Daniel Greenfield: Obama's Plan to Destroy Israel
If there's one thing that the Carter Administration can be given credit for, it's creating the new wave of Islamist terrorism, both Sunni, operating out of Afghanistan, and Shiite, operating out of Iran. The Carter Administration cracked down on Israel and put its "faith" in Muslim terrorists, who then went on to wage war on America, even while Carter was in office.
28 years after Carter was removed from office, we're in reruns again with the Obama Administration, which is not only following the Carter line, but whose plans greatly exceed it. 28 years ago, Wahhabi Sunni and Shiite terrorists were generally an afterthought when compared to the standard USSR backed Marxist terrorist groups, such as the PLO.
Today, thanks in part to the Carter Administration, they control several countries and have designs on several more. From Pakistan to Afghanistan, from Gaza to Lebanon, from the Middle East to Southeast Asia, the threat is very real and bigger than ever particularly as the race by both Sunni and Shiite groups to build and deploy nuclear weapons continues.
Like Carter before him, Obama has chosen to cut backdoor deals with the Mullahs in Iran, offering them power over Iraq and Afghanistan, in exchange for quieting things down enough to let him hang up a Mission Accomplished banner and pull the troops out. "Peace with honor", preferably before the next election. The rape law for Shiites in Afghanistan, the push for a US funded Hamas/Fatah Unity government in the territories and the rising expansion of the Taliban are all fruits of this arrangement.
If Iran is to be our new best friend under this arrangement, Israel is to be our new best enemy.
Obama stacked the deck by deploying Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State in a position that gave her an important title, but absolutely no power to go with it, while stacking the National Security Council
and even the Pentagon with oil appointees in the pockets of the Saudis or his own left wing radical friends.
Israel electing a conservative government really put the ball into play, freeing up even more resources for attacking Israel. The strategy runs something like this.
The Obama Administration has broken down the Israel problem into two subsections, Israel itself, and American Jews.
Obama's people have studied the problem and understand where Carter went wrong. Obama does not want to have the same image problems as Carter in the Jewish community. Should that happen, the Beloved Leader and his lapdog press are fully prepared to unleash a Chavez style hate-on targeting American Jews. But that would be inconvenient and messy. Even with the changing face of America, there are significant differences between the average American and European or Venezuelan, and what kind of ugliness they are willing to tolerate. So Obama's people have split their attention in handling the two factors as two different problems.
American Jews - Obama has been clever about putting his Jewish appointees front and center. Like many minorities, some American Jews suffer from self-esteem problems that are soothed when they see a seeming acceptance. Of course what they fail to realize is that exploitation is not acceptance. And that Obama's appointees are creatures of his backers, Nazi collaborators like Soros, who have nothing but contempt for Jews, individually or collectively.
While outwardly courting Jews, Obama's people have also been quietly shoving Jewish organizations and their leaders into a corner. Within the Jewish organizational world there has been a silent but deadly takeover of major Jewish groups by left wing radicals. Former alumni of the far left wing and anti-Israel groups like Breira or Coname in the 70's have been elevated to key positions in such organizations as the UJA Federation. Behind the scenes any Jewish leaders who expressed even doubts about Obama during the primaries were intimidated and silenced.
Much as with conservatives, a list has been drawn up of those figures who can be won over, and those who cannot. The ones who can be won over are described as "moderates", the ones who cannot be won over are described as "extremists".
Meanwhile a bevvy of left wing Jewish In Name Only groups have been organized to play their part. Key among them is the Soros funded J Street, a group created as an anti-Israel lobby meant to eventually replace AIPAC. Meanwhile AIPAC itself has been kept on the ropes with such things as the well timed Harman leak. The message once again is fairly clear, cooperate and keep quiet, or we'll destroy you.
The multi-layered approach to American Jews can then be summed up as follows:
1.) Co-opt existing Jewish organizations and swing them to the left using old school 70's leftists.
2.) Create new "progressive" organizations to appeal to a younger generation of ethnically Jewish youth detached from any actual identity. Have these organizations generate attacks on the Israeli
government and pro-Israel Jews, while creating phony polls indicating that most American Jews are behind them and Obama.
3.) Silence and intimidate remaining Jewish organizations and leaders behind the scenes. The overall idea is to keep a happy face pasted on American Jewry while the knives are out in the dark.
Israel - The basic understanding in the Obama Administration is that Israel Must Go. In the worldview of the more moderate Obama appointees, Israel is a destabilizing factor in the Middle East. To the more left wing Obama advisors, Israel is a Western imperialist colonialist state that must be destroyed in the name of revolutionary justice. To the Islamist mindset, Israel is a Kufir state that has no right to exist in the Dar Al Islam.
While intractably hostile to Israel, the Obama Administration wants to avoid the kind of public confrontations that marked the Carter and Bush Sr administrations. Instead they would much rather model the way that the Clinton Administration waged a quiet war against Israel, removing one government, and forcing extensive concessions to terrorists, all the while keeping a happy face pasted on the whole affair.
On the one hand that means avoiding harsh public attacks on Israel, but keeping the pressure up for Israel to make extensive far reaching one sided concessions, to accept Saudi and Arab League "peace plans", to legitimize Hamas as the new government of the Palestinian Authority, and to ensure that Israel does not reply to any rocket or terrorist attacks.
There are two forms of quiet leverage that the United States has on Israel, the first is financial and the second is military.
On the financial side, the goal will be to bring down the Netanyahu government coalition by destabilizing Israel economically. This is the surest and most direct path to bringing down Israel's conservative government and replacing it with a left of center coalition. The Obama Administration has a wide variety of tactics at its disposal for doing so, from the overt, such as targeting Israeli exports and imports, to the covert, that would involve targeting the Shekel. Additionally fundraising in the US could be investigated and groups such as the Jewish National Fund, prevented from raising money in the US. All of these have been in play before at one time or another.
On the military side, Obama's people will make their non-existent efforts to stop Iran's nukes conditional on more concessions to terrorists. Since Israel will never be able to make enough concessions and since Obama is working with Iran, rather than working to stop Iran's nukes, this is a hollow charade.
Furthermore while Israel has already been locked out of the military technology pipeline for anything cutting edge, it still remains dependent on US military equipment for parts and supplies. The decades of US foreign aid have also served to create dependency. Unlike many other countries, including even Sweden, Israel does not have its own jet fighter. Israel's Air Force is heavily dependent on US weapons, parts and equipment. Cutting Israel off, would leave the Israeli military dangerously vulnerable in the case of a war. This is an effective chokehold that has been used before to prevent Israel from attacking Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War, as well as preventing Israel from carrying out a preemptive strike against its enemies before the Yom Kippur War.
The overall Obama policy will be to push Israel to the brink, using financial and military blackmail against the Netanyahu government, while maintaining control over American Jews to prevent any protests or backtalk.
The more Israel will offer, the more the Obama Administration will tighten the screws. No offer will be good enough, and Israel will be blamed for every breakdown in talks and every bit of violence that
takes place. The media will portray Israel and particularly Netanyahu as extremist and intransigent.
Hamas will be slowly whitewashed in the media, the same way that Arafat's goons were, (assuming that they prove more willing to cooperate in creating a positive media image of themselves than Ahmadinejad is.)
The plan is to destroy Israel, and to do it by pushing Israel to the edge of the cliff and then over the cliff. Israel's enemies will be getting top of the line US military equipment. Israel will not. Israel will be squeezed economically until the Netanyahu government collapses, leaving a weak left wing leader like Livni in charge of Israel, and in charge of acceding to the new Pharaoh's demands.
Meanwhile so-called American Jewish groups will support Obama all the way, some because they were created precisely for that purpose, e.g. JStreet, and others because they have been hijacked, cowed or subverted.
That is the game plan and some of it's coming. The rest is already here.
Daniel Greenfield is a New York City based writer and freelance commentator. “Daniel comments on political affairs with a special focus on the War on Terror and the rising threat to Western Civilization. He maintains a blog at Sultanknish.blogspot.com.
28 years after Carter was removed from office, we're in reruns again with the Obama Administration, which is not only following the Carter line, but whose plans greatly exceed it. 28 years ago, Wahhabi Sunni and Shiite terrorists were generally an afterthought when compared to the standard USSR backed Marxist terrorist groups, such as the PLO.
Today, thanks in part to the Carter Administration, they control several countries and have designs on several more. From Pakistan to Afghanistan, from Gaza to Lebanon, from the Middle East to Southeast Asia, the threat is very real and bigger than ever particularly as the race by both Sunni and Shiite groups to build and deploy nuclear weapons continues.
Like Carter before him, Obama has chosen to cut backdoor deals with the Mullahs in Iran, offering them power over Iraq and Afghanistan, in exchange for quieting things down enough to let him hang up a Mission Accomplished banner and pull the troops out. "Peace with honor", preferably before the next election. The rape law for Shiites in Afghanistan, the push for a US funded Hamas/Fatah Unity government in the territories and the rising expansion of the Taliban are all fruits of this arrangement.
If Iran is to be our new best friend under this arrangement, Israel is to be our new best enemy.
Obama stacked the deck by deploying Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State in a position that gave her an important title, but absolutely no power to go with it, while stacking the National Security Council
and even the Pentagon with oil appointees in the pockets of the Saudis or his own left wing radical friends.
Israel electing a conservative government really put the ball into play, freeing up even more resources for attacking Israel. The strategy runs something like this.
The Obama Administration has broken down the Israel problem into two subsections, Israel itself, and American Jews.
Obama's people have studied the problem and understand where Carter went wrong. Obama does not want to have the same image problems as Carter in the Jewish community. Should that happen, the Beloved Leader and his lapdog press are fully prepared to unleash a Chavez style hate-on targeting American Jews. But that would be inconvenient and messy. Even with the changing face of America, there are significant differences between the average American and European or Venezuelan, and what kind of ugliness they are willing to tolerate. So Obama's people have split their attention in handling the two factors as two different problems.
American Jews - Obama has been clever about putting his Jewish appointees front and center. Like many minorities, some American Jews suffer from self-esteem problems that are soothed when they see a seeming acceptance. Of course what they fail to realize is that exploitation is not acceptance. And that Obama's appointees are creatures of his backers, Nazi collaborators like Soros, who have nothing but contempt for Jews, individually or collectively.
While outwardly courting Jews, Obama's people have also been quietly shoving Jewish organizations and their leaders into a corner. Within the Jewish organizational world there has been a silent but deadly takeover of major Jewish groups by left wing radicals. Former alumni of the far left wing and anti-Israel groups like Breira or Coname in the 70's have been elevated to key positions in such organizations as the UJA Federation. Behind the scenes any Jewish leaders who expressed even doubts about Obama during the primaries were intimidated and silenced.
Much as with conservatives, a list has been drawn up of those figures who can be won over, and those who cannot. The ones who can be won over are described as "moderates", the ones who cannot be won over are described as "extremists".
Meanwhile a bevvy of left wing Jewish In Name Only groups have been organized to play their part. Key among them is the Soros funded J Street, a group created as an anti-Israel lobby meant to eventually replace AIPAC. Meanwhile AIPAC itself has been kept on the ropes with such things as the well timed Harman leak. The message once again is fairly clear, cooperate and keep quiet, or we'll destroy you.
The multi-layered approach to American Jews can then be summed up as follows:
1.) Co-opt existing Jewish organizations and swing them to the left using old school 70's leftists.
2.) Create new "progressive" organizations to appeal to a younger generation of ethnically Jewish youth detached from any actual identity. Have these organizations generate attacks on the Israeli
government and pro-Israel Jews, while creating phony polls indicating that most American Jews are behind them and Obama.
3.) Silence and intimidate remaining Jewish organizations and leaders behind the scenes. The overall idea is to keep a happy face pasted on American Jewry while the knives are out in the dark.
Israel - The basic understanding in the Obama Administration is that Israel Must Go. In the worldview of the more moderate Obama appointees, Israel is a destabilizing factor in the Middle East. To the more left wing Obama advisors, Israel is a Western imperialist colonialist state that must be destroyed in the name of revolutionary justice. To the Islamist mindset, Israel is a Kufir state that has no right to exist in the Dar Al Islam.
While intractably hostile to Israel, the Obama Administration wants to avoid the kind of public confrontations that marked the Carter and Bush Sr administrations. Instead they would much rather model the way that the Clinton Administration waged a quiet war against Israel, removing one government, and forcing extensive concessions to terrorists, all the while keeping a happy face pasted on the whole affair.
On the one hand that means avoiding harsh public attacks on Israel, but keeping the pressure up for Israel to make extensive far reaching one sided concessions, to accept Saudi and Arab League "peace plans", to legitimize Hamas as the new government of the Palestinian Authority, and to ensure that Israel does not reply to any rocket or terrorist attacks.
There are two forms of quiet leverage that the United States has on Israel, the first is financial and the second is military.
On the financial side, the goal will be to bring down the Netanyahu government coalition by destabilizing Israel economically. This is the surest and most direct path to bringing down Israel's conservative government and replacing it with a left of center coalition. The Obama Administration has a wide variety of tactics at its disposal for doing so, from the overt, such as targeting Israeli exports and imports, to the covert, that would involve targeting the Shekel. Additionally fundraising in the US could be investigated and groups such as the Jewish National Fund, prevented from raising money in the US. All of these have been in play before at one time or another.
On the military side, Obama's people will make their non-existent efforts to stop Iran's nukes conditional on more concessions to terrorists. Since Israel will never be able to make enough concessions and since Obama is working with Iran, rather than working to stop Iran's nukes, this is a hollow charade.
Furthermore while Israel has already been locked out of the military technology pipeline for anything cutting edge, it still remains dependent on US military equipment for parts and supplies. The decades of US foreign aid have also served to create dependency. Unlike many other countries, including even Sweden, Israel does not have its own jet fighter. Israel's Air Force is heavily dependent on US weapons, parts and equipment. Cutting Israel off, would leave the Israeli military dangerously vulnerable in the case of a war. This is an effective chokehold that has been used before to prevent Israel from attacking Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War, as well as preventing Israel from carrying out a preemptive strike against its enemies before the Yom Kippur War.
The overall Obama policy will be to push Israel to the brink, using financial and military blackmail against the Netanyahu government, while maintaining control over American Jews to prevent any protests or backtalk.
The more Israel will offer, the more the Obama Administration will tighten the screws. No offer will be good enough, and Israel will be blamed for every breakdown in talks and every bit of violence that
takes place. The media will portray Israel and particularly Netanyahu as extremist and intransigent.
Hamas will be slowly whitewashed in the media, the same way that Arafat's goons were, (assuming that they prove more willing to cooperate in creating a positive media image of themselves than Ahmadinejad is.)
The plan is to destroy Israel, and to do it by pushing Israel to the edge of the cliff and then over the cliff. Israel's enemies will be getting top of the line US military equipment. Israel will not. Israel will be squeezed economically until the Netanyahu government collapses, leaving a weak left wing leader like Livni in charge of Israel, and in charge of acceding to the new Pharaoh's demands.
Meanwhile so-called American Jewish groups will support Obama all the way, some because they were created precisely for that purpose, e.g. JStreet, and others because they have been hijacked, cowed or subverted.
That is the game plan and some of it's coming. The rest is already here.
Daniel Greenfield is a New York City based writer and freelance commentator. “Daniel comments on political affairs with a special focus on the War on Terror and the rising threat to Western Civilization. He maintains a blog at Sultanknish.blogspot.com.
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Permalink Reply by Terry on -
Can anyone with half a brain say this is unexpected? All the fools that voted for this fraud/conman/liar/incompetent were (& many still are) in denial, refusing to face the evidence of what Obama's true intentions were. They wanted to be fooled.
The Appeaser-in-Chief is not just anti-Israel, he is anti-American as well.
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Permalink Reply by Lee Underwood on -
The writer misses a very important point. It's very easy to blame Carter and Obama but no one wants to admit that Bush, his father and Reagan and others did the same also. It's ridiculous how the right wing protects Bush, Reagan and other Republicans, when they do the same thing as Obama and Carter (only they do it in the "smoky backrooms"). But that is still not where the real problem lies.
George W. Bush aided the Saudi royal family in getting out of the country on 9/11 -- the only planes allowed to fly that day, aside from military planes. He continued to provide aid and special favors to them, in spite of the fact it has been proven time and again that the Saudis are supporters of terrorism. He was also a major supporter of Mahmoud Abbas, one of the founders of the Fatah terrorist organization (part of the PLO), which has as a member the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades (designated by Bush himslef as a terrorist organization under US federal law). Bush gave millions of dollars in training and military weapons to build the PA/PLO terrorist army.
Reagan made secret, illegal deals with the Iranians, providing them with arms and other war materials (this was after they held US citizens hostage for months/years). Reagan was constantly coming against Israel for things it did to provide security for its citizens.
Obama's plans are no different than those of Bush, Reagan, etc. The difference is that he is more bold and arrogant about it, which the US has been doing more and more since Bush got into office. Bush was very proud of the fact that he was the first US president in history to demand that Israel give up important land in order to create a terrorist state (although he put it a bit more politically correct). Obama is only carrying on what the US started long before Israel became a nation. Let's not forget that the US worked with Britain in helping to keep Jews out of the Land in order to appease the Arabs/Muslims.
It's time to stop blaming the US for doing what every other nation wants to do, even though they are guilty. They couldn't do any of these things if Israel would take a stand and cease trying to be the 51st state. The focus of all these types of commentaries is all wrong. The focus should be on what Israeli leaders are doing, not what some foreign nation wants it to do. When another nation tells the US, Britain or any other nation (except Israel) what to do, the general reply is that they are a sovereign nation and will do what is necessary in order to protect its citizens. Israel, however, asks how high they should jump. Recent history has shown that the Israeli government is completely ineffective in protecting its citizens. The only way for Israel to do anything like that will need to come from outside the government. Politicians will never do it, no matter who they are or what party they belong to. They only bow to other nations, especially to the US. (Sharon is an excellent, although tragic, example of this.) People like those in Judah and Samaria are the ones who need to rise up. Israel cannot continue to survive within a "political system", it wasn't created to do that. Demonstrations can only do so much. Take a lesson from the US -- which threw off the yoke of Britain and stood up for itself -- and it didn't have a mandate from G-d as Israel does.
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Permalink Reply by Sharbano on -
I would agree with most of your comments. The facts about Saudi Arabia and 9-11 aren't "quite" accurate. Although there were provisions made for the Saudis to leave it wasn't on 9-11 but a little while later. They Were given special treatment in this matter but Not on the day of 9-11. It's been awhile but it seems it was a week or so after, I just can't be sure of the date on that matter.
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Permalink Reply by Lee Underwood on
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Yes, now that I think about it, you are correct. However, the fact that a nation that supports terrorism (Saudi Arabia) as it does was given any special treatment says a a lot about the situation. The Bush family has always been ardent supports of the Saudis. George W.'s enthusiastic welcome of the Saudi leader in the US also says much since he had this "war" on terror going.
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Permalink Reply by Terry on
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I must admit that you make an excellent point re: the Israeli political establishment - most of our current mess is the result of our own actions or often, inactions. We are not the 51st state & much as American support is welcome, we have our own national interests, interests which are not necessarily American interests. But our politicians abdicate responsibility & use American pressure as an excuse. Hopefully, we are moving away from that sad state of affairs (although it is difficult to trust Netanyahu). But ultimately, the fault is with the Israeli public who sit on the side-lines & allow this dysfunctional political system to continue.
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Permalink Reply by Andrew on -
Republican, Democrat. Nothing is going to change while America is addicted to Saudi oil. If the Americans can put a man on the moon, why can't they come up with a substitute for Saudi oil. Why hasn't there been an outcry in the states about Americans putting $300 billion a year into the coffers of its worst enemy, the saudis?
I have always wondered whether the conspiracy theory is true, the one about people inventing cars that don't run on oil but the oil companies buy up the patents and then just bury them.
If I was president my primary goal would be to find a substitute for oil. Until America does, the Presidents are going to have to continue holding hands and bowing to those Saudi swine.
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Permalink Reply by Minerva on -
I think this article is interesting and has to do with the topic.
Proliferation: Israel is not the problem
By Rafael L. Bardají
Commentary nº 1170 | May 8, 2009
The Obama administration has announced that it would like Israel to sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty. This is stupid and a big mistake.
Signing the Treaty would oblige Israel to end its traditional ambiguity with regard to its strategic arsenal. And unless the goal is to put Israel on the spot, there is nothing positive to be gained by signing. Iran would say that if the Jews have the bomb, they also have a right to have it; the Arab world, so given to drama, would publicly criticize the Israeli arsenal; and many outmoded pacifists would run out and demand a nuclear- free zone in the Middle East. In other words, instead of calming things down on an issue that does not excite anyone except Obama’s Washington, it would only make things worse.
Second, we must admit that the NPT was useful three decades ago, but it has proved worthless against those who truly want the bomb. North Korea, Syria and Iran are well known examples of how you can violate the spirit and letter of the law in spite of swearing to uphold it. Even worse, you can do so and at the same time uphold most of the restrictions the text sets down. And that is something that Obama should think about when it comes to revising the Treaty next year, not about Israel.
With his longing for change, the American president now sees nuclear arms as undesirable. But the arms are not the problem; it's the regimes that have them. A Pakistani bomb is not the same as a French one. Mainly due to the fact that France is a stable democracy and Pakistan is going down the road to Talibanization. Israel is also a democracy. The bomb that Obama – and the world – should worry about is the Iranian one because of what Tehran is: an Islamic republic with hegemonic ambitions and willing to use terrorist groups to reach its goals.
http://www.eng.gees.org/articulo/402/
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Permalink Reply by Minerva on
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In my opinion, Obama must believe that some problems can be resolved by being kind to Iran and the terrorists. But he does not realize that by doing so, he may lose Israel and some Arab countries’ support.
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Permalink Reply by Ame on -
The problem is there are too many Ali Norths' in the United States Gov't, just remember it was that Carter Admin. that was so busy with their noses up an oil well the we got our tactical missiles.
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Permalink Reply by Minerva on
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There is something I cannot understand about the oil. It is true that we need to buy it. But isn't it true that the Arabs need to sell it?
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Permalink Reply by skimble on -
I wish to comment on the statement "it is true that we need to buy oil". It is undeniably true today, but may change if there will be coordinated policies to mitigate global warming. See my post:
http://israelinsider.ning.com/forum/topics/israel-and-global-warming
There is a sense of increasing urgency because to prevent the warming from going beyond 2 degrees Celsius action has to be taken within the next 20 years. This has consequences first of all for coal, but also for oil with resulting changes in the Middle East.
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