Posted on 06/04/2015 6:34:56 AM PDT by SJackson
A former Israeli official and chief of military intelligence slammed President Barack Obamas recent take on the most pertinent issues facing Israeli security, saying his optimists policy would ultimately lead to calamity with the Palestinians and, more importantly, Iran.
Obama is a remarkable proponent for the optimist approach he fundamentally believes in human decency, and therefore in dialogue and engagement as the best way to overcome conflict, wrote Yossi Kuperwasser, the former director general of Israels Strategic Affairs Ministry.
Obama believes that humility and concessions can salve the wound, and Islamists can be convinced to accept a global civil society.
But for realists such as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, or those who face an existential threat, Obamas argument sounds appalling.
Kuperwasser whose comments were a response to journalist Jeffrey Goldbergs latest interview with Obama, as well as the presidents address at a Washington DC synagogue said the fundamental divide between optimists and realists in Western, Judeo-Christian political thought underlined the personal conflict between the American and Israeli leaders.
He accused Obama of mirror-imaging his values system on Palestinian youth, which Kuperwasser said has plagued most of his foreign policy.
Unlike Netanyahu, Obama does not understand that Islamists such as Hamas in Gaza and the Iranian regime are willing to wait to overthrow the existing world order, believing instead that Islamists can be convinced to accept a global civil society.
Netanyahu, on the other hand, whose nation would feel the most immediate consequences from Western concessions [to Iran], does not have the luxury of optimism, said Kuperwasser.
The former official also decried Obamas double standard when it comes to criticizing Palestinian Authority President Abbas, though Abbas rejected Obamas formula for continued negotiations because it required recognition of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people and formed a unity government with Hamas, which openly calls for Israels destruction.
Concluding his argument, which Goldberg reprinted in The Atlantic, Kuperwasser wrote that while Obama and the optimists offer their critiques, Netanyahu and the realists will be on the ground, living with the consequences the optimists have wrought.
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His egotism and petrified ideological templates assure that his thinking has microscopic parameters.
unfortunately for us all, libs like obamma, cant grasp religion.
they think people are driven to violence due to lack of jobs, or lack of proper housing and benefits.
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