WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE…
July 13, 2009 by yipbop · Leave a Comment
As if Israel did not have enough problems dealing with terrorism surrounding this tiny country and the scrutiny of the international community trying to undermine and prevent it from defending itself, we have now an Obama administration which in less than 100 days has forthrightly adopted the negotiating position of Arabs vis-à-vis Israel. Why I keep rehashing on Obama’s stand toward Israel, very simply, because facts on the ground speak loudly about his rebuke of the only democratic country in the Middle East, as opposed to his soft and partnering stand with the Islamic world.
For starters, we have seen the escalating pressure that Barack Hussein Obama and his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, has been putting on Israel to stop settlement construction, including for normal growth, in fact parroting Palestinian authority’s President Abbas, who has proclaimed that “peace talks” will not take place unless the Jewish people beyond the green line, are not only prevented from having babies or marrying, but they are expected to be evicted from Judea and Samaria, thus making these territories judenrein.
Obama’s apparent and overt alliance with the Arab world, including his apologetic speech delivered recently in Cairo, deliberately ignored past terrorism and Jihadist conflicts perpetrated against Israel as a result of the defunct Oslo agreement in spite of Israel’s continuous gestures toward peace. This so-called “staunch ally” is also ignoring the writings in the PA’s and Hamas covenants, their media incitement and Imams’ brainwashing tactics preaching that Palestine was stolen from them and that Israel has no right whatsoever to even an inch of the land.
Obama’s stand and Middle East policies against Israel including his soft talk on Iran have major Jewish leaders in the U.S. worried. For example, in his recent speech in Cairo, Obama spoke of Palestinian “resistance” a term that can only be translated into Israel being an illegal occupier, followed by equating the Palestinian “struggle” with Black South Africans during apartheid, in fact confirming the Arab allegation that Israel is a racist, apartheid state. To add salt to the wound, Obama also proclaimed that the Jewish homeland came about with the tragic history of the Holocaust, either deliberately or naively disregarding Jewish historical, cultural and biblical roots to Israel for thousands of years. All in all, Obama’s apparent evenhandedness between Islamic entities such as the PA and Hamas and Israel’s struggle for survival is quite disconcerting and worrisome.
We are stuck with a President of the U.S. who is kowtowing to hostile and terrorist entities and who refuses to call evil by its name. In the meantime, the clock is ticking quickly and Iran is continuing its deadly path toward producing nuclear weaponry. As Obama’s shocking offense to Israel and the Jewish people in general is becoming more prominent and dangerous, it is obvious that Israel’s survival and future hinges on taking its decisions on national security into its own hands.
OBAMA’S TRUE COLORS
Since this writer has been away for the past two weeks, several events have struck the cord in Israel’s world affairs. First, and foremost, the much anticipated speech delivered by Barack Hussein Obama, the President of the U.S. to the Islamic world. In parallel to his recent greeting of the King of Saudi Arabia with a full bow in April, 2009, he again duplicated this bow through placating words to extremist Islamists of the world by offering a display of absurd apologies. In his clearly anti-Israel discourse, Barak Hussein Obama put the onus of the Middle East conflict on Israel’s unabated building of settlements in Judea and Samaria, discounting the road map which justly demands that the Palestinian authority disband terrorism on its turf and eliminate incitement and hatred of the Jewish state, something they have never bothered doing. Although proclaiming himself a Christian, he confessed his father’s and ancestors’ Islamic roots and his Islamic education in Indonesia. Under Islamic law, Barack Hussein Obama should be well aware that if his father is of Islamic faith, he is automatically of this very faith. It was obvious for all to see and hear in his speech in Cairo, where his mind and soul stand for, especially vis-à-vis the fate of Israel. In addition, by proclaiming that the U.S. will never be at war with the Islamic world, he, in essence, gave free reigns to extreme Islamists to continue their theocratic annihilistic warfare against the West.
The other significant news pertains to the speech delivered by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in response to Barack Hussein Obama’s Cairo rhetoric. To somehow soothe U.S. pressure on Israel, this Prime Minister, although politely allowing the notion of a Palestinian State, albeit demilitarized, stood firm on the settlement issue by not “obeying” U.S.’s directive to stop building for natural growth. Another important and overdue clarification to Obama’s false assertion that Israel’s existence was merely due to Holocaust guilt, in fact ignoring the indisputable Israel’s historic roots going back over 3,000 years, Prime Minister Netanyahu asserted to the world that Israel preceded any other religion in the Land of Israel by recalling the ancient kingdoms of David and Salomon and its undeniable legitimacy as the State of the Jewish people.
It is clear that this President Obama is bent on carving an Islamic Palestinian state in the heart of Israel in order to placate the Islamic world, wrongly surmising that it will bring peace. President Hussein Obama should fare well by rather concentrating on the poor state of the U.S. economy, the turmoil taking place in Afghanistan, the nuclear intentions of N. Korea and Iran, and the famine in the world rather than demanding that Israel stop building extra bathrooms or bedrooms to accommodate for natural growth. However, we hope that this new Netanyahu administration will be wise enough to dismiss the U.S.’s pressure and look to its own interest as a sovereign nation in order to safeguard the safety of its citizens rather than serve as a U.S. vassal and a sacrificial lamb to the world.
THE UNABATED PRESSURE ON ISRAEL
May 18, 2009 by yipbop · Leave a Comment
The pressure on Israel continues unabated and even worse than it has been in the past decade. Recently, there was an announcement by the Arab League that if Israel complies with the suicidal Saudi plan that all 57 Muslim states will recognize Israel; mind you, not Israel as a Jewish state, of course. We know what peace means with Muslim countries. Even though Israel has a peace treaty with Egypt, this was a much easier conflict to resolve than with a bogus Palestinian terrorist entity which did not exist prior to 1964, courtesy of the arch-terrorist Arafat. Peace with Israel and Egypt concerned territory, the Sinai, which actually belonged to Egypt prior to the 1967 war. This land actually is not physically within Israel proper. Even so, Middle East expert, Daniel Pipes, regards the Israel-Egypt peace treaty a failure. In fact, Pipes reports that 92% of respondents in a poll of one thousand Egyptians over 18 years of age called Israel an enemy state.
With the phony Palestinian authority, Israel is, without mincing words, threatened by major world players to dismantle Judea, Samaria, Gaza and East Jerusalem from its sovereign state and to make this territory Jew-free, which means casting out hundreds of thousands of Jews from their homes and businesses to become refugees in their own land. Unfortunately, political and intellectual leaders of the Free world lack wisdom and integrity and they only care for their own interests such as uninterrupted sources of cheap oil and political appeasement of Arab countries which number over a billion compared to the measly 13 million Jews. Making any type of deal with such entities such as Hamas and Fatah is a no-win situation. I beg someone to understand what the mentality of these people we are supposed to make peace with is all about. First, in spite of the billions of dollars given to them for the past decade, there hasn’t been any constructive economic or social development, and no vision to create proper institutions and infrastructures for a viable state. Why? Because the prime objective of these Islamist entities is inherent in sharia and jihadist Koranic laws and the defeat of infidels, prominently Jews and Christians.
Rather than being coerced into a two-state final solution, the Netanyahu administration is bringing a proposal to be presented to Barak Hussein Obama on May 18th, 2009 which is a stratagem to avert the suicidal final solution demanded by all leaders. However, given the track record of the large amount of funds given to the PLO in previous occasions, this option, if approved by Obama, will undoubtedly fail on its face. As in the past, any monies meant to build proper infrastructures for a viable Palestinian state will end up instead being used to build cannons and weapons of destruction. The indoctrination of children in these societies to become suicide bombers and to kill Jews for the past decades will not abate with either monies or another Islamic state in Israel. In fact, a Palestinian state within Israel will facilitate and expedite the Jihadist’s goal of controlling all of Israel’s borders for total annihilation.
Mr. Netanyahu does not have to bring alternatives such as building economies to the terrorist entities to Obama. He should remember that he represents not only Jews living in Israel but also those in the Diaspora. He should stand firm to abolish any hint of creating a terrorist state within Israel, explain and educate the U.S. Leaders of the danger inherent in committing such activity, and either continue the alliance with the U.S. on Israel’s terms or leave to govern the Jewish state on its own, which is an ideal alternative, given the circumstances.