Obama snubbing Jews votes
giovedì 6 settembre 2012 English 0 commenti
Il Giornale, September 6th, 2012
Clearly, Obama does not have a point of strength in the Middle East, his strategy advisers do not work. Proof is he lost all the friends he had prior to the revolutions without succeeding in making new ones. His kowtow to Islam did not raise their consideration of the US in the least, which is always the old imperialist enemy. Only one friend stayed close to the US, not out of interest, but thanks to its democratic inspiration. Obama is totally jeopardizing this lone little Hans, who ended up with his finger stuck in the daunting leak of the Middle East dam.
Obama might even be risking his re-election, on the altar of the invincible aversion toward Israel. An uncontainable feeling, that the President tried in vain to circumscribe to political criticism. Such criticism became then resentment, now posing a danger even for the United States, for its international prestige. Although 78% of American Jews voted for him, the last episode proves that Obama does not understand, or does not know, or rather shuns the Jewish heart: it is called first of all “Jerusalem”; Jews, as the only religion, pray turning to that direction, they mention it in their everyday prayers; when getting married they vow fidelity to Jerusalem rather than to their spouse. The party platform introduced last Tuesday at the convention actually hints that Obama envisages a feasible division of Jerusalem, considered he currently does not recognize a United Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, core of Jewish life and culture, but he refers instead to the Arab world's desiderata. Obama seems to ignore that a divided city would become a battlefield worse than Belfast; that fear would master a nowadays beautiful, groomed, and tourist city, loaded with economic and culture facilities; how the holy places, now open to all faiths, would be regulated is hard to tell … The democratic Party platform, that however mentions USA's pledge to the security of Israel and the hope of peace, does not mention Jerusalem one single time; it deleted 2008's language according to which Democrats would endeavor so that “Jerusalem be and stay the capital of Israel”. Leaving so room for continuous claims from the Arab side and to a possible division.
It staggeringly differs from Romney's platforms, which indeed attacks Obama. It states: “We support Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state with secure, defensible borders; and we envision two democratic states - Israel with Jerusalem as its capital and Palestine - living in peace and security". The 2008 democratic platform also demanded that “ Hamas be isolated until it renounces terrorism and abides by past peace agreements”; it carried on saying that “any agreement to resolve the issue of Palestinian refugees through final status negotiations should set a Palestinian State, rather than Israel, as the destination for Palestinians”; it also noted that “it is unrealistic to expect the outcome of final status negotiations to be a full and complete return to the armistice lines of 1949”. All of this language has been deleted. Essential points for Israel are no longer in black and white.
All this happened after the debate on Iran ignited; right during the hours when IAEA, the International Atomic Energy Agency, witnessed the soaring production of enriched uranium at Iran's Fordo plant, General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, declared they would never be complicit (he really used this word) in an Israeli attack on Iran. Americans meanwhile reduced the number of US troops for a joint drill with Israel, as well as technicians capable of operating anti-missile Patriot system and the radar installed in Negev Desert, which would warn Israel if anything takes off in Iran.
Not only! An exclusive report suggested (it is hard to verify) that Americans through two European countries had proposed Iran a deal: we will not back Israelis as long as you refrain from attacking American interest in the Middle East. Israel's general reaction was well expressed by Netanyahu the past few days, following Dempsey's statements: “You are more concerned to stop Israel than to avert an Iranian bomb”. Yesterday Shimon Peres told our Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi, whose statements on Iran and its related welcome by Israel makes Italy a first line friend, that we are almost past the deadline. Which is, even though sanctions appear the easiest option, an attack is not to be ruled out. In this case, Obama will be very upset by Israel. I beg your pardon, is he not already anyways? Not because of so American reasons, besides?