Friday, April 10, 2009

Delivering Israel to the Arabs

The Spectator.CO.UK

As was entirely predictable, Obama has gone to his good friends the Saudis to help him throw Israel under the bus. Having bowed deeply to the Saudi King Abdullah when they were in London last week (an image which tells you everything you need to know -- and so has been conspicuous by its absence from the msm; the Queen, by contrast, merited only a protocol-busting hand on the back) Obama, according to his Middle East envoy George Mitchell, is adopting the Saudi Israel destruction 'peace' plan as his solution to the Middle East impasse. Ha'aretz reports: The Arab peace initiative will be part of the Obama administration's policy toward the Middle East, the United States special envoy to the region said. The 2002 initiative offers to normalize relations between the entire Arab region and Israel, in exchange for a complete Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories including East Jerusalem, the establishment of a Palestinian State and a ‘just settlement’ for Palestinian refugees.

That ‘just settlement’ in the Saudi destruction plan means the unlimited immigration into Israel of the Arabs of the territories, which would mean the end of Israel. It would certainly result in two states – both of them Arab. Has there ever been a dispute whose proposed solution is the establishment of a state for people clamouring for one of their own plus their right to live in someone else’s country? How can this possibly be said to be a fair settlement? Contrary to the propaganda, those Arabs have no legal or moral claim on Israel any more than the descendants of any other population displaced through war – even less so in this case because they were displaced through their own illegal aggression in a war which they continue to wage to this day.

In similar vein, giving up east Jerusalem, to which Israel has an overwhelming claim according to both international law and historical attachment and presence, would expose Jerusalem’s Jewish inhabitants to an annihilatory genocidal regime – most probably standing proxy for Iran – literally in the neighbouring streets. (It would also mean the desecration not only of Jewish holy places, as happened before 1967when under illegal Jordanian occupation synagogues and cemeteries were destroyed and Jews were forbidden to pray at the Western Wall, but of Christian ones too – remember the destruction by the Taleban of the Buddhas of Banyam.) This would therefore be the most unjust settlement of any dispute in the world.

The adoption of this plan by the Obama administration means that all its protestations about safeguarding Israel’s security are totally worthless. It has now thrown its weight behind the destruction of Israel.

What is that eerie sound? It is the continuing silence of America’s Jews.


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Guest Comments:It is amazing that the White House can deny Obama's bow to the Saudi King when it is captured on tape. What else did he lie about during his campaign? We know that his current "support" for the seuciryt of Israel is a far cry from what he promised to AIPAC and during the camptain. And his "outreach" to the "Islamic World" is nothing short of cowering and begging. The Muslims view this as a sign on weakness and d'himmitude, not a desire for peace. All this in the face of "continuing silence of America's Jews." Aggie
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Read this and think ahead; fulfillment of this plan will not only destroy Israel and endanger Jews worldwide, but will also increase terrorism worldwide. Israel stands as a bulwark of freedom against the establishment of a center of terrorist activities in the Mideast. Obama's deep bow to the Saudi King - denied by the White House, as it must - is the subservient action of an American president who claims to be Christian. It is an outrage!

Is this the 'change' and 'hope' that he promised? Hardly. It is just another example of the less than 'transparent' actions that have been foisted upon American citizens by the Obama administration. It causes much worry and an early challenge to these policies is in order rather than waiting for more such surprises. The promise of 'standing by Israel' should it be attacked by Iran is meaningless; there would be nothing left to defend. We have an inexperienced American president whose knowledge of foreign policy is so limited, sitting on the fence in the face of a most dangerous threat to a longtime US ally and a legitimate nation.

With apprehension we await the leadership that the United States can and should provide during these most critical days in world history.

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