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Posted on 12/28/2016 8:33:10 AM PST by VitacoreVision
Did the community organizer from Harvard Law just deliver some personal payback to the IDF commando? So it would seem.
By abstaining on that Security Council resolution declaring Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem illegal and invalid, raged Bibi Netanyahu, President Obama "failed to protect Israel in this gang-up at the UN, and colluded with it."
Obama's people, charged Bibi, "initiated this resolution, stood behind it, coordinated on the wording and demanded that it be passed."
White House aide Ben Rhodes calls the charges "falsehoods."
Hence, we have an Israeli leader all but castigating an American president as a backstabber and betrayer, while the White House calls Bibi a liar.
This is not an unserious matter.
"By standing with the sworn enemies of Israel to enable the passage of this destructive, one-sided anti-Israel rant and tirade," writes the Washington Times, "Mr. Obama shows his colors."
But unfortunately for Israel, the blow was delivered by friends as well as "sworn enemies."
The U.S. abstained, but Britain, whose Balfour Declaration of 1917 led to the Jewish state in Palestine, voted for the resolution.
As did France, which allied with Israel in the Sinai-Suez campaign of 1956 to oust Egypt's Col. Nasser, and whose Mysteres were indispensable to Israel's victory in the Six-Day War of 1967.
Vladimir Putin, who has worked with Bibi and was rewarded with Israel's refusal to support sanctions on Russia for Crimea and Ukraine, also voted for the resolution. Egypt, whose Gen. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was welcomed by Bibi after his coup against the Muslim Brotherhood president, and who has collaborated with Bibi against terrorists in Sinai and Gaza, also voted yes.
China voted yes as did Ukraine. New Zealand and Senegal, both of which have embassies in Tel Aviv, introduced the resolution.
Despite Israel's confidential but deepening ties with Sunni Arab states that share her fear and loathing of Iran, not a single Security Council member stood by her and voted against condemning Israel's presence in Arab East Jerusalem and the Old City. Had the resolution gone before the General Assembly, support would have been close to unanimous.
While this changes exactly nothing on the ground in the West Bank or East Jerusalem where 600,000 Israelis now reside, it will have consequences, and few of them will be positive for Israel.
The resolution will stimulate and strengthen the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel, which has broad support among U.S. college students, Bernie Sanders Democrats and the international left.
If Israel does not cease expanding West Bank settlements, she could be hauled before the International Criminal Court and charged with war crimes.
Already, J Street, the liberal Jewish lobby that backs a two-state solution in Palestine — and has been denounced by Donald Trump's new envoy to Israel David Friedman as "far worse than kapos," the Jewish guards at Nazi concentration camps — has endorsed the resolution.
The successful resolution is also a reflection of eroding support for Israel at the top of the Democratic Party, as a two-term president and a presidential nominee, Secretary of State John Kerry, were both behind it.
Republicans are moving to exploit the opening by denouncing the resolution and the U.N. and showing solidarity with Israel. Goal: Replace the Democratic Party as the most reliable ally of Israel, and reap the rewards of an historic transfer of Jewish political allegiance.
That Sen. George McGovern was seen as pro-Palestinian enabled Richard Nixon to double his Jewish support between 1968 and 1972.
That Jimmy Carter was seen as cold to Israel enabled Ronald Reagan to capture more than a third of the Jewish vote in 1980, on his way to a 44-state landslide.
Moreover, U.S. acquiescence in this resolution puts Bibi in a box at home. Though seen here as a hawk on the settlements issue, the right wing of Bibi's coalition is far more hawkish, pushing for outright annexation of West Bank settlements. Others call for a repudiation of Oslo and the idea of an independent Palestinian state.
If Bibi halts settlement building on the West Bank, he could cause a split in his Cabinet with rightist rivals like Naftali Bennett who seek to replace him.
Here in the U.S., the U.N. resolution is seen by Democrats as a political debacle, and by many Trump Republicans as an opportunity.
Sen. Chuck Schumer has denounced Obama's refusal to veto the resolution, echoing sentiments about the world body one used to hear on America's far right.
"The U.N." said Schumer, "has been a fervently anti-Israel body since the days (it said) 'Zionism is racism' and that fervor has never diminished."
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham says he will urge Congress to slash funding for the United Nations.
If the folks over at the John Birch Society still have some of those bumper stickers — "Get the U.S. out of the U.N., and the U.N. out of the U.S.!" they might FedEx a batch over to Schumer and Graham.
May have some converts here.
Love that bumper-sticker.
This may turn out to be good in the long run. If it’s enough to discredit the UN, that may do as much good in the long run as Obama discrediting liberalism has done for American politics. There will still be costs, but they may be worth bearing. Erase the UN, sell the building off as condos, and who cares what their last comments yapping about Israel may have been?
The real Obama legacy is that he made anti Zionism “respectable” and gave it a home in the Democratic Party. People such as Ken Ellison are credible candidates to lead the Democrats. Sadly Netanyahu and all Israelis must come to the realization that the widespread support that Israel in the immediate post Holocaust era no longer exists in the West.
It's important to keep in mind that White House aide Ben Rhodes is the one who sneeringly congratulated himself in a New York Times Magazine interview for successfully deceiving the Congress, the American people in general, and the pliant fools in the news media about the ugly reality of the nuclear deals that Obama was making with the enemy Iranian mullahs.
Also keep in mind that his brother, David Rhodes, is President of CBS News. The deceit emanating from the Obama regime has deeply-planted roots.
So, now that we know beyond any question of a doubt that White House aide Ben Rhodes has earned his reputation for being a serial liar who will tell any falsehood in order to advance the dangerous goals of the Obama regime, it's laughable for him to claim that Netanyahu's statements are 'falsehoods'. White House aide Ben Rhodes has forfeited any claim to credibility on any subject whatsoever.
Pat is not exactly an Israel-First type - so this resolution must have really sucked.
Notice Buchanan just states history and facts and makes NO Judgement on the rightness or wrongness of the action
The USA didn’t become really involved and allied with Israel until the Yom Kippur War when Nixon helped save them with emergency supplies
The Arab threatened Oil Boycott ended Frances’s aid to Israel and it has been the USA ever since
I didn’t know this. Thanks for the post.
See my post 7 about Pat
It’s the first time that I’ve not seen Buchanan criticize Israel.
Everything about a 2 state solution makes sense, until you see that the global far left is for it. The goal of the Arabs is to wipe out Israel. Israel needs this land for it’s long term survival.
Republicans are moving to exploit the opening by denouncing the resolution and the U.N. and showing solidarity with Israel. Goal: Replace the Democratic Party as the most reliable ally of Israel, and reap the rewards of an historic transfer of Jewish political allegiance.
What "rewards" is he talking about? LOL.
Irael will still be here and stronger than ever when Barack Obama is nothing but another AIDS ravaged muslim homo looking at The Big Sleep.
One big problem in the Middle East is that the place is filled with a bunch of countries that aren’t even viable nations by any objective measure. They basically function as permanent wards of the world’s developed nations.
The funny thing is that I was thinking of this from the exact opposite perspective.
Seeing a pathetic RINO like Lindsey Graham stand up as the most vocal critic of the Obama administration on this issue doesn't give any credibility to the argument that Obama was wrong on this.
I hope your right in that assessment.
Another plus is it complicates a two state solution which I thought was a bad idea.
On FR many years ago I said I gave up on the naive dumb Israeli Jews who acted as though they could actually talk their way into a peaceful solution with Muslims.
These dumb Jews didn't seem to understand the fundamentals of Islam.
Especially when Allah and Muhammad singled them out from the rest of us Kafirs, in the Koran and Hadiths.
Hopefully Pres. Trump won't let this crisis go to waste and we and Israel can benefit from it, to the detriment of the fundamental Muslims. - Tom
(fundamental Muslims to me, are the Muslims who follow the religion the way Allah and Muhammad want it done, and not the way the Muslim heretics operate by collaborating with us Infidels and taking a pick and choose approach to Islam.)
He got that right.
Bibi needs to return Barack’s backhand with a two-handed smash!
The only peaceful solution between Islam and freedom will be when violent Muslims rest in peace. I see no need to comment on what fraction of the Islamic population that may affect.
Hahahaha...just imagining if Obama REALLY tried to slap Bibi....hahahahahaa.....
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