Posted on 01/31/2011 11:12:10 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Israel shocked by Obama's "betrayal" of Mubarak
By Douglas Hamilton
JERUSALEM | Mon Jan 31, 2011 12:54pm EST
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - If Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak is toppled, Israel will lose one of its very few friends in a hostile neighborhood and President Barack Obama will bear a large share of the blame, Israeli pundits said on Monday.
Political commentators expressed shock at how the United States as well as its major European allies appeared to be ready to dump a staunch strategic ally of three decades, simply to conform to the current ideology of political correctness.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told ministers of the Jewish state to make no comment on the political cliffhanger in Cairo, to avoid inflaming an already explosive situation. But Israel's President Shimon Peres is not a minister.
"We always have had and still have great respect for President Mubarak," he said on Monday. He then switched to the past tense. "I don't say everything that he did was right, but he did one thing which all of us are thankful to him for: he kept the peace in the Middle East."
Newspaper columnists were far more blunt.
One comment by Aviad Pohoryles in the daily Maariv was entitled "A Bullet in the Back from Uncle Sam." It accused Obama and his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of pursuing a naive, smug, and insular diplomacy heedless of the risks.
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Get out the bus!
Those knife wounds in their back weren’t a hint?
The list, ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
...and who did the jews vote for in the last election??
Give me a break! If the Israeli leadership couldn’t see this coming or have an idea that this could happen with der Fuehrer in office then they are not as smart as I believed.
Really? Why? All the signs are there.
All those others being damaged by the fraud in the white House - individuals and nations - need to drop the nicities and start reaming BO & his administration loudly, publically and NOW.
He's been coasting along unscathed, able to do all this damage, protected by the residual prestige accrued by much better men who came before him. The emperor much worse than naked and its time to start saying so.
I’m sure Bibi knows exactly who and what Obama is and whose pulling his strings. I’m equally as sure that the Mossad did their homework before the Messiah was elected unlike our Congress or our intelligence agencies.
“Unexpected” key broke on their typewriter.
But Richard Dreyfuss did and still does like Barry.
Great post in a great thread of posts.
Israel knew what they were getting with Barry. He snubbed Bibi before, so they had to see this coming. The next few days will be pivotal. Israel cannot just wait around to see what will happen, they will probably have to anticipate the outcome and make some hard decisions. The leadership here is either asleep at the switch or knew it was coming and did not help to prevent it. Either way the US is in a bad position and Israel is in a worse one.
“the jews” to which you refer hate Israel anyway.
I didn't know that “the jews” were a monolithic group that all voted the same way. Do they bear a collective burden of guilt due to the voting habits of the majority of their less adherent members?
“Smug” really defines Hillary Clinton in all this.
I want to slap her silly every time I see her silly face on CNN!
A friend of America would not support the fall of the current regime in Egypt.
Draw conclusions as you will, it is true statement.
ER...that should be I want to slap her “SILLIER”
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