Posted on 05/20/2011 5:43:36 AM PDT by SJackson
America is on the verge of abandoning its most reliable ally in the Middle East, thanks to Barack Hussein Obama.
He began his betrayal with lip service to Israel’s concerns about defending itself from the relentless jihad that has been waged against it throughout the sixty-three years of its lifetime as a sovereign state: “For the Palestinians, efforts to delegitimize Israel will end in failure. Symbolic actions to isolate Israel at the United Nations in September won’t create an independent state. Palestinian leaders will not achieve peace or prosperity if Hamas insists on a path of terror and rejection. And Palestinians will never realize their independence by denying the right of Israel to exist.”
Yet after saying that “Palestinians will never realize their independence by denying the right of Israel to exist,” Obama called for the establishment of a Palestinian state. Yet neither Hamas nor Fatah have acknowledged Israel’s right to exist, and Obama did not make that acknowledgment a condition of the establishment of a Palestinian state. He was merely making an observation, akin to something like: “You’ll never get a good job by sleeping in the sun all day” – more on the order of a polite request, a mild nag, rather than a firm condition.
Obama also called for “two states,” explaining that “the borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognized borders are established for both states.”
It was widely reported Thursday evening that Obama was calling for a return to the 1967 borders, but this is not the case. He actually called for the creation of a “sovereign and contiguous state” for the Palestinian Arabs, and said that “the borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines.” Thus he wasn’t calling for a return to the 1967 lines, but new borders “based on the 1967 lines.”
There were, however, no 1967 lines in which Palestinian Arab territory was contiguous. For the territory of Palestine to be contiguous, that of Israel will have to be substantially reduced. Israel’s 1967 borders were indefensible, and Obama is calling for Israel to be reduced even further so that a contiguous Palestinian state can be established.
What’s more, Obama specified that the new Palestinian state should have “borders with Israel, Jordan, and Egypt,” while Israel should have “borders with Palestine.” The implication was that Israel, in Obama’s vision, will border on neither Jordan nor Egypt — only on “Palestine.” Yet currently Israel has substantial borders with both Jordan and Egypt. Obama was implying that his contiguous Palestine would comprise not just Gaza and Judea and Samaria, but large expanses of Israeli territory bordering on those two states.
That would leave a truncated, reduced Israeli rump state, reminiscent of the reduced and defenseless Czechoslovakia that remained after Neville Chamberlain fed the Nazi beast at Munich. And if Obama did not mean that the diminished Israel he envisioned would have no territory bordering on Jordan or Egypt, the establishment of a contiguous Palestinian state including Gaza and the West Bank would cut Israel in two: Palestine’s contiguous territory would come at the expense of Israel’s.
Whatever Obama meant about Israel’s borders, the establishment of a Palestinian state will come at the expense of Israel’s security. It will not make for peace any more than the withdrawal from Gaza did. In those days the learned analysts were predicting that a withdrawal from Gaza would pacify the Palestinians and normalize their sick society. I said, in contrast, that it would just be another jihad base for more attacks on Israel. That’s what it became. And that’s what a Palestinian state would be also.
The Kuwaiti MP Jama’an Al-Harbash summed it up on Al-Jazeera on March 29, 2010. First he quoted the notorious genocidal hadith in which Muhammad predicts a Muslim genocide of Jews: “Allah willing, a war will be waged between us and them – the war foretold by the Prophet Muhammad: ‘Judgment Day will not come before you fight the Jews – with them on the west bank of the river, and you on the east bank – and the trees and the stones will say: Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me. Come and kill him.’ This war is drawing near, Allah willing.”
With eerie prescience, al-Harbash then declared of the now-toppled regimes in the Middle East that “the countries of surrender and appeasement, and those who have forsaken the holy places and the land, in their efforts to cling to their seats and pass them on [to their sons] – they will be trampled underfoot by the mujahideen.”
Finally al-Harbash explained the nature of the conflict: “This is a war of religion, not just a war between Arabs and Israelis, or a war between liberators and occupiers. This is an ideological war, an Islamic war, which will end in victory only under the banner of Jihad.”
Those who believe that will not be pacified by the creation of a Palestinian state. They will not lay down their arms and accept Israel’s existence, even its truncated, bisected existence, because the Palestinians have statehood. Not only will they not be pacified; they will be emboldened – emboldened to fight on against their bloodied and weakened adversary. Emboldened to move in for the kill.
Obama’s Thursday address thus amounted to a betrayal of Israel, and an attempt to sign its death warrant. Binyamin Netanyahu immediately issued a statement saying that he was going to seek “a reaffirmation from President Obama of U.S. commitments made to Israel in 2004, which were overwhelmingly supported by both Houses of Congress,” including commitments about Israel “not having to withdraw to the 1967 lines which are both indefensible and which would leave major Israeli population centers in Judea and Samaria beyond those lines.”
Will Obama honor this request? Unlikely. But it is good that it is going to be made. Netanyahu has made clear that Israel will not acquiesce to Obama’s betrayal and go gently into the night.
And so now more than ever, all free people must stand with Israel.
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As a WASP of Pre-Revolutionary war roots in this country I know what it means to not exist as an official person of any standing except when a crazy lefty needs a villian. Now my jewish friends welcome to the club. You honestly thought they would stop at us “evil whites” at some utopian point?
“Obama Throws Israel to the Dogs”
What???...No more room under the bus?
Probably......but in any event, it will be how the world’s largest glass candy dish is created if they force Israel into a wall. It is called the “Samson Option”.
Check out this email from jewish friend I USED to have I got.
This is the mentality you are dealing with.
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Subject: RE: FW: Obama says Palestine must be based in 1967 borders. WTF?
What Obama says publicly versus privately (e.g. with Netanyahu tomorrow morning) are two completely different things. That holds true of everyone in politics, hence the use of the word “political” to mean just that.
Anyone who is successful in an organization of any kind, understands the importance of politicking. Give the guy a break. He’s the first strong democratic leader we’ve seen in a long time. And don’t think for a moment that he actually expects the Israeli’s to return in full to the 1967 borders.
This is a giant Chess game and you are right...he is the king. And because he’s smart, he thinks twelve steps ahead of every move we see him take. Don’t focus on the individual pieces being moved, figure out the long-term strategies. It’s like purposely using poor grammar to fool your opponent into thinking you’re not very intelligent. He’s setting up the pieces. I suspect it’s the same approach he used in dealing with Pakistan. Man, were they ever surprised. Sure didn’t see that one coming now did they?
Steven
I have been watching Glenn Beck with particular interest this week. His premise that Israel is being set up is absolutely right- leave it to the left to get cozy with our worst, and most evil, enemies. While our politicians pour money into the arab countries, they form alliances with Russia and China. Well hell, they did that with the Nazis and Stalin, too. This should not be a surprise to us. NONE of this should be.
What remains in question, I guess, is up to us. Supposedly, the USA is not mentioned in the Bible, but that might not be true. The book of Revelation says that when the alliance between the arab countries (king of the east) and Russia (king of the north) attack Israel that they will be destroyed by the “hand of God” on the mountains. Now, in the Bible, the “hand of God” takes several forms and it is not always the literal “hand” of God.
If we are blessed enough to run this president out of DC on a rail this next election, perhaps this Christian nation will be the “hand of God”. If BO wins re-election (a notion that makes me a little sick in the pit of my stomach), I guess we can know that we have become a third-world nation that just won’t matter.
Our liberties may well have allowed the enemies of the world, and us, to turn this wonderful experiment in self-governance into a short (biblically irrelevant) historical blip.
obama’s Israel speech will prove to be the END of obama’s political career!!!!
The muslim communist obama is pure EVIL!!!! He will be going down HARD—very, very soon. Only SEIU and the muslims will support him!
Reminds me:
‘We were given a choice between war and dishonor, and chose dishonor ... we will get war’
I’ll believe Bibi’s acting in his country’s best interest when he’s back in Israel having refused to make further concessions, and repudiating those already made that are not irreversible.
Your former friend is VERY wrong!
obama is NOT the king. He is the PAWN—the pawn of Soros, and he other banksters!!!!
The dumb-dumb obama just mouths what his masters put on his teleprompter, and then goes on vacation. And what he mouths is the usual evil New World Order program.
Note to your former friend: If he thinks twelve steps ahead of everyone else, I guess he understood why they changed the Obama story twelve times.
I guess Obama is so smart that he looks like an amateur to everyone else. I am impress by his ability to hide his genius so well that my teenage daughters look like Cordell Hull in comparison.
Holy God is in control of the land of Israel, Obama can say and do as he wants... God allows him that for now... I’m going to love to see how God judges those who work against His plan.
Ha haaaa! In your face, Hamas! Who do you think you are? The SEIU?
Some, but not all are. Many have chosen to practice “Reformed” Judaism which is not very Torah observant. But interestingly, that movement is dying and recently, more and more are returning to Conservative and Orthodox Judaism.
The problem started with adapting to an American life. It can be done, but it really is very difficult to do. As wonderful as the USA is, the way things work here can make it very difficult to be Torah Observant. It requires a lot more than non-Jews realize.
When many of the Jews came here, many found it very hard to adapt. Things like Bosses would not tolerate an employee taking a breaks to do morning and afternoon prayers, or to leave earlier on a Friday, and not work on Saturdays because of Shabbos. They were fired if they did not shave off their long beards or cut off their peyot (earlocks) and they were fired for wearing a Kippah on their heads.
Unless you had a profession or trade and could be self employed, you had a hard time feeding your family. There was a time in the US when people would not hire Jews. I remember my mother telling me she went for a job and was told, flat out, by many places that they do not hire Jews. So, when the Reformed movement in Judaism came about, many went for it- it meant that they “could fit in”. Unfortunately, many of them were leftists, and that tradition remains in that sect today. However, things are changing, that sect is beginning to die.
There will always be hard-core leftists among them- as there are in any group, but more and more are beginning to see that this “president” is an anti-semite. The word is getting out to them. The problem is most only watch or read the MSM, and the MSM skews and censors news. They get the impression from the media that Israel is a horrible country and that they are persecuting the arabs. So, they feel guilt.
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hy wouldn’t America abandon Israel, much as she has abandoned herself?
That's what the Jehovah's Witnesses were saying in their little comic-book pamphlet, The Watchtower, 40 years ago. They predicted, from their Bible reading, that the Antichrist would arise in America as a "man of peace", and then stab the chosen people of Israel in the back, and the final battle would be fought out in the Megiddo Pass, the place called Armageddon. It would be a battle of annihilation between the Arab and Russian armies on one side and the Children of Israel and their Christian allies on the other.
He’ll just say something like “I was mis-quoted” and ALL will be forgiven.
point proven.
I’ve witnessed the same kind of mentality from my conservative black friends who TOTALLY ABANDON all logic rationale when it comes to supporting their
FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT!!!!!
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