Saturday, July 25, 2009
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Obama's Strategy is to Shrink Israel
By Shalom Freedman, IsraelNationalNews.com
In an insightful article on his FresnoZionism.org website, the political commentator Vic Rosenthal argues that the Obama Administration has, in effect, denied the Israeli government freedom of operation within areas taken in the 1967 Six-Day War. It has - without yet forcing a withdrawal - contracted Israel back into the '67 lines. This step is in accord with the major strategic operating principle of the Obama Administration in regard to Israel and the Palestinian Arabs, the Jewish world and the Muslim one.
The Administration's aim is to contract Israeli power and presence in the Middle East, and at the same time to contract the political strength of the Jewish people in the United States and the world. The corollary of that is his will and effort to increase, first of all, Palestinian Arab power in the Holy Land and, secondly, Islamic strength and confidence not only in the Middle East, but within the United States also. There have been many signs and much evidence of this.
US Questioning Every Israeli Move
In Israel itself, the United States is questioning and making problems for every small move the Israeli government makes. At the same time, the US is working on building a Palestinian military force under General Dayton which might well turn against Israel and its civilian population - as previous forces they built have done. The United States has worked toward free Palestinian movement within Judea and Samaria, and is pressuring Israel to surrender more and more territory to Fatah-run forces.
With regard to the Jewish-Islamic power balance, President Barack Obama was the first president to mention Muslim-Americans as a significant force in American life in his inaugural speech. He not only did this, but also subverted the Jews' traditional place and mentioned the Muslims immediately after the Christians. President Obama has also spoken of seven million Muslims in the United States, a questionable demographic figure, but one larger than the five and one-half million Jews.
The Cairo Speech
In his famous Cairo speech, Obama promised to bring more and more Muslim students to the United States. Apparently, his belief is that this group, once in the United States, will become more amenable to democratic values and promoters of American-style freedom - rather than promoters of the jihadist ideology so many Muslim students already advocate on US campuses.
President Obama does not appear to be prejudiced against Jews as individuals. A disproportionate number of Jews have significant roles in his Administration. Obama is a self-made meritocrat who achieved what he has through his own remarkable abilities. He is a person who always looks for those outstanding individuals who can help him in his work.
Historic Shift
However, on the issue of the global communal roles of Jews and Muslims, Obama is influenced not only by his personal background, but by the relative strengths, demographically and politically, of the two groups. There are, after all, over fifty Islamic nations clamoring for the disappearance, or at least contraction, of Israel and one small Jewish State striving to preserve and develop its ancestral homeland. The shift he has made and the trend he has adopted is in accord with the advice given by many of his "realist" and anti-Israel, left-wing political appointees. Obama wants a smaller, more docile Israel and a less influential, smaller Jewish community. The "peace" he envisions is one in which Israel's existence is accepted and tolerated by those more powerful than it.
Those who are aware of Jewish history - and, in fact, general Middle Eastern history - cannot be as optimistic as Obama about the survival of Israel should his scenario be realized.Iran Threatens to Hit Israeli Nuclear Sites
Click here for the story. The case for preemptive Israeli conventional and nuclear strikes on all known and suspect Iranian nuclear, missile and chemical warfare targets ... and the Revolutionary Guards Corps ... and much of the regular armed forces ... grows stronger by the day.
Israel is assumed to have about 200 nuclear missiles. It may have to use a number of them, tragically, to save its own people from annihilation at the hands of a Hitlerian regime that muses openly about "a world without America and Zionism."
Islamist Iran is following in Nazi Germany's footsteps. Seemingly invincible as it marches forward and builds its war machine, the regime is actually sowing the seeds of self-destruction. Hitler ended his life by blowing his mad brains out in a miserable bunker; Ahamadinejad and his henchmen will end their lives by being obliterated in a bunker, absent a miraculous regime change that could still prevent war.N. Korean Woman Executed for Distributing Bible
Friday, July 24, 2009
Fatah Vows No Recognition of Israel ... Ever
By Maayana Miskin
Senior members of Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah have announced that their group will never recognize Israel, and will continue to call for war against Israel. “Fatah does not recognize Israel's right to exist, nor have we ever asked others to do so,” said senior Fatah member Rafik Natsheh, a close associate of Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
Media reports, according to which Fatah has recognized Israel and has called on Hamas to do the same, are false, Natsheh said in an interview with the pan-Arab daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi. “It's all media nonsense. We don't ask other factions to recognize Israel; we ourselves do not recognize Israel,” he said.
Controls PA in Judea and Samaria
Fatah controls the PA in Judea and Samaria, and is the party of Abbas. Unlike the rival breakaway PA led by Hamas in Gaza, the Fatah-led PA has agreed to recognize Israel, although it will not recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
The PA recognizes Israel because if it did not, it would not be able to “serve the Palestinian people,” Natsheh explained. However, Fatah does not have such constraints.
Not only will Fatah never recognize Israel, but it will never end its call for armed struggle against Israel, he said. “Let those who are deluding themselves hear: this will never happen,” he said.
A second senior Fatah member, Azzam el-Ahmed, agreed that Fatah would not drop its call to wage war on Israel.
Natsheh and Ahmed gave interviews in advance of the Fatah general assembly in early August, in which the organization will meet to discuss its goals and to hold elections. The meeting will be the first in approximately 20 years.Israel Planning for Possible Cutoff of US Military Aid
The Jerusalem Post reports Israel is considering contingency plans for a possible U.S. cutoff of military aid to the Jewish State. Clickhere for the story.
It confirms the China Confidential report of April 17, which said the United States was weighing suspending or reducing military aid as a way of punishing Israel should it preemptively attack Iran over its nuclear program.
Saturday, 25 July 2009
President Seeks Increased Muslim Influence in US and Overseas
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