Posted on 02/26/2015 5:01:50 PM PST by SJackson
Netanyahu is coming to Washington next week because Obama has left him no choice.
It is hard to get your arms around the stubborn determination of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today. For most of the nine years he has served as Israel’s leader, first from 1996 to 1999 and now since 2009, Netanyahu shied away from confrontations or buckled under pressure. He signed deals with the Palestinians he knew the Palestinians would never uphold in the hopes of winning the support of hostile US administrations and a fair shake from the pathologically hateful Israeli media.
In recent years he released terrorist murderers from prison. He abrogated Jewish property rights in Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria. He agreed to support the establishment of a Palestinian state west of the Jordan River. He agreed to keep giving the Palestinians of Gaza free electricity while they waged war against Israel. He did all of these things in a bid to accommodate US President Barack Obama and win over the media, while keeping the leftist parties in his coalitions happy.
For his part, for the past six years Obama has undermined Israel’s national security. He has publicly humiliated Netanyahu repeatedly.
He has delegitimized Israel’s very existence, embracing the jihadist lie that Israel’s existence is the product of post-Holocaust European guilt rather than 4,000 years of Jewish history.
He and his representatives have given a backwind to the forces that seek to wage economic warfare against Israel, repeatedly indicating that the application of economic sanctions against Israel – illegal under the World Trade Organization treaty – are a natural response to Israel’s unwillingness to bow to every Palestinian demand. The same goes for the movement to deny the legitimacy of Israel’s very existence. Senior administration officials have threatened that Israel will become illegitimate if it refuses to surrender to Palestinian demands.
Last summer, Obama openly colluded with Hamas’s terrorist war against Israel. He tried to coerce Israel into accepting ceasefire terms that would have amounted to an unconditional surrender to Hamas’s demands for open borders and the free flow of funds to the terrorist group. He enacted a partial arms embargo on Israel in the midst of war. He cut off air traffic to Ben-Gurion International Airport under specious and grossly prejudicial terms in an open act of economic warfare against Israel.
And yet, despite Obama’s scandalous treatment of Israel, Netanyahu has continued to paper over differences in public and thank Obama for the little his has done on Israel’s behalf. He always makes a point of thanking Obama for agreeing to Congress’s demand to continue funding the Iron Dome missile defense system (although Obama has sought repeatedly to slash funding for the project).
Obama’s policies that are hostile to Israel are not limited to his unconditional support for the Palestinians in their campaign against Israel. Obama shocked the entire Israeli defense community when he supported the overthrow of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, despite Mubarak’s dependability as a US ally in the war on Islamist terrorism, and as the guardian of both Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel and the safety and freedom of maritime traffic in the Suez Canal.
Obama supported Mubarak’s overthrow despite the fact that the only political force in Egypt capable of replacing him was the Muslim Brotherhood, which seeks the destruction of Israel and is the ideological home and spawning ground of jihadist terrorist groups, including al-Qaida and Hamas. Obama then supported the Muslim Brotherhood’s regime even as then-president Mohamed Morsi took concrete steps to transform Egypt into an Islamist, jihadist state and end Egypt’s peace with Israel.
Israelis were united in our opposition to Obama’s behavior. But Netanyahu said nothing publicly in criticism of Obama’s destructive, dangerous policy.
He held his tongue in the hopes of winning Obama over through quiet diplomacy.
He held his tongue, because he believed that the damage Obama was causing Israel was not irreversible in most cases. And it was better to maintain the guise of good relations, in the hopes of actually achieving them, than to expose the fractures in US-Israel ties caused by Obama’s enormous hostility toward Israel and by his strategic myopia that endangered both Israel and the US’s other regional allies.
And yet, today Netanyahu, the serial accommodator, is putting everything on the line. He will not accommodate. He will not be bullied. He will not be threatened, even as all the powers that have grown used to bringing him to his knees – the Obama administration, the American Jewish Left, the Israeli media, and the Labor party grow ever more shrill and threatening in their attacks against him.
As he has made clear in daily statements, Netanyahu is convinced that we have reached a juncture in our relations with the Obama administration where accommodation is no longer possible.
Obama’s one policy that Netanyahu has never acquiesced to either publicly or privately is his policy of accommodating Iran.
Since Obama’s earliest days in office, Netanyahu has warned openly and behind closed doors that Obama’s plan to forge a nuclear deal with Iran is dangerous. And as the years have passed, and the lengths Obama is willing to go to appease Iran’s nuclear ambitions have been left their marks on the region, Netanyahu’s warnings have grown stronger and more urgent.
Netanyahu has been clear since his first tenure in office in the 1990s, that Iran’s nuclear program – as well as its ballistic missile program – constitutes a threat to Israel’s very existence. He has never wavered from his position that Israel cannot accept an Iran armed with nuclear weapons.
Until Obama entered office, and to an ever escalating degree since his reelection in 2012, preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons has been such an obvious imperative among both Israelis and Americans that Netanyahu’s forthright rejection of any nuclear deal in which Iran would be permitted to maintain the components of its nuclear program was uncontroversial. In some Israeli circles, his trenchant opposition to Iran’s acquisition of nuclear capabilities was the object of derision, with critics insisting that he was standing strong on something uncontroversial while buckling on issues like negotiations with the Palestinians, where he should have stood strong.
But now we are seeing that far from being an opportunist, Netanyahu is a leader of historical dimensions. For the past two years, in the interest of reaching a deal, Obama has enabled Iran to take over Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen. For the first time since 1974, due to Obama’s policies, the Golan Heights is an active front in the war against Israel, with Iranian military personnel commanding Syrian and Hezbollah forces along the border.
Iran’s single-minded dedication to its goal of becoming a regional hegemon and its commitment to its ultimate goal of destroying the US is being enabled by Obama’s policies of accommodation. An Iran in possession of a nuclear arsenal is an Iran that can not only destroy Israel with just one or two warheads. It can make it impossible for Israel to respond to conventional aggression carried out by terrorist forces and others operating under an Iranian nuclear umbrella.
Whereas Israel can survive Obama on the Palestinian front by stalling, waiting him out and placating him where possible, and can even survive his support for Hamas by making common cause with the Egyptian military and the government of President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, the damage Obama’s intended deal with Iran will cause Israel will be irreversible. The moment that Obama grants Iran a path to a nuclear arsenal – and the terms of the agreement that Obama has offered Iran grant Iran an unimpeded path to nuclear power – a future US administration will be hard-pressed to put the genie back in the bottle.
For his efforts to prevent irreparable harm to Israel Netanyahu is being subjected to the most brutal and vicious attacks any Israeli leader has ever been subjected to by an American administration and its political allies. They are being assisted in their efforts by a shameless Israeli opposition that is willing to endanger the future of the country in order to seize political power.
Every day brings another serving of abuse. Wednesday National Security Adviser Susan Rice accused Netanyahu of destroying US relations with Israel. Secretary of State John Kerry effectively called him a serial alarmist, liar, and warmonger.
For its part, the Congressional Black Caucus reportedly intends to sabotage Netanyahu’s address before the joint houses of Congress by walking out in the middle, thus symbolically accusing of racism the leader of the Middle East’s only liberal democracy, and the leader of the most persecuted people in human history.
Radical leftist representatives who happen to be Jewish, like Jan Schakowsky of suburban Chicago and Steve Cohen of Memphis, are joining Netanyahu’s boycotters in order to give the patina of Jewish legitimacy to an administration whose central foreign policy threatens the viability of the Jewish state.
As for Netanyahu’s domestic opponents, their behavior is simply inexcusable. In Israel’s hour of peril, just weeks before Obama intends to conclude his nuclear deal with the mullahs that will endanger Israel’s existence, Labor leader Yitzhak Herzog insists that his primary duty is to defeat Netanyahu.
And as far as Iran is concerned, he acts as a free loader ad a spoiler. Either he believes that Netanyahu will succeed in his mission to derail the deal with or without his support, or he doesn’t care. But Herzog’s rejection of Netanyahu’s entreaties that he join him in Washington next week, and his persistent attacks on Netanyahu for refusing accommodate that which cannot be accommodated shows that he is both an opportunist and utterly unworthy of a leadership role in this country.
Netanyahu is not coming to Washington next Tuesday to warn Congress against Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran, because he seeks a fight with Obama. Netanyahu has devoted the last six years to avoiding a fight with Obama, often at great cost to Israel’s national security and to his own political position.
Netanyahu is coming to Washington next week because Obama has left him no choice. And all decent people of good will should support him, and those who do not, and those who are silent, should be called out for their treachery and cowardice.
LOL ... you may be a little short on understanding this thing yourself ... :-) ...
No, not really.
I Pray one day you and Bibi get to meet :)
Oh, I’d faint or fall over and drop dead, right on the spot.
Bibi is my HERO!
“Oh, I’d faint or fall over and drop dead, right on the spot.
Bibi is my HERO!”
The fact that he oozes masculinity is another factor in his favor IMHO.
:-)
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Smiling. You’re right about THAT, too!
You know his Older Brother who was killed during the raid on Entebbe was Yonatan Netanyahu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yonatan_Netanyahu
Who was named for John Henry Patterson, Famed Killer of the Tsavo Man-eaters? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_Patterson_%28author%29
Just a Fun Fact. :)
Yes, I’ve watched the film several times, but didn’t know about the “fun fact.”
If anyone is a prime member on Amazon I highly recommend the documentary ISRAEL: THE ROYAL TOUR. You get to see Bibi in such a human way. He is very funny and gracious. Israel is so blessed to have him as their leader.
We have had a tendency to see Obama's serial crimes and betrayals as separate events and wondered at his incompetence, rather than seeing them as a whole and understanding that he is on the side of the enemy.
We have switched sides in the war on terror. Everything we fought for under Bush has been given back under Obama.
Governments across the middle east have been toppled in an effort to replace them with Muslim Brotherhood. We built ISIS. They have become an embarrassment but even so Obama has done everything he can to protect them, opposing Egypt's attacks on them, and refusing to help Jordan in its attacks on them.
And he is about to make a grand deal with Iran that allows them to keep their nukes in return for.... Iran agreeing to rule the middle east.
Glick's article is not in the least sensationalist. She is one of the few to point out what exactly is happening under Obama.
Netanyahu's visit to congress is nothing out of the ordinary. What is out of the ordinary is the Obama Freak Out over his visit to congress. But when you realize who and what Obama is, its not surprising. Indeed, the Obama Freak Out does us the favor of making who he is, all the more clear.
I can see the possibility that Obama will put Israel’s back to the Iranian wall and Bibi nukes then Iran. Obama is apt to then retaliate in kind against Tel Aviv. The world will know, or at least the leaders will know even as they hide it from their people.
Thanks so much, onyx! This ties in
Re: Prof. Benzion Netanyahu and Netanyahu family background:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2990042/posts?page=24#24
Ecc 7.5. It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools:
Oh, yes, you’re right and that’s from 2013!
Great memory, you.
A country, an ethnic group, cannot defend itself against violent enemies with compromise, restraint, and silence.
Your enemies will correctly believe that you are weak, they will despise you even more, and they will be emboldened.
There are millions of people on this planet who cannot be reasoned with.
You have to scare them to death, or you have to kill them.
There is no middle ground, and never will be.
Israel, and Netanyahu, should have spent the last ten years refining their tactical nukes and their offensive missiles.
Their conventional response against Hamas and Hezbollah should be massive and shockingly violent.
Israel must publicly state it does not care how many innocent citizens it kills - when the missiles stop, when the tunnels stop, when the suicide terror stops, then Israel will stop.
Whenever a country or the UN complains about a “disproportionate response,” immediately double or triple the response, and make it clear that's what will happen EVERY time someone criticizes how Israel defends itself.
If there is an economic boycott, instantly start sinking the ships of any country that signs on and tries to use the Suez Canal.
If a foreign naval fleet attempts to protect the Suez or threatens Israel, give them 24 hours to leave the area before you launch an all out tactical nuclear assault on their ships.
Economically, I guarantee Israel will have a tough year or two.
But when enough people realize Israel will kill ANYBODY who threatens its security and its survival, things will calm down, and slowly become more peaceful.
We are praying for you, Sir.
Speak the truth and speak it boldly!
<>Isaiah 62:1<>
Carolyn Glick always seems to get it, bumping for later,
This article is not sensationalist and is well written and sobering, and to anyone still asleep and who beleives this is merely politics as usual, its time to wake up,
Netanyahu is a man determined to protect and fight for the very survival of his people,
While Obama/Kerry/Clinton/Rice/McCain et al, are as the vain, botoxed, arrogant, deceitful and corrupt leaders of Babylon,
Reprobates one and all, they are devoid of judgement,
When the ‘end of the age’ comes, these are the very kinds of evil carcasses in power over the Earth and opposed to Israel and its continued existence and doing the will of their father (Satan)
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem,
Pray that America wakes up to see what this Obama administration really is and what it truly desires, it has not been foolishly working to this end as if ignorant of the damages its incurring, it is intentionally being a destroyer,
Purim observance begins at sundown tomorrow. The significance of Netanyahu's visit and speech can not be overstated. The Jewish people once again find themselves facing the threat of annihilation by evil men (and women) all around. Amazing how the Lord has orchestrated Bibi's visit ‘for such a time as this’. Prayers...
I think you’re correct in seeing a linkage to Purim, patterns and more patterns repeating, those things ‘written afore time’ are for our learning and admonition as Paul wrote,
Pray for Gods will to be done in these matters, and that he rebuke this great evil at work here,
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