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Jews Security and Defensible Borders Left in Lurch!
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April 17, 2010
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American-Jewish leaders accuse Obama of abandoning Israeli security
Begin Excerpt from Chicago Sun Times via World News
Obama’s on the path to appeasement
BY STEVE HUNTLEY
April 16, 2010
For a president who says he’s determined to isolate the aggressive, nuclear-seeking, terrorist-supporting Iran, Barack Obama is doing a remarkable job of isolating tiny, democratic, Western-oriented Israel.
I don’t doubt Obama’s sincerity on Iran or his repeated assertions of maintaining America’s strong support of Israel. But his treatment of our ally strikes at the heart of the uneasiness many of us feel about Obama’s foreign policy. Assuaging the Muslim world and proving to our adversaries that he’s not George W. Bush seem to be the guiding light from Washington,
forcing everything else
into dark shadows.
Appeasement is a strong word, some would say too harsh a word to use about Obama’s policies given his continued conduct of the wars
in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Still, it’s worth noting that a central aim of both wars seems to be just to get out. Exiting these conflicts of course is the right goal, it’s how you do it that matters — whether our friends and foes see the manner of our leaving consistent with America as a reliable and strong ally and a powerful adversary to be respected.
His treatment of Israel raises this very issue. That’s not to say that the United States has to agree with everything that Israel does. But Ronald S. Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, summed up the problem in a letter to Obama on Thursday: “Why does the thrust of this administration’s Middle East rhetoric seem to blame Israel for the lack of movement on peace talks? After all, it is the Palestinians, not Israel, who refuse to negotiate.”
Indeed, the history of the region is one of decades of Arab intransigence and hostility.
Israel accepted the U.N.-decreed 1947 partition of the holy land, and the Arab world declared war. Only the strength and audacity of Israeli arms saved the Jewish state in the 1967 existential war that left it in control of the West Bank and, until 2005, the Gaza Strip.
In a bold, some say foolish, bid for peace in the Oslo process, Israel welcomed archenemy Yasser Arafat into the disputed territories and let him arm his “security” forces. When Arafat’s true colors were revealed in 2000 with his rejection of President Bill Clinton’s diplomacy yielding the most generous peace plan, Israel paid the price in a terrorist war of suicide bombings and shootings that killed a thousand civilians and left thousands more maimed.
Uprooting settlers and pulling out of Gaza in 2005 only resulted in a Hamas terrorist statelet, rocket attacks and new fighting.
This history no doubt has left many Israelis wary of the peace process.
But I’ve said it before and I’ll say again, this conflict will end when the Arab world wants it to end. Obama’s policies fail to recognize that simple truth.
Think how his actions look to Israel’s enemies. Obama makes a settlement freeze a condition for peace talks, something the Palestinians had previously not done.
Now they do. He bows to the king of Saudi Arabia but refuses to be seen with the prime minister of Israel on Benjamin Netanyahu’s last trip to Washington. Now some wonder whether Obama is promoting government change in Israel rather than regime change in Iran. He decided to return a U.S. ambassador to Syria even as Damascus dictator Bashar al-Assad hosted what can only be described as a terrorist summit with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hezbollah chieftain Hassan Nasrallah. Now we learn that Syria has provided Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon with Scud missiles able to reach Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
This week, Obama said the conflict costs America “significantly in terms of both blood and treasure,” seemingly insinuating that U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq are endangered by it. That’s a fundamental misreading of the war with Islamist fanatics. Theirs is a revolt against modernity and the West, of which Israel
is a symbol, not a cause. Getting that wrong takes the world down a dangerous path. Lauder got it exactly right: “History is clear . . . appeasement does not work.
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Begin Excerpt 1 from DEBKAfile Special Report
American-Jewish leaders accuse Obama of abandoning Israeli security
DEBKAfile Special Report
April 14, 2010, 10:47 PM (GMT+02:00)
The latest American Jewish leader to address a letter of deep concern over the public US feud with Israel is Ronald Lauder, President of
the World Jewish Congress. He voices the concern of Jews around the world not only about the nuclear ambitions of an Iranian regime with genocidal intentions toward Israel, but the deterioration of US-Israeli relations and the Jewish state’ s deliberate i
solation.
The WJC president asks why this administration seems to blame Israel for the lack of movement on peace talks when it is the Palestinians, not Israel, who refuse to negotiate.
Settlements were not the key issue when peace talks broke down before and they are not the key issue now.
Lauder then asks if it is true that America is no longer committed to a final status agreement that provides Israel with defensible borders. He goes on to ask if friction with Israel is part of the Administration’s desire to improve relations with the Muslim world and warns that appeasement does not work.
Israel is not only America’s closest ally in the Middle East, Lauder stresses. It is the one most committed to this administration’s declared aim of ensuring Iran does not get nuclear weapons. This is the single biggest threat that confronts the world today.
Former New York Mayor Ed Koch condemned the Obama administration’s attitude toward Israel in the strongest terms: “I weep today because my president, Barack Obama, in a few weeks has changed the relationship between the US and Israel from that of closest of allies to one in which there is an absence of trust.” He goes on to say: “…our closest ally… has been demeaned and slandered, held responsible …for our problems in Afghanistan and Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East.”
Ed Koch says he suspects the plan is “to so weaken the resolve of the of the Jewish state and its leaders so that it will be much easier to impose on Israel an American plan to resolve the Israel-Palestinian conflict, leaving Israel’s needs for security and defensible borders in the lurch.”
He is most bothered by what he calls “the shameful silence and lack of action by community leaders – Jew and Christian” and asks: Where are the Jews who marched in defense of fellow American citizens in 1963 and heard Martin Luther King’s memorable speech. “We have stood up for everyone else. When will we stand up for our brothers and sisters in the Jewish state of Israel?” Ed Koch asks.
Begin Excerpt 2 from DEBKAfile Special Report
Obama: Mid East conflict costs US “blood and treasure”
DEBKAfile Special Report
April 15, 2010, 9:53 AM (GMT+02:00)
The radical shift in US Middle East policies, marked by tough demands of Israel, was confirmed and highlighted by President Obama Barak Tuesday, April 14, in his comment that conflicts like the one in the Middle East ended up “costing significantly in terms of both blood and treasure.” Reporting this, the New York Times noted that he echoed
the recent suggestion by Gen. David Petraeus, OC Central Command, that American lives in Iraq and Afghanistan were imperiled by lack of progress in the Middle East implying Israel’s policies on the Palestinians were responsible. (Petraeus later phoned Israel’s chief of staff to say his remarks were misunderstood and taken out of context.)
DEBKAfile’s US sources see in the US president’s remark his rejoinder to the alarmed accusations coming from prominent American-Jewish leaders that the US president has turned his back on Israel’s security, although he has repeatedly claimed it was the bedrock of his Middle East policy. Furthermore, AIPAC, the pro-Israeli lobbying group publicized a letter to US secretary of State Hillary Clinton signed by 76 senators and 33 House members urging the administration to defuse tensions with Israel and voicing support for its security.
The World Jewish Congress president Ronald Lauder was to publish an open letter to President Obama in the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal which asks: “Why does the thrust of this administration’s Middle East rhetoric seem to blame Israel for the lack of movement on peace talks when it is the Palestinians who refuse to negotiate?”
Former New York Mayor Ed Koch said he suspects the plan is “to so weaken the resolve of the of the Jewish state and its leaders so that it will be much easier to impose on Israel an American plan to resolve the Israel-Palestinian conflict, leaving Israel’s needs for security and defensible borders in the lurch.”
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