Palin: 'Second Holocaust' if Iran gains nuclear weapons

cnn.blog ^ | 03-31-10

[Righting]

Palin: 'Second Holocaust' if Iran gains nuclear weapons‎ - CNN (blog) Just minutes after the clock expired on the first day of the Jewish holy day of Passover, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin issued a biting critique of the Obama administration's Middle-East policy... "Peace Not Possible if Iran Escapes Real Sanctions," Palin accuses President Obama of dropping the pursuit of "crippling" sanctions against Iran and treating Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu like an "unwelcome guest" during a recent visit to Washington.

[American Dream 246]

SOME PEOPLE CANNOT ACCESS PALIN's FACEBOOK so please post the whole note.

This is a meaningful week for so many of us. As millions of Christians and Jews celebrate this Holy Week, it’s appropriate to reflect on developments in the Holy Land. Israel faces a nuclear threat from Iran that grows every day. Today we learned that the CIA has concluded that Iran already has the capability and the know-how to build nuclear weapons.

While President Obama once said a nuclear-armed Iran would be “unacceptable,” after more than a year in office it’s sobering to have to acknowledge that his administration has made no progress in implementing “crippling” sanctions on Iran, let alone halting Iran’s nuclear program. Even the rhetoric moved in the wrong direction – recently the administration downgraded their call for “crippling” sanctions to sanctions that “bite.” Shockingly, as we learned last week, these “biting” sanctions will no longer include actions that could actually change Iran’s behavior, including limiting Iran’s access to international capital markets and banking services or closing air space and waters to Iran’s national air and shipping lines. So the issue is not when the so-called sanctions will come (President Obama promised them in “weeks” today) but whether they will even “nibble.” And while the Obama administration was more than willing to use every parliamentary trick in the book to ram its government health care takeover through Congress, conversely, it has worked hard to stall bipartisan efforts to pass the Iran Sanctions Act.

Many, many Americans and our allies know that if Iran acquires nuclear weapons, the consequences will be catastrophic for our interests in the Middle East, and we want our government to do everything in its power to prevent Iran from acquiring nukes. We foresee a regional nuclear arms race beginning as other countries seek their own nuclear weapons to protect themselves from Iran. Nuclear non-proliferation efforts would be over. The U.S. and our allies in the international community would be shown to be impotent – after long claiming that Iranian nuclear weapons could not and would not be tolerated. And Israel would face the gravest threat since its creation. Iran’s leaders have repeatedly called for the destruction of Israel and with nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them, the mullahs would be in a position to launch a Second Holocaust.

Iran continues to develop long range missiles. Its missiles can reach Israel and Europe right now and in time they will be able to reach US territory.

This issue is the most serious security challenge facing the U.S. in the region. Yet just as the Obama administration inexplicably gives up on imposing crippling sanctions on Iran, it’s taken an uncompromising hard line against one country in the Middle East: Israel. On his recent visit to Washington, the Israeli Prime Minister was treated like an unwelcome guest, as shown by White House actions such as refusing to be photographed with Israel’s Prime Minister.

Public demands for concessions have been made of the Israelis while the Palestinians add ever more conditions to their participation in peace talks, and those in the administration that dare to argue for looking at these policies through the lens of Israel’s security needs are subject to slanderous attacks from “senior administration officials.” The Obama administration has their priorities exactly backwards; we should be working with our friend and democratic ally to stop Iran’s nuclear program, not throwing in the towel on sanctions while treating Israel like an enemy.

In a week when events in the Holy Land thousands of years ago are on the minds of millions, we would all do well to include Israel’s security in our prayers as we encourage our government to do all it can to ensure there is never a nuclear Iran able to threaten our interests or our allies.

- Sarah Palin

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Are you a thread Nanny, mod in disguise or merely prickly and disagreeable toward folks who fail to post with your sensibilities?

We're sick and tired of the attacks on Palin from Ron Paul/3rd Party/1% kooks who've been using the McCain tactic to try and tear her down. It's been going on for weeks now. If you don't know this, and claim to be a Palin supporter, then where have you been?

[Buckeye McFrog]

Sarah Palin - getting more grief for stating the obvious than any other person in America.

[9YearLurker]

I find it fascinating that Palin posts such sophisticated and informed, yet hard-hitting and in her voice, commentary on Facebook. Yet in TV interview after TV interview she speaks in platitudes and generalities.

What is it? Did she overlearn the sound-bite aspect of TV journalism when she was in school? Is she still unaware that a good portion of America would like her to speak with more specifics than apparently her constituents in Alaska care to hear? Has she been so successful with the stump speech that she’s still insecure veering from it? This is a bright woman who has beat the media at its own game unlike any pol since, yes, Reagan. Is it because if or despite that that she still skates unnervingly on policy discussions? Will she grow into greater comfort at greater depths? I thought that’s what her time at Fox would perhaps help her to do, but she’s hosting a show for has-been celebrities instead.

I’m curious and perplexed.

[tet68]

I AM, however, GREATLY MYSTIFIED by this support of McChurian.

As are many of us and it’s something that I wish
she would comment on in order to allay our apprehension.

McCain has made many moves that have proven detrimental
to our freedoms and I do not see that he would be a trust
worthy supporter of Sarah’s if she were to be elected
to office.
However I don’t know the man personally and do not feel
endebted to him for putting me in the eye of the nation.
I would hope that was not the only reason she supports him
but I would prefer someone with more sterling conservative
credentials.

[Quix]

I’ve had other priorities.

I haven’t felt it would be all that fruitful to bother with such threads.

The fact remains, McChurian is whitewashed globalist evil.

[Quix]

Maybe she’s just being wise and picking her battles and battlegrounds.

[Quix]

MUCH AGREE.

THANKS.

[Lakeshark]

Fwiw, I don't think Quix is an anti Palin Paulist using McCain threads to bash Sarah.

Like some of us, perhaps just taken aback at the support she holds for McCain. I can handle that, it's quite understandable, as is her loyalty.

[Quix]

THX THX.

imho,

loyalty in such situations is admirable to a point—not to compromising crucial values and priorities.

Maybe it’s a judgment call that reasonable people can differ on.

[Lakeshark]

A lot of good posters support her, but not him. I'm not sure I've actually seen a Palin supporter who supports him, although I'm sure there are a few.

It's not that hard to be pro her and anti him in spite of her support for him, and I haven't seen evidence that she has compromised her own beliefs or positions with her loyalty, and on that we'll simply disagree.

I hope that works for you.

[Quix]

I don’t know that she’s compromised any of her priority values and beliefs either.

It’s just that helping the globalist back into another term is hideous enough.

[Lakeshark]

Yes, it is.

[TheThirdRuffian]

Palin rocks.

[TheThirdRuffian]

Like that matters, with a wopping 1.17% of the USA population being Jewish.

Gee, .9126% of voters.

Pick on the 56 percent of Roman Catholic voters who voted for Obama, for a change (about 25% of the voters).

If every Jewish voter voted for McCain, Obama would still be president.

[Servant of the Cross]

Thanks for posting the entire note.

Hey 0bama. The ENTIRE foreign policy of your administration "BITES".

[TheThinker]

Are you fraternizing with and supporting McChurian . . . a globalist dedicated to Israel’s extinction?

It's an odd thing as Palin is the most visible, outspoken and truthful opponent of Barack Obama. She says things someone of her national stature that no one else will dare say. There's more to this situation than meets the eye.

[edge10]

It will be the final holocaust, for the Jews at least. All that will be left are the JINOs in the USA.

[SunkenCiv]

"She's nothing but a radical right fringe birther!"

[Quix]

i STRONGLY AGREE.

And keep wondering what all those particulars are and mean.