Monday, September 10,
2012
Obama Will “Make Netanyahu Pay”
By Robert Spencer
By Robert Spencer
The elimination and
then restoration (after, and only after, a national outcry) of language calling
Jerusalem the capital of Israel from the Democrat Party platform last week was
revealing enough, but a more significant abandonment of Israel came when the
Pentagon decided to decrease drastically its participation in a joint military exercise
with the Jewish state – while pursuing military exercises with
the new Muslim Brotherhood regime in Egypt.
At the same time, the
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Martin Dempsey, even suggested that an
Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear sites would be a crime, and that the U.S.
would have no part of it, when he said: “I don’t want to be complicit if they
choose to do it.”
An Israeli official
explained that the diminishment of the joint exercise was “the Obama
administration’s response to the dinner party Netanyahu held in Romney’s
honor,” and another took a longer view: “Regardless of the exercise, the
relations between Israel and the US have soured.” Most ominously, one official
noted: “The US elections are in two months, and there is no doubt that President
Barack Obama, if he is reelected, will make Netanyahu pay for his behavior. It
will not pass quietly.”
Such a view is widely
shared stateside – especially among those who long for just such an
eventuality. The crude and arrogant stealthIslamic
supremacist Reza Aslan tweeted gleefully: “The way Bibi has
tried to manipulate and embarrass Obama at every turn, he should be scared
shitless of Obama’s reelection.”
Israeli officials attributed Iran’s increasingly
brazen statements of its genocidal intentions toward Israel and belligerence
toward America well to this Obama Administration stance. One explained: “This
is why the Iranians are issuing threatening statements against the US.
Washington’s hesitant policy is making the Iranians feel freer to move ahead
with the nuclear program. This is not how you create deterrence to avoid a military operation.”
Indeed, and it is a far
cry from Obama’s address at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee
(AIPAC) in May 2011, when he struck a conciliatory tone: “Even while we may at
times disagree, as friends sometimes will, the bonds between the United States
and Israel are unbreakable, and the commitment of the United States to the security of
Israel is ironclad.”
Yet even when he spoke
them, those words were hollow, and they’re even hollower now. According to
Shimon Shiffer in Ynet News,
the Administration’s abandonment of Israel in its attempt to head off an
Iranian nuclear bomb wasn’t remotely limited to Dempsey’s “don’t want to be
complicit” remark: “The United States has indirectly informed Iran, via two
European nations, that it would not back an Israeli strike against the
country’s nuclear facilities, as long as Tehran refrains from attacking
American interests in the Persian Gulf…According to the report, Washington used
covert back-channels in Europe to clarify that the US does not intend to back
Israel in a strike that may spark aregional conflict.”
Not only did Obama
inform a nation that considers itself an enemy of the U.S. that it would not
support a U.S. ally, but Ynet added that Obama “is promoting a series
of steps meant to curb an Israeli offensive against Iran, while forcing the
Islamic Republic to take the nuclear negotiations more seriously.”
In that context it is
useful to remember what the Kuwaiti MP Jama’an Al-Harbash said on al-Jazeera in
March 2010: “This is a war of religion, not just a war between Arabs and
Israelis, or a war between liberators and occupiers. This is an ideological
war, an Islamic war, which will end in victory only under the banner of
Jihad.”
Those who believe such
things will never be compelled to take “nuclear negotiations” seriously enough
to end the jihad against Israel. Islamic supremacists will never accept
Israel’s existence, even if the “Palestinians” have a state, and even if Obama
makes all kinds of concessions to Iran to get them to take negotiations more
seriously. On the contrary: the Islamic supremacists will be emboldened to
fight on for final victory against their weakened foe.
Netanyahu, and Israel,
must not be “made to pay.” All free people must now stand against Obama,
against the jihadis who wish to destroy the Jewish State, and with Israel.
Mr. Spencer is director
of Jihad Watch and
author of The Politically
Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades), The Truth About
Muhammad, Stealth Jihad and The Complete
Infidel's Guide to the Koran (all from Regnery-a HUMAN
EVENTS sister company).
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