By Alan Caruba
If Barack
Obama told me “I have your back”, I would spend a lot of time looking over my
shoulder. His promises to Israel are dirt, worthless, and duplicitous in the
extreme. Taken together, they have ensured that Israel will attack some of
Iran’s facilities that are striving to make it a nuclear power with nuclear
weapons.
An article
in the October 31 edition of The Jerusalem Post, “White House official confirms Israeli attack on Syrian missile site” is just one example of the steps the
Obama administration has taken to seriously undermine Israel’s security and hasten
Iran’s ability to make good on its promise to “wipe it from the map.”
According
to the article, an “anonymous US administration official” responded to a CNN
inquiry that Israel had conducted air raids against a Syrian missile base near
the port city of Latakia where “missiles and related equipment” were stored
“out of concern that they would be transferred to Hezbollah.” Tellingly, the reporter noted that “It is
unclear why the U.S. would leak such information as it could increase the
pressure on Syria to retaliate against Israel.”
Monday,
November 4th, marks the 34th anniversary of Iran’s
seizure of U.S. diplomats in 1979. To this day Iran’s slogan has been “Death to
America” and “Death to Israel.”
Little
noted by most Americans, the Obama administration is feverishly trying to
establish diplomatic relations with Iran despite the fact that it has
technically been at war with us ever since our diplomats were seized from the
U.S. embassy in Tehran, holding them for 444 days until their release the day
Ronald Reagan was inaugurated.
One of the
best, most reliable sources of news from and about Israel is the Debka File and
the same day the US blew the whistle on the Syrian attacks, they posted an
article, “Braced for imminent nuclear accord with Iran, US pulls away from military option, IDF stays on the ready.”
The
article bluntly stated that Israel “plans to keep in place advanced
preparations for a unilateral military strike on Iran’s nuclear program in
2014.” On November 1st, Debka File reported on a “Mystery explosion
at Iran’s Arak heavy water reactor” that has been under construction. It is the
second time the facility has had an explosion.
The Obama
administration has taken a very hard line against Israel’s warnings regarding
the decades-long efforts of Iran to become a nuclear power. Flitting around the
Middle East these days, Secretary of State, John Kerry, said “Some of suggested
that somehow there’s something wrong with giving diplomacy a chance. We will
not succumb to those fear tactics and forces that suggest otherwise.”
Kerry
seems oblivious to the fact that the administration’s diplomatic efforts in the
Middle East has managed to seriously harm U.S. relations with virtually all the
nations in the region, not the least of which is Saudi Arabia that has as much
to fear from a nuclear Iran as Israel. The Gulf States are all fearful of
Iranian progress toward nuclear power.
Observers
have concluded that Kerry’s efforts are aimed at “lifting decision-making on
sanctions out of the hands of Congress and transferring it to this secret
negotiation mechanism. By this means, President Obama hopes not only to thwart
Congressional calls for tighter sanctions against Iran, but also to forestall
Netanyahu’s efforts to this end.”
Indeed,
all of Obama’s Middle East policies have come to a bad end at this point. The
withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq has resulted in that nation becoming a
bloodbath as al Qaeda, the Sunnis, and the Shiites wage a war of subversion
against the present government there, in which the casualties are mounting
weekly. The U.S. is also in the process of withdrawing from Afghanistan.
The tilt
toward the Muslim Brotherhood that took over Egypt after an election, resulted
in the then-president Muhammad Morsi’s efforts to impose harsh sharia law on
the nation. Egyptians rallied against him and the military arrested him and has
cracked down on the Brotherhood. There are reports that Egypt, a longtime U.S.
ally, is now discussing the purchase of weapons from Russia. U.S. aid to Egypt
has apparently ended.
One cannot
overlook the disastrous decisions that followed the overthrow of Muamar
Gaddafi, Libya’s former dictator that resulted in the December 11, 2012 attack
in Benghazi that cost the life of the U.S. ambassador and three security
personnel.
Israel
knows that Obama is no friend and, therefore, the protection and support of
every previous administration since the days of Truman are at an end until the
current administration is replaced.
It will, as it has in the past, do what it
must to defend itself against Iran and the threats posed by Hezbollah and
Hamas. It has no other option.
Obama is
increasing the threat of war and he knows it.
© Alan
Caruba, 2013
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