The UN and the Obama Administration on the Wrong Side of History
The spectacle of the UN Security Council engaged in one more Israel-bashing exercise, while the the Iranian and Arab world burns, is a stark example of the organization’s moral turpitude and irrelevance for the 21st century. The Council is set to convene this afternoon to consider a resolution condemning all Israeli settlements built on what Arabs claim is their land. The Obama administration is doing everything possible to placate Israel’s foes, and may well decide to refuse to exercise its veto power, though the resolution promotes a grossly one-sided distortion of fact and law. The wrong side of history is close at hand.
Despite the talk about the president, the secretary of state, and the director of national intelligence being in the dark on most things going on in the Middle East, like the “secular” Muslim Brotherhood, there is nothing mysterious about today’s events. Serving up Israel when the going gets tough is what Arab dictators and demagogues do at regular intervals. Since the same bunch dictates virtually all outcomes at the UN, but for the Security Council, it is also what the UN does. If the president decides to join them, therefore, he is betting against democracy with his eyes wide open.
Already, via U.S. UN Ambassador Susan Rice, the administration has capitulated and agreed to a unanimous Security Council “presidential statement” condemning Israel. That strategy just whet the appetites of Muslim and Arab negotiators who can recognize weakness as well as every other observer.
To understand just how evil the scene is, it is necessary to talk about what happened to Lara Logan. The CBS reporter was in Cairo last week covering the aftermath of the overthrow of Mubarak, when she was brutally sexually assaulted by democracy-celebrating Egyptians heard yelling “Jew, Jew.” It does not matter that she wasn’t Jewish. It does matter that the hatred and anti-Semitism which runs so deep among the masses screaming for tolerance, for everybody but Jews, is precisely what is driving the diplomatic mobs at the UN. Ganging up on Israel at the UN Security Council is an ugly and contemptible scene.
Just wanted to add one item to the author’s list:
Some months back, Obama via Susan Rice caused Canada to be ejected from the Security Council, replaced by Portugal.
Canada, led by the conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, is currently Israel’s most reliable ally. Weakening Canada’s influence at the UN was crucial to the international community’s anti-Israel agenda.
So many people with sinister designs in positions of power, ganging up on Israel. Dark times ahead.
Gobbo, dark times indeed. In fact, the gang rape on Israel-or, to put it more bluntly-open season on Jews-can only lead in one direction, to another attempt at the Final, Final Solution.
Obama and gang are very aware of the end game.Thus, to ascribe to them anything but sinister motives is to be willfully blind.
Those who believe that Jerusalem is not hip to Obama’s desire to check mate Israel are delusional.While our leaders can often be feckless and appeasing, at the end of the day they wish to survive, as do their families.
Jerusalem won’t go down(for a third time in history)without taking MANY others with us.The international community would do well not to test our nation’s will to survive.
Our resilience and fight will make the uprisings in the Middle East look like tea parties.
I have no doubt Israel sees the danger and has made preparations.
I do have some concerns about just how feckless and appeasing Israel’s leaders are willing to be, though. I’m troubled by recent reports that Netanyahu has allowed Egypt to send thousands of troops into the Sinai, without making it contingent on them securing the gas pipeline, or promising to leave by a predetermined date.
Things are moving fast. Mubarak has been gone just days but already Egypt has a renewed military presence in Sinai, the Saudis have cozied up to Iran, and Iranian warships will be sailing through the Suez canal for the first time since 1979. Plus Ron Paul is relentlessly pursuing a cessation of aid, and now the UN is piling on. The knives are really coming out.
I’m wondering if there’s a good case to be made for some kind of pre-emptive action, before the situation worsens even more. I hope you still have the likes of Sharon at the helm when the time comes. More power to you.
Preparations? You better hope they have stockpiles to the heavens. Where is Israel to re-supply? You expect Odammit to sell or fund the war supplies necessary to keep Israel alive? Not a good situation to be in during a war…
It will be nuclear, ugly, and Obama’s fault.
Bill, in the end it comes down to a matter of will. When the people here, followed by the gov’t (if that is the order, it is too bad but that MAY be the order), grasp what is it stake then pre-emption will occur. Adina says it better than I can.
I believe that Netanyahu and his Cabinet, flaws and all, have taken the measure of the US Administration. The Israeli people understand that Obama doesn’t represent the heart of America (for me, as someone born and raised in the US, it is more hurtful to see this Administration trundle on despite all evidence of its multi-aimed malice). At the same time, and given the type of scenario you have described, they will not confuse the Admin for the people.
[And to be fair, only the consistent demonstrations of support in Congress and the public keep Obama, Rice et al from working even harder to hurt us.]
So the army is pretty well ready, I believe. The IAF has exceptional abilities. When USAF pilots came here in ’09, I think, to practice against Israeli pilots, the Americans won something like 2% of the simulated fights. As for resupply, this is a certain problem. We hope that some of the better thinkers in the government have arranged to deal with this. We
Bill Johnson: Let’s stay in reality, rather than get carried away with Hollywood fantasies.
While it goes far deeper than a couple of paragraphs on an internet board, I believe under no circumstance would Israel use her nukes, not even on her knees as a final reproach to the world’s betrayal of common sense and humanity under the insane guise of freedom and tolerance. Not even if Iran or some other peaceloving nation nukes her on consecutive days, thereby scotching any pretence that the first may have been an accident or malfunction.
Let’s consider what is happening. Israel has many allies but no real friends, not one with the courage to stand by her against the hate-filled liberal narrative of Muslim/Arab/Palestinian victimhood. Not even one that has yet conceded that Islam may have anything to do with Islamic terrorism. So, should the worst case scenario arise, Israel’s so-called friends would stab her as she goes down, tutting that it is truly a pity but she brought it upon herself, and now let’s learn from this as we hold civilisation’s course firmly at the cliff’s edge.
Meanwhile, greater than Israel is Judaism, which would be Israel’s final consideration. At any critical moment, with no hope for survival, Israel’s leaders would opt to give World Jewry the opportunity to return to the familiar state of homelessness, rather than render them fair game and ripe for final annihilation by the global mob, to buttress its collective conscience, as punishment for its nation’s ‘selfish’ action of righting a wrong with nuclear escalation.
Sure I hope I am wrong, and if so it may be by a meaningless decade or so, but under current conditions with a mad world going proudly madder, I do not give Israel more than a nominal chance to celebrate her centenary.
David Thailand,
I think you are wrong! The Jews now speak with one voice when the say “NEVER AGAIN”.
Israel will fight with everything it’s got, and you can bet that if it ever comes to going down, the enemy will go down with them.
Perhaps the right time for preemptive strikes is now, when the miserable cesspool of hate that is the rest of the middle east, is in complete chaos.
The problem with the author’s thesis is that we don’t have an American government.
American governments say what their goals are, get elected based on the goals and then work transparently toward the goals.
The American people support Israel. Our government does not. Moreover, they have repeatedly misrepresnted the depth of their hatred for the country that deserves the admmiration of the world more than any other.
Backstabbing allies, debt, unemployment, drilling moratoriums, contempt of court, ruling, unwanted and destructive health legislation, refusing to administer laws for border protection, appointing anti-democratic leftists to positions of authority, yet Obama still gets close 50% support. The guilty party here is not Obama, he is running on automatic, he obviously hasn’t a clue about anything except his public and self-image, but those who still support him. They must experiencing some sort of comatose behavior, Obama Immaculate Conception Syndrome or something.
“…he obviously hasn’t a clue about anything except his public and self-image…”
It really is an amazement how he and his advisors are wrong on almost every issue except continuing the war (though he doesn’t seem to want to win it) and the drone attacks. I am not in the camp that says he is making all these mistakes deliberately to destroy the U.S., but I can certainly see why lots of people believe this. And now he takes sides against the duly elected government of a state…again. Incredible!
I’m in the camp, and probably a leader, that says he is doing it deliberately.
No ONE< NO ONE …is this stupid and still able to breath..he knows what he is doing. I believe it is at the urging of his handlers.
I sincerely believe there is more going on the in the current adm than we are aware of, and it is to divide and destroy our way of life
“No ONE< NO ONE …is this stupid and still able to breath..he knows what he is doing. I believe it is at the urging of his handlers."
Anon., you've nailed it. I took me years to realize exactly this about the left, but there's no other explanation. Nobody can be that stupid – not Obama, not Soros, not Ayers, not Wright….
The strategy of creating and running a clean and articulate negro with the goal of overthrowing the country is without question the most brilliant con of all time. And of course, it could never have happened without a fully compliant media, a decades-long massive effort to dumb-down and indoctrinate the population, and a decades-long balkanization of sub-groups by economic class, race, sexual preference, religious preference, and work ethic.
After defeating the criminals, conservatives have to make a huge investment in a similar strategy: education, media outlets, candidate preparation.
The days of a candidate winning because it doesn’t seem like he will wreck the country are gone. The wannabe feudal lords have demonstrated the enormous power of subversion and coordinated propaganda campaigns.
EXCELLENT
I agree absolutely. Beyond even the Manchurian Candidate.
And beyond US borders where a rapacious EU is enacting precisely the same scenario.
Unelected Marxists on a gravy train which would shame even the Politburo with their Black Sea dacha’s, these monsters preach to the proletariat whilst basking in a kind of self created halo of wondrousness. And money.
The biggest con in history? Too right. Both sides of the pond.
As for Churchill? Remember he lived as a political outcast right up to the moment Hitler’s intentions were made absolutely clear.
He annexed Austria. No response.
He annexed the Sudetenland. No response.
He invaded Chechoslovakia. No response.
Only after he invaded Poland did it dawn.
And after the war what was Britain’s gift of gratitude to this cigar chomping hero? Dumped for a socialist government which has wreaked havoc ever since.
Will the world ever learn?
impeach this scoundrel.
Proreason wrote, “American governments say what their goals are, get elected based on the goals and then work transparently toward the goals.”
That should say “should say”.
Up is down.
Good is bad.
Left is Right.
What ‘we’ perceive as the “wrong side of history” is exactly the opposite for Leftists who want America toppled and shivering on her knees before a caliphate of psychotic Arabic chanting mumblers on their prayer rugs.
I hope this UN resolution will be the last Straw that that woke up the Liberal American Jewish community. BHO may not be an anti-semite but he is for sure pro Islamist.
Don’t count on it. Liberal Jews are too busy being progressive and telling themselves that the Republicans want to destroy the middle class to benefit the rich and subjugate women. How do they know this? Rachel Maddow tells them so. Yep, that’s who still watches Rachel Maddow. Liberal Jews of the female persuasion.
Do Jews still support Israel? When 78% of them vote for Obozo, I have my doubts. In 2012, I can guarantee you that over 2/3 of Jews will vote for Obama even if his policies cause massive death and destruction in Israel. The 614th commandment for Jews is “thou shalt vote democratic.” If Hitler returned as a progressive democrat, how many Jewish votes would he get?
Too many, unfortunately.
America already has plenty of domestic problems to deal with.
I think that providing continued welfare to our backstabbing allies in Tel Aviv should be an extremely low priority.
Spoken like a true Nazi. Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.Run along with your fellow fascist beasts.
LOL Nazi?
Did you mean to respond to somebody else?
Extra Stout: No he meant to tag you. You are an anti-Semite, after all.
“Serving up Israel when the going gets tough is what Arab dictators and demagogues do at regular intervals.”
So you DO know our current president then.
Is there any doubt about who obama worships, besides himself.
Jewish voters used to be big supporters of the dems and leftists. If any still are, they are complete fools. Obama certainly doesn’t give a hoot about Israel. Leftist academics hate both israel and ordinary Jews, and love arab extremists. It seems pretty foolish to me to continue to support a political movement that is trying to kill you.
The Jewish people never left their homeland, which is 1/6 of 1% of the Middle East right now.
To be of the world is to hate morality, and desire to be your own god. Therefore, the world will hate those who worship the G-d of Noah, Abraham, and Moses.
It is written by the G-d of Abraham, those who curse Israel will be cursed. If the US Marxist government condems Israel, there will be hell to pay for it. I suspect over the top storms, earthquakes, and increased terrorism.
Whether or not G-d plays a direct role in such events, it is clear that amorality and anti-morality are directly related to the decline of the United States. The mindset that would posit Israel as a major problem ‘for humanity’ is inevitably tied to urges for self-destruction. Many Europeans, some Americans and, yes, a minority of Israelis, all yearn to kill their nations. It’s clear enough, sad enough.
I disagree that the mobs are screaming for tolerance for everybody but Jews. They don’t want tolerance for anybody but Muslims.
And our president, who never met an ally he couldn’t insult, or an enemy he couldn’t kiss up to, is perfectly okay with that.
It’s a conundrum. Jews in the US do not automatically support Israel, although they seem automatically to support the Democrat-du-jour, no matter how corrupt and corrosive.
I wonder what my Jewish friends, who not only supported Obama but actively worked for his campaign, are thinking now.
There are none so blind as those who will not see …
I feel like Obama is our Neville Chamberlain. Hope we can find our Churchill.
Chris Christie may be our Churchill. I also have high hopes for Allen West. but will either of them be ready in 2012?
Chris Christie is no Churchill! He is bowing to the muslims, read the news!
Allen West is your man. I heard him, on the Steve Malzberg show, respond to the question of whether he would run or not, and he did not say “no”! He said he would discuss it with his wife. So maybe there’s a chance for America and the rest of the civilized world to be saved!
It’s unbelievable that the UN chooses to malign Israel at a time like this, while the Middle East is going up in flames, with people being shot in the streets by their dear leaders.
The Security Council is supposed to keep the peace, but it is so utterly dominated and contaminated by Jew-hating despotisms that it would rather be derelict in its duty if it means yet another chance to bash Israel over the head.
The UN is worthless.
The Obama administration has made a shambles of US policy, hurt security, made us the laughing stock in the international theater, sided with our enemies and dissed our allies. We cannot tolerate this foolishness any longer and must do all we can to get rid of this current dministration.
to Adina and Larry and all our friends in Israel: please know that we are on your side! tell your countrymen that We the People do NOT support Obama and his anti-Israel intentions!
Susan Rice humiliated us at the UN yesterday, vetoing the resolution but making it very clear that she was on the side of the Islamists. she and her boss need to go in 2012.
Israel, can you hang on until then?
He’s a KAPPO.
A self-serving coward, (whether or not he’s a secret muslim, he’s still a coward).
Agree with most of the above. However, we gotta remember not only Jimmy Carter, but also George H.W. Bush. As I recall, about eight seconds after the Kuwait victory, and at a time when the Palestinians were dancing on the rooftops about the Scuds landing in Israel, Bush and his minions resumed their hectoring of Israel about its upsetting the world by building some condos. Iranian “nucular” bomb construction are not as unsettling as Israeli building construction. Go figure.