Posted on 05/18/2009 5:30:21 PM PDT by Iam1ru1-2
By what reasoning has the administration decided that pushing Israel to permit a new Palestinian state would -- in any way -- diminish the threat from Iran? Do they believe that Iran's (or I should say the Iranian leadership's) genocidal hostility toward Israel is the result of lack of progress toward an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza? … President Obama has sent abundant signals that his foreign policy is 50 percent wishful thinking and 50 percent leftwing mush. There may not be any easy answers to the problem of a nuclear Iran. But pressuring Israel to take suicidal risks is clearly the worst possible approach. Iran will conclude, as its proxies Hezbollah and Hamas at various times concluded, that force and the threat of force work.
God says: “I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem. On that day when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves. … On that day I will make the leaders of Jerusalem like a firepot in a woodpile, like a flaming torch among sheaves. They will consume right and left all the surrounding peoples, but Jerusalem will remain intact in her place.” ( Zechariah 12:2-3, 6).
The Jerusalem Connection says: The pressure on Prime Minister Netanyahu to agree to the folly of a two-state solution is going to be relentless and intense. The two-state solution calls for nothing less than the incremental suicide of Israel. If however, Israel refuses to commit suicide, the God of Israel “will subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes.” Meanwhile, what should Christian Zionists do? “For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, for Jerusalem’s sake I will not remain quiet. … You who call on the name of the LORD, give yourselves no rest, and give Him no rest till He establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of all the earth.” (Isaiah 62:1, 6-7).
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By what reasoning has the administration decided that pushing Israel to permit a new Palestinian state would -- in any way -- diminish the threat from Iran? Do they believe that Iran's (or I should say the Iranian leadership's) genocidal hostility toward Israel is the result of lack of progress toward an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza? ... President Obama has sent abundant signals that his foreign policy is 50 percent wishful thinking and 50 percent leftwing mush.
it’s worse than that: by putting progress on the Pali/Israeli front as a supposedly enticing reason for Iran to stop its nuclear program (patently ridiculous), Obama is setting Israel up. if progress isn’t made on the Pali front, then progress can’t be made with Iran — and who will be at fault: Israel, of course. Bibi sees the trap, fortunately. no dice, O.
Great summation.
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