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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Mona Charen :: Townhall.com Columnist
Obama's Signal to Israel: Submit
by Mona Charen
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In early April, Vice President Biden was asked if the administration was concerned that Israel might strike at Iran's nuclear facilities. "I don't believe Prime Minister Netanyahu would do that," Mr. Biden replied. "I think he would be ill advised to do that."

A few weeks later, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton explained the administration's solution to the threat of an Iranian bomb: "For Israel to get the kind of strong support it's looking for vis-a-vis Iran, it can't stay on the sideline with respect to the Palestinians and the peace efforts ... they go hand in hand."

And on May 10, National Security Adviser James Jones spelled it out further: "We understand Israel's preoccupation with Iran as an existential threat. We agree with that. ... By the same token, there are a lot of things that you can do to diminish that existential threat by working hard towards achieving a two-state solution."

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? Will the Iranian leadership, which has characterized Israel as a "cancerous tumor," declared that "Israel must we wiped off the map," and promised that "Israel is destined for destruction and will soon disappear" is going to change its mind if Israel enters into negotiations with the Palestinians?

"Obama will be a great friend to Israel." So said a Jewish Democrat in a pre-election debate with me. I asked her whether she had any hesitations about someone who had been steeped in academic pieties and Hyde Park leftwing intellectual fashions, and who had tamely absorbed the Rev. Wright's sermons for 20 years? Her response was to mouth some of the platitudes about support for Israel that were to be found on the Obama campaign's website. I wonder if she is having doubts now. Continued...
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Reply # 1
Date: May 17, 2009 - 5:11 PM EST
Here we go yet again
Somewhere, the world's smallest violin is playing. It's always the "oh the poor Jews" line. Of course, this gives them the right to oppress others (i.e. Palestinians) and declare their racist religion's belief in being the so-called "Chosen people." They can criticize the Pope when he metions the "millions of Holocaust victims" instead of just saying "6 million Jews." Of course, once again it's all about the Jews. Meanwhile, the US is the target of terrorists because of our government's bias towards Israel (getting nothing in return). They know that if you criticize anything about a Jew, you must be a Nazi or skinhead.

Well, unlike this sad-a$$ excuse of an American, I am an America firster. If that makes me a Nazi, I better brush up on my goosestep.

Standshisground: Why does the WORLD care so much about Israel, or more generally, the Jews, or at least devote SPECIAL attention to them, given the fact that there has probably not been any people on this whole earth in the last 3,500 or so years which has suffered more abuse and persecution all over this planet than them?

Israel isn't better than anyone else, you say? Well, GOD says differently, because He made the JEWS the Chosen People and Israel the place of His special abiding on this earth - NOT Peru, NOT South Africa, not even America.
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Reply # 2
Date: May 13, 2009 - 1:28 PM EST
NETANYAHU IS A LEADER!
Natanyahu will do what he thinks necessary to protect his people. He is a leader. quite unlike what represents us currently. Our president's main concern is feeding his huge ego. I fear for our country when our leadership believes the way to deal with people who want to destroy us, is to hold hands and tell them how much we want to get along. He can threaten Netanyahu all he wants but Netanyahu will show him what a leader does. He leads. If BO is a Christian, it must be in name only... because he hasn't read the same Bible I have .This is an incompetent administration in many ways, but especially in foreign policy.
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