The Obama intifada
Ben Shapiro believes that President Obama's deliberate provocation to Israel last week was the result of American domestic political considerations: Obama wants to distract Americans from his failure at health care. Make no mistake -- the timing of the latest Obama-Israel spat is purposeful on the Obama administration's part. This response was far too well-rehearsed for it to have been triggered by something equivalent to a Housing and Urban Development dispute in the United States. You would think that Biden, the presiding officer of the Senate, would be useful during a health care debate. You would think that Obama could send Mitchell or Hillary or someone remotely qualified on Middle Eastern politics. But that's not what Obama wanted. Obama sent Biden to Israel on March 8, even as the House and Senate looked for a way to ram through the health care bill, because he wanted Biden's visit to trigger headlines.I don't know about that. Obama hates us enough to provoke an intifada without the health care thing as an excuse.
And trigger headlines it did. Obama has been pressing Israel since his inauguration to concede to Palestinian Arab terrorists; he even sent his Jewish "Benedict Arnold" Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee annual conference last year to inform Jews that if they didn't appease Palestinian Arab terrorists, the Obama administration would allow Iran to go nuclear. The Obama administration's anti-Israel ire is nothing new.
What is new is the level of the Obama administration's rhetoric, which has brought American-Israeli relations to the lowest point since 1956. Even as the Obama administration condemned Israel for supposedly stalling the Orwellian "peace process," Palestinian Arabs were rioting in a Hamas-sponsored "day of rage" to protest the reopening of a Jerusalem synagogue ripped down by Arabs in 1948. The synagogue is located in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, sovereign Israeli territory by any estimation. Yet we have not heard a peep from the Obama administration about the Arab riots over their wish to establish Judenrein in Jewish Jerusalem proper.
On Tuesday, hundreds of Arabs throughout Jerusalem burned tires and threw rocks at border guards. An Israeli policeman was shot in East Jerusalem. What do we hear from the Obama administration? Silence. This is the Obama Intifada. It is he who has suggested that the Palestinian Arabs have legitimate grievances, that Israel is the victimizer, and that the United States will stand aside and allow violent atrocities by Arabs to go forward without comment. He wants this Intifada, and he's got it.
The Obama Intifada will serve a dual purpose: it will knock health care off the front pages, and it will provide a "crisis" for Obama to solve. If a few Jews get killed, Obama doesn't truly care. What's a few eggs if you're frying up a socialized health care omelet? What's a few Jews if you can win another Nobel Peace Prize?
But read the whole thing. I even added a word to my vocabulary.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 7:04 AM
2 Comments:
Carl - I think the antipathy of Obama towards Israel is now well established. What is it about Jews living in Jerusalem that drove him into a fit of rage is something I will never understand. There is absolutely NO reason to instigate a confrontation even if you do believe Israel chose to thumb an eye in his Vice President's face. Then again, construction in Jerusalem was something he and his Secretary Of State agreed to last fall as the price for Israel's agreeing to a freeze in Yesha. The upshot of the American condemnation is going to make Israel less willing to help the US with its foreigh policy goals in the Middle East in the future.
If the US can't be trusted to keep prior commitments, then Israel should not forced to live up to commitments it made on the basis that the US would live up to the ones it had given. Its a two way street and America's cavalier treatment of its undertaking to Israel will be remembered long after this event passes into the history books.
NormanF,
We knew months ago when he dishonored the Bush letter that Obama could not be trusted to keep his commitments.
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