Prime Minister Netanyah Confronts Obama's Hostility Towards Israel

"Why has US President Barak Obama decided to foment a crisis in US relations with Israel?"

For everyone including Jews who voted for Obama this article by Caroline Glick should convince you that Mr. Obama is anti-freedom and for everything that smells of statism. Obama's staged rage against Israel is nothing short of astonishing. Every president and the American People have been pro-Israel - In comes Obama and he now shows all the faces of a man bent on destroying this tiny prosperous country. Why? Because he wants to cow-tow to the likes of Ahmadinejad of Iran and Syria and Turkey and....all the bad guys. It's a sad day for freedom ever since we elected this man out of left field. Read the following article by Caroline Glick who analyzes the Middle East.

Why has US President Barak Obama decided to foment a crisis in US relations with Israel?

Some commentators have claimed that it is Israel's fault. As they tell it, the news that Israel has not banned Jewish construction in Jerusalem — after repeatedly refusing to ban such construction — drove Obama into a fit of uncontrolled rage from which he has yet to recover.

While popular, this claim makes no sense. Obama didn't come to be called "No drama Obama" for nothing. It is not credible to argue that Jerusalem's local planning board's decision to approve the construction of 1,600 housing units in Ramat Shlomo drove cool Obama into a fit of wild rage at Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.

Obama himself claims that he has launched a political war against Israel in the interest of promoting peace. But this claim too, does not stand up to scrutiny.
On Friday Obama ordered Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to present Netanyahu with a four-part ultimatum.

First, Israel must cancel the approval of the housing units in Ramat Shlomo.
Second, Israel must prohibit all construction for Jews in Jerusalem neighborhoods built since 1967.

Third, Israel must make a gesture to the Palestinians to show them we want peace. The US suggests releasing hundreds of Palestinian terrorists from Israeli prisons.

Fourth, Israel must agree to negotiate all substantive issues, including the partition of Jerusalem, (including the Jewish neighborhoods constructed since 1967 that are now home to more than a half million Israelis), and the immigration of millions of hostile foreign Arabs to Israel under the rubric of the so-called "right of return," in the course of indirect, Obama administration-mediated negotiations with the Palestinians. To date, Israel has maintained that substantive discussions can only be conducted in direct negotiations between Israeli and Palestinian officials... Read "Why Obama is Waging War Against Israel" at Jewish World Review. Also read "Biden's Lost Cause" by Caroline Glick. This article also shows how the United States under Obama is undermining Israel and it's interests.

"Our enemies get courted; our friends get the squeeze. It has happened to Poland, the Czech Republic, Honduras and Colombia. Now it's Israel's turn"

The hypocrisy of this administration is beyond comprehension. Obama and his minions have been dissing our friends and cozying-up to the bad guys. What is one to think about this? What? Please tell me? Treason? A desire to destroy America as we know it? Explain this to me. All I see is danger-danger for our country, danger for our principles, danger for our freedoms.

In recent weeks, the Obama Administration has endorsed "healthy relations" between Iran and Syria, mildly rebuked Syrian President Bashar Assad for accusing the U.S. of "colonialism," and publicly apologized to Moammar Gadhafi for treating him with less than appropriate deference after the Libyan called for "a jihad" against Switzerland.

When it comes to Israel, however, the Administration has no trouble rising to a high pitch of public indignation. On a visit to Israel last week, Vice President Joe Biden condemned an announcement by a mid-level Israeli official that the government had approved a planning stage—the fourth out of seven required—for the construction of 1,600 housing units in north Jerusalem. Assuming final approval, no ground will be broken on the project for at least three years.

But neither that nor repeated apologies from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prevented Secretary of State Hillary Clinton—at what White House sources ostentatiously said was the personal direction of President Obama—from calling the announcement "an insult to the United States." White House political chief David Axelrod got in his licks on NBC's Meet the Press yesterday, lambasting Israel for what he described as "an affront." READ at WSJ, "Obama Turns Against Israel".

Obama Is Steering America to A Profound Disaster

Beware fellow Americans...Obama will eventually lead us to disaster of one kind or another. His empty headed rhetoric, his ignorance of history, his apparent disregard for what America is and stands for and the disrespect and utter contempt he shows for our Founding Fathers is a recipe for bad, bad times ahead. Mr. Sowell thinks that if he ruins our country that will be the least of it...he's afraid that this man in the White House will cause or allow the nuclear arming of Iran and we know what their intentions are: destruction of Israel and the United States. How did we let this man in office? I ask myself that every evening when I try to get some sleep.

After many a disappointment with someone, and especially after a disaster, we may be able to look back at numerous clues that should have warned us that the person we trusted did not deserve our trust.

When that person is the president of the United States, the potential for disaster is virtually unlimited.

Many people are rightly worried about what this administration's reckless spending will do to the economy in our time and to our children and grandchildren, to whom a staggering national debt will be passed on. But if the worst that Barack Obama does is ruin the economy, I will breathe a sigh of relief.

He is heading this country toward disaster on many fronts, including a nuclear Iran, which has every prospect of being an irretrievable disaster of almost unimaginable magnitude. We cannot put that genie back in the bottle — and neither can generations yet unborn. They may yet curse us all for leaving them hostages to nuclear terror.

Conceivably, Israel can spare us that fate by taking out the Iranian nuclear facilities, instead of relying on Obama's ability to talk the Iranians out of going nuclear...

Like so many before him who have ruined countries around the world, Obama has a greatly inflated idea of his own capabilities and the prospects of what can be accomplished by rhetoric or even by political power.Often this has been accompanied by an ignorance of history, including the history of how many people before him have tried similar things with disastrous results. (READ AT IBD)

The "Broken Window Effect" in War

Mr Bisharat has written an unbelievable column based on half truths. The fact is that the nations surrounding Israel have the declared goal of the complete annihilation of Israel. This tiny nation is in a death struggle against Muslims who though weak are dedicated to death.

Why doesn't Israel have the right to fight a declared war the way wars have been fought in the past: the goal in any war is TO WIN. You don't win by fighting tit for tat - you destroy your enemy. Why do Israelis have to live with the constant lobbing of bombs on their cities? I say NO MORE. If this was happening to America we would go all out to kill and destroy the enemy. The fact is that Bisharat's hatred of the Jews comes shining through and WSJ should be ashamed for having printed such a diatribe.

Israel has the right to live in peace and harmony among the nations of the world. If the enemy refuses to live like civilized human beings then the Israeli government has the right and the DUTY to protect its citizens. The fact that Israel has a superior army is not an argument for not fighting to the finish. Wars are never won with half hearted attempts. This just emboldens the enemy. Unfortunately Israel not only has this military struggle to win but the court of public opinion is always against them - why is that? Any country under attack has the right to fight to end and win decisively once and for all.

The "broken window effect" which was used to describe the detioration of a neighborhood if nothing was done to fight the small acts of crime can be applied to armed conflicts. If you allow one bomb to explode you give the enemy a kind of sanction by not defending yourself with total moral certainty. Half hearted attempts at armed struggle have never resulted in won wars. Our efforts in WWII was an all out fight to the death. And we were brave to do the ultimate act of dropping the atom bombs. It makes no difference to the dead whether they died by a bullet or by a bomb. But by this action it showed the Japanese that the we would not tolerate anymore killing and invasion - and the war ended. Note that the Japanese proceeded to become one of the great industrial nations among nations! They learned their lesson.

An important overlooked aspect of this conflict is the fact that it is incumbent upon the civilians to demand from their political leaders civilized behavior by ending war and putting in place institutions that promote freedom of thought, speech and action that is critically missing in the Muslim world. Israel as well must no longer tolerate anymore hostilities by their neighbors once and for all. (WSJ).

Israel Must Fight to Win

What is it with the Israeli government that they never seem to want to win any war they are forced to engage in? The latest war is with Hamas in Gaza and while Israel has the obvious ability to win outright they always stop way short of crushing their enemy. In fact, Hamas is an illegal terrorist organization and an "Iranian proxy" so why doesn't Israel go all the way and destroy this evil? Right now the Israeli government is negotiating with Hamas under the auspices of the EU. But what does Israel have to negotiate about with Hamas? Hamas wants to see Israel wiped off the map.

When it comes to fighting for your life do you try to negotiate with your enemy? No you kill him first - it's called self-defense. Israel's history is filled with these half hearted attempts at self-defense and it will continue because they do not have the moral certitude that they are in the right. Not God-given certitude but moral certitude because they are the good represented in their productivity and life giving manner of living. Hamas is a terrorist organization that cares not a wit for their people or progress or living in peace with their neighbors. Their goal is power and ramming their religion down people's throat. Caroline Glick explains the irrationality of having the EU stand in as a mediator.

"Since Tuesday it has become clear that the Olmert-Livni-Barak government has decided to end the war with Iran's Hamas proxy army in Gaza as quickly as possible. That is, the government has decided to lose the war."

"The first problem with the EU proposal is that it takes for granted that all of Hamas's demands must be met in full. That is, Israel is beginning these negotiations from a point of weakness whereby it has already effectively accepted Hamas's demands and conceded its own.

"The second problem with the decision to accept EU mediation is that by doing so, the government is compelled to ignore and indeed justify the EU's underlying and deep-seated hostility toward Israel. The very fact that the EU accepted Hamas's demands from the outset demonstrates clearly that the EU cannot be an honest broker between the warring factions.

"...The third strategic failure inherent in Israel's decision to negotiate a truce is Israel's demand for an international monitoring force to verify compliance with the cease-fire agreement. This demand is self-defeating because such a force will only harm Israel's national interests. This is the clear lesson of both the EU's past monitoring mission at the Rafah terminal and of UNIFIL forces in southern Lebanon."

It's time that Israel show its many enemies that they are through negotiating. That they will stand up and defend themselves and the end game will be winning a clear and decisive victory that will leave the enemy totally vanquished. A person or a nation has a right to exist if that person or nation does not negate another person or nation's right to live. Sacrificing your young men and the interests of one's country to evil is an inverted morality which Ayn rand called the "Sanction of the Victim".

• Then I saw what was wrong with the world, I saw what destroyed men and nations, and where the battle for life had to be fought. I saw that the enemy was an inverted morality - and that my sanction was its only power. I saw that evil was impotent - and that evil was the irrational, the blind, the anti-real - and that the only weapon of its triumph was the willingness of the good to serve it. Just as the parasites around me were proclaiming their helpless dependence on my mind and were expecting me voluntarily to accept a slavery they had no power to enforce, just as they were counting on my self-immolation to provide them with the means of their plan - so throughout the world and throughout men's history, in very version and form, from the extortions of loafing relatives to the atrocities of collectivized countries, it is the good, the able, the men of reason, who act as their own destroyers, who transfuse to evil the blood of their virtue and let evil transmit to them the poison of destruction, thus gaining for evil the power of survival, and for their own values - the impotence of death. I saw that there comes a point, in the defeat of any man of virtue, when his own consent is needed for evil to win - and that no manner of injury done to him by others can succeed if he chooses to withhold his consent. I saw that I could put an end to your outrages by pronouncing a single word in my mind, I pronounced it. The word was "No". (For the New Intellectual, Ayn Rand).

Israel needs to have leaders that believe in their right to exist without constant threats from their neighbors. They do not need the EU as mediator because 1. EU is anti-Israel and 2. what is there to mediate? This is not a quarrel about water rights. This is an existential threat. Israel needs leaders who have a correct philosophy - one that upholds the certitude of their right to live as a nation among nations free from terrorism and attacks by backward, bullying non-rational groups or countries. You can only do that one way and that is by winning your wars completely and that is done not with altruism but with a philosophy of selfishness. The good in this world is drowning in a sea of altruism. Let's turn the other cheek toward selfishness. I'll explain in the next post.

Betting on Brains or Oil

Thomas Friedman has an editorial in the NY Times "People vs Dinosaurs" where he brings to our attention the scenario of two opposing foes who bet on the future of Israel. Iran's Ahmadinejad bet that Israel “has reached its final phase and will soon be wiped out from the geographic scene.” But America's Buffet thinks the contrary and has invested lots of money in this tiny country of 7 million. What he has invested in is the brain power of Israel.

...So who would you put your money on? Buffett or Ahmadinejad? I’d short Ahmadinejad and go long Warren Buffett.

Why? From outside, Israel looks as if it’s in turmoil, largely because the entire political leadership seems to be under investigation. But Israel is a weak state with a strong civil society. The economy is exploding from the bottom up. Israel’s currency, the shekel, has appreciated nearly 30 percent against the dollar since the start of 2007.

The reason? Israel is a country that is hard-wired to compete in a flat world. It has a population drawn from 100 different countries, speaking 100 different languages, with a business culture that strongly encourages individual imagination and adaptation and where being a nonconformist is the norm. While you were sleeping, Israel has gone from oranges to software, or as they say around here, from Jaffa to Java.

...Iran has invented nothing of importance since the Islamic Revolution, which is a shame. Historically, Iranians have been a dynamic and inventive people — one only need look at the richness of Persian civilization to see that. But the Islamic regime there today does not trust its people and will not empower them as individuals.

...Iran’s economic and military clout today is largely dependent on extracting oil from the ground. Israel’s economic and military power today is entirely dependent on extracting intelligence from its people. Israel’s economic power is endlessly renewable. Iran’s is a dwindling resource based on fossil fuels made from dead dinosaurs.

So who will be here in 20 years? I’m with Buffett: I’ll bet on the people who bet on their people — not the people who bet on dead dinosaurs. READ