Obama--Friend of Israel?

We believe that Obama is no friend of Israel. Although he says nice things, the reality is that his words are not backed by action. He says he supports Israel but does not have his UN Ambassador press it in the UN. He says that the country has the right to "defend itself," yet denies Israeli actions to use military force.  

We have said this before and want to repeat it again, one day, Israel will have to fight by itself against overwhelming odds. It will win, but the cost will be tremendous. We would hope that at that time, whomever is Prime Minister will not listen to the UN, the US, or the international community and finish the job instead of  being stopped in mid battle as they were in 1948, 1956, 1967 and 1973.

Conservative Tom

Politics: Obama to Israel: Stand down and stay on defense

Published by: Robert Laurie on Sunday November 18th, 2012

By ROBERT LAURIE – Obama warns Israel not to deal with Hamas.

Imagine you’re in a darkened alley, when a thug appears with a knife.  He lunges forward, trying to stab you, but you manage to deflect the attack.  Then, you stand back calmly, so the assault comes once more. Again, you manage to intercept the blade and avoid injury. So, your attacker thrusts, over, and over, and over again.  Each time you manage to dodge your assailant, but you never neutralize him.

How long do you think you can keep that up before he manages to land the killing blow? 

Well, if Barack Obama is to be believed, the answer is either “forever,” or “until he gets tired of attacking and gives up.”  At least, that’s his attitude toward Israel.

As rockets rain down on America’s only real Middle-Eastern ally, Obama has said that the nation has “every right to defend itself.”  As long as Israel can intercept the incoming missiles, our President is perfectly happy to let them.  Just so long as they don’t get any ideas about actually dealing with Hamas, the root cause of their troubles.

When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested that the time had come to “ramp up” their strategy, press into Gaza, and handle their attackers once and for all, Obama quickly warned against it.

According to the AP, this morning in Thailand Obama took the opportunity to urge Israel to rethink its plan to attack those who would see their nation wiped off the map.

He again claimed that Israel had the right to “defend itself” against inbound rockets, but also said that she should not engage in any sort of ground fight in Gaza.  Such an undertaking, he said, would put Israeli soldiers at risk and cause Palestinian civilian casualties.

There was no mention of the military or civilian death toll caused by the rockets which have managed to penetrate Israel’s “iron dome” defense system.  Apparently, they’re not as important, since they have less impact on the President’s desire to continue the search for a two-state solution.  

"If we see a further escalation of the situation in Gaza,” The President said, “the likelihood of us getting back on any kind of peace track that leads to a two-state solution is going to be pushed off way into the future."

So a strong offense will harm the talks, but sitting back and watching the missiles explode in Jerusalem is A-OK. 

Obama obviously thinks that Israel should allow her enemies to continue the murder of her citizens, because we wouldn’t want the Palestinians to get upset and stop their insincere negotiations. If that’s his definition of a “peace process” we’re all in very serious trouble.

It seems that the President would prefer that Israel handle its defense the way he handled Benghazi.  Appease a gang of terrorists, ignore their threats until it’s too late, “stand down” when the real fighting starts, cover the whole thing up in the aftermath, and sweep the ugliness under the rug so we can all just forget about it.

What’s really interesting is that the President doesn’t normally apply any of these principles to his own global military endeavors.  Obama has no problem killing America’s enemies via ground attack, he positively revels in erasing names from his “kill list” via Drone strike, and he was eager to enter into an unconstitutional mini-war with Libya.

However, for some reason, the President wants Israel on a perpetual and ultimately unsustainable defense.

Until the U.S. has a change of leadership, the Israeli people should operate under the assumption that our government – though not necessarily our people – no longer have their backs. Sadly, they’re in a position where they need to ignore the American President, as it’s become clear that he does not hold their best interests at heart