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TRUST BUT STRONGLY VERIFY

by David Basch

3.1.12

As defense attorneys love to remind juries when it suits them, if a

witness is found out in a lie, he loses all credibility. This is

something that Israel's government needs to be reminded of too as it is

being asked to trust the Obama administration on its policy to prevent

Iran from going nuclear.

I recall the agreement made between the US and Israel at the end of

the Sinai War in 1956, in which, in return for Israel's withdrawl from

the Sinai, the US guaranteed Israel's ships free passage on the sea

through its port of Eilat. Such a blockade by the Arabs, it was

written into the agreement, would constitute an act of war. But when

in 1967 the Arab armies menaced Israel and blockaded free passage from

Eilat, President Lynden Johnson announced that he could not find the

agreement. Israel faced the Arabs alone.

And then there was Clinton, who promised Netanyahu that, in return for

his making certain concession to Arafat in the territories, the US

would free Pollard. Netanyahu complied but Clinton reneged, saying

that the Secretary of Defense refused to allow it. Many years later,

this same Secretary of Defense said that he had never did any such

thing. The idea was Clinton's all along.

Notice, Israel agrees and makes irreversible concessions and, when

these are performed, the US backs out.

And this duplicity toward the Israeli ally has been the history of US

involvement in seeing to it that the provisions of the Oslo agreements

are carried out by both sides: The US rigorously pressures Israel not

only for compliance but for extra deeds of surrender and fails to

notice Arab violations of its obligations.

Following the attorney formula for trusting agreements made by a

witness who lies, Israel should proceed with great care in dealing

with the Obama administration, lest Israel end up helping the

reelection of a recidivist anti-Israel Obama as well as facing a

nuclear Iran, but heavily laden down by a ton of phony US excuses

fed to the liberals.

I don't know exactly how Israel can assure that its US ally will

remain true in the field. The only thing I can come up with is

trusting the US only under the conditions that the US actually

completes delivery of the armaments and other means that enable Israel

to take independent action should the US break its word -- as the US

has done in the past.

One commentator suggested that Israel should trust the US and that if

the US did not hold true to its publicly professed promises, then the

world will know that the US is a betrayer and not to be trusted. But

that would be cold comfort to a betrayed and weakened Israel, brought

under the control of the US as Israel faces a more aggressive nuclear

Iran.

That is why I would counsel "taking the cash and letting the credit

go" -- getting the necessary means for independent action -- bunker

busting bombs, airborne refueling equipment, and the works -- and let

the US, not Israel, sweat about whether Israel will keep its word in

letting the US lead the way in dealing with Iran.

Prime Minister Netanyahu has a history of breaking his word to the

Israeli people. Only the latest of these betrayals has been his

commitment to recognize an Arab Palestinian state -- the first Israeli

prime minister to do so -- and his acceptance of the surrender of Gaza

and the ethnic cleansing of its Jews. (Notice how this opened Israel's

southern front to the Arabs, making Gaza a deadly assault base -- not

very smart.)

PM Netanyahu also loves to expound about how through

improving the economic situation of the Arabs of the territories --

Netanyahu is an economic determinist like Karl Marx -- he will change

Arab hearts from commitment to the precepts of Islam to destroy the

unsubdued infidels to live in peace with an Israel -- a policy in the

tradition of leftist myths that he cannot seem to shake.

If you are an Israeli or any kind of devoted Jew, this kind of music

from Netanyahu is frightening. One must sweat in fear wondering

whether Netanyahu has grown in office and hoping has abandoned his

childish ways of trusting enemies.

Israel is facing mortal dangers as never before and no excuses will be

acceptable from an Israeli leader that trusts to ideologies that have

proven to be failures and fails to promote, for real, a safe and

secure Israel, true to its traditions and one that can stand up to its

determined, implacable enemies.