Posted on 05/16/2009 6:29:35 PM PDT by Ooh-Ah
In advance of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the United States on Monday, President Obama unveiled a new strategy for throwing Israel to the wolves. It takes the form of enthusiasm for the United Nations and international interlopers of all kinds. Instead of ensuring strong American control over the course of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations or the Arab-Israeli peace process, the Obama administration is busy inserting an international mob between the U.S. and Israel. The thinking goes: If Israel doesn’t fall into an American line, Obama will step out of the way, claim his hands are tied, and let the U.N. and other international gangsters have at their prey.
It began this past Monday with the adoption of a so-called presidential statement by the U.N. Security Council. Such statements are not law, but they must be adopted unanimously — meaning that U.S. approval was essential and at any time Obama could have stopped its adoption. Instead, he agreed to this: “The Security Council supports the proposal of the Russian Federation to convene, in consultation with the Quartet and the parties, an international conference on the Middle East peace process in Moscow in 2009.”
This move is several steps beyond what the Bush administration did in approving Security Council resolutions in December and January — which said only that “The Security Council welcomes the Quartet’s consideration, in consultation with the parties, of an international meeting in Moscow in 2009.” Apparently Obama prefers a playing field with 57 members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, 22 members of the Arab League — most of whom don’t recognize the right of Israel to exist — and one Jewish state. A great idea — if the purpose is to ensure Israel comes begging for American protection.
The U.N. presidential statement also makes laudatory references to another third-party venture, the 2002 Arab “Peace” Initiative. That’s a Saudi plan to force Israel to retreat to indefensible borders in advance of what most Arab states still believe will be a final putsch down the road. America’s U.N. ambassador, Susan Rice, announced to the Security Council that “we intend to integrate the Arab Peace Initiative into our own approach.”
Make no mistake: This U.N. move, made with U.S. approval, sets America on a well-calculated collision course with Israel. U.S. collusion on this presidential statement was directly at odds with Israel’s wishes and well-founded concerns about the U.N.’s bona fides on anything related to Israel. Israeli U.N. ambassador Gabriella Shalev issued a statement of Israel’s position: “Israel does not believe that the involvement of the Security Council contributes to the political process in the Middle East. This process should be bilateral and left to the parties themselves. Furthermore, the timing of this Security Council meeting is inappropriate as the Israeli government is in the midst of conducting a policy review, prior to next week's visit by Prime Minister Netanyahu to the United States. . . . Israel shared its position with members of the Security Council.”
By contrast, Rice told reporters: “We had a very useful and constructive meeting thus far of the Council. We welcome Foreign Minister Lavrov’s initiative to convene the Council, and we’re very pleased with the constructive and comprehensive statement that will be issued by the president of the Council on the Council’s behalf. This was a product of really collaborative, good-faith efforts by all members of the Council, and we’re pleased with the outcome.”
The Obama administration’s total disregard of Israel’s obvious interest in keeping the U.N. on the sidelines was striking. Instead of reiterating the obvious — that peace will not come if bigots and autocrats are permitted to ram an international “solution” down the throat of the only democracy at the table — Rice told the Council: “The United States cannot be left to do all the heavy lifting by itself, and other countries . . . must do all that they can to shore up our common efforts.” In a break with decades of U.S. policy, the Obama strategy is to energize a U.N. bad cop so that the U.S. might assume the role of good cop — for a price.
On Tuesday the Obama administration did it again: It ran for a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council. As expected, the administration won election to represent the Council’s Western European and Others Group — it was a three-state contest for three spaces.
The Council is most famous, not for protecting human rights, but for its obsession with Israel. In its three-year history it has:
Obama’s stance on US relations with Israel should suprise no one - he is, after all, a muslim.
and socialist one at that....or just using the left to get at America.
The Kenyan Clown was raised as a Muslim and has palled around with terrorists and haters of Israel for his entire adult life. Expecting any other behavior would have been foolish beyond belief.
Hey Obama, Jews don’t lose.
IMHO this is all lining up perfectly to fulfill the highly prophectic verse Daniel 9;27 that indicates the antichrist will confirm (afirm / make certain) an (existing) peace agreement (i.e. the Arab plan) with and between Israel and the “many” (i.e. 57 muslim nations, EU, UN, Quartet, etc) for seven years....
My heart goes out to Israel. I hope they know that we citizens feel the betrayal from Zero also.
if israel decides that they have their back against the wall, it will be really, REALLY bad news for the surrounding countries that are hostile to her existence.
Consider this scenario: In order to establish his place in history, Obama signs a peace treaty to protect Israel if they agree to give up land. The treaty will be for seven years....
The world will cheer 0 as a great man, a Messiah, in fact. Then in three and a half years in....(you fill in the rest).
They sure can if they keep voting for idiots like this here.
Sure we do! We've gotten our collective asses kicked throughout history, far more times than one can count! It's been when the Jews needed to be reminded Who's REALLY in charge. And American Jews helped put Obama into office, by a vast majority. I don't believe that The Lord will allow the Jews to be destroyed as a people, but I also don't claim to understand the mind of The Lord. But the State of Israel? Sure, just like it's happened before with the Babylonians, Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, and so-on.
Mark
“Sure we do! “
Not since the nation was reestablished.
Your other points are well taken. But my point is that if Obama wants to tussle with Israel then Obama is going to lose. Israel’s future history has already been written.
I will never understand why American jews turned their backs on Israel and elected Obama. All of this was well known before the election. It was no secret that Obama disliked Jews. he was a friend of Louis Farrakhan, Jeremiah Wright and Frank Davis. Indeed Davis may be his daddy.
A hudna is good UP TO 10 years. Up to..
ping
“Hey Obama, Jews don’t lose.”
But when 0bama puts America against Israel......according to prophesy, America will lose.
“I will never understand why American jews turned their backs on Israel and elected Obama.”
Liberal Americans seek the destruction of America.
Liberal Jews seek the destruction of Israel.
over the past year or two, I have found many of my old Jewish acquaintances on facebook. These were people I went to camp with, hebrew school until age 13, people I;ve worked with and went to school with. ALmost all of them are democrats—UTTERLY SICK!!!
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