Posted on 05/16/2009 6:29:35 PM PDT by Ooh-Ah
In advance of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahus 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 doesnt 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 Quartets 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 dont 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. Thats 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. Americas 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 Israels 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 Israels 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 Lavrovs initiative to convene the Council, and were very pleased with the constructive and comprehensive statement that will be issued by the president of the Council on the Councils behalf. This was a product of really collaborative, good-faith efforts by all members of the Council, and were pleased with the outcome.
The Obama administrations total disregard of Israels 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 Councils 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:
I would like to get more up to speed on the steps that spawned this, but finding time to read a book is getting to be an increasingly rare luxury.
2nd that, and prayers God will put a wall between our demonic despot and all those he means to destroy.
2nd that, and prayers God will put a wall between our demonic despot and all those he means to destroy
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Amen.
I just hope Isreal has the stones to do what it has to, and go all the way this time. They have nothing left to lose but life, limb and country.
An Israel with its back against the wall is something that should scare every muslim in the middle east.
My current tag line is all too obvious to everyone at this point, so if you don’t mind I think I’ll adopt your “As Israel goes, so goes America” if you don’t mind.
Oh, wouldn’t that be just too wonderful, just put him in his place and tell him all will be alright if he sits down and shuts up. Just go to colleges and get honorary degrees and do nothing else, maybe cut a few ribbons and have his picture taken with visiting elementary students.
Use it, with my pleasure.
Thank you!
Trying again.
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