Obama Administration's Dirty Little Secret (Part 2)
The Obama administration's dirty little secret is that it does not regard Israel as a strategic U.S. ally, in sharp contrast with previous U.S. administrations. Rather, the administration, enthralled by rising Islam, sees Israel as a liability.
Washington's relationship with Jerusalem is changing rapidly--and radically--for the worst. Nothing like this has ever happened before. The White House is befriending the worst people on earth (except for North Korean Communists), and betraying America's only real friend in the Middle East, Israel.
Roger Cohen Strikes Again; Columnist's Passover Sneak Attack on Israel Signals Shifting US Policies
U.S. President Barack Obama's call for a nuclear-free world, which ironically coincided with North Korea's defiant and illegal ballistic missile test, was aimed neither at nuclear-armed North Korea nor at its nuclear-arming ally, Iran, but at a courageous, democratically governed American ally--Israel--whose continued existence may well depend on having both nuclear arms and the political will to use them in order to prevent a second Holocaust.
Obama intends to focus attention on Israel's nuclear deterrent in an attempt to appease Iran while also currying favor with Saudi Arabia, which is competing with Iran for influence over Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist organization that has become an Iranian proxy and is clearly committed to Israel's destruction. The Saudi King (before whom Obama bowed, deeply and submissively, when the two men met last week at the G20 summit in London) believes that Israel's military power--including its assumed arsenal of nuclear missiles--is the major source of instability in the Middle East. In fact, the Saudi King believes that Israel's existence is the leading destabilizing factor in the region, the reason Iran and Al Qaeda are so popular and threatening--to his family business disguised as a country--in the first place. The Saudi petro-tyrant would like to see the Jewish State wither and die as soon as possible.
His view is apparently shared by many, if not most, European intellectuals, anti-Semites at heart, who regard Israel's rebirth in the heart of the Arab world as a terrible mistake. The Zionist dream, in so-called elite European eyes, has become a nightmare.
The Saudi-European view is secretly and no-so-secretly shared by many important and influential Americans, including members of the Obama administration, an adoring, liberal mediaocracy, and pockets of old-line isolationists (e.g. Pat Buchanan). Slowly but surely, the hoary idea of a demilitarized Palestinian state is giving way to a horrific plan for a de-nuclearized--and eventually demilitarized--Jewish State, more like an autonomous Jewish city, or barely tolerated ghetto, than an independent country.
But in order for Israel to be diminished and ultimately destroyed it must first be cleansed of nuclear weapons; hence, the startling reference to "Israel's nuclear warheads, whose function is presumably deterrence," in an Op-Ed essay in today's edition of the New York Times. The sneak-attack article on Israel, by Roger Cohen, a British Jew who has emerged as one of Islamist Iran's leading foreign advocates, is astonishing for its viciousness and timing--the first day of Passover. This reporter, who has followed, reported, and been deeply involved in Middle Eastern and Jewish communal affairs for decades, can't recall ever reading anything like Cohen's piece (of you-know-what).
Lenin once remarked: "When it is time to hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope."
Iranian leaders must be thinking: When it is time to strangle Israel an American President and a Jewish pundit will have helped make the attack possible; moreover, a (self-hating) Jewish columnist for the (Jewish controlled) New York Times is probably already writing the Jewish State's obituary.
UPDATE: Iran today announced new advances in its nuclear program Click here for the report. By definition, Obama's direct diplomacy with Iran will ensure that it has sufficient time to achieve its nuclear weapons objectives.
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