'The current administration plans to
throw Israel under the bus. Not the leader of Syria who has massacred 150,000
of his citizens, nor the leader of Saudi Arabia who stones women and
homosexuals, nor the leader of Iran who murdered demonstrators for freedom were
called "chickensh*t." '
As World Jewish Daily stated Oct 30,
Hating Israel, Loving Iran Obama administration cozies up to psychotic Islamist state Even as government buildings step up security for fear of Islamist terror attacks
US and Iran are in a state of detente, officials say
US has also softened its stance toward
Iran's allies - Hamas, Hezbollah, says Wall Street Journal
The Obama administration and Iran
"have moved into an effective state of détente over the past year",
as they hold direct nuclear talks and face a common threat from the Islamic
State. These are the assessments of senior American and Arab officials reported
on Wednesday by The Wall Street Journal.
"The shift could drastically alter the
balance of power in the region, and risks alienating key US allies such as
Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates, who are central to the coalition
fighting Islamic State. Sunni Arab leaders view the threat posed by Shiite Iran
as equal to or greater than that posed by the Sunni radical group Islamic
State," according to the front-page story.
Over the past decade, Washington and Tehran
have engaged in fierce battles for influence and power in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon
and Afghanistan. "But recent months have ushered in a change as the two
countries have grown into alignment on a spectrum of causes, chief among them
promoting peaceful political transitions in Baghdad and Kabul and pursuing
military operations against Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria,"
according to these officials.
The WSJ also says
that the Obama administration has markedly softened its confrontational stance
toward Iran’s most important allies, the Palestinian militant group Hamas and
the Lebanese militant and political organization, Hezbollah. US intelligence
agencies have repeatedly tipped off Lebanese law-enforcement bodies close to
Hezbollah about threats to Beirut’s government by Sunni extremist groups, including
al Qaeda and its affiliate Nusra Front in Syria, Lebanese and US officials told
the WSJ
Powerline blog
Posted: 29 Oct 2014 01:54 PM PDT
(Scott Johnson)
The
twisted mentality of the Obama administration is prominently on display in
Jeffrey Goldberg’s summary of his conversations with senior officials posted here. Anonymously describing Israeli Prime Minister
Netanyahu as “chickenshit,” one senior official serves up a pure case of
projection, and another senior administration official seconds him (or her). It
is as if Obama himself had dismissed someone as “arrogant,” or Joe Biden
disparaged anyone as “stupid,” or John Kerry insulted someone as “haughty,”
though in this case the official is projecting on behalf of the administration
as a whole.
The
whole thing is almost — almost — unbelievable. If you’ve been awake and alert,
however, it makes sick sense. It figures. “Fair is foul, and foul is
fair:/Hover through the fog and filthy air.”
On
the substance of the issues, Danielle Pletka speaks for me in her
comments on Goldberg’s column. She renders this stinging judgment:
Let’s
get this straight: Bibi et al, who have what most would agree is a legitimate
and existential fear of an Iranian nuclear weapon, are “good” because they’re,
er “chickenshit” about launching a strike on Iran; oh, and Bibi is also labeled
a “coward” for having been “chickenshit” in that regard. But he’s “bad” because
he won’t cave to a Palestinian Authority and Hamas so riven by terrorism,
corruption and incompetence that they won’t “accommodate” with each other.
How
can we read this as anything other than an appalling display of hypocrisy,
hostility to Israel and warmth toward the very powers that have killed almost
as many Americans (Iran, Hamas, et al) as al Qaeda? Did team Obama label
Ahmadinejad as “chickenshit”? Have they labeled the Qataris, who arm and fund
ISIS at the same time that they buy US weapons as “chickenshit”?
I’m
sure that in defense of Obama, many will say that they expect more of the
Israelis than they do of the Gulf or Turkey or NATO or … anyone. The question
is, why? Coming back to the fons et origo of this whole relationship disaster,
let us recall that it was Obama who ashcanned the George W. Bush commitment to
Israel to oppose the return to 1967 lines; Obama who prayed at the altar of
Jew-hating Reverend Jeremiah Wright; Obama who absorbed the scholarship of
Israel-hating Rashid Khalidi; Obama, whose own settlement policy has been more
extreme than that of the Palestinian Authority.
But let’s forget about Obama’s own ideological
dislike of the State of Israel and its leaders, whoever they may be. Set aside
the fact that it is not Bibi who is acting like a selfish political actor, but
Barack Obama and the personal sycophants around him who are more interested in
the whims and fortunes of the American Narcissus. Let us instead focus on the
fact that an unnamed “senior American official” is waxing triumphant over the
fact that it is now “too late” for Israel to strike Iran’s nuclear weapons
complex. This is good news? The fact that American officials believe it is more
advantageous to have a nuclear Iran than to have someone in power in Israel who
will not kowtow to the US president says something about the fundamental rot at
the core of the Obama administration, its contempt for the national security of
the American people – who are at terrible risk from an Iranian nuclear bomb –
and the vileness of the cowards and chickenshit officials who people the
fiefdom of Barack Obama.
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