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OUR WORLD: IRAN'S
GLOBAL REACH
BY CAROLINE
GLICK
May 18/09. US
President Barack Obama underestimates the threat Iran poses to global security.
Were this not the case, he would not have sent CIA Director Leon Panetta to
Israel ahead of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's visit to the White House.
Panetta was
reportedly dispatched here to read the government the riot act. Israel, he
reportedly told his interlocutors, must not attack Iran without first receiving
permission from Washington. Moreover, Israel should keep its mouth shut about
attacking Iran.
Over the past
several weeks, we have learned that the administration has made its peace with
Iran's nuclear aspirations.
IRAN POSES a
direct threat to US national security through its alliances and military,
intelligence and terrorist presence in South and Central America. Today Iranian
Revolutionary Guards, Iran's Hizb’ullah terror cells, and other Iranian agencies
operate in open collaboration with anti-US governments throughout the Western
Hemisphere. The South American lynchpin of this new and growing Iranian-centered
alliance system is Hugo Chavez's regime in Venezuela.
Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton said last week, the Bush administration's policy of "isolating
leaders who have led the opposition to US policies in Central and Latin America
has failed and marginalized Washington's interests."
CLINTON'S
STATEMENT makes clear the basic and disturbing consistency of the
administration's failure to understand that there are regimes that are
inherently hostile to the US and will remain irreconcilably hostile to the US
regardless of what it does or who sits in the White House. Just as the
administration cannot get its arms around the fact that the Iranian regime can
only justify its existence by maintaining its hostility towards America, so it
cannot countenance the fact that Chavez is only able to justify his existence
through his hatred for Uncle Sam. It has no way of explaining for instance the
fact that Iran and Venezuela responded to Obama's attempts last month to extend
an open hand to both countries by signing a memorandum upgrading their military
alliance.
What people - and
particularly Americans - could have expected is that the administration would
take seriously the threat that Iran poses to the US in the Western Hemisphere.
Depressingly however, the administration's apparent decision to abdicate
America's position and responsibilities as the sole global superpower has led it
to also abdicate its position and responsibilities as the most powerful nation
in the Western Hemisphere. Indeed, what the administration's refusal to
acknowledge the threat that a nuclear-armed Iran - rich with proxies and allies
at America's doorstep - poses to America demonstrates is that in its haste to
blame its predecessor for the fact that the US has real enemies, the
administration is abdicating its responsibility to defend America itself.
READ THE
FULL INFORMATIVE ARTICLE>
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SENATORS URGE
OBAMA TO SEE ISRAEL'S POINT OF VIEW!
BY
DR. DAVID HOCKING
May 20/09. Seventy-six out of 100 US senators this week signed a
letter urging President Barack Obama to carefully weigh the risks to Israel’s
security before pushing his new Middle East peace initiative.
The letter was sent to the President one day after his meeting with
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during which Obama pressed his guest
to grasp hold of the “historic opportunity” to make peace by surrendering his
people’s ancient lands.
In their letter, the senators appeared to side with Netanyahu’s
view that Israel cannot even consider a Palestinian state until the Palestinians
honour their commitments to halt all terrorism against the Jewish state.
“We
must also continue to insist on the absolute Palestinian commitment to ending
terrorist violence,” they wrote. “The more capable and responsible Palestinian
forces become, the more they demonstrate the ability to govern and to maintain
security, the easier it will be for them to reach an accord with Israel.”
According to reports in the US media, Obama is determined to push forward with
the creation of a Palestinian Arab state at the earliest possible date, and will
try to mitigate the risk to Israel by calling for that Palestinian state to be
demilitarized.
There
was no mention of what the consequences would be if and when the Palestinians
rejected or violated that condition.
http://hftm.org/blog/?p=665 |
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BY NATHAN JONES
May 20/09. With the May
18, 2009, Netanyahu-Obama meeting behind them, Jews around the world have begun
to realize that they are now very much alone.
That's not to say that Israel doesn't have sympathy from countries
like Germany and the Czech Republic. Since Israel became a nation again in 1948,
it has had at least one true, friend with teeth in the United States. After the
presidential meeting, it would appear that friends have parted ways.
Where past U.S. administrations stood by Israel while trying to
appease Israel's hostile Arab neighbors, the Obama administration has made it
clear it will stand by Israel's hostile Arab neighbors while trying to appease
Israel.
"After
decades of tacit agreement that the US would remain silent about Israel's
nuclear capability, a State Department official publicly suggested that Israel
sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, as if, on the eve of Iran's going
nuclear and with Pakistani weapons in danger of falling into the hands of the
Taliban, Israel's nuclear arsenal is the world's most serious concern."
The
Israel Today Tuesday, May 19, 2009,
article titled "Netanyahu holds fast against patronizing Obama" reports on the
discordant tone in the meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu and U.S. President Barack Obama. "The White House talks were expected
to be tense, as both leaders came in with divergent views regarding the creation
of a Palestinian state, how to deal with the Iran nuclear crisis, and the
linkage between the two issues ... Political spin doctors in both Washington and
Jerusalem immediately went to work painting the meeting as a relaxed and
friendly encounter, though the substance of what the two leaders told the press
bespoke a far different reality beneath the surface."
While "Netanyahu maintained his refusal to publicly endorse the
establishment of a sovereign Palestinian state," Obama told "reporters that his
government will push hard for the birth of 'Palestine,' urging Netanyahu to
grasp hold of this 'historic opportunity.'"
Obama then went on to strong-arm Israel to create a Palestinian
state or get no help from the U.S. on dealing with Iran's President
Ahmadinejad’s mad desire to build a nuclear weapon to "wipe Israel off the map."
Obama said, "To the extent that we can make peace with the Palestinians —
between the Palestinians and the Israelis — then I actually think it strengthens
our hand in the international community in dealing with the potential Iranian
threat."
"A new message is afloat — Israel is the problem, and the US has
had enough."
And so, Israel stands alone. The United States has now joined sides
with Israel's enemies in their desire to see Israel give up half their land,
land no larger than the size of the state of New Jersey.
The hostile Muslim world will never, ever, ever agree to recognize
Israel as a state or even their right to exist. No matter how much Israel gave
up, nothing short of total national suicide would appease Hamas and the
Muslim world. And sadly, that would be the only action that would appease the
rest of the world as well.
The
United States has now sided with the enemies of God. Prophetically, we have
instead sealed our own nation's demise.
FULL ARTICLE>
http://bible-prophecy-today.blogspot.com/2009/05/israel-alone.html |
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BY JOEL
ROSENBERG
May 20/09. I’m horrified by
reports this morning that in his June 4th
speech in Cairo,
President Obama will say it is time to divide
Jerusalem and make the holy city the capital of a Palestinian state.
No, Mr. President, it is not!
Jerusalem is and should be the eternal, undivided capital of the
Jewish people and the Jewish state. Dividing Jerusalem will not make peace.
Rather, it would send a message to every Radical Islamic jihadist around the
world that Israel is weak, that the Jews won’t even defend the sovereignty of
their own capital, that there is “blood in the water,” and that it is time to
strike Israel and wipe her off the map.
Dividing Jerusalem would trigger an apocalyptic war in the Middle
East the likes of which the region has never seen. Already, the Radicals believe
Israel is doomed to destruction. Hearing that the American President is now
ready to apply intense pressure against the Israelis to divide their capital
will only embolden the Radicals and convince them further that Allah is on their
side, the wind is at their back, and they will soon triumph over the Jews and
Christians.
While
I am not surprised by where the President is headed, I am horrified nonetheless.
Right at the moment when the U.S. and Israel need to be working with Arab states
in unity against the Iranian nuclear threat, this White House is systematically
turning against Israel. Despite all the smiles and boilerplate rhetoric from
senior administration officials over the last few days that Prime Minister
Netanyahu has been in town — promising to stand with Israel and maintain her
security — what the administration is actually advancing in terms of policy is
dangerous and destabilizing. They are playing with fire …
FULL ARTICLE>
http://bible-prophecy-today.blogspot.com/2009/05/obama-to-say-it-is-time-to-divide.html |
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A TWO-STATE PEACE IS
NOT THE ARAB GOAL
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BY JEFF JACOBY
May 20/09. Who
favors a two-state solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict?
President Obama
does, of course, as he made clear in welcoming Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu to the White House on Monday. So does former President George W. Bush,
who began advocating Palestinian statehood in 2002 and continued until his final
days in office. The Democratic Party's national platform endorses a two-state
solution; the Republican platform does, too. The UN Security Council unanimously
reaffirmed its support a few days ago. The European Union is strongly in favor
as well — so strongly that the EU's foreign-policy chief, Javier Solana, has
been warning Israel that its relations with Europe "will be very, very
different" if it drops the two-state ball.
Pope Benedict XVI
called for a Palestinian state during his recent visit to the Holy Land, thereby
aligning himself — on this issue, at least — with the editorial boards of The
New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles
Times. And, for that matter, with most Israelis. A new poll shows 58 percent of
the Israeli public backing a two-state solution; prominent supporters include
Netanyahu's three predecessors — former prime ministers Ehud Olmert, Ariel
Sharon, and Ehud Barak — as well as president Shimon Peres.
The consensus, it
would seem, is overwhelming. As Henri Guaino, a senior adviser to French
President Nicolas Sarkozy, put it in speaking to reporters on Sunday: "Everyone
wants peace. The whole world wants a Palestinian state."
It isn't going to
happen. ……
To this day, the
charters of Hamas and Fatah, the two main Palestinian factions, call for
Israel's liquidation. "The whole world" may want peace and a Palestinian state,
but the Palestinians want something very different. Until that changes, there is
no two-state solution.
FULL ARTICLE>
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