Ronald Wilson Reagan vs. Barack Hussein Obama on Israel: What a contrast

AIPNews.com ^ | May 21, 2011 | Tom and Siena Hoefling

[EternalVigilance]

1970's: Ronald Reagan's warning to Israel not to go back to the '67 borders.

 

[MestaMachine]

Reagan saved arafat and his plo butchers with all of their weapons. Sorry. Words are useless in the face of facts. That act has doomed Israel to decades of terror.

[EternalVigilance]

Nobody ever said he, or all of his policies, were perfect.

You reap what you sow. That’s as true for Reagan as it is for anyone else.

[mojito]

Sadly, 1988 seems like a very long time ago.

See how far we’ve degenerated since then - from firm and resolute commitments clearly spoken to a craven moral equivalence that doesn’t bother to distinguish friend from foe.

[EternalVigilance]

Absolutely.

[scooby321]

The last Republican to carry the Jewish vote.

[EternalVigilance]

A very interesting and important point.

[thecodont]

The last Republican to carry the Jewish vote.

I remember (1984) seeing a Reagan T-shirt with "Reagan" written in Hebrew letters.

[EternalVigilance]

[JohnBovenmyer]

Arafat and his PLO butchers were backed by the USSR. Reagan was winning the Cold War, but his victory wasn't finalized until GHWB's term. Reagan was prioritizing, and properly so! Once the USSR fell Arafat lost his Soviet nuclear umbrella. It was probably prudent not to push that fact too quickly onto a newly freed Russia we were trying to remake into a friend. The first muslim nuke came in 1998, although Pakistan had been working on them for decades and was then focused on India rather than Israel. Arafat's main defence, post Cold War, was OPEC's oil power and leftist supporters through out Europe and the US. Hardly Reagan's fault.

Reagan did his share of the heavy lifting, solving the biggest problem the world then faced, and left a splendid example of how to resolve the smaller problems he left for his successors. Blame them, not Reagan, for what hasn't been mopped up since.

[EternalVigilance]

Amen.

[trisham]

I could almost cry.

[EternalVigilance]

I know exactly what you mean.

[Hardraade]

That’s delusional. The truth is that Reagan was hiring poisonous antisemites right and left, some of them were even on Stormfront while camping out in the White House.

Lots of maneuvering, and *certainly* not in the interest of befriending Russia.

[Ragnar54]

No point in comparing Obama to Reagan. The gap is too great.

It is more instructive to compare Obama to Osama. Osama promised, Obama delivered (to the Muslims).

[Hardraade]

Stormfront and WH: I give you Bob Whitaker.

http://www.whitakeronline.org/

[Just mythoughts]

While I was greatly disappointed there was not a crater left for the Marines slaughter in Lebanon, I do agree NONE in elected politics since understood from where Reagan was coming from in his stand against the bloody commies.

[Iron Munro]

Only 6 million Jews in Israel and a total of 12 million in the entire world versus 1.4 billion bloodthirsty, regressive muslims.

The Jewish people have made some of the most important and beneficial scientific and medical breakthroughs.

The muslims developed the bomb belt and pioneered the use of children as suicide bombers.

The Jews in Israel just want secure borders and to be left alone.

The muslims want to kill all the Jews in Israel, then they will finish the job on the others spread around the world.

So which group does the closet muslim in the White House back with the military and economic might of the US?

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