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:
The Messiah is taking Rahm’s advice: that Israel must must agree with the PALS before the US will help BIBI out with the Iranian thug. It is pure blackmail and I pray BIBI rejects it out of hand.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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History repeating itself with the same American force aiming at a new target. At us!
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2009/05/obama-another-carter-but-worse.html
They can’t afford to lose.
One time and it’s finished.
Atom Smasher,
Had American Jews voted against the “magic negro”, Israel would not be so threatened today.
Had American Jews voted against the “magic negro”, Israel would not be so threatened today
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You are so right! I hope Israel sees that betrayal as well!
And what happens if we decide to stand with “O’s” moslem brothers and maybe even attach Isreal? With the way we are right now, this scenario is not as far out as one might think....
and the country he rules along with it?
3 1/2 years takes us just past the next presidential election, assuming something’s signed right away.
Yes Jews do lose, but the win the last battle big time.
Where rahmbo? He won’t let the collision take place.
Thanks for the ping!
The open hostility of the liberal Left towards Israel, thanks in large part to the anti-Israel bias of the media and their support of radical Arabs that we see in full force today, did begin in 1979, but not as a result of Carter or the Iranian Revolution.
It began with the creation of the newspaper, Sharq Al Awsat, in 1979, by Saudi Arabia, and transmitted throughout the Arab world. This was followed by the purchase of Al Hayat, and the financial backing given by Saudi Arabia to its own publications gave them an edge over the competition, which could not afford news bureaus or modern printing presses, and made it easy for the Saudis to pressure others into joining them in return for financial aid.
Not only does Saudi Arabia dominate and control the news coming in and out of the Middle East, they are also the dominant source of anti-Israel, anti-Semitic propaganda throughout the world. Arabs and Muslims finally discovered that the only way to gain control of Israel was to gain control of both the Middle Eastern media ans the Western media.
The European countries, with their historical, anti-Semitic roots and growing Muslim populations, along with direct threats to Western journalists, became the media pawns of the Palestinian propaganda machine.
The House of Saud and the House of Bush were in the same neighborhood, if not on the same block. Yet, the Bushes seemed to play both sides of the street with the President supporting Israel and the State Department supporting the same terrorist entities that keep trying to destroy it.
Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats who LOATHED President Bush for supporting Israel, but LOVED the State Department for supporting Israel’s enemies, now have both a President and an entire administration they can love for their collective anti-Israel mindset.
At a much earlier point in my life, I was a staunch Democrat, but it was their growing hatred of Israel and Jews over the last two decades that drove me into the arms of the Republican party, and not its conservative message.
As Israel goes, so goes America.
Point well stated.
My reference was focused more on the previous full power of the USA being aimed at other targets, the Shah’s Iran, BUT NOW..... changed in direction and fully focused - not at destroying another country and that populace, to destroying AMERICA and “we the American people”. With the same likelihood of success as Carter had against the Shah.
Unless, we rise up and prevent it, something the Shah was not powerful enough (compared to the Carter’s USA) to do and was destroyed. As we will be if we do not wake up.
Having watched and participated in how it was done and how it became unpreventable - and is being done again but to us - believe it or not it is a REPLAY not something new.
Except for who is at the receiving end - you, me and our families and loved ones. Hard to believe for those of us who have not been through a subversive undermining of our way of life since the Communist regime in the Soviet Union - so little reference material with which to evaluate what the mess we are in represents with Obama’s decision to destroy us and turn us into a slave nation.
Revenge for his unhappy childhood and life and symbolically of the Black race to which is connection is his Arab - thus slaver not slave - father.
Stop, think and evaluate on that playing field, not the politics as usual game with which you have become familiar.
Also take a look at this post:
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2009/05/patriotic-song-being-banned-on-some.html
I’d rather he hand-deliver it to SCOTUS, personally...
Oh, to be a fly on the wall during THAT meeting with Bibi, and the Obamessiah, though.
The Jewish lobby better be ready to pony up more money for their chosen one. I’m sure the Democrats are still open for business. The Jewish votes were not enough.
The Liberals will say how they they regret the loss of life in Israel, how this should never be allowed to happen again and what country can we get to take the Jews this time without making the Muslims mad.
Thanks for the ping!
Thus giving zerO all the assurance in the world to essentially do as he pleases in the way of a solution.
Now what.
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