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Obama Prepares to Throw Israel Under the Bus
The Jerusalem Connection ^ | By: Melanie Phillips

Posted on 05/09/2009 1:40:21 PM PDT by Iam1ru1-2

As predicted here repeatedly Obama is attempting to throw Israel under the Islamist bus, and he’s getting American Jews to do his dirty work for him. White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel reportedly told the Israel lobbying group AIPAC on Sunday that efforts to stop Iran hinged on peace talks with the Palestinians. General James Jones, National Security Adviser to Obama, reportedly told a European foreign minister a week ago that unlike the Bush administration, Obama will be ‘forceful’ with Israel. Ha’aretz reports:

Jones is quoted in the telegram as saying that the United States, European Union and moderate Arab states must redefine ‘a satisfactory endgame solution.’ The U.S. national security adviser did not mention Israel as party to these consultations.

Of course not. If you are going to throw a country under the bus, you don’t invite it to discuss the manner of its destruction with the assassins who are co-ordinating the crime. As I said here months ago, the appointment of Jones and the elevation of his post of National Security Adviser at the expense of the Secretary of State was all part of the strategy to centralise power in the hands of those who want to do Israel harm.

Yesterday Vice-President Joe Biden and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry turned the thumbscrews tighter, telling Israel to stop building more settlements, dismantle existing outposts and allow Palestinians freedom of movement.

This is all not only evil but exceptionally stupid. The idea that a Palestine state will help build a coalition against Iran is demonstrably absurd. The Arab states are beside themselves with anxiety about Iran. They want it to be attacked and its nuclear programme stopped. They are desperately fearful that the Obama administration might have decided that it can live with a nuclear Iran.

The idea that if a Palestine state comes into being it will be easier to handle Iran is the opposite of the case: a Palestine state will be Iran, in the sense that it will be run by Hamas as a proxy for the Islamic Republic. The idea that a Palestine state will not compromise Israel’s security is ludicrous.

It is of course, by any sane standard, quite fantastic that America is behaving as if it is Israel which is holding up a peace settlement when Israel has made concession after concession giving up Sinai, giving up Gaza, offering all the territories to the Arabs in return for peace in 1967, offering more than 90 per cent of them ditto in 2000, ditto again to Mahmoud Abbas in the past year -- only to be attacked in return by a Palestinian terrorist entity, backed in its continued aggression, let us not forget, by the countries of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, which has made no concessions at all and is not being pressured to do so.

It is not the aggressor here but the victim of aggression that America is now choosing to beat up. In any sane world, one might think the Americans would be piling the pressure on the Palestinians to renounce their genocidal ambitions against Israel, to stop teaching and training their children to hate and kill Jews, to adhere to the primary requirement in the Road Map that they must dismantle their infrastructure of violence as the first step in the peace process; one might think, indeed, that they would view Mahmoud Abbas’s repeated statements that the Palestinians will never accept Israel as a Jewish state to be the main impediment to peace.

But no. The repeated professions that America will never jeopardise Israel’s security are stomach churning when Obama is actually blaming Israel for measures it has taken to safeguard its security the settlements were always first and foremost a security measure, and the travel restrictions are there solely to prevent more Israelis being murdered and trying to force it to abandon them. Today comes further news that Obama will also try to force Israel to give up its nuclear weapons which it only has as a last ditch insurance against the attempt to annihilate it to which several billion Arabs remain pledged.

Of course Obama doesn’t care that Hamas would run any Palestinian state. Of course he doesn’t care that Israel would be unable to defend itself against such a terrorist state. Because he regards Israel as at best totally expendable, and at worst as a running sore on the world's body politic that has to be purged altogether (see this bleak assessment by Sultan Knish: http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2009/05/obamas-plan-to-destroy-israel.html). His administration is proceeding on the entirely false analysis that a state of Palestine is the solution to the Middle East impasse and the route to peace in the region. What that state will look like or do is something to which at best the administration's collective mind is shut and at worst makes it a potential cynical accomplice to the unconscionable. So Israel is to be forced out of the West Bank. Far from building a coalition against Iran, Obama is thus doing Iran’s work for it.

None of this, however, should come as the slightest surprise to anyone who paid any attention to Obama’s background, associations and friendships before he became President and to the cabal of Israel-bashers, appeasers and Jew-haters he appointed to his administration, with a few useful idiots thrown in for plausible deniability.

American Jews, meanwhile, are reacting as predicted with a total absence of spine. As IsraelMatzav reports, AIPAC was sending delegates to visit Congress to 'convince' Representatives and Senators to sign a petition calling for a two-state solution. Inspired! Almost eighty per cent of American Jews voted for Obama despite the clear and present danger he posed to Israel. They did so because their liberal self-image was and is more important to them than the Jewish state whose existence and security cannot be allowed to jeopardise their standing with America’s elite.

But the ordinary American people are a different matter. They do value and support Israel. They do understand that if Israel is thrown under that bus, the west is next. And it is they to whom Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu must now appeal, over the heads of the politicians and the media and certainly America’s Jews and everyone else. He must tell the American people the terrible truth, that America is now run by a man who is intent on sacrificing Israel for a reckless and amoral political strategy which will put America and the rest of the free world at risk.

This is shaping up to be the biggest crisis in relations between Israel and America since the foundation of Israel six decades ago. Those who hate Israel and the Jews will be gloating. This after all is precisely what they hoped Obama would do. To any decent person looking on aghast, this is where the moral sickness of the west reaches the critical care ward.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; endtimesevents; godswrath; tribulation
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1 posted on 05/09/2009 1:40:22 PM PDT by Iam1ru1-2
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To: Iam1ru1-2
White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel reportedly told the Israel lobbying group AIPAC on Sunday that efforts to stop Iran hinged on peace talks with the Palestinians.

Idiots! Complete IDIOTS! The FOOL's President.

2 posted on 05/09/2009 1:43:30 PM PDT by Nuc1 (NUC1 Sub pusher SSN 668 (Liberals Aren't Patriots))
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To: Iam1ru1-2

Why is anyone suprised?

Obama is a black man and shares the black disdain of Jews and Israel.

American Jews are mostly leftist and will side will a Marxist dictator over the Jewish homeland.

Stated differently, it is easier to espouse liberal rhetoric in the face of oppression and not stand up.

Many Jews did not learn from the Nazi and Soviet murders and deathcamps.


5 posted on 05/09/2009 1:45:16 PM PDT by whitedog57
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To: Iam1ru1-2

Israel will learn it’s only God they can rely...


6 posted on 05/09/2009 1:45:50 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: Nuc1

“White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel reportedly told the Israel lobbying group AIPAC on Sunday that efforts to stop Iran hinged on peace talks with the Palestinians.”

Let’s see...Hamas has said they will accept no two-state solution. That makes this extortion ALSO functionally impossible.

When will the US Jewish population realize that the occupant of the White House and his henchmen are no friends of theirs?


7 posted on 05/09/2009 1:46:22 PM PDT by Winstons Julia (:)
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To: Iam1ru1-2

The sad thing is, the US is coercing Israel simply because the Israeli people are sane, rational, and urban, thusly such threats carry weight with them, the degenerate Palestinians on the other hand, are reaping benefits from behaving terribly, in fact, the worse they behave, the more support they receive.

It’s insane, but it is what it is, when GWB was running things such nonsense would not have been considered for .003 seconds...


8 posted on 05/09/2009 1:46:49 PM PDT by padre35 (You shall not ignore the laws of God, the Market, the Jungle, and Reciprocity Rm10.10)
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To: whitedog57

Too bad we cant swap American Jews for Israeli Jews.


9 posted on 05/09/2009 1:47:48 PM PDT by DogBarkTree (Support The American Tea Party)
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To: Iam1ru1-2
Somehow I have trouble seeing Israel,under Netanyahu,going under the bus willingly.after all,they're not without...."resources"....at their disposal.

Kaboooom!

10 posted on 05/09/2009 1:47:49 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Christian+Veteran=Terrorist)
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To: Iam1ru1-2

Sad, we are turning into the UK part 2.


11 posted on 05/09/2009 1:50:33 PM PDT by Islaminaction
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To: Iam1ru1-2

Apparently, the Saudis are not happy about Obama’s outreach to Iran either.


12 posted on 05/09/2009 1:52:57 PM PDT by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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To: Iam1ru1-2

History will not look well on a United States that abandons the Jews to a second holocaust.


13 posted on 05/09/2009 1:55:36 PM PDT by Jacquerie (More Central Planning is not the solution to the failures of Central Planning.)
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To: Iam1ru1-2

78% of Jews voted for Obama.


14 posted on 05/09/2009 1:56:11 PM PDT by SonnyBubba
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To: SJackson; sofaman; Bahbah; Uncle Ike; WorkerbeeCitizen

Through the decades we’ve had some presidential administrations more friendly- and some less- toward Israel but I don’t EVER remember anything like what this one is attempting.

Bibi needs our prayers...


15 posted on 05/09/2009 1:59:03 PM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: Iam1ru1-2

I posted this last night:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2247367/posts

“Israeli official tells US Vice Pres. Joe Biden to have some respect for the land of the Bible”
... because good old Joe was speaking that Joe talk he is so good at.

Jewish American’s need to stand up, you might have voted for the man but you do not have to accept what he is doing to Israeli!


16 posted on 05/09/2009 2:02:02 PM PDT by blueyon (It is worth taking a stand even if you are standing alone!)
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To: DogBarkTree
Too bad we cant swap American Jews for Israeli Jews.

Israel wouldn't last long under that scenario.

17 posted on 05/09/2009 2:02:39 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Iam1ru1-2

Obama continues to set the roadmap for our future. Here’s a glimpse...

Fortunate Son seems to fit him well....

Crank up the volume.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBfjU3_XOaA


18 posted on 05/09/2009 2:04:46 PM PDT by Gator113 (Weak-coward-racist-white hating-lying-traitor= Surrender Monkey in Chief-B. Hussein Obama...)
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To: whitedog57
American Jews are mostly leftist and will side will a Marxist dictator over the Jewish homeland.

Those American Jews are 'Quislings'.


19 posted on 05/09/2009 2:06:02 PM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan (Sarah Palin "The Iron Lady of the North")
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To: Iam1ru1-2
You know, the relationship between the U.S. and Israel is a bit complex. Sometimes, yes, they need our aid in the region.

Other times, I think that it's more like they need the U.S. to restrain them from an alternative course of action....

If Obama is throwing them under a bus ... whooo boy....

20 posted on 05/09/2009 2:08:50 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (The sun glinted off chiseled pectorals sculpted during four weight-lifting sessions each week and...)
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