Obama and Israel, into the abyss

Jerusalem Post ^ | 7/22./2009 | Daniel Pipes

[Nachum]

What I dubbed the Obama administration's "rapid and harsh turn against Israel" has had three quick, predictable and counterproductive results. These point to further difficulties ahead.

First result: Barack Obama's decision to get tough with Israel translates into escalating Palestinian demands. In early July, Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas and Saeb Erekat, his top negotiator, insisted on five unilateral concessions by Israel: an independent Palestinian state; Israel shrunk to its pre-June 1967 borders, minus a Palestinian land-bridge between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip; a Palestinian "right of return"; resolution of all permanent status issues on the basis of the 2002 Saudi plan; and a complete stop to building by Jews in eastern Jerusalem and the West Bank.

[bareford101]

Hey Nachum: I read this earlier and it made me sick... the obamanation’s vile hatred of Israel is undeniable.... as for me, I’m with the Jews.....

[Nachum]

Thank you for that. Yes, the Obamatrons are attacking Israel and it isn’t pretty.

[bareford101]

I’m just sick about this.... but I know, without a doubt, who is in control..... I am a Christian who knows that God loved the Jews first, and is giving them a second chance to overcome their blindness...

[goodnesswins]

THIS is quite telling...."Obama administration began its attack on Israeli "settlements," it has displayed an unexpected naiveté; did this administration really have to relearn for itself the well-known fact that Washington fails when bossing around its main Middle Eastern ally? It then displayed rank incompetence by picking a fight on an issue where an Israeli consensus exists - not over a remote "outpost" but a Jerusalem quarter boasting a Zionist pedigree back to 1891."

[tflabo]

Hey it’s Genesis 12:3 for us lovers of Israel out here. We choose the blessings of the Almighty vs. the cursings of the ‘Leader’. Not that we give carte blanche to all the Israeli govt. does but we heartily support the right of Israel to exist and it’s citizens to safely live in freedom.

[Cheap_Hessian]

I wonder how much military technology Israel will give to Russia in new deals because we are turning our backs on one of our traditional allies. This is just stupid diplomacy.

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

Obama and his fellow leftist ideologues think they're so smart they can reshape the world into their twisted vision of Utopia, and just run roughshod over anyone who gets in their way.

They seem to actually believe they are some new Ubermensch.

They are drunk with their own possibilities.

They are seriously, and sadly, deluded, and will very likely have the opposite result of Utopia--worldwide death and misery.

[Semperfiwife]

I will always stand with the Jews as Jesus was a Jew first and foremost. He was found in the synogogue at age 12, teaching scripture. Paul, who wrote much of what the Christian church today, would describe a blueprint for living, was first a Pharisee of the Pharisees (Jewish, knowing all the scriptures to that day, and then a persecutor of those who followed Jesus in an attempt to kill the Christ followers movement. Even Mr. Obama, has no control over God’s eternal plan. Try as he might, there is One more powerful than even he is.