Earnest suggested Friday the U.S. could change its policy toward its longtime and closest Middle East ally, which Obama reiterated to The Huffington Post, citing his congratulatory call to Netanyahu.
“I indicated to him that given his statements prior to the election, it is going to be hard to find a path where people are seriously believing that negotiations are possible,” Obama said, referring to Palestine.
Assume US/Israel partnership over based on Obama/press secretary reaction to Bibi election Obama shld reconsider bc Israel only friend of US
— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) March 21, 2015France trust Iran less than we do France insisting slower easingsanctions if there is Iran nuclear agreement France provides backbone for US
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Whether or not Obama is a closet Mohammedan is beside the point. As far as what he does, which has to be tempered in order to pass the smell test of the American people who seem to have had their olfactory lobes amputated, he couldn't do anymore for Allah than he's doing.
As I see it he should be dressed like an Ayatollah if the truth be told.
I don't know the religious affiliations of the regular commenters here, but let me preface my comment by stating that I am not a particularly religious man. But please do not infer that I hold any contempt for those that are. I respect everybody's right to believe whatever they want.
I certainly don't consider myself anti-semitic. I would certainly prefer to live next door to a Jew rather than a Muslim. But on the same hand, I have no horse in the race over who controls the "holy land."
I've always kinda liked Netanyahu, and in this ancient war between Judaism and Islam, I have always leaned my support towards the side that's not currently trying to blow my shit up.
While a lot of people here in America seem to take a partisan view of him and the Likud party, I see him more as the leader of the modern-day Irgun, whose ultimate agenda is to continue pursuing Plan Dalet until the Hebrew state's eastern border is the Jordan river.
I don't see a lot of daylight between the Hebrews Plan Dalet and my ancestor's visions of Manifest Destiny that allowed them to build settlements in Indian territory, knowing they would be attacked, then using those attacks as justification for securing the connecting lands between settlements in such a way that the indigenous populations either gave up their lives defending it or chose to pack up and get out of our path of expansion. And hey, we owe our prestige in the world today to the fact that our ancestors did not let public opinion abroad affect the tenacity of their strategy.
Modern Israel doesn't have the luxury of completing their eastern expansion plans, due to the current global political climate, without alienating all current governmental supporters in a world body that has one Jewish vote among 49 Muslim ones.
In hindsight, I'd have to say that that global body's decision to export Europe's Jewish problem to mandate Palestine was probably not a very well thought out one. The Hebrews that were occupying the scattered villages along the Mediterranean coast and Jerusalem had no deep-pocketed sugar daddy at that time. They responded to Arab violence with the only indigenous weapon systems they had at the time... locally made explosives. They blew Arab shit up with the same zeal as IS/AQ does today. Their first sugar daddy was in fact the American-Jewish diaspora funded arms purchases facilitated by Joseph Stalin via Czechoslovakia over US objections. Their nuclear arms procurement were facilitated by French industry over US objections.
I don't know exactly how or when their survival in such a hostile land became my problem. I think maybe it had a lot to do with America's religious right's Cold War vacation plans.
Getting to my point... Israel is never going to achieve its geographical goals with us limiting their options, and they're never going to be able to let the Arab majority in the lands they covet enjoy full voting rights in the Hebrew democracy.
They're really not very good at being our puppet client-state anyway. The aid we give them has more to do with American defense industry jobs than it does allowing them allowing them to defend themselves from a billion Muslims with dreams of pushing them into the sea. In fact, as long as they work under our guidelines, they will never be able to live in peace with their hostile neighbors.
They have ignored successive US administrations demands to stop building settlements in the occupied West Bank territories. They're going to have to pay a price for their recalcitrance. Running interference for these aggressive people at the UN has not only harmed our credibility it has allowed the Europeans that facilitated their reappearance in the holy land to absolve themselves from the responsibility of guaranteeing the survival of their Jewish emigrants.
Israel reportedly has over 200 hydrogen weapons. Nobody is going to push them into the sea... without a mass extermination of their Arab enemies... which of course is my preferred result.
I concur entirely.
The both covet the same territory. One has the power to entirety remove the other but doesn't exercise it. I have no doubt the Pals would have already pulled that trigger we're the shoe on the other foot.
Just as the Indians and Mexicans would have had they had the technological advantage.
Still, Israel's worth as an ally is far outweighed by the burden they are to our foreign policies.
I think we have been doing the "right thing" by being their sole supporter at the UN. But by continuing to build settlements in the West Bank over our instructions to halt them should subject them to the consequences of their actions without interference from us on their behalf.
I am curious to see exactly what resolutions the UN would throw at them in an environment where other member states know we wont veto. Right now they can talk all the shit they want without fear of its ratification.
Would they really authorize a Palestinian state and send blue helmets to expel Jewish settlers?
I'd really love to see them try.
If 1948 is any indication, a threatened Hebrew without a do gooder patron is not afraid to use their technological advantages to maximum effect.
If we abstain from voting on a UN resolution to expel them from the West Bank we wont feel culpable when they reply by destroying the UN forces and depopulating it.
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