Israel's Arab enemies seem to have found kinship within the Obama Administration

Martin Indyk, vice president and director of Foreign Policy at the liberal-leaning Brookings Institution, claimed there is a shift in America's Middle East interests which means that "Netanyahu must make a choice: Take on the president of the United States, or take on his right wing. If he continues to defer to those ministers in his cabinet who oppose peacemaking, the consequences for US-Israel relations could be dire."


This threat came after Biden's rather ungracious visit and, even though Israel apologized, Hillary Clinton publicly rebuked Netanyahu saying that the Israeli government needed to demonstrate not just through words but through actions that they are committed to the peace process. The actions to which she was referring had to do with Israel's announcement of plans to construct 1,600 more Jewish homes in a Jewish neighborhood of East Jerusalem.


It didn't seem to matter that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and that Israel was simply conducting business as usual. Israel has been building in East Jerusalem for the past 40 or so years. It doesn't matter that the Arab muslims already have many countries with much land and that there is only one Israel with its size not much larger than Yakima County.


The Obama Administration felt they had the right to be critical because they had already demanded all construction be stopped by Israel on land they conquered in 1967.


Israel occupied and annexed East Jerusalem during the war of 1967 and has claimed the entire city as theirs with a right to build Jewish homes anywhere in East Jerusalem. Some time after the Palestinians realized how important Jerusalem is to Israel, they decided that Jerusalem had an Islamic identity and they wanted East Jerusalem as their capital. Israel was told that settlements on land claimed by the Palestinian Arabs, including East Jerusalem, are to be recognized. They were told to stop building there because the Palestinians didn't like it; and if they didn't cease their production, then they are the hold-up to peace.

The way to peace would be if Israel's Arab enemies would renounce terrorism and recognize the right of the Jewish state to exist.

The Administration didn't seem to understand that Netanyahu, in response to that demand, had committed only to a partial 10-month freeze that exempted Jerusalem. "There will be no freeze in Jerusalem," the Prime Minister said in an interview, "Jewish construction in Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem is totally, totally a nonstarter."


Nevertheless, in order to make the Palestinians act mature enough to come back and appear sincerely interested in negotiations, the Obama people insisted that Israel must learn to limit themselves when it came to being builders. VP Biden told Israel that they were the ones who needed to "take risks for peace," peace with a people who are unconcerned with peace and want nothing less than Israel's total annihilation.


In spite of ceasefires, terrorists continue to fire missiles into Israel, targeting innocent civilians. Yet America is giving favorability to the Palestinians while insulting our greatest ally.

"Israel opens the border crossings daily, during the fighting, in order to provide basic food ingredients and medication to the civilian population. No one can remember such a gesture in any other war in history, certainly not toward the side that attacks only civilians and repeatedly announces that its only aim is to totally annihilate its opponent. Most of the supplies are captured by the Hamas terrorists and used for their own troops and their flourishing black market, never providing them in an organized way to the population. "UN sources" claim that not enough food is transmitted."  George Friedman

While he is honoring the muslims with curtsies, he repeatedly pressures Israel to make concessions to the Palestinian terrorists who are running Gaza and the West Bank. He said that Jews should not even be allowed to live in certain parts of Jerusalem. Furthermore, he explained that Israel would be unable to remain a Jewish state unless a Palestinian state is formed alongside it.

Mike Huckabee has taken an interest in this conflict and seems to understand the absurdity of demands that America is trying to force upon Israel:

"How would the government of the United States feel if (Israeli) Prime Minister (Benjamin) Netanyahu began to dictate which people could live in the Bronx, which ones could live in Manhattan, which ones could live in Queens and so you know we only allow certain people to live in these neighborhoods. How would that go over? It wouldn't go over very well."

The whole scenario gets very interesting when an irrespressible Chuck Schumer asserts his views:

"I told the President, I told Rahm Emanuel and others in the administration that I thought the policy they took to try to bring about negotiations is counter-productive, because when you give the Palestinians hope that the United States will do its negotiating for them, they are not going to sit down and talk," .... "Palestinians don’t really believe in a state of Israel. They, unlike a majority of Israelis, who have come to the conclusion that they can live with a two-state solution to be determined by the parties, the majority of Palestinians are still very reluctant, and they need to be pushed to get there.


"If the U.S. says certain things and takes certain stands the Palestinians say, 'Why should we negotiate?'"


"Israel apologized and when Biden left, and Biden is the best friend of Israel in the administration [and] everything was fine," ... "But then what happened is the next day Hillary Clinton called up Netanyahu and talked very tough to him, and worse they made it public through this spokesperson, a guy named Crowley. And Crowley said something I have never heard before, which is, the relationship of Israel and the United States depends on the pace of the negotiations."


"That is terrible," .... "That is the dagger because the relationship is much deeper than the disagreements on negotiations, and most Americans—Democrat, Republican, Jew, non-Jew--would feel that. So I called up Rahm Emanuel and I called up the White House and I said, 'If you don’t retract that statement you are going to hear me publicly blast you on this,'"


"You have to show Israel that it’s not going to be forced to do things it doesn’t want to do and can’t do. At the same time you have to show the Palestinians that they are not going to get their way by just sitting back and not giving in, and not recognizing that there is a state of Israel," "And right now there is a battle going on inside the administration, one side agrees with us, one side doesn’t, and we’re pushing hard to make sure the right side wins and if not we’ll have to take it to the next step."

Whatever affects Israel affects the world including America. When America starts sympathizing with the Arab nations and insults our greatest ally, we are entering the boundaries of dangerous territory.

And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee. Genesis 12:3

 

 
 
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