Posted on 09/09/2023 3:12:23 AM PDT by RaceBannon
Navigate to Israel & The Middle East section Biden Backdoors Israel in the U.N., Rescinding Trump’s Recognition of Sovereignty over the Golan In a move from the Obama playbook, the U.S. is advancing a stealth agenda in the Middle East at the expense of its allies
Sometimes, U.S. foreign policy is what you see on the news. Increasingly, however, changes in policy are hidden from view because they are unpalatable to many Americans. The growing divide between the policies that America claims to be pursuing and the policies that it’s implementing on the ground poses a growing threat to America’s global standing, as well as to its democracy, which is supposed to exert oversight of foreign policy through Congress. In order to maintain key alliances, allies must believe that American commitments will endure regardless of changes in administration. In order for American commitments to be worth the paper they are written on, allies must believe that America has their backs.
Nowhere is the split between formal U.S. policy and the stealth agendas being implemented by U.S. policymakers more glaring and toxic than in the Middle East. This is true because the core of U.S. Middle East policy is the de facto alliance with Iran promoted by the Obama administration and enshrined in the JCPOA. Obama’s revisionist approach to Iran has in essence left the U.S. with two Mideast policies—one enshrined in our alliances and understandings with historic U.S. allies, and the other centered on dumping our commitments to our allies in order to appease Iran. Only one of these is truly U.S. regional policy, of course—the policy that seeks to establish Iran as the center of a new Middle East.
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The focus of the split in U.S. policy and of gaslighting our allies is the Lebanese pseudo state run by Hezbollah, the terror army controlled by Iran. By dealing with “Lebanon,” the U.S. can help forward the objectives of its Iranian partner without ever dealing directly with Iran—and thereby can continue gaslighting its allies to the extent that they would prefer to believe that the U.S. is still their partner.
The latest act in the Biden administration’s Middle Eastern Kabuki theater is the use of Lebanon to rescind America’s recognition of Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights. No formal announcement of this major policy shift was made, of course. Instead, it was buried in the fine print of the U.N. Security Council’s reauthorization of UNIFIL, the force that ostensibly secures Lebanon’s border with Israel. In a reprise of Barack Obama’s passage of Security Council Resolution 2334 in the final days of his second term, Team Obama-Biden on Aug. 31 again used the route of the Security Council to abandon a formal American commitment and implement a new policy with extreme repercussions for Israel’s security.
With UNSCR 2334, Obama adopted the so-called 1967 lines as the official U.S. position on Israel and its conflict with neighboring Arabs. The resolution called upon all states “to distinguish, in their relevant dealings, between the territory of the State of Israel and the territories occupied since 1967,” and reaffirmed that all Israeli communities established in territory “occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, have no legal validity.” It meant that the U.S. had adopted the position of Israel’s enemies on East Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria, as well as on the Golan Heights.
UNSCR 2334 was the twin of UNSCR 2231, the resolution Obama used to lock in his deal with Iran at the Security Council. Obama’s objective in both cases was to bypass Congress and to tie the hands of his successor by etching his preferences—what people like to call his “legacy”—in Security Council resolutions.
Both planks of Obama’s “legacy” were cracked by Donald Trump, who made two historic moves of his own: moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem and recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights.
When Trump made his move, officials from Team Obama (who now serve in the Biden administration) publicly opposed it. Obama’s former ambassador to Israel, Daniel Shapiro, who is currently the Biden administration’s senior adviser for “Regional Integration,” was particularly vocal in his opposition to the recognition of Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan. In fact, Shapiro wrote, the recognition might become an obstacle to a future Israeli-Saudi agreement—a line that offered a preview of how the Biden administration would invert the Abraham Accords in order to reassert Obama’s framework.
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It’s strategic like SF’s Diamond Heights. Can’t give it back without castrating every Arab first.
>RESCIND< BIDEN!
And all the jackasses that rode in with him . Enough of this shit already ! Enough...
And Jews actually vote for this POS?
What the hell is wrong with them??? The most retarded people on the planet
BO gave Jews the middle finger on his way out with UN 2334 and his appointment of Ben Rhodes to USHolocaust Memorial Museum Board for a number of years. Joe as BO’s errand boy carries on with disrespecing Bibi, appeasing Iran and now this.
Build back better for Israel.
The tens of thousands of Jewish immigrants from the European schtetl brought their Marxism along with them. In America they learned Anglo-Saxon bad - minority good. Almost universally they banded politically against the existing political power structure, and slowly that structure was changed. Proud of their accomplishments they even accepted a polity of Christian bad - Muslim good; even though it was counterproductive to good order both in the United States and the Jewish homeland. Why throughout history has their occurred one pogrom after another? It is the Jewish effort to change the status quo to their liking, which eventually leads to their destruction. Now, the Democrat Party is seen by many hardcore Jewish leftists as counter-productive. But instead of seeking a rapprochement with Conservatives they are moving even farther to the Left. Time has no master. Eventually they will be doomed in Amrica.
Many American Jews these days are secularized and half-assimilated, but also resolutely liberal Democrat as a substitute for religious faith. They tend to regard Israel with private fondness but also as a public embarrassment, like having a favorite uncle who has become a gun nut living alone in the woods off grid and having disputes with neighbors. One wants the uncle to be OK, but also prefers not to take his side publicly in his disagreements with neighbors.
I stood overlooking Syria from the Golan in 2015 and it was profound.
The border at the bottom on the Syrian side had a farmers wire fence. It’s only a secure border because of the geography. The Syrian side had gunfire and mortars going off. There was a war happening at their doorstep.
There are no Israeli snipers raining terror down on the Syrians.
Then you turn back towards the plush valley in Israel. And you find the Syrian sniper dens from the past. And you see tall eucalyptus trees at the bottom.
Someone explains those trees were planted because they grew fast and tall. And, they disrupted the site lines of the Syrian snipers that were killing farmers and their children.
It is an abomination for us to suggest that Israel should hand the high ground back to their enemies. FJB
We have to press trump that we want justice, these people need to be held accountable, period. Jail them like the j6 and hold them while a commission on treason is set up and operational and we do a one by one. This will never stop unless we bring back a deterrent and examples are made
Thanks to all three of you for your posts!!
I just visited Masada today: your messages ring true!!
yes yes and yes!
I think God might have an answer, and it’s name might be Lee.
No, that will swing north
Did you also get your salt bath.... what a wonderful day you had. We lived in Israel two years. Our boy scout troop camped all over the Golan.
That’s what it’s looking like... but Hurricanes are typically what we get when we cross Israel like this.
Libtards hate Jews
If you haven’t noticed that you must have your head up your butt
Hoo Boyo, from relative peace for maybe 2 years and now this. These “coexist” pricks really love war.
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