Obama plotted to backstab Israel. Trump tweets: stay strong
Il Giornale, Dicember 29, 2016
A feverish anti-Israeli stance must have swept Obama and his government at sunset. It appears that the desire to leave a bloody scratch upon the Jewish state’s future awakened the always dormant attitude of Secretary of State John Kerry, who was very excited while delivering his speech on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict yesterday. His passion can also be read as the expression of his contradictions, as a generation that as used to respect Israel before Obama's tenure. However, the speech he gave is nothing more, in reality, than the confirmation of his President’s legacy: after backing for the first time in American history, by abstaining a UN vote that condemns Israel, Obama has launched Kerry like a missile against the only democratic and secular state in the Middle East.
The meeting organized for January 15 in Paris now has even more ammunition to attack Israel. Kerry has repeated on numerous occasions his intent: if the two parties won’t realize the solution of “two states for two peoples” Israel will find itself perpetually dominating another people, thus abandoning its democracy. Right, it’s a problem. But security is a more important problem, and Kerry decided that it's not so important. Kerry, who explained in detail how the settlements are harmful, chose to set aside the enemy’s fanatical hatred and rejection, which forces Israel to keep its borders secure. Moreover, he failed to take into consideration the Palestinian refusal to recognize a Jewish State thus in effect condemning Israel’s presence east of the Green Line, including East Jerusalem, the Western Wall and many other essential places like the area nearby the airport, from where it’s possible to target the next aircraft.
The timing chosen by Kerry for his speech is incredibly late and just reinforces the UN resolution: after four years of policies that have led to chaos in the Middle East, from Syria to Yemen, after the hard-fought agreement with Iran, Kerry’s entire proposal rests on the belief that Israel must stop building settlements and leave the existing ones in order to make way for a Palestinian State.
Good idea, but it has never really discussed by the two parts, because the U.S. administration has not found the time to push Abu Mazen to go back to negotiate with Netanyahu, who invited him time and again, about the future of two possible States. Why didn’t Kerry ever try to convince the Palestinian Authority to stop paying a salary to the terrorists in jail or to the families of those who killed innocent people with cars, knives and firearms? Kerry sympathizes with the Palestinians because of the abundance of checkpoints, but he can’t pretend not to know that they have prevented thousands of terrorist attacks.
Yesterday, we heard from Donald Trump through an explicit tweet: “We cannot continue to let Israel be treated with such total disdain and disrespect. They used to have a great friend in the U.S., but not anymore. The beginning of the end was the horrible Iran deal, and now this (U.N.)! Stay strong Israel, January 20th is fast approaching!”
A tweet driven, it seems, by his concern that Israel feels abandoned by the United States: it's not only an altruistic point of view, Israel is a great partner in security and technology, and actually is the only true strategic partner of the USA in the Middle East, now possessed basically by Muslim hatred and Russia’s presence.
Obama, and this is so hard to accept for any reasonable person, directly orchestrated the UN ambush: an Egyptian newspaper revealed meetings (partially denied by the Americans) between Kerry and Susan Rice with the Palestinians weeks prior to the resolution. And the spider web extends everywhere: the British helped draft the resolution.
Biden called the Ukrainian president asking him not to abstain. The Ukrainians would have gladly done so because Israel supported them with a vote condemning Russian aggression in Crimea. Also, Putin’s attempt to slow down the resolution’s course was stopped through the subtle power of diplomacy.
Obama has completely overcome and suppressed history; the deep-rooted antipathy for Israel by the president of a Country that before him has always been Israel’s best friend has suppressed tradition and good sense, and has sacrificed common values. And yet perhaps these are reemerging.
Translation by Amy K. Rosenthal