Friday, March 26, 2010
Including Jimmy Carter. Here are some lnks:
Legal Insurrection: It's 3 a.m. and the Prime Minister of Israel is Calling:
...The enemies of Israel -- who just so happen to be the enemies of the United States -- will be emboldened. Iran, Syria, Hamas, Hezbollah, al-Aksa Martyrs Brigade, Islamic Jihad, al-Qaeda and their compatriots are smiling right now, and preparing for war.
The left-wing academics, bloggers and NGO lawyers are dusting off their computer keyboards for renewed attempts to delegitimize Israel, and the despots who run the UN Human Rights Council are preparing new anti-Israel resolutions.
Our President does not realize that by trying to impose his peace on his terms he is increasing the likelihood of war. A sense of Israeli encirclement and a need to strike first because of uncertainty led to the 1967 war...[More.]
Via Lynn, from The Australian: Obama's anti-Israeli hysteria dangerous and destructive:
BARACK Obama's anti-Israel jihad is one of the most irresponsible policy lurches by any modern American president. It rightly earns Obama the epithet of the US president least sympathetic to Israel in Israel's history. Jimmy Carter became a great hater of Israel, but only after he left office...
Power Line fisks the AP: The Moral High Ground (there's something refreshing about an old-fashioned fisking), and discusses Israeli public opinion: Obama fools nine percent of Israeli Jews.
Rich Lowry calls it The Coming Europeanization of American Foreign Policy
...Like the Europeans, Obama is adopting the Arab narrative of the Middle East, wherein Israeli perfidy is responsible for all that ails the region. The administration's broadsides against the Jewish state could have been delivered by Finnish foreign minister Alexander Stubb, who's always up for a good chiding of the nasty Israelis.
The Europeans congratulate themselves on the realism of their "evenhandedness." But it is the realpolitik of weakness. It heaps scorn on an embattled outpost of the West while appeasing the terror states and tin-pot dictators that assail it...
Walter Russell Mead has another thoughtful piece: Settling Zion, he understates the degree to which continued building maintains the pressure for the other side to get to the table already. Sadat's vision of Israeli creation of facts on the ground is what brought him over.
Finally (for now), here's video of Ralph Peters (from Media Matters. ha)
[Update: Obama's full-court press on Israel.
"Our President does not realize that by trying to impose his peace on his terms he is increasing the likelihood of war. A sense of Israeli encirclement and a need to strike first because of uncertainty led to the 1967 war." from the Legal Insurrection blog
A succinct and illuminating encapsulation indeed.
Well that's the bottom line isn't it.
I am all for the 2-state solution but I think this is counterproductive and likelier to harden positions which isn't at all what we should be doing imo.
I think we should be trying to bring people closer, face to face and finding common ground for cooperation and peaceful interaction including businesses and cultural exchange programs etc.
The possibility of violence is very frightening. 3 people were killed today, 2 IDF soldiers and a Palestinian.
That's the wrong direction isn't it?
Come on!!! Who is surprised about this?!?!? The warning signs were there during the presidential race. Can you say 'Jeremiah Wright'? No one could spend that much time in his church, listen to his rants against the 'JEWS', and then claim to be a friend and ally of Israel. For shame on Obama, and more so on the people who voted for him. You reap what you sow (to the dismay of the Israeli people).
I agree Deb. Obamas claim that after being a congregant in the Racist Wright Church of Hate, for 20 years no less, that he, Obama, never heard any anti-American, anti-semetic, anti-white hate sermons by Racist Wright, never heard other congregants recap a sermon, never read any ravings in the church bulletin, is a bit hard to believe.
If that were true, then Obama is too stupid to be any sort of elected official, OR Obama was lying.
Normally it's bad to be caught lying during the campaign, but the MSM was hypnotized, like Chris Matthews.
I do hope Obama is a one-term President.