israel has never admitted to having weapons - they would lose their aid from the US. This is probably the lever that Obama is using against them - we almost certainly have the necessary intel to prove that Israel has nukes, and we’d simply release that info and then cut off aid if they don’t comply.
Of course. Obama wants the UNITED STATES to give up nukes. He is against America’s defense. Fox is in the hen house.
What he does may be constitutional, but it is counter to the safety of this nation.
And our enemies are taking notes.
They are launching airstrikes into Iraq.
Must be Boosh's fault.
Iran Launches Airstrikes Into Iraq (The Weekly Standard Blog May 4, 2009)
Obama has also decided that the Dems don’t need Jewish-American $$ and votes.....
I think one has to look at the situation through the lens of Obama's narcissistic personality. From that perspective, such considerations are almost irrelevant.
If he's thinking about it at all, a narcissist like Obama would believe that he'll get those votes regardless. And the money, too. After all -- his attractiveness and superior intellect can overwhelm all opposition. Surely those Jewish Americans will be happy to agree with him....
He will run to Crazy Aunt Esther and cry..
God to the Jews - "I sent you a king and you rejected him. Along will come another and it is he you will accept."
He is a foul red jihadist..
Albert Pike layed it out in his 1871 letter to Guisippi Mazzini.
"The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the "agentur" of the "Illuminati" between the political Zionists and the leaders of Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam and political Zionism mutually destroy each other. Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided on this issue will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economical exhaustion…We shall unleash the Nihilists and the atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass or direction, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view. This manifestation will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time."
And now the Obamessiah cancels the National Day of Prayer.
It's all going to happen real soon.
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