If the United States abandons the Jewish State, Jerusalem -- if??? not if, but when
On Feb 17, 5:50 am, Cold Water <[email protected]> wrote: > Can Israel make it alone? > By James Lewis > > In 1938 the West abandoned Czechoslovakia and Poland to Nazi aggression, > signaling so much weakness that Hitler immediately grasped that he could now > send his tanks against France and the rest of Europe. At Yalta, in 1945, the > United States and Britain abandoned Eastern Europe and half of Germany to > Stalin's armies. China was left to Mao Zedong, who ended up killing an > estimated 40 million of his own people in various utopian massacres. In 1975 > we left Vietnam and Cambodia to the tender mercies of Pol Pot and Ho Chi > Minh, poster kids of the American Left. Several million dead people later, in > 1979, Jimmy Carter abandoned Iran to Ayatollah Khomeini and his torturers, > one of whom is now President of Iran. Later this year Iran may explode its > first bomb. The Obama administration will stand by and smile. > > Now the US and our allies cannot control everything in the world, not by any > stretch of the imagination. We were able to defeat Soviet imperialism with a > true bipartisan consensus, from Truman to Reagan. But that took half a > century. It also took tens of millions of clear-thinking Americans, Europeans > and Asians, who were willing to recognize evil and stand up to it. Still, our > record of standing by besieged allies is decidedly mixed, especially when > Democrats take power. Barack Obama is no Harry S Truman. > > Israel's planners have to be thinking that with Obama and his crowd in power, > the United States may simply pull out the rug from the democratic and modern > state of Israel. > > Caroline Glick of the Jerusalem Post has listed some of the moves that have > already been made by America-hating regimes -- just in the first weeks of the > Obama Presidency. > > She writes, > > Since coming into office, Obama has repeatedly tried to build an alliance > with the "newly emboldened" Russian bear. A week after entering office, he > announced that he hoped to negotiate a nuclear disarmament agreement with > Russia that would reduce the US's nuclear stockpiles by 80 percent. ... > Responding to these American signals, the Russians proceeded to humiliate > Washington. Last week President Dmitry Medvedev hosted Kyrgyzstan's President > ... in Moscow. After their meeting the two announced that ...Kyrgyzstan will > close the US Air Force base at Manas which serves American forces in > Afghanistan. > Clear enough, right? But not to our media, who just haven't bothered to > notice, choosing instead to stage the most butt-kissing display of > presidential worship in history. > > Last Friday, the Pakistanis tested Obama. The Supreme Court freed > Pakistan's Dr. Strangelove -- A.Q. Khan -- from the house arrest he had been > under since his nuclear proliferation racket was exposed by the Libyans in > 2004. ... Khan's release casts a dark shadow on Obama's plan to dismantle > much of America's nuclear arsenal, because with him free, the prospect that > Pakistan is back in the proliferation business becomes quite real. ... > > Pakistan's open contempt for the US and its weakness in the face of the > Taliban's takeover of the country has direct consequences for the US's > mission in Afghanistan ..... This week the Taliban bombed a bridge on the > Khyber Pass along the Pakistani border with Afghanistan that served as a > supply line to US forces in Afghanistan. > > You probably didn't hear that on ABC News Tonight. > > How about Iran? > > Obama came into office waving an enormous olive branch in Teheran's > direction... (But) the regime has become more outspoken in its hostility > toward the US. ... . It has announced it will only agree to direct talks with > Washington if it pulls US forces out of the Middle East, abandons Israel and > does nothing to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. ... In all of > its actions, Iran has gone out of its way to embarrass Obama and humiliate > America. And Obama, for his part, has continued to embrace Teheran as his > most sought-after negotiating partner. > > Apparently if somebody spits right in your face and you pretend not to > notice, it's just as if it never happened. That's not true in Southside > Chicago, and it's not true in the Middle East. It only works that way in the > liberal imagination. > > Just look at the world. Putin is arm-twisting the Ukraine. He has cut off > natural gas supplies to Germany and its neighbors in the middle of a bad > winter. He is now in control of all the pipelines that supply Germany --- > which is constantly sabotaged by its own Greens, who refuse to develop > nuclear power plants. > > And the US? Obama doesn't want to know. Neither does Hillary, who just flew > off to Asia. Nor does Joe Biden, who now competes with Hillary and the > National Security Council for control over foreign policy. The President is > busy trying to peddle a trillion dollar payoff to Democrat Machines all over > the country. Americans seem to be in a daze. > > We are being tested by the bullies in the world. We are failing all their > tests so far. Bullies keep testing and testing until they meet resistance, > and there is no hard muscle in this flabby administration. It goes against > their most cherished beliefs. > > If you look at the world the way Israel must be doing, the question is, can > you survive with a flabby America, or even with an America that turns against > you? > > The basic answer is "Yes," but at a stiff price. Israel is a fairly advanced > nuclear power, and no such power has ever been overthrown by any other. The > risk is just too great. Nuke-armed Pakistan is always on the edge of > crumbling, and it is now believed that its intelligence service helped > Islamic terrorists who gunned down hundreds of civilians in Mumbai a few > months ago. India may threaten to retaliate, but it can't do much in the face > of Pakistan's missiles armed with weapons of mass destruction. Pakistan is > therefore using its nuclear power to create a safe haven for Islamic terror > assaults on the Hindu nation next door. > > After 9/11 the Pakistan government was sufficiently afraid of George W. Bush > to allow American strikes against Al Qaida on its territory. But Pakistan has > pulled back since General Musharraf was driven from power -- in good part by > American pressure, along with outrageous and ignorant public insults from > Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. So Musharraf is gone, and the Pakistan > military and terror-support apparatus is now free to keep attacking > majority-Hindu India. It may be their way of keeping their own militants > under control. Or maybe they just believe in sticking it to the infidels, > wherever they may be. > > This is not, as the Obama administration would like to believe, just a > quarrel about the Kashmir. It's all part of the worldwide jihad -- like > communism and Nazism, Islam is inherently imperialistic. > > When Iran gets its bomb, the Mullahs will feel free to sponsor terrorism in > Saudi Arabia, as Ayatollah Khomeini did, or wherever they can stir up trouble > in the Arab world. Iran's proxies have been launching missiles at civilians > in Israel for years. They came close to hitting the nuclear power plant at > Dimona in this last round, as much of a red line for Israel as anything > imaginable. Next time they could easily hit that plant. What would Obama do? > > The death of Israel is only a part of what the Mullahs want; they really > crave control over Mecca and Medina, the holiest cities in Islam. The Saudis > have ruled Arabia for only a hundred years, a fleeting moment in time by the > millennial reckoning of fanatics. Why should the Arabian Peninsula be > dominated by the despised Sunni Arabs, when seventy million Shiites in Iran > are only fifty miles across the Gulf, and will soon be armed with nukes? The > Persian Empire never stopped at the Gulf. Why should the new Shiite Caliphate > stop there? > > That's why the Saudis are looking to make peace between the Arabs and Israel. > It is also why they financed Pakistan's nuclear program, and why they will do > the same for Egypt when the time comes. They see a deadly threat to their > survival, even if the American government doesn't. > > So Iran's nuclear weapons will be used to create impregnable havens for > terror groups. If Obama allows Iran to dominate the Gulf to "satisfy its > ambitions to become a regional power," as the Left likes to say, you can > fully expect the Mullahs to take the logical next step. > > Nations have no permanent friends, only permanent interests -- like survival. > If the United States abandons the Jewish State, Jerusalem will have to seek > new alliances. It may feel driven to conduct an open nuclear test if Iran > does. That's what happened with India and Pakistan ten years ago. Israel is > working with India -- and so far, the US -- on advanced antimissile defenses. > India has a natural affinity with the Israelis, as a majority-Hindu state > that has been fighting jihadi terror since 1948. Historically, India > experienced constant aggression from Muslim powers. China and Russia have a > long horror of Islamic invasion. If survival is at stake, expect Israel to > make whatever alliances it can. > > Other nations that rely on us --Taiwan, Singapore, Poland, the Czech > Republic, the Ukraine, Georgia, the Baltic States -- will also see the > handwriting on the wall. Not all of them will collapse. > > Western Europe may be crumble to domestic Muslims, as the Geert Wilders case > suggests. But Russia has a thousand years of fighting Islamic aggression, and > has just carried out a vicious war against jihadi rebels in Chechnya. China > also fears Muslim invaders and rebels. Even Australia is showing real spirit > in the fight against this very ancient fascist ideology. > > In a decade or so civilized nations will have adequate anti-missile defenses, > and better protection against smuggled dirty bombs. Bio-identification will > make it easier to pinpoint dangerous people trying to enter the country. But > we may have to pay a big price in individual freedom. > > These calculations are surely going through the minds of politicians and > strategists around the world. If the Obama administration walks away ... > > read more » --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
