Posted on 06/01/2012 2:29:32 PM PDT by TrueKnightGalahad
Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak has done it again. …Barak warned that if Israel can't cut a deal with the Palestinians soon, it should consider surrendering Judea and Samaria in exchange for nothing. Even the diehard leftists in the media had a hard time swallowing his words…. _________________________________________________________
US President Barack Obama's policies are just as irrational....
The place where this irrationality is displayed most prominently today is in Obama's policy regarding Iran. As Michael Singh rightly noted, under Obama, US policy towards Iran is based on the view, "that at the root of the Iran nuclear crisis is US-Iran conflict, and that the root cause of that conflict is mistrust." This view is pure fantasy....
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Obama's Syria policy is not only a product of his fantasy-based policy towards Iran. It is also a consequence of his fantasy-based policy towards Turkey…. In Obama's fantasy world, Erdogan is a great ally of the US.
Lo and behold, the opposition Erdogan established was dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood. ... As a result, today we are faced with the grim reality that the world might be safer leaving Assad alone than in intervening to overthrow him.
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So according to Barak and his associates, to prevent Israel's isolation by securing US support, Israel ought to ignore the lessons of the Lebanon withdrawal, the phony peace process with the PLO, and the withdrawal from Gaza and move full speed ahead with policies that will make it impossible to defend the country.
As for the US, to win the support of Europe, Iran and Turkey, Obama has adopted policies that enable Iran to become a nuclear power, make Assad the most attractive leader in Syria, empower the most anti-American forces in Turkey and pressure Israel to renounce its right and ability to defend itself.
(Excerpt) Read more at jewishworldreview.com ...
PS: Sorry for the heavy excerpting - Caroline makes so many good points, it was hard to decide what to include and what to leave for further reading. The whole article is well worth the time.
Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak... warned that if Israel can't cut a deal with the Palestinians soon, it should consider surrendering Judea and Samaria in exchange for nothing. Even the diehard leftists in the media had a hard time swallowing his words...
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