Posted by
Jay Noble on Thursday, March 25, 2010 5:08:46 PM
Barack Obama is more than simply a disaster on the domestic front. While attention has been focused on the health care debate, Obama has practically declared war on Israel, which is merely our oldest and most reliable ally in the Middle East. The bombast directed by the administration toward Israel would almost cause one to think that a Moslem was heading the United States.
One false premise of the Obama policy is that the United States must appear as an even broker between the parties. The United States can never be an even broker between barbarian regimes which behead infidels and stone woman and a democratically elected, Western oriented and kindred state by religion. Attempts to do so smack of deception or spinelessness, or worst, both, which is how most Arabs and Palestinians view Obama. Arab culture respects strength and no amount of apologizing, groveling and speechifying can substitute for firm, uncompromising support for Israel and condemnation for radicals and terrorists. No one trusts or respects a leader who will turn on a friendly nation on the weakest of pretexts in the futile hope of appeasing folks who history have shown to never take "yes" for an answer. Palestinians and Arabs want Jews dead and Israel gone. That's the hard truth and not acknowledging it is an impediment to clear thinking leading to sound policy. The only to convince them that there desire to destroy Israel must be abandoned is to make it perfectly clear that the United States backs the Jewish states 100% and will support it in eliminating, root and branch, those terrorist organizations which choose to attack it. Blatantly taking the side of the Palestinians does not promote negotiation or peace; far from it, it promotes Palestinian obstruction and misbehavior. Obama and his team cannot be so stupid or incompetent as to not recognize this fact.
The real gravamen of Obama's beef with Israel is that it has not yielded to the One's wishes. As I've said before, Obama is an authoritarian who is contemptuous of opposition. How dare those Jews defy the One! American foreign policy toward Israel is directed by personal pique more than rational calculation of national interest.
I'm convinced that Obama's animus toward Israel influences his approach toward Iran acquiring a nuclear weapons capacity. That the administration has delayed, weakened, and generally dithered in doing anything substantive to prevent Iran from acquiring that capability is obvious. I think Obama in his heart wants Iran to have the bomb to equalize matters with Israel. That such a desire is insanity is beside the point; we are talking about a man whose mentality and attitudes are that of a Moslem chieftain. Obama will not be the least bit unhappy if and when Iran gets a bomb.
Barack Obama has one objective in foreign policy: weaken American influence and power in the world. I'd say in that he is being remarkably successful.