WHY DUMP ON ISRAEL?

I don’t know about you, but I don’t understand why the free nations of the world are dumping on Israel. It seems strangely peculiar to me that freedom loving countries such as ours and those in Europe have decided to force Israel into survival mode. Up until May 19, 2011, it had been the support of the United States that guaranteed Israel the right to exist. That changed with a speech President Obama gave on that day. Now it seems that Israel has lost support from the White House. It is true that the current occupant of the White House and his State Department consistently do not speak for, or reflect the will of, the American people. It’s also no secret that all too often they’ve ignored the will of the American people. I think that has happened again with President Obama’s stance toward Israel.

This is a yet another strange event in a year that I have said would be (and has been) filled with strange events. However, this twist in American foreign policy is a strange one indeed. President Obama could not have picked a worse way to announce his new stance toward Israel … just a day before Israel’s Prime Minister would be coming to visit him in Washington (actually, while he was in route). President Obama once again showed us that he does not possess good judgment. I believe President Obama is guilty of (as it relates to Israel) exactly what Texas Governor Rick Perry said about him regarding the US/Mexican border with Texas….“there’s strong evidence that the Obama administration either doesn’t know or doesn’t care about what’s going on on the border”. Governor Perry is right. I think that Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must be thinking the same way.

The President has miscalculated again, just as he has so many times before. It won’t be long before he loses support from Congress. If the speech that Prime Minster Netanyahu made before a joint session of Congress is any indication of things to come, the President may have already lost a great deal of Democratic support … especially where his stance toward Israel is concerned. Netanyahu’s speech before a joint session of Congress on May 24, 2011, was interrupted dozens of times with standing ovations from members of both Houses of Congress and political parties. The President has squandered whatever political capital he thought he gained with the killing of Osama Bin Laden, when he turned his back on Israel.

This is just one more example of him either not knowing, not understanding, or not caring about what really matters to Americans … no matter what their political affiliations are. But I can’t lay all of the blame at his feet alone, the news media and Hollywood have given him a false sense of security and they’ve inflated his already immense ego. Even Harry Reid could not support Obama’s latest misguided position.

It is shameful when the leader of a foreign nation sounds more American than the President of the United States. As the Prime Minister said “Israel is what’s righ with the Middle East”. President Obama is what’s wrong with Washington DC, with our nation’s colleges and universities, with liberalism, and with the Democrat Party.

Israel is, and has almost always been, in survival mode. The United States has always stood with Israel and that shouldn’t change simply because this President wills it. I have been told that the US cannot save the world and that we can no longer police the world. I say if we can’t, then who will? … the Russians, the Chinese, the Iranians? None of those nations can … nor do we want them too. That would not be good for Israel, western Europe, or the United States. Like it or not, want to or not, this nation is as Ronald Reagan said: freedom’s “last stand on earth”, and Israel is freedom’s last stand in the Middle East.

I did not hear the Prime Minister’s speech and, even in this day and age, I haven’t been able see the entire speech on line without constant interruption. However, I have read the transcript on CNN.com. There is one line in the speech that I liked best (and there are very many excellent lines that can and should be remembered from it). Mr. Netanyahu said, “My friends, the momentous trials of the last century and the unfolding events of this century attest to the decisive role of the United States in defending peace and advancing freedom. Providence entrusted the United States to be the guardian of liberty. All people who cherish freedom owe a profound debt of gratitude to your great nation”. He is right.

There you have it.
Pass it on if you like or let me know if I don’t have a clue.

Eddie