December 6, 2011, 2:11 AM
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With vote tallies in for Egypt's first round of parliamentary elections in it is abundantly clear that Egypt is on the fast track to becoming a totalitarian Islamic state. The first round of voting took place in Egypt's most liberal, cosmopolitan cities. And still the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafists received more than 60 percent of the vote. Run-off elections for 52 seats will by all estimates increase their representation.
And then in the months to come, Egyptian voters in the far more Islamist Nile Delta and Sinai will undoubtedly provide the forces of jihadist Islam with an even greater margin of victory.
Until the US-supported overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, Egypt served as the anchor of the US alliance system in the Arab world. The Egyptian military is US-armed, US-trained and US-financed. The Suez Canal is among the most vital waterways in the world for the US Navy and the global economy. Due to Mubarak's commitment to stemming the tide of jihadist forces that threatened his regime, under his rule Egypt served as a major counter-terror hub in the US-led war against international jihad.
GIVEN EGYPT'S singular importance to US strategic interests in the Arab world, the Obama administration's response to the calamitous election results has been shocking. Rather than sound the alarm bells, US President Barack Obama has celebrated the results as a victory for "democracy."
Rather than warn Egypt that it will face severe consequences if it completes its Islamist transformation, the Obama administration has turned its guns on the first country that will pay a price for Egypt's Islamic revolution: Israel.
Speaking at the annual policy conclave in Washington sponsored by the leftist Brookings Institute's Saban Center for Middle East Policy, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hammered Israel, the only real ally the US has left in the Middle East after Mubarak's fall. Clinton felt it necessary - in the name of democracy - to embrace the positions of Israel's radical Left against the majority of Israelis.
The same Secretary of State that has heralded negotiations with the violent, fanatical misogynists of the Taliban; who has extolled Saudi Arabia where women are given ten lashes for driving, and whose State Department trained female-hating Muslim Brotherhood operatives in the lead-up to the current elections in Egypt accused Israel of repressing women's rights. The only state in the region where women are given full rights and legal protections became the focus of Clinton's righteous feminist wrath.
In the IDF, as in the rest of the country, religious coercion is forbidden. Jewish law prohibits men from listening to women's voices in song. And recently, when a group of religious soldiers were presented with an IDF band that featured female vocalists, keeping faith with their Orthodox observance, they walked out of the auditorium. The vocalists were not barred from singing. They were not mistreated. They were simply not listened to.
And as far as Clinton is concerned, this is proof that women in Israel are under attack. Barred by law from forcing their soldiers to spurn their religious obligations, IDF commanders were guilty of crimes against democracy for allowing the troops to exit the hall.
Clinton didn't end her diatribe with the IDF's supposed war against women. She continued her onslaught by proclaiming that Israel is taking a knife to democracy by permitting its legislators to legislate laws that she doesn't like. The legislative initiatives that provoked the ire of the US Secretary of State are the bills now under discussion which seek to curtail the ability of foreign governments to subvert Israel's elected government by funding non-representative, anti-Israel political NGOs like B'Tselem and Peace Now.
In attacking Israel in the way she did, Clinton showed that she holds Israel to a unique standard of behavior. Whereas fellow Western democracies are within their rights when they undertake initiatives like banning Islamic headdresses from the public square, Israel is a criminal state for affording Jewish soldiers freedom of religion. Whereas the Taliban, who enslave women and girls in the most unspeakable fashion are worthy interlocutors, and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, which supports universal female genital mutilation is moderate, Israel is an enemy of democracy for seeking to preserve the government's ability to adopt policies that advance the country's interests.
The unique standard to which Clinton holds the Jewish state is the standard of human perfection.
And as far as she is concerned, if Israel is not perfect, then it is unworthy of support. And since Israel, as a nation of mere mortals can never be perfect, it is necessarily always guilty.
CLINTON'S ASSAULT on Israeli democracy and society came a day after Panetta attacked Israel's handling of its strategic challenges. Whereas Clinton attacked Israel's moral fiber, Panetta judged Israel responsible for every negative development in the regional landscape.
Panetta excoriated Israel for not being involved in negotiations with the Palestinians. Israel, he said must make new concessions to the Palestinians in order to convince them of its good faith. If Israel makes such gestures, and the Palestinians and the larger Islamic world spurn them, then Panetta and his friends will side with Israel, he said.
Panetta failed to notice that Israel has already made repeated, unprecedented concessions to the Palestinians and that the Palestinians have pocketed those concessions and refused to negotiate. And he failed to notice that in response to the repeated spurning of its concessions by the Palestinians and the Arab world writ large, rather than stand with Israel, the US and Europe expanded their demands for further Israeli concessions.
Panetta demanded that Israel make renewed gestures as well to appease the Egyptians, Turks and Jordanians. He failed to notice that it was Turkey's Islamist government, not Israel, that took a knife to the Turkish-Israeli strategic alliance.
As for Egypt, rather than recognize the strategic implications for the US and Israel alike of Egypt's transformation into an Islamic state, the US Defense Secretary demanded that Israel ingratiate itself with Egypt's military junta. Thanks in large part to the Obama administration, that junta is now completely beholden to the Muslim Brotherhood.
As for Jordan, again thanks to the US's support for the Muslim Brotherhood and its aligned groups in Libya and Tunisia, the Hashemite regime is seeking to cut a deal with the Jordanian branch of the movement in a bid to save itself from Mubarak's fate. Under these circumstances, there is no gesture that Israel can make to its neighbor to the east that would empower King Abdullah to extol the virtues of peace with the Jewish state.
Then there is Iran, and its nuclear weapons program.
Panetta argued that an Israeli military strike against Iran would lead to regional war. But he failed to mention that a nuclear armed Iran will lead to nuclear proliferation in the Arab world and exponentially increase the prospect of a global nuclear war.
Rather than face the dangers head on, Panetta's message was that the Obama administration would rather accept a nuclear-armed Iran than support an Israeli military strike on Iran to prevent the mullocracy from becoming a nuclear-armed state.
Clinton's and Panetta's virulently anti-Israeli messages resonated in an address about European anti-Semitism given last week by the US Ambassador to Belgium Howard Gutman. Speaking to a Jewish audience, Gutman effectively denied the existence of anti-Semitism in Europe. While attacks against European Jews and Jewish institutions have become a daily occurrence continent-wide, Gutman claimed that non-Muslim anti- Semites are essentially just all-purpose bigots who hate everyone, not just Jews.
As for the Muslims who carry out the vast majority of anti-Jewish attacks in Europe, Gutman claimed they don't have a problem with good Jews like him. They are simply angry because Israel isn't handing over land to the Palestinians quickly enough. If the Jewish state would simply get with Obama's program, according to the US ambassador, Muslim attacks on Jews in Europe would simply disappear.
Gutman of course is not a policymaker. His job is simply to implement Obama's policies and voice the president's beliefs.
But when taken together with Clinton's and Panetta's speeches, Gutman's remarks expose a distressing intellectual and moral trend that clearly dominates the Obama administration's foreign policy discourse. All three speeches share a common rejection of objective reality in favor of a fantasy.
In the administration's fantasy universe, Israel is the only actor on the world stage. Its detractors, whether in the Islamic world or Europe, are mere objects. They are bereft of judgment or responsibility for their actions.
There are two possible explanations for this state of affairs - and they are not mutually exclusive. It is possible that the Obama administration is an ideological echo chamber in which only certain positions are permitted. This prospect is likely given the White House's repeated directives prohibiting government officials from using terms like "jihad," "Islamic terrorism," "Islamist," and "jihadist," to describe jihad, Islamic terrorism, Islamists and jihadists.
Restrained by ideological thought police that outlaw critical thought about the dominant forces in the Islamic world today, US officials have little choice but to place all the blame for everything that goes wrong on the one society they are free to criticize - Israel.
The second possible explanation for the administration's treatment of Israel is that it is permeated by anti-Semitism. The outsized responsibility and culpability placed on Israel by the likes of Obama, Clinton, Panetta and Gutman is certainly of a piece with classical anti-Semitic behavior.
There is little qualitative difference between accusing Israeli society of destroying democracy for seeking to defend itself against foreign political subversion, and accusing Jews of destroying morality for failing to embrace foreign religious faiths.
So too, there is little qualitative difference between blaming Israel for its isolation in the face of the Islamist takeover of the Arab world, and blaming the Jews for the rise of anti-Semites to power in places like Russia, Germany and Norway.
In truth, from Israel's perspective, it really doesn't make a difference whether these statements and the intellectual climate they represent stem from ideological myopia or from hatred of Jews.
The end result is the same in either case: Under President Obama, the US government has become hostile to Israel's national rights and strategic imperatives. Under Obama, the US is no longer Israel's ally.
Originally published in The Jerusalem Post.
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Every word here is valid, but I still don't know what expectations anyone ever had for post-Mubarak Egypt. I mean, did anyone expect Mubarak to live forever?
Four years ago, during the US presidential campaigns,two names figured prominently high atop a constantly updated list, ranking support for Israel. These rankings were the result of polling of certain deemed "experts". The two were john mccain and hillari clinton. Obviously, the public were being fed faulty information on which to judge the candidates.Of course anyone would appear pro Israel compared to obama. Ms. Glick painted a frightening picture of secretary clinton which is as vivid and realistic as is a painting by the Flemish master Van Eyck, and it's not a pretty picture, it is pure evil. As for mccain, just a week or so ago, the proven numbskull made a public statement to the effect that William Jefferson clinton should be named by obama as special mid east envoy, tasked with getting Israel and "palestinians" back to what the disgusting former cia director panetta described this week as "...the damn table".
I'll tell you something, for all of you who are indignant that Caroline Glick would claim The US Gov't was not acting as an ally of Israel. I would respectfully argue that Ms. Glick's point is not only spot on correct, it is if anything, understated. The United States is backing away from commitments it has made to Israel for half a century. It has now enabled Israel to be destroyed, by simply being "evenhanded".Ironically, the destruction of The US will not be far behind.It is support of Israel which has prevented the low life scum from moving closer with Iran. For saving us, Israel is expendable. This is my suggestion.
Mr. PM:
I think you read this column and since there are so few comments, maybe you glance down here too, from time to time. Bibi, you are just going to have to take back Sinai, the sooner the better. May as well take the Pyramids while you are at it. They are ours, we built them.
I urge you to explain to saudi that in return for the iran job, israel must mow the lawn at home.
When viewed with 20/20 hindsight now, Camp David was an error. I believe PM Begin realized he had erred. This realization destroyed his will to live and he died a miserable recluse.
Tells it like it is ... sadly.
I don't understand ?
Where are Israel's politicians and media celebrating the arrival of these peace dividend's they have waited so long for ?
All the goodwill gestures,painful concessions and Israeli civilians murdered for this peace has really been a great investment on Israel's part,hasn't it ?
You have to admit - All these peace dividends finally breaking out after 18 years of Israel's unbending loyalty and obedience to their Oslo/Road Map god of no-peace really paid off.
Israel's religious devotion has been rewarded !
The wisdom of Israel's YES,YES secular leadership in bending their knees to Washington with unflinching loyalty instead of listening to the Boss has really moved Israel closer to peace Sheol !
Exodus 23
"For I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods. 33 They shall not live in your land, because they will make you sin against Me; for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you."
The Obama Administration is the most anti Israeli Government in history, and they are doing everything possible to destabilize Benjamin Netanyahu's Coalition Government, so as to be able to facilitate a malleable Tzipi Livni led left wing Government, which in turn will convert Israel into a satellite of Arab Muslim Brotherhood hegemony in the Middle East.
Caroline, everything you say is true, but nothing has changed. Up until now universal Jew hatred and antisemitism was hidden behind a cloak of political correctness. We may have been hated, but previous administrations realized the benefit of having Israel as an ally. What can we expect from a US president who if not actually a Muslim certainly supports their radical actions. As for Clinton, well now she is in a position to show her true character and it is ugly. Israel stands alone, she always has. It is time for the government to realize that our actions must benefit us, meaning not just Israeli Jews, but Jews in the Diaspora. It is time for all of us to come home.
Getting into politics in Chicago, Obama's best friend was a psychopath Muslim named Ali Father of Nima (Ali Abunimah). Ali is the Muslim leading the Shari'ah-compliant #Hate Israel campaign on Twitter.
Ali explained before the 2008 election, that Obama is extremely sympathetic to the Ummah, loves those who ritually sacrifice children to Moloch ("the Palestinians"), and very much wants to establish the Caliphate. In sum and substance Obama explained that: "I can't do it now because I need to dupe dem' kikes, but as soon as I am able, I will be working to establish the most Islamic domestic and foreign policy you can imagine".
And kach havey.
Good thing we in the Jewish community have such "leaders" like Obama Fundraiser-bundler Rosen, and Jeremiah Wright-defender Gutman - we sure are in great hands!
(Obama: "Hey, I’m sorry I haven’t said more about Palestine right now, but we are in a tough primary race. I’m hoping when things calm down I can be more up front.” He referred to my [Ali Abuminah's Shari'ah-compliant #Hate Israel campaign, and said] “Keep up the good work!” http://electronicintifada.net/content/how-barack-obama-learned-love-israel/6786#.Tt4dR3O-ZWo)
Caroline Glick, as always, in "An ally no more", has portrayed the position in which the State of Israel presently finds itself with terrifying clarity.
As I studied the photo of members of the present US Administration that accompanied "An ally no more", apparently sharing a moment of boisterous laughter, I could not help but recall another meeting that took place in 1942 just outside Berlin.
See Wikipedia: The Wannsee Conference
"The Wannsee Conference was a meeting of senior officials of the Nazi German regime, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942. The purpose of the conference was to inform administrative leaders of Departments responsible for various policies relating to Jews, that Reinhard Heydrich had been appointed as the chief executor of the "Final solution to the Jewish question".
To those who are shocked I would dare to make the above association, please recall the tragedy of the famous ship carrying WW II Jewish refugees trying to flee Hitler's grasp.
See Wikipedia: The MS St. Louis
"The MS St. Louis was a German ocean liner most notable for a single voyage in 1939, in which her captain, Gustav Schröder, tried to find homes for 937 German Jewish refugees after they were denied entry to Cuba".
Old photographs document that when the ship arrived on the American coast of Florida, their last hope of salvation, the US government refused to allow the desperate Jews to disembark from the ship. For the American Administration, at the time, accepting 937 Jews marked for death, was 937 too many. Canada arrived at the same conclusion.
Just as thousands, if not millions, of European Jews were certain 75 years ago that "it could not happen to us" so too do so many Jews today think "it can never happen to us again".
The dangers that have surrounded the State of Israel since its founding are growing at an exponential rate of speed.
What is so disturbing is that so many jews in Israel and America are incapable of recognizing the growing state of danger.
What unending joy it must afford Israel's enemies that so many Jews are too stupid, too complacent, too blind, to see the handwriting on the walls of the Middle East.
No one in the world ever dreamed that the Two World Trade Center towers could ever be turned into a mountain of smoldering smoke and ash until the day that tragedy occurred. It seemed inconceivable but I saw it happen from my windows in New York City.
Likewise, how tragic that so many Jews in the Left, in Israel and worldwide can not grasp that Israel is surrounded by nations comprising hundreds of millions, who want to see the State of Israel converted into a new pile of ash.
Thank G-d for individuals like PM Netanyahu and Ms. Caroline Glick who understand the growing dangers surrounding the State of Israel and the dangers emanating from the mindsets of the people in the White House who sit around conference tables and share such moments of levity as depicted in the photo accompanying Ms. Glick's "An ally no more".
Israel must stay on the highest alert 24/7 and make sure that if and when the next confrontation with its enemies comes, that it will teach those who wish to exterminate the Jews of Israel a lesson they will remember for a thousand years and one hundred generations.
Alas- today Israel's best ally is a permanent awareness that in the end it no longer has a best ally- save its own eternal will to survive and flourish.
78% of American Jews voted for Obama in 2008. Will they further imperil Israel by doing so again? The American people support Israel. It's the White House leadership that needs to be changed.
we are all alone.... its very sad!!! im worried for mt family and israel :(
Listen to the obama administration as it states it needs one more term to complete it's work. What work is that? The transformation of America...from what? From a pro-Israeli, democratic country to a member of the muslim brotherhood.
Your final statement, Caroline, recognizes the isolation that Israel now faces. Israel is alone. The stage is now set for the attempt to destroy Israel. Clinton's criticism of the IDF and the pending bills to limit the funding of NGO's is a misdirection. "Fight her...never mind the NGO's." Panetta's support of a nuclear Iran is massage of the Israeli psyche. "Accept the bomb...love the bomb...it is easier than making difficult choices." Those are the choices for the US and Israel. The state department reaffirmed Gutman's claim that Israel was to blame...after all, he wasn't removed from his position. That is as much a stamp of approval by the obama administration as holderman sending guns to kill American law enforcement agents.
I see the obama orchestrating a world calamity from the Israeli-palestine touch point. We may not have a 2012 election...I don't believe he will give up power before he is through transforming America and destroying Israel.
Deepest apologies from the many who do not subscribe to this treatment of Israel. We wish we could change these things but we face a similar situation with respect to the left's control of the media. The Internet is indeed the only place where Israel's message may be heard, indeed the only place where the benefits of freedom may be discussed. The very reason that the left wants to control it.
Know that these Marxists do these things in and of themselves and against the will of the people of the US. They are the evil, we always presumed them to be and they wear a smile which is deceitful and does not indicate the old dangers that they have always represented. Just as in Israel, the media does not let their mask slip because they are that evil themselves.
Thanks for these perceptive comments on this latest turn of events. It is too easy to just be numb in the face of pronouncements like these. We need an occasional summary and inventory of them all that places them in the right context.
Israel is such a small place. If these people can divert their time and attention away from their much larger and more influential countries to focus on defaming the innocent Israel, what else are they up to?
"CLINTON'S ASSAULT on Israeli democracy and society came a day after Panetta attacked Israel's handling of its strategic challenges." - The former is famous for her blatant lies (dodging a barrage of bullets is just one small example) and the latter, for his communist sympathies (the DeLacy connection). People of their ilk in key positions have brought many disasters on their country in the living memory, from Pearl Harbor to 9/11. One can only wish they wouldn't so brashly, with such inane and vulgar pushiness export and impose their destructive urge on other nations, be they Egypt or Israel.
Your Prime Minister saw long ago that this close alliance with America was hurting every bit as much as helping Israel. The result of Oslo was entirely predictable to people like Bibi, and they have prepared for that result.
Nothing has changed with the recent American perfidy. Israel's enemies are rapidly weakening everywhere, and the Islamic Brotherhood will have 40 million starving Egyptians to deal with while they attempt to annihilate Israel, which no doubt they will. All in all, Israelis are playing a stronger hand than that of ten years ago. I cannot say the same of America.
To those adept at reading body language, Barak Obama's slavelike groveling to potentates all around him reveals his view of the world and his place within it. By the end of his first hadj aboard Air Force One (his new phallic substitute), Barry Soetoro clearly demonstrated his own Submission (and America's by extension).
Analysis that the United States is no longer an ally of Israel comes two years late, typical of low-grade average journalists, which Caroline is not and never was. As an established olah with predicted endtimes approaching, Caroline's position on the world stage is reminiscent of Queen Esther's. Who might fill the sandals of other characters is less clear, but intriguing.
Every word spoken in this piece is right on the mark. Difficult to hear, face, and accept. But it is the truth.
I read a news report this week that President Obama is more popular in Isrel than in USA among the Jewish people. It is very frightening to see the more Obama and his cabinet speak against Israel, they get more popular among the Israelis. Let me say this very frankly, with the help of the Jews in Israel and USA, Obama will get re-elected and it will be his second term goal to destroy Israel as we know it. It is a real tragedy to watch a nation is colluding with another nation to destroy itself.
P. Joseph Raju
Such a valuable voice is yours, Caroline, I hope you are widely read. You would think the pervasive liberalism of Israeli society and institutions would earn the allegiance of Western liberals, but it doesn't. Instead, the prime directive of Western liberals, destroy historic Western society, kicks in, and Western liberals side with the Third World, represented by Muslims, against Israel.
I hope Marcel will knock it off with depicting Israel's dependence on the U.S. as the root of all evil. American, Western, and Israeli liberals unite in regarding Palestinians as having an equal claim to Israeli territory, and unite in condemning Israel for the crime of depriving the Palestinians of their rightful territory. Is is not the U.S. but liberalism, which religiously is a humanist form of paganism, a rejection of divine intent in favor of human pseudo-rationalism. Liberals have a harmonious plan in mind for human-ordered world peace. By continuing to exist and exclude Palestinian Arabs from their land, Israel is a stick in the spokes. Why Israel and not every other nation that holds its territories against various claimants? Because the Arabs say so, and they have all that oil, and Israel is too small to matter.
Israel will not survive unless it comes to terms with its humanistic liberalism and recognizes its God-given right to fight for survival. Until then, it is like the German Jews who thought a humanly-ordered civilized society would protect them from violent hatred. But a humanly-ordered society is not sufficient protection from human evil.
“The wicked shall see it, and be grieved,” etc. It is the property of the Devil, not to mistake the nature of virtue, and esteem it criminal, but to hate it for this reason, because it is good, and therefore most opposite to his designs. The wicked, as his proper emissaries, resemble him in this, and grieve to have the foulness of their vices made conspicuous by being placed near the light of virtuous example.... They may, like the giants of ancient fable, attempt a romantic war with heaven; but all their preparations for that purpose must recoil with double force upon themselves, and cover them with shame and confusion.... If such be the effect of their malice in the present life, that, instead of injuring those they rage against, it usually turns to their own vexation, how much more, when the scene shall open in the life to come.... They shall continue then to gnash their teeth (the wretched amusement of that cursed state) as well in grief and anguish for their own torments, as in rage and envy at the abundant honour which is done the saints. - William Berriman.
Israel will continue to prosper and be a light to the world. It should not seem strange that the wicked are raging and ever becoming more furious in their hate for Israel since Israel is a permant reminder to them that there is a God in heaven who will judge them in righteousness. God bless you Caroline.
"With vote tallies in for Egypt's first round of parliamentary elections in it is abundantly clear that Egypt is on the fast track to becoming a totalitarian Islamic state...."
This opening comment is insane - and the "column" goes down from there. Bubbeleah, hishtegat legamray - or more likely, at pashoot stam idiot? More like the latter than the former.
You buy into the recycled 2nd hand bull and regurgitate it w/o any insight or historical knowledge. Seriously, you really are an efes at this stuff.
Oh, btw, go and check Gutman's transcript. It's now available online (no, you'll have to do a little work on your own - hint: it's something called "googling.") Turns out that he was misquoted by the right-wing spin machine and said nothing resembling what you claim he did. Can't you at least get the basic facts straight?
And what is the Israeli response to all this - absolute silence and no doubt down the line more concessions to appease Obama.
Israel is a judenrat state which has no right to exist.
It's Purim, right? and this is a Purim Speil?
Oy lanu, that the world has come to this, that the bastion of democracy in the Western World is so blinded by irrationality that it cannot see the truth in the world.
Caroline, thank you for painting it as it is - it is a blessing to know that there is at least one set of eyes that are wide open.
For obvious reasons of not knowing the facts about his past, Obama is the Ultimate Sleeper Cell. He thinks he can community organize the Middle East and North Africa like it's the south side of Chicago. In his alternate reality he really thinks that his administration has done more for Israel's security than any of his predecessors. But in spite of Obama and his henchmen, Israel will survive...
Dear Caroline,
Latma does a good job too. The leadership in America today will always side with the Muslims. Obama, Clinton, and Panetta have always been anti Israel. What they deliberately do and what they allow because they don't act in Israel's best interest, always betrays,the friendship they claim to have toward Israel. I realize the leadership in Israel has to pretend, leaders in our government are there friend. But Israel best be preparing to stand alone. I think America will let them down, and at a time when it will hurt the most. Israel has to play along with Washington, but they can take every precaution to prepare their people to go it alone. May God bless Israel, and bless you Caroline for making good sense.
You can't say you didn't expect this. Look at their backgrounds, their history. This administration has offended every ally, aided every foe.
The situation is just beyond belief. How could we have reached such a point? That an American Secretary of Defense can come up with such nonsense is scary. It shows that Panetta understands nothing. The very fact that for the last few weeks proponents of the Arab Spring have been talking of “moderate Islamists” demonstrates total ignorance of the subject. Moderate Nazi may seem an inappropriate comparison but it is not. And who is to blame? Our media which for decades has been reluctant to discuss the nature of Islam also refused to discuss the ineffectiveness of MAD vis-à-vis Iran. As a consequence of this global ignorance Americans elected a president whose incompetence and appeasement of Iran may cost the lives of millions. We are in deep, deep trouble. To see why Panetta is saying nonsense read MAD is Dead http://www.madisdead.blogspot.com/
Honestly, I am embarrassed for Leon Panetta. Either he really believes what he said in which case he is just incompetent, or he just said that in order to help Obama stay in power in which case he has no honor. But it is sad to discover that American politicians do not understand that there are times in history when these petty power plays should be discarded for a greater goal of defending our entire civilization, the role Churchill so brilliantly fulfilled 70 years ago.
i am so looking forward to Sharia in the West
women, we are tired of you thinking you are equal
you will be subservient
hope you like being dependent on males
control and power
it is going to be great for men who understand
too bad for the wives, daughters.
thank someone that my mother will pass before this happens. she is a saint. the rest, whores.
yes, kill raped women for THEIR crime of being raped
oh yes, thank you Hillary!
Caroline well stated.
I said many times Obama is no more than “an acorn community organizing pamphlet distributing anti-Semite, pretending to be a Christian for political reasons who embraces Islam, not a friend of Israel and an incompetent president orchestrated by George Soros & company and the liberal left media”.
His administration along with the Clintons is full of anti-Semites.
I just hope and pray liberal American Jews wake up and take notice of the characters they supported who are anti-Israel.
Just tune in any network and you will notice a large number of Jewish democratic strangest who continue to support Obama while he throws Israel under the bus.
Israel needs to continue to build communities throughout all of Israel, the Holy Land, the land G-d provided for them and not the Palestinians.
Keeping in mind Jerusalem is an undivided city, the capital of the Jewish Nation of Israel.
Again, let’s call a spade a spade, the Palestinians are nothing more than a anti-Semitic tool employed by the Islam to destroy Israel.
Time has come for American Jews to come together as one in full support of Israel.
to: kilroywashere
you should perhaps use google yourself to get your own 'facts' straight. that you have no sense of history or reality is all too telling. I think you should take your anti-semitism and hate over to huffpo, where they welcome your diatribe.
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/12/06/belgium-embassy-transcript-gutman-speech/
I feel that Caroline and all of the Jewish leaders and blogs made fatal errors on how they approached the war against Ben Ali, Laurent baghbo, Mubarak, Gadhafi et al
Jewish leaders must remember that ranged on the other side in all of these was the Muslim Brotherhood, NATO, the UN, the World Wide Media
The mistake that was made was that an abstentionist position is not possible, or more precisely is not advisable
i consider that what has happened in all of these countries is serious defeat for all progressive, if not socialist, people, and certainly for all Jews and for Israel
To some extent it is over in those cases. The defeats have happened.
Much the same now has to be considered in the case of Assad and Syria (Please do print this. It is different to the above comments but needs to be considered)
My language on this (new issue following on from Egypt and Libya among many others) is clear and is concrete.
1. Israel should express its solidarity with Assad and against NATO/Muslim Brotherhood/World Wide Media etc.
2. Israel should offer an alliance, both verbal and physical, with Assad against those who are also the bitter enemies of the Jews and Israel, against NATO, the US, Clinton Cameron sarkozy and all, against the Muslim Brotherhood Jihadists
3. At the same time Israel must make clear that it opposes all signs of anti-Semitism, of the Arabs and of the Iranian leadership, and that it will also do everything in its power to defend its country against attack
In fact, Assad, just as did Gadhafi towards the end, has done a great favour to Israel, to socialists, and to all Jews who fight to defend Israel. It is a favour of incalculable benefit, and to all real socialists.
What is this favour? Assad in his interview with Barbara Walters has last night called the UN and the World Wide Media for what it actually is, a bunch of disreputable liars
(speaking from my memory of the interview broadcast on BBC) Barbara Walters asked Assad what about the reports of the Media about the killings by the Army, and in the eyes of the Media there is always a focus on a child.
Assad replied let us have the reports with documentation and stated that the Media was disreputable.
Beaten back on that one Barbara Walters then countered by saying “But the UN also has made reports on these killings”
Quick as a flash Assad states to Walters that the UN is a discredited organization.
Walters countered by saying “But you send Ambassadors to the UN”
Assad was not to be outdone by this journalistic hag and let her know in no unmistakable terms that “The UN is a game. We are all playing the game (at the UN)
Until socialists break from this sickly support of the UN, and even worse in the case of the SWP, of NATO, then there can be no socialist leadership AT ALL in Ireland.
Assad has helped this along immensely. This bourgeois Arab nationalist politician has given a huge impetus to real socialists
"The second possible explanation for the administration's treatment of Israel is that it is permeated by anti-Semitism."
Surely, you are joking Caroline. A possible explanation ???
Obama sat in a "church" pew for about 20 years listening to the anti-American, anti-Semitic, anti-Israeli, black Nazi "preacher," the "Rev. Wright."
Obama is pals with a murderer, Bill Ayers and his murderess wife, Bernadine Dohrn; both hard core marxist terrorists. Last I looked, Marxist terrorists do not like jewish people. And Marxists of jewish heritage are particularly virulent anti-semites; of course, taking after their god, Karl Marx (author of "On the Jewish Question).
It was clear well before Obama's election that he was your typical MARXIST, anti-semitic, hate-america-firster, hate-Isreali demagogue. It was more clear to enemies of the USA (e.g., Iran) that Obama was a patsy, a marxist Neville Chamberlain.
(As an aside, watch Argentina attempt to take the Falklands again while Obama is in office; they know he will NOT help the Brits as did Reagan).
What is surprising is that it took you three years to figure out that Obama only hates the USA more than he does Israel. Yep, Israel is on it's own. Get used to it.
Oh, by the way, Iran KNOWS that the time to strike at Israel is while Obama is in office. Iran knows that Obama will do nothing. Get ready.
By the way, I am not jewish nor am I religious at all.
Obama Clinton Panetta are extremely wicked people, they want the common guy to believe that the ennmey of freedom is in fact the friend of freedom- what a farce - but the real question is how the jewish communities of America are still thinking one second that this arch-traitor, uber-leftist , snobbish guy is true friend of Israel ? How can the jews of America being so stupid ?
It is depressing indeed, but why Israel is so quite about it? the minimum action they must do is to close the Israeli Embassy in DC, and reject all cash handouts Israel receives daily from US government. In addition, the IDF should find a new supplier of weapons other than US. Perhaps India or China can provide weapons better than those of US.
I love Israel because God loves Israel. It is my firm belief that Obama is muslim and will do all he can, while he is in office, to advance the muslim agenda . Israel protect yourself , do not count on a two faced president, that will not be there for you.I do believe the next president will help Israel, but that is a year away.