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Syria crisis shows Israel cannot rely on Obama
Israel Today ^ | 9/15/13 | Aviel Schneider

Posted on 09/16/2013 6:33:40 AM PDT by epow

Israel's largest daily newspaper Yediot Aharonot has a photo of US President Barack Obama published with the comment "From threats to words." In Jerusalem, we are disappointed by Obama's behavior.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued veiled criticism of the White House: "If we do not help ourselves, no one will." According to Netanyahu, the world needs to see: "Anyone who uses weapons of mass destruction, has to pay the price."

If Syria used chemical weapons against its own people, there is no doubt it would do so against Israel. Therefore, America's reluctance to act now is being heavily criticized in the Israeli media, and Israelis are once again realizing they cannot truly rely on America to have their backs.

The Russian initiative to control the Syrian chemical weapons arsenal and to destroy these weapons (in a period of up to ten years!) provided Obama with a way to back down while still saving face. From an American perspective, the hesitation is understandable, after the heavy cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. From the Israeli perspective, the situation is dangerous, because Syria has a common border with the Jewish state.

(Excerpt) Read more at israeltoday.co.il ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crisis; israel; obama; syria

1 posted on 09/16/2013 6:33:40 AM PDT by epow
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To: epow

so it’s peachy to abort millions of defenseless babies, A-OK to chop off peoples arms or chop them in the chest with axes, or imprison them in dirt camps with no food, but if they gas their citizens we have to bomb?

No

However, US is supposed to defend Israel and not side with our enemies

obama got his ears pinned back by the American people because he was going to side with al quaida in Syria and the old rubrick still applies with the silent majority:

WE DON’T SIDE WITH OR NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORISTS! DO YOU GET IT NOW OBAMA?


2 posted on 09/16/2013 6:38:25 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: epow
Syria crisis shows U.S. cannot rely on Obama
3 posted on 09/16/2013 6:39:17 AM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: epow

Obama’s inept nonsense has been a strategic disaster for Israel. Assad’s “ally” Iran has access to forward Syrian locations for mobile short range ballistic missiles. Israel cannot attack Iran’s nuclear facilities without potentially suffering a devastating counterattack. Unless the strategic situation changes, Iran will have its nuclear weapons within a year.


4 posted on 09/16/2013 6:39:45 AM PDT by allendale
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To: epow

Netanyahu is a smart man. Better get to stocking up on your nukes. I have a feeling Iran has them now and can’t wait to try them out.


5 posted on 09/16/2013 6:40:40 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: epow
Syria crisis shows Israel cannot rely on Obama

I think the Israelis were smart enough to figure this out back in '08, but you wonder why the American Jews have not.

6 posted on 09/16/2013 6:44:58 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Muzzie killing muzzie what's the downside and who am I to stop them ?)
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To: epow

Pfft... Other than the Muslim Brotherhood, what fool would ever rely on Obama?


7 posted on 09/16/2013 6:59:05 AM PDT by Obadiah (I Like Ted.)
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To: DJ Taylor
"Syria crisis shows U.S. cannot rely on Obama"


8 posted on 09/16/2013 7:05:53 AM PDT by Baynative (Lord, keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.)
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To: epow

“Syria crisis shows Israel cannot rely on Obama”

Duh!!! And the Israelis are just getting the message now? We’ve known it for years.


9 posted on 09/16/2013 7:24:16 AM PDT by kenmcg (scapegoat)
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To: Baynative

The photo has been photo shopped to make Obama look “manly”.

Obama only rides side-saddle.


10 posted on 09/16/2013 8:24:01 AM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: epow
Syria crisis shows Israel cannot rely on Obama

Neither can America.

11 posted on 09/16/2013 8:27:30 AM PDT by RobinOfKingston (Democrats--the party of Evil. Republicans--the party of Stupid.)
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To: epow
I'm a bit conflicted on the issue of US intervention in Syria's civil war. On one hand I can understand Bibi's desire to see US military intervention in what seems to have originally been an actual revolt by the Syrian people themselves against the monster Assad's cruelly oppressive regime. However, it now appears that the original rebels have been largely supplanted by Islamic terrorist gangs who have their sights set on acquiring Syria to be a part of their own terrorist war against Israel. Also on that hand is that I usually support Bibi's position on most issues involving actual US interests in that critical region as well as on issues affecting Israel's survival as the only democratic nation in that critical area of the globe.

OTOH, I'm not at all anxious to see the patriotic men and women of our armed forces become involved in any more seemingly futile military adventures that have little or no impact on our own national security, hence my conflicted position on this difficult issue. One thing on which I think most of us on this forum can agree is that Obama is almost totally ignorant concerning military matters, and is by any measure the most ineffective president who has ever been inflicted on the American people by a deliberately dumbed-down electorate.

12 posted on 09/16/2013 10:59:38 AM PDT by epow ( "OOPS" is not in God's vocabulary.)
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To: epow; ntnychik; PhilDragoo; All
Netanyahu knows....when he spoke back to Obozo in a televised meeting, O was heard shouting "what the 'F' was that!!" several times in the halls by the Oval Office.


13 posted on 09/16/2013 11:06:19 AM PDT by potlatch
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When Jesse Jackson said Israel would no longer be in the driver's seat, what did people think he meant?

(You know, the Jesse Jackson in whose house Michelle grew up, by her own account.)

Hussein's I will stand with them--did people think he meant Israel?

Hussein's DCI Brennan is reported to be a Muslim convert.

For whose benefit will the intrusive intelligence apparatus be used, Israel or Muslims?


14 posted on 09/16/2013 12:32:26 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Fakistan)
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To: PhilDragoo

Good points Phil. I am familiar with all of them but am constantly surprised at how many posters aren’t, or who still post erroneous information. But everyone doesn’t do as much reading or fact checking on Google.


15 posted on 09/16/2013 1:52:12 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: potlatch

Bibi’s smackdown. Great memory!


16 posted on 09/16/2013 9:22:48 PM PDT by ntnychik
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To: ntnychik
Memories not so great, but having made a ‘fitting’ graphic brings it to mind, lol.
17 posted on 09/18/2013 7:59:02 PM PDT by potlatch
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