By Alan
Caruba
When the
news of Benjamin Netanyahu’s reelection victory was announced I factitiously
posted on my Facebook page that the Israelis had “sent Obama a two-word message
and it wasn’t happy birthday.” It took him two days to call and congratulate
Bibi.
I don’t
think we have ever had a President so ignorant of the Middle East and that
includes the neo-cons that got George W. Bush into a war in Iraq to rid that
nation of Saddam Hussein and presumably create a democracy to replace him.
Liberals tend to forget that Bush had actually accomplished that until Obama
pulled out all of our troops and consigned Iraq to anarchy and ISIS.
A simple
understanding of the last century would presumably tell any President that the
U.S. had troops all around the world for the purpose of maintaining the peace
that various tyrants would challenge. As far as Obama is concerned, the sooner
America retreated to his own borders and eliminated its nuclear arsenal, the
safer the world would be. Only an idiot would believe that.
To put it
succinctly, Obama has been wrong about Iraq, wrong about Syria, wrong about
Egypt when he supported the Muslim Brotherhood, and is very wrong about Iran, a
fact that has Israel and all the other Middle Eastern nations seriously
concerned. If Putin hadn’t concluded that Obama is a fool and a weakling, he
might not have invaded Ukraine and annexed the Crimea.
This is,
after all, a President who sent five high level terrorists back to join their
Taliban colleagues in Afghanistan in exchange for a U.S. Army sergeant, Bowe
Bergdahl, who defected from his unit to join the Taliban and was held prisoner
for five years. If you haven’t heard anything more about him it’s because
that’s the standard operational procedure of the Obama White House. First they
screw up and then they wait until they hope everyone has forgotten.
If that
wasn’t obscene enough, in the latest Worldwide Threat Assessment submitted to
Congress by the director of National Intelligence, both Iran and Hezbollah, a
terror state and its proxy in Lebanon, were removed from the list of global
terror threats.
Throughout
his two terms to date Obama has demonstrated unremitting animosity toward
Israel in general and Netanyahu in particular. His demand for a two-state
“solution” ignores that fact that the Palestinians have refused to initiate a
state of their own from the day Israel declared its independence in 1948.
The
“land-for-peace” policy provided the Palestinians with the whole of Gaza.
Instead of building a thriving homeland, they used it to rocket Israel until it
was forced to respond with enough force to reduce the threat. Land-for-peace?
How about the land through which the Palestinians were tunneling into Israel for
the purpose of attacking Israelis on the Gaza border?
IDF Soldier in Hamas Tunnel |
These
people have been incorrigible for 67 years since Israel’s founding. These days
Gaza is controlled by Hamas, a terrorist organization devoted to the
destruction of Israel and funded by Iran. Netanyahu’s decision reflects the
minds and hearts of the Israelis who reelected him and the Likud party to
power.
So what is
Obama’s response? He wants to go to the United Nations to force Israel to cede
land to a Palestinian nation that the Palestinians have refused to create.
Ironically, if you want to find a nation full of Palestinians, you need only
visit Jordan which, along with Egypt, has had a peace treaty with Israel for
decades.
If you
want to find a nation with a million-plus Muslims, then visit Israel which is
their home. Arabs and Jews have lived together there in peace for a long time.
Someone
needs to tell Obama about the Hamas assassination plot against Palestinian
Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas that was disrupted in early March when his
forces raided nine PA-ruled towns in the West Bank to detain 550 Hamas
suspects. By initiating mass riots as Hamas had done in Gaza in order to seize
power from the PA, the overthrow of Abbas was intended to give them control
over the West Bank as well.
Someone
might also inform Obama that 2014 was the deadliest year for terror attacks in
45 years. The U.S. Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, in late
February told Congress that “When the final counting is done, 2014 will have
been the most lethal year for global terrorism in the 45 years such data has
been compiled.” Worldwide, from January to September, around 13,000 terror
attacks were carried out, killing 31,000 people.
While
Obama obsesses about Israel, he continues to do little about ISIS, the Islamic
State, that has been expanding from Iraq and Syria into the Arabian Peninsula,
North Africa, and South Asia. The report says “ISIL’s rise represents the
greatest shift in the Sunni violent extremist landscape since Al Qaeda
affiliates first began forming, and it is the first to assume at least some
characteristics of a nation state.”
No one
knows better than the Israelis who have fought wars and intifadas that the
major menace to the West is to be found in the Middle East. Instead of
demanding that Israel commit territorial suicide, Obama should be supporting
the greatest ally America has in the Middle East, but that is perhaps too much
to ask of this ignorant, arrogant, former community organizer.
© Alan
Caruba, 2015
4 comments:
Perfectly stated.
Thank you!
So much of this can be laid at the feet of Jimmy Carter. The world is now facing the consequences of putting that incredibly incompetent man in the most powerful position in the world thirty years ago. Now the world will have to face unknown consequences for this nation putting an even far less competent man in that position. That was bad enough, but since he was put there twice I have no doubt the consequences will be twice as devastating. And when he’s gone - that’s if he doesn’t decide to eliminate the next exaction via executive order - we’re going to keep paying him a salary and protecting him on the taxpayer’s dime while he gets huge speaking fees denigrating the nation to leftist audiences.
I have to say Allan, that bo is not incompetent. He is following orders. Anyone who is familiar with islam knows that it is not, not a religion of peace. bo has the Brotherhood in OUR government and they are not there to promote "diversity". I believe bo will cause a lot of trouble when the weather gets warmer.
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