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Obama Default Mode: Blame Israel
Townhall.com ^ | December 9, 2011 | Mona Charen

Posted on 12/09/2011 5:11:31 AM PST by Kaslin

After a two-hour meeting in Cairo, Khaled Mashaal, unelected leader of Hamas, and Mahmoud Abbas, unelected leader of the Palestinian Authority, were all smiles. "We want to assure our people and the Arab and Islamic world that we have turned a major new and real page in partnership on everything to do with the Palestinian nation," Mashaal announced. "There are no more differences between us now," agreed Abbas.

In other words, the "moderate" Abbas is now a full partner with the leader of an organization whose charter is committed not just to the destruction of Israel but also to the elimination of all Jews everywhere. This is the same Abbas who forfeited whatever slim claim he held to a moderate status by declining to accept Israel as a Jewish state, refusing to engage in direct negotiations with Israel (as recently as last week chief Palestinian Authority negotiator Saeb Erekat declined a Quartet request to sit down with the Israelis), and flouting the Oslo Accords by going to the United Nations to demand recognition. Now, he is formally partnered with a genocidal, Islamist organization. But the Obama administration thinks Israel is the problem.

Meanwhile, in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood won 40 percent of the vote in parliamentary elections, while another 25 percent went to Salafi forces. The Salafis regard the Muslim Brotherhood as squishes. Sheik Abdel Moneim el-Shahat, leader of the Salafis, is scornful of the Muslim Brotherhood for talking about citizenship and freedom outside the strictures of Islamic law. El-Shahat is not so broad-minded. "I want to say: citizenship restricted by Islamic Shariah, freedom restricted by Islamic Shariah, equality restricted by Islamic Shariah." So two-thirds of the Egyptian electorate support candidates who will find Hamas utterly congenial. But the Obama administration is dismayed by Israel.

In Syria, the regime's brutal massacres of peaceful protesters continue. The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, said this week "We are placing the figure at 4,000. But the information coming to us is that it's much more." Guess who the Obama administration is angry at?

In Turkey, the Islamist party won a huge victory in June, permitting the government to crack down on opposition voices (jailing hundreds of critics) and move the once-Western oriented Muslim country more firmly in the direction of an Islamist state. Turkey has also noisily supported Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria and Islamists in other Muslim nations.

Inexorably, Iran continues its march toward nuclear weapons.

The Muslim world is in turmoil, and so far, the results do not bode well for peace, democracy or development. But what worries the Obama administration? Israel.

Twice in the past week, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has declared that a military attack on Iran's nuclear capabilities would do more harm than good. This is a signal not just that the Obama administration (its promises never to permit an Iranian bomb notwithstanding) has no intention of using force to prevent Iran from going nuclear, but also that it seeks to prevent Israel from acting. Panetta also dispensed advice to Israel, snapping, "Get back to the damn table," as if Israel, not the Palestinian Authority, were the party boycotting negotiations. It is Israel's responsibility, the defense secretary implied, that the region is becoming ever more radicalized and that Israel's formerly cordial relations with Egypt and Turkey are fraying. Repairing to the favorite expression of those with nothing on the line, Panetta demanded that Israel "take risks."

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also managed to put a finger in the eye of the region's lone democracy. Speaking to a Brookings Institution gathering, Clinton expressed dismay about Israel's treatment of women. She had read a Washington Post column suggesting that some Israeli busses in ultra Orthodox neighborhoods were sex segregated, forcing women to sit in the back. Clinton fumed that it reminded her of Rosa Parks and Iran. She failed to mention that the issue has already been litigated in Israel. The High Court has declared sex segregation illegal. But why acknowledge the workings of a vibrant democracy when you can posture about Rosa Parks?

In Belgium, Ambassador Howard Gutman suggested that Arab anti-Semitism springs from the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. He later insisted his comments were "taken the wrong way."

Speaking to potential Jewish donors, President Obama preened, "I try not to pat myself too much on the back, but this administration has done more for the security of the state of Israel than any previous administration." Both clauses of that sentence are priceless.


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Israel
KEYWORDS: navipillay

1 posted on 12/09/2011 5:11:31 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Hillary is worried about an Israeli bus where women segregate thamselves of their own volition,while not bothering about the Saudi’s where they are pusnished for driving a car.

Panetta wants Israel at a table that has been set for the last 50 years and cannot get anything done.

Obama and the rest of the world ignore Iran when it builds a nuke they have said flat out they intend to destroy Israel with.They forget that Israel is just the firt target of crazed Muslim mental defectives.


2 posted on 12/09/2011 5:25:30 AM PST by Venturer
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To: Kaslin

“Blame Israel”

That’s what those brilliant, really-really smart,
all-knowing Progressive geniuses do.

IMHO


3 posted on 12/09/2011 5:28:49 AM PST by ripley
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To: Kaslin

When will the three and a half years of peace end as O’Bummer betrays them..... Just prior to the next elections!


4 posted on 12/09/2011 5:29:55 AM PST by tired&retired
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To: Kaslin
Barack Hussein Obama is the affirmative action Adolf Hitler. He had the hysterical crowds at his presidential run, reminiscent of Hitler along with possibly being not from America yet ruling it as Adolf Hitler was not from Germany but wound up ruling it. However, as an affirmative action Adolf Hitler, BHO is something of a weak copy. While both Hitler and Obama had a mighty speaking voice, Hitler would not have needed a teleprompter. At least some of Hitler's public works were not boondoggles. He did build the autobahn, which was a success unlike BHO's Solyndra. While Hitler killed millions of Jews by himself, Obama, as is his want, leads the attempted destruction of the nearly six million Jews in Israel from behind. Obama wants Iran to lead the destruction of the nearly six million Jews in Israel.

Obama gave Iran a sophisticated drone plane, perhaps to offset the effective sabatoge that Israel was doing to Iran's nuclear program. As the affirmative action Adolf Hitler, Obama is a pale copy of the real thing and far more incompetent

5 posted on 12/09/2011 5:47:06 AM PST by Stepan12
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To: Stepan12

You cannot blame Obama for this. Everyone with a mind knows what he is going to do. Heck, he telegraphs it.

There is only one person to blame for the destroy Israel movement; the Progressive American Jew. They sold their religion, they sold their Zionism to the highest bidders in the Communist party for a piece of gold.

They took for themselves and sold out their people. In a way, looking at it more carefully, they did exactly what George Soros did.

And in 2012 they will once again spend thousands of dollars on the Commie in the White House, just so they can get their piece of gold.

As a Jew and a Zionist, I am ashamed.


6 posted on 12/09/2011 6:26:11 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (To fix government, we need a rocket scientist. Oh, wait we have one!)
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7 posted on 12/09/2011 4:31:54 PM PST by SJackson (Haven't changed the environment, just take a bath. Eat a piece of chocolate. You need one. Michelle)
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