Friday, April 17, 2009
Shocking Photos of Obama and Chavez Surface
Who is next in line--Castro or Ahmadinejad?
America's first Third World-American President, on the heels of bowing submissively to the Saudi tyrant, has grasped the hand of a vicious, antidemocratic, anti-American, anti-Israel, anti-Semitic ally of Iran and North Korea--the crackpot of Caracas--Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
The South American nation's middle class--and endangered Jewish community--would be well advised to find every way possible to emigrate. Like Israel, they cannot count on the United States.
As an American teenager might say: Israel is sooo screwed.
It's a new (third) world.
Of course, Israel is a sovereign state--with a powerful army.
Reuters reports:U.S. President Barack Obama and Venezuela's anti-U.S. leader President Hugo Chavez shook hands on Friday at the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad, the Venezuelan government said.
Photographs released by Venezuela's presidential office showed Chavez, a fierce adversary of Washington policies, smiling and clasping hands with Obama at the start of the summit of Latin American and Caribbean leaders.US Weighing Punishing Israel if it Attacks Iran
Having taken military action against Iran off the table, the Obama administration is considering ways of punishing Israel if it attacks Iran to end its nuclear arms program (and prevent a second Holocaust).
In other words, having failed to contain Iran, the United States is concentrating on restraining Israel.
Administration contingency plans include condemnation of Israel, support for a United Nations Security Council resolution that could include sanctions on Israel, and suspending or seriously cutting military aid to the Jewish State.
One of President Obama's closest foreign policy advisers, National Security Council member Samantha Power, is a proponent of ending military aid to Israel in order to force it to negotiate with Iran's Palestinian Islamist proxy, Hamas, and withdraw from all lands taken during the Six-Day War of June 1967. Power also advocates shifting aid to a Palestinian state. Overall, she views Israel as a liability and a historic mistake, in line with the European left position (and that of old-line, right-of-center, American isolationists and anti-Semites). Her antidemocratic admirers in the Democratic Party's (Hillary-hating) left wing agree and are eager for an opportunity to paint Israel as a Jewish North Korea (although they actually have more sympathy for North Korea than for Israel).
The big question is how the Obama administration would react if Iran retaliated against Israel indirectly as well as directly--by making good on its repeated threats to attack U.S. forces in the Middle East and shut down the strategic, 29 mile-wide Strait of Hormuz, through which an estimated 20% of the world's crude oil is transported by tanker ships. Would the U.S. fight back with real ferocity or respond in a limited way while blaming Israel for preemptively attacking Iran and appealing to "the Muslim world" for "understanding?"
One wonders how the Apologizer-in-Chief would react.
Holocaust-denying Iran and its Lebanese Islamist Shiite proxy, the Hitlerian Hezbollah, have also vowed to "burn Tel Aviv" if attacked by either Israel or the U.S. Jerusalem's clerical fascist foes have amassed arsenals of ballistic missiles and rockets to bombard Tel Aviv and Haifa. Israel's political-military leadership must be taking this into consideration; a "six-hour war," designed to eliminate Iranian missile installations and nuclear sites could be the result.
Three decades of attempts to appease and accommodate Islamist Iran have led to the present countdown to conflict. Obama's so-called diplomatic surge--which transcends appeasement in downgrading and ultimately abandoning Israel in order to try to strike a "grand bargain" with Iran for pacification of the Middle East--has put Jerusalem on a political collision course with Washington.
Israelis are understandably stunned by the developments. Prime Minister Netanyahu's late, great mentor, Menahem Begin, would not recognize today's political landscape; his late, Labor Party rivals--Golda Meir comes to mind--would also be shocked by the situation. Time was, no Israeli expected Iran--a predominantly Muslim, non-Arab ally of the U.S. and tacit ally of Israel--to emerge as the number-one existential threat to the Jewish State.
But that was before the catastrophic Carter administration betrayed Iran's modernizing monarch, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, in a craven, failed attempt to hop aboard the Islamist bandwagon.
Jimmy Carter betrayed the Shah; Barack Obama is betraying Israel--already. His "engagement" drive is giving Iran time to achieve its nuclear/missile objectives.
EDITOR'S NOTE: About Obama's apologizing to the world and bowing to the Saudi King--the left loves it. The more the President apologizes for alleged American arrogance and other supposed sins, the more popular he is with the Democratic Party's left wing. The deeper he bows, the more they appreciate him. The left believes it is high time that America was brought to its knees, forced to submit to the Third World. Like the radical right, the left makes common cause with Islamism in order to cut America down to size and set Israel up for a final solution. Israel is especially despised for its success and power; its defeat is seen as paving the way for the disappearance of the Jews as a people. Like the failed Russian revolutionaries of the late 1800s, the pro-pogrom Norodniki, who sought to ally with Russia's notoriously anti-Semitic peasants, today's left believes that "Jewish blood will oil the wheels of revolution."
Most Jewish Norodniki left the movement because of its anti-Semitism. Will American Jews leave the Democratic Party when the Obama administration's betrayal of Israel becomes too obvious to ignore?New Rule: Stop Saying N. Korea Needs 'Attention'
New rule (with apologies to Bill Maher): reporters and commentators should think twice before parroting the nonsensical notion that China's nuclear-armed vassal, North Korea, is merely defying the United States and the world community in order to "get attention," like a jealous two-year-old or a misunderstood juvenile delinquent.
The all-the-North-needs-is-more-attention narrative serves the appeasement-minded Obama administration and an adoring media well because acceptance of the simplistic story line supports the view that all the U.S. has to do to calm things down on the Korean peninsula is to find a way to bribe or lure the North back to the nuclear negotiating table--specifically, the six-party talks. That the forum accomplished nothing, as China Confidential and other observers had predicted, apart from (a) allowing the North to escape meaningful punishment for its 2006 nuclear weapon test and (b) facilitating its ongoing nuclear/missile cooperation with its Islamist ally, nuclear-arming Iran, is immaterial as far as the administration and liberal media boosters are concerned. For them, diplomacy is an end, not a means; and it is the U.S. that must be restrained or learn to restrain itself.
Dumbbell Pundits
Really. Liberals, from President Obama down to the dumbbell pundits who hang on his every word--MSNBC's Chris Matthews comes to mind--believe that American "arrogance," military might and economic power, the whole American business system, are among the main causes of injustice and instability in a rapidly changing world. The Candidate of Change, Matthews and other useful idiots would have you believe, has been heaven-sent to save not only the U.S. but "the planet." And saving the planet means "engaging"--code for appeasing--America's worst enemies. It's a given.
North Korea is a case in point. The left cannot, will never admit that Pyongyang plans to amass an arsenal of nuclear warheads and intercontinental missiles for purposes of extorting everything it can possibly get from U.S., which the North Koreans and their Chinese protectors see as a dying but still dangerous "hegemon."
North Korea is aiming for annual production of at least 10 atomic devices. It could return to and again drag out talks to buy time to achieve its objective.
Iran can be expected to follow the model.
All of which will be hailed by the administration and its cheerleaders as great foreign policy achievements, proof that The Candidate of Change was right, that his direct diplomacy (also code for appeasement) can preserve the peace.
In fact, Obama's diplomacy will make war inevitable.Thursday, April 16, 2009
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