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Obama’s well-timed and coordinated betrayal of Israel—and it may not be over yet — 28 Comments

  1. “The resolution declares all of Judea, Samaria and East Jerusalem – home to the Old City, the Western Wall and the Temple Mount – the most sacred place in Judaism – “occupied Palestinian territory,”

    It effectively declares any Jew living in Judea, Samaria and East Jerusalem to be a war criminal.

    “Daniel Pipes recently wrote that it is time to acknowledge the failure of a “peace process” that is really a war process. He stresses that peace can only come when an enemy is defeated.”

    Defeated in the manner of WWII’s Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.

    “If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.” Curtis LeMay

    Allah has declared in the Qur’an that any land once Muslim MUST eternally remain Muslim. This is a theological imperative, a mandatory obligation. Any Muslim who fails to work toward it risks being barred from paradise. That and that alone, lies at the heart of Palestinian intransigence.

  2. Peculiar it is, the non-recognition that either Britain or France could have vetoed the anti-Israel Security Council resolution. It was not just the Obama-mandated US abstention that got the resolution passed.

    Note the countries that spoke in favor of the resolution at the SC meeting: New Zealand, Venezuela, France, China, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Russian Federation, Japan, Angola and Senegal. The good, the bad, and the ugly.

    Note also that New Zealand was the sponsor of the anti-Israel resolution. The same New Zealand that does not allow US Navy ships to refuel/reprovision in its harbors.

    Anti-Semitism is in worldwide favor.
    Thank God for Trump.

  3. Also, the same New Zealand that refuses to join the U.K., the E.U., the U.S., Canada, and Australia in condemning China’s organ harvesting program.

  4. I know that to be a Jew is not the same thing as to be pro-Israel, or even the same thing as to be a pro-Israel Jew.

    But I can hardly help saying, to no one Jew in particular but to Jews generally, all the warning signs have been there even since before The One ran for election in 2008. Keep on voting Democrat, people. [sarcasm]

    “After my election I have more flexibility” indeed.

    (I do know that fewer and fewer Jews automatically vote Democrat now; in my lifetime it’s decreased from around 90 percent or more to maybe 75 or 70 percent now. That’s still an awfully high proportion. I suppose in these polarized times, many Jews will stick with the collectivist/socialist side, and will choose to swallow the anti-Israel / antisemitic side. Whatever.)

  5. The Obama Legacy: Lawless bureaucracies, chaos everywhere, including here at home, and soon to be, the entire Middle East in flames. Will a vast majority of American Jews continue to vote for democrats when Israel is at war with the entire Arab world?

  6. parker:
    Israel need not take on the entire Arab aka Muslim world.
    When Iran de facto annexes Syria, the Golan Heights will be no barrier. Israel and Iran will be cheek-to-cheek.
    I hope the Israelis have enough nukes and a non-aviation delivery system to repel [deter] the onslaught. Even with Obama gone, with Shias running Iraq, Israel will not be granted flyover to Iran.

  7. Just when you think that Mr. Obama could not get up to any more mischief……..

    Depending on what happens with lame-duck changes in policy toward Israel, Mr. Obama could just end up hurting his own political party, if whatever goes on turns out to be unpopular. Mr. Obama is also inviting more scrutiny from the incoming Trump administration, which after everything else that has gone on, will feel little obligation to keep his executive orders in place.

    Compare this to all the recent news about Russians “hacking the election.” Don’t the Democrats realize that just invites the question of whether hostile foreign powers hacked Hillary Clinton’s secret e-mail server? And as for the Inspector General looking into the FBI Director’s conduct, don’t those same people realize that also invites questions about the conduct of Attorney General Loretta Lynch?

    I wonder if this is the “change” that people were looking for, back in 2008. There’s a certain arrogance and short-sightedness going on here, with some on the Left being unable to see their own faults, or admit the possibility that they may be wrong, or that they might not always be morally perfect and correct.

  8. Yankee,

    When you acknowlede bho as MR who acknowledge him as worthy of the title. i am sure you can see why I make this objection.

  9. Yankee,

    I’m sure we’re not alone in seeing the potential for severe blowback in the left’s recent actions. But one should never interfere when an enemy is busily digging themselves into an ever deeper hole.

  10. Frog, you are wrong about NZ not allowing US ships, as you allow your emotions to cloud your judgement around Israel.

    US ships are welcome to N Z shores provided they are non-nuclear. Anti US sentiment is very low here.

    The US Navy have a policy of not indicating which ships have nuclear weapons, so effectively ban themselves. In recent times the US policy has softened and we will see ships back. NZ has trained alongside US naval forces for years.

    We send forces alongside the US coalition’s in Afghanistan, Iraq etc.

    We are neither antiSemitic nor anti-US. We do disagree about Israel.

    You are like the SJWs who insist that there is only one way to be just, and that no deviation from the party line is acceptable. You, like the SJWs, can stick it.

    Because NZ disagree on Israel is not reason to tar us with anti-Semitism.

  11. “Because NZ disagree on Israel is not reason to tar us with anti-Semitism.”

    That might be a reasonable statement if you had shown your disagreement with an op-ed. Or simply with your foreign policy decisions about trade with Israel, etc.

    But siding with the jackals at the UN? Under these circumstances? Jew-hatred definitely seems like the most likely explanation. The only other possibility is extreme ignorance. And the two are often found together — ignorance of Israel and hatred of Jews — in the form of willful blindness.

  12. New Zealand’s non-nuclear policy is either deeply foolish or cowardly. Foolish because if the US unilaterally disarmed from its nuclear arsenal, within a decade, Russia and China would launch a decisive nuclear attack. The brutal truth is that the ONLY thing that keeps evil from ruling the world is America’s nuclear arsenal.

    If NZ acknowledges this reality, then cowardice can be the only motivation.

  13. But 2334 is much more than just screwing Israel.

    It trashes Resolution 242 (and all previous US—and UN—-policy on this issue).

    It trashes Oslo—one of the (if not THE) landmark achievements of the Clinton presidency (though why the Clintons have been, as far as I know, so silent on this issue I find more than a bit puzzling).

    It forever more, trashes American diplomacy, American reliability, and the entire concept of America as an ally (and why the State Department is so eager to play along is, once again, more that a bit puzzling)…

    It screws Trump big time (already mentioned in the thread).

    It further places the focus and onus on Israel as THE PRIMARY reason for there being no “progress” in the I-P “peace process”.

    All of the above are, of course, huge, huge achievements—extraordinary pluses, fabulous bonanzas—for an administration whose goal it is to “fundamentally transform” America (and take down the Jewish State).

    And it’s about to get worse.

  14. I forgot to mention that it will likely weaken the Democratic Party even more than it has already been weakened by the Obama presidency…

    …though to believe that Obama is or was ever interested in the health of the Democratic Party—except for how he would be able to manipulate that strength—-is to be beyond naive.

    (And even when the Democratic Party was weakened, Obama showed he didn’t really need it, employing executive orders, deception and his lackeys in the MSM to achieve his lawless, sordid goals.)

  15. I am glad to see Chester Draws come out from behind the curtain.
    “He” is a Kiwi.
    NZ is a pretty inconsequential country, geographically well out of harm’s way, being insulated from the evil that stalks much of the populated world. In consequence, Kiwis pontificate their inherent goodness and play loose with facts. A Wikileaks release some years ago indicated NZ’s involvement in the thoroughly corrupt Iraqi Oil for Food program.

    From a NZ source via Google:
    “Under New Zealand law the US is not required to confirm or deny whether a visiting ship is nuclear armed – it only requires the prime minister of the day to be satisfied any visiting ship does not carry nuclear weapons and is not nuclear powered.
    An assessment on a ship’s nuclear capability is made by New Zealand officials.”

    It is the USN’s longstanding policy never to admit or deny nuclear weapons or nuclear power on any USN ship.

    So NZ banned USN ships for almost 40 years. Until 2016, when our Navy got an invite to send a ship to NZ in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the NZ Navy!

    A self-centered wee little nation. They herd sheep; lamb seems to be the main export.

  16. It’s like the world needs Israel to undergo biblical struggles, so they will make sure to provide them.

    Meanwhile, I’m trying to mentally steel myself for these “peace talks.” Attacks on Israel tend to have an emotional impact on me, which probably isn’t healthy, but there it is.

    On the plus side, the loathing I’m now feeling for the outgoing administration is making me feel almost giddy with enthusiasm for the new one.

    That’s a problem only because everyone I know is emotionally suffering because of the election. The inauguration looms for them like the apocalypse of America.

    But, I want to burst out laughing, which I have to suppress, out of empathy, and of course, self protection, they lash out.

    The looming biblical destruction business is exhausting.

  17. OM:
    Not bashing NZ, just stating some facts, if you read them. Kiwis are very close to joining the BDS movement as a nation.
    If Gazans with their Mediterranean frontage had built resorts and casinos, Gaza would be the Old World version of Las Vegas, raking in the Israeli shekels to boot.

  18. “Not bashing NZ” – size of the nation, location of the nation, what their economy is based on (or “known” for), with disparaging commentary. “Just facts.” Yeah. Which had nothing to do with their government’s policy or history regarding Israel. BS from Froggy.

  19. Chester,

    NZ is upset because Jewish people live on lands that the Palestinians ‘claim’ was at one point owned by them.

    Yet White Kiwis have no trouble with living on land that actually was owned by indigenous people as recently as 250 years.

    You folks ha

  20. Have two sets of rules. One for yourselves. And another one for Jews.

    Perhaps you could find out the term used to define such a double standard.

    ( sorry for the split post … got excited watching the Cowboys-Packers game )

  21. Seriously Chester, NZ is not anti-Semitic because it disagrees with Israel?

    Point me, if you will, to NZ’s support of a UN resolution calling for an independent Basque state, Kurdistan, Baluchistan, Moro state, Rohingya state, Free Tyrol, Free Aceh, etc., etc., etc. Point me to the NZ support oif a UN resolution condemning the Chinese invasion and occupation of Tibet, the Turkish invasion and occupation of Cyprus, the Russian invasion and occupation of Crimea and eastern Ukraine.

    How about your own invasion and conquest of the Maori? Are you going to declare yourselves occupiers? Label every white New Zealander an invader? Every apartment building owned by whites an “illegal settlement?’

    When you’ve done all that, then you can say NZ is not anti-Semitic. I’m not holding my breath.

  22. New Zealand’s non-nuclear policy is either deeply foolish or cowardly.

    Neither of them. It’s an small country, and US umbrella has been always there.

    Of course, that’s vanishing. There is gonna be a moment where US won’t dare to face China in order to protect New Zealand. That moment New Zealand will be inside the sphere of China, which aims to be the only ruler in the Pacific. And then New Zealand will have to agree with the policies dictated from China, no matter they like them or not.

    Meet the new boss, you’ll miss the old one.

  23. NZ is upset because Jewish people live on lands that the Palestinians ‘claim’ was at one point owned by them.

    Yet White Kiwis have no trouble with living on land that actually was owned by indigenous people as recently as 250 years.

    Well, the thing is most of Palestinian population went to what now is Israel and Palestine 2-3 centuries ago. It was an Ottoman policy that incentivated inmigration waves to force Islam in middle east. And it worked. A few centuries ago, middle east had more Christians than Muslims. Check now.

    So when Palestinian say they are indigenous from Palestine… well, they are as much indigenous as white kiwis in NZ or white people in US.

  24. OM-
    “size of the nation, location of the nation, what their economy is based on (or “known” for)” are indeed facts.
    My associated commentary stands as my opinion.
    Your opinion differs, it would seem. Should I take that as being anti-Israel? Or pro-Hamas? In addition to being pro-Kiwi?

  25. Frog:

    I’m anti-BS from a curmudgeon who takes pot shots at entire countries. Wikipedia and Google are full of “facts.” Understand that, Doc?

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