Posted on 07/10/2010 4:26:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
When these gung-ho Israelis try to plot the future, what do they have in mind for a happy ending? Simple: The Republican Party’s return to power.
Israel’s worldwide “loyal opposition” is asking: Where is this country going? Where is Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu going? Where is this government’s policy headed? Do they think they can go on with the occupation forever, do they plan to fight the whole world forever? What is their goal and how do they expect to get there? When these gung-ho Israelis try to plot the future, what do they have in mind for a happy ending?
Simple: The Republican Party’s return to power. The happy ending they envision is this: The Republicans retake the White House and Congress so Bibi, the settlers and the whole Israeli Right can do whatever the hell they want and America will back them up, no questions asked.
This strategy came into focus clearly enough with Netanyahu’s victorious visit to the White House this week. Everyone knows President Barack Obama and his administration can’t stand Netanyahu or his policies, but Obama had to smile and pretend because he’s scared stiff of giving the Republicans more ammunition for the November elections.
Look at what’s happening: The prime minister of Israel is holding the president of the United States at bay, bending him to his will, because he’s got the Republicans behind him.
Not a bad strategy, I’d say. For the time being.
In the long run, I don’t think it’s going to work. It’ll take Israel through the midterm elections, and maybe beyond; after November, Obama may be too weak to pressure Israel into making peace. And two years later, with the way the US economy’s going, the Israeli Right may have its prayers answered by a Republican presidential candidate defeating Obama.
But if Netanyahu and the gang think a President Sarah Palin or a President Newt Gingrich and all their yahoos in Congress can make the world safe for West Bank settlements, or for the blockade of Gaza, or for Israeli militarism in general, they’re wrong. The Republicans are the American equivalent of the Likud, and vice versa.
They both see the world in terms of us vs. them, they both hate Muslims and liberals, they both see war with one Muslim enemy after another as the only way to solve their problems, they’re both clueless about how to make peace or stability and, thus, the only friends they have in the world are each other.
SORRY, IT’S not enough. The American Right and the Israeli Right against the world – how far can they get? The Likud thinks the Republicans will prop them up? Instead, they’ll drag each other down. They’ll be like Thelma and Louise, holding hands as they drive over the cliff.
But that’s at least a few years away. In the meantime, Israel is becoming an ever more powerful “wedge issue” for the Republicans. It goes like this: Either you’re for Israel or you’re for the Democrats, you can’t be both. Put another way: Either you’re for the Republicans or you’re for the terrorists, you have to choose one.
The message is working well and it’s cost Obama a lot of support – mainly among Jews but also among middle-of-the-road gentiles. And it is, indeed, forcing Americans who love Israel – including those who don’t hate Muslims and liberals – to choose sides. For this wing of the pro-Israel community, the choice goes like this: Either you’re against Palin, Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, Pastor John Hagee and all the other Republicans who just love the direction Israel’s going in, or you’re for the Netanyahu government’s policies – you can’t be both.
Put another way: Either you want Israel to remain a part of the democratic world, or you want to change the Likud-led, Republican-backed, belligerent, separatist direction it’s going in – you can’t have both.
American, Israeli, whoever’s interested – you have to choose.
I take it this guy wants Israel to surrender? Typical lib. No balls.
If they’re somehow driven from the Holy Land, we should give them a homeland along the U.S./Mexico border. That’ll keep illegal immigration to a minimum.
While the article deserves the barf alert, I do think that Bibi and Sarah would get on famously if that ever came to pass.
That article needs an OFFEN JUDEN ALERT!
From the ovens to the JPost offices!
Israel is an exception to history, whether one believes in G*d’s contract with the Jews or not.
America is also an exception to history. Unfortunately, Israel and America go separate and very divergent ways after the “exceptional” factor is noted.
Israel is socialist, and so, far, America isn’t.
But, America is denying the nature of Islam, which Churchill made clear back in 1899. For those who forgot that Executive Summary, here it is:
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.
The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the infence of the religion paralyzes the social development of those who follow it.
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.
It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.”
Sir Winston Churchill (The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50, London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899).
GladesGuru, nice post. I do have to take one offense to task though. Our nation is entrenched in Socialism at this very moment. It’s also quite deep in Fascism.
Redistribution of wealth is rampant here, and with Obama the federal government now manages over 50% of the private sector from January 2009.
He tells Wall Street, Banks, and Corporations who they can hire and who they fire. He also tells them what salaries they can pay. He also tells them which cars they can make. And now he is in full control of our health care system.
This guy is a Fascist, on top of everything else.
If Obama thought he could get away with it, he would unleash our military and forcibly remove Israel from the map. And I am only slightly exaggerating.
Israel better pray that we have a major electoral shift to the right (which is the real center of this country) in 2010, and even more importantly in 2012. Neither country will survive a second (lame duck) Obama term.
Thanks for the complement - I’m glad you liked it.
I live in the center of America’s largest ecosocialist project, so I am aware of the amount of socialism in America. I should have more clearly noted I meant acceptance of socialism in America.
We are very infested with many aspects of collectivism, but they have largely been accepted by a population that was either inattentive or unaware. The “Sleeping Giant” is awakening.
I suspect what he sees will not make him a happy giant. Obama and the other collectivists know this. Therefore, I fear a last “Hail Mary” move by the enemy.
I so hope I am wrong.
Thanks for the complement - I’m glad you liked it.
I live in the center of America’s largest ecosocialist project, so I am aware of the amount of socialism in America. I should have more clearly noted I meant acceptance of socialism in America.
We are very infested with many aspects of collectivism, but they have largely been accepted by a population that was either inattentive or unaware. The “Sleeping Giant” is awakening.
I suspect what he sees will not make him a happy giant. Obama and the other collectivists know this. Therefore, I fear a last “Hail Mary” move by the enemy.
I so hope I am wrong.
Thank you for your response. I’m glad we do see some of the same problems.
Well, I am waiting for President Sarah.
This author seems like he’s from the same school of supposed Zionist thinking where we find the likes of Malik Shabazz.
Who the hell is this guy? He sounds like a self-loathing moron.
> Who the hell is this guy? He sounds like a self-loathing moron.
I can tell you that he is exactly what he appears to be. Larry Derfner is a barking moonbat extreme leftist of the highest order. When my brother worked alongside him at the Jerusalem Post, he knew the guy was completely hopeless.
I’ve never met him personally, however.
He must love zero because zero hates Jews.
Why is he even allowed to be at the Jerusalem Post?
Why is he even allowed to be at the Jerusalem Post?
You will find that question asked multiple times in the comments to each of his repulsive opinions.
Israeli press and media have a strange exaggerated notion of the concept of Free Speech. Where in the United States we understand that the idea is that the Government can’t prohibit speech, they believe that all views - particularly traitorous opinion- should be presented affirmatively.
The first thing is to get Obama and his trolls out of power..I do hope we live long enough to see this little commie get his..Obama is a cancer on our country like most Cancers we can cure..Watch the borders and do not let another illegal pass even if the criminals in the white house says they can...Make them scared to step a foot into this country..
There are certain people I don’t understand. They support leaders or movements who or that have direct negative impact on their own lives and the lives of people they love.
When he starts off tossing out the term ‘occupation’, you know the guy is in a death spiral.
Look at what happened when the Gaza strip was turned over the occupants, for self-rule. In short order terrorists were in charge and missiles were flying into Israel. And since then there have been attempts to run the Egyptian border and the sea blockade, set up to make sure arms were not being smuggled in.
This isn’t about occupation or self-rule or anything, other than the continued existence of Israel, namely that it can’t be allowed to by the Arabs.
If Israel relaxed it’s controls on Gaza and the West Bank, they would be armed to the teeth like Southern Lebanon in a matter of months.
Yes, he is a moron. No doubt about it.
There are stupid Jews and/or Israelis just like there are stupid Methodists, Catholics, Sikhs, and atheists, etc..
This idiot isn’t even a very good writer. The JP needs to dump him NOW.
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