It begins: US sells out Israel on settlements at UN
Some will say it’s not a total sellout, which is true enough, but in the Israeli historical context that’s pretty cold comfort. A total sellout would take the form of us abandoning Israel entirely as Arab armies had her surrounded or the Iranians were putting a nuke on the launchpad, and that’s something that even this administration won’t do yet. What it did do today is a sellout that should not be minimized, and with the Middle East going haywire, it’s unlikely to be the last.
The U.S. informed Arab governments Tuesday that it will support a U.N. Security Council statement reaffirming that the 15-nation body “does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity,” a move aimed at avoiding the prospect of having to veto a stronger Palestinian resolution calling the settlements illegal.
But the Palestinian’s rejected the American offer following a meeting late Wednesdy of Arab representativs and said it is planning to press for a vote on its resolution Friday, according officials familar with the issue. The decision to reject the American offer raised the prospects that the Obama adminstration may cast its first ever veto in the U.N. Security Council.
Still, the U.S. offer signaled a renewed willingness to seek a way out of the current impasse, even if it requires breaking with its key ally and joining others in the council in sending a strong message to Israel to stop its construction of new settlements. The Palestinian delegation, along with the council’s Arab member Lebanon, have asked the council’s president this evening to schedule a meeting on Friday. But it remained unclear whether the Palestinian move today is simply a negotiating tactic aimed at extracting a better deal from the United States.
The US gained precisely nothing from this move, while giving all of our allies everywhere very good reasons to be nervous about our resolve. We have, in the span of about a week, helped nudge out a despotic ally and now further isolated a democratic ally. What good is an alliance with the United States anymore? If you’re Jordan or, well, even as far from the Middle East but in a bad neighborhood like our ally Japan, you’re asking that question right now. That the answer doesn’t immediately spring from your tongue is unsettling, to say the least.
John Tabin has it about right, I think.
[I]n the short term, a more democratic Arab world could be enormously destabilizating; people who have been fed decades of propaganda laden with Jew-hatred will be tempted to embrace a politics of confrontation with Israel. Maintaining Israel’s ability to project strength is the best bet for maintaining peace — Israel must be able to credibly say things like “You don’t like Camp David? We’ll be taking the Sinai back, then.” This is no time to be shy about reminding the world the US has Israel’s back.
This move in the UN sends the opposite message.
I can no more disown Israel than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown Israel than I can my white grandmother – a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.
Man, I loved that honky beehotch. Just like I love Israel.
UN US vote, Democratic Party “Shame” All Jews and Israel supporters should abandon this Bad party that I was voting for in the past 35 years.
Obama is out there to destroy Israeli US relationship; he is doing it slowly and carefully without all Israel supporters noticing it.
Its time to show the Democratic Party that it can’t get away with and Arab US President while retaining the Jewish votes. Let’s do something about Obama.
Obama shame on you, you say you love Israel, I don’t believe you, you are taking down the Democratic Party as you are permanently making a big mass around the world.
You made a typo by saying you love Israel instead of saying you hate Israel.
Barack Obama “has Israel’s back” in the same way
A. Neville Chamberlain defended Czechoslovakia (1938)
B. The Grand Mufti (Muslim Brotherhood) protected Jews, Gypsies and Serbs (WWII)
C. Mein Kampf supported the Torah
D. The Greek’s Trojan Horse was a “gift” to the city-state of Troy
E. ALL OF THE ABOVE
Time for regime change in Israel.
This whole farce is based on the presumption of the Palestinians agreeing to the “watered down” resolution. Leaving aside the small detail that they have not done so yet; Obama is now publicly on the hook to support the Arab states, there is the matter of what Buraq Hussein is going to do if they press for the full declaration of Israeli illegality. Either the US will veto the resolution, or it won’t. Israel, watching Obama side with Arabs at this point today, will already be infuriated. If he vetoes the resolution, that won’t change, because of his having tried to cut a deal at Israel’s expense. And the Arabs will hate the US, and him. If he fails to veto it, he is serving notice that Israel is absolutely on its own, and that the US will at best be neutral when the Arabs attack Israel, and at worst will side with the Arabs. He will, of course, get all sorts of praise from radical Islamists, the American Left, and the MSM. Given that set of options, is there any doubt which he will choose? This dance is just to get the idea out there of turning on Israel. If there is not outrageous protest NOW, then he will be encouraged to continue. There will not be that protest.
Subotai Bahadur
What good is an alliance with the United States anymore?
He leaked the Brit’s nuclear secrets to Putin for a piece of useless agreement to hamper our own defence. At least this time he did not (did he?) tell the Iranians Israel’s nuclear secrets.
Do you have any idea how much filth the zionists have spewed against Islsm in the last century not just in US or that filthy little country but all over the world. Why can’t you accept that occupation is evil and will eventually lead to 911 type actions.
Obviously Islam has done a great job of spreading its own filth, no Zionist assist required.
“that’s something that even this administration won’t do yet”
Only because it’s impossible. Commandante Zero can’t abandon Israel to Iranian nukes only because there are as yet no Iranian nukes. Be patient. The Zero will vote “present” during Holocaust II.
Good, this is in the interests of the United States, and Israel for that matter.
The sooner the Israelis realize they can’t keep the whole West Bank up to the Jordan Valley, and rule over millions of Arabs, the better. The USA can’t be held hostage by a few Israeli nutbar settlers, as the Israeli government is.
Draw borders, impose a final settlement, and back it up with aid and peacekeeping. In the end, American interests come first, and as General Petraeus and others have said, one-sided US support for Israel has been getting US troops killed in the region.
I used to donate to FLAME and have been a staunch defender of Israel since I was a kid, but I’ll have to disagree with Israel on this one. Why keep building settlements on land that will not be yours if you really want peace? Time to say stop. I’ll have to side with Obama on this one, much as it pains me.
Take back:
(1) The Sinai
(2) The West Bank
(3) The Gaza Strip’
(4) The Golan Heights
(5) all of Jerusalem
and then take:
(1) The Suez Canal
(2) parts of Lebanon
(3) parts of Syria
(4) parts of Jordan
now.
So often I see the problems presented but I never see any solutions.
American president selling us down the socialist drain.
American president gives Russia English nuclear secrets.
American president betrays yet another ally, Israel.
Always with the problems…. never with solutions…. is everyone apathetic here? Are so many deaf to the truth these days? Or one day we wake up, too late, and see what our whimpering into the darkness has done for us? Conservatives need to vote more loudly than the progressive liberals lie. Next time you hold an election, elect some candidates with cajones, not puff-balls!
Israel, time to stand on your own two feet.
The US can no longer afford to fight your wars, prop up puppet governments on all your borders, and build your army. We owe you nothing.