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Emanuel Says Obama Insists On Implementing Two State Solution, No Ifs, Ands, or Buts
Jennifer Rubin - Commentary
It is hard to imagine that U.S.-Israeli relations could have reached this point. But they have. The Washington Post aptly described where we stand: “Ties Plunge To A New Low.” In short, “relations with Israel have been strained almost since the start of the Obama administration. Now they have plunged to their lowest ebb since the administration of George H.W. Bush.” And there is no improvement in sight. After the public and private scolding by the vice president over the building of housing units in Jerusalem, Hillary Clinton continued the hollering, this time in a conversation with Bibi Netanyahu that was eagerly relayed to the media:
State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley described the nearly 45-minute phone conversation in unusually undiplomatic terms, signaling that the close allies are facing their deepest crisis in two decades after the embarrassment suffered by Vice President Biden this week when Israel announced during his visit that it plans to build 1,600 housing units in a disputed area of Jerusalem.
Clinton called Netanyahu “to make clear the United States considered the announcement a deeply negative signal about Israel’s approach to the bilateral relationship and counter to the spirit of the vice president’s trip,” Crowley said. Clinton, he said, emphasized that “this action had undermined trust and confidence in the peace process and in America’s interests.”
As the Post points out, the relationship has been rocky from the get-go. (”From the start of his tenure, President Obama identified a Middle East peace deal as critical to U.S. national security, but his efforts have been hampered by the administration’s missteps and the deep mistrust between the Israelis and the Palestinians.”) Actually, it is the mistrust between Israel and the U.S. that is at the nub of the problem. We hear that the Obami intend to use this incident to pressure Israel to “something that could restore confidence in the process and to restore confidence in the relationship with the United States.” And it is hard to escape the conclusion that the Obami are escalating the fight — making relations more tense and strained — to achieve their misguided objective, namely to extract some sort of unilateral concessions they imagine would pick the lock on the moribund “peace process.”
It’s mind boggling, really, that after this public bullying, the Obami expect the Israelis to cough up more concessions and show their faith in the American negotiators. And if by some miracle they did, what would that change? Where is the Palestinian willingness or ability to make a meaningful peace agreement?
In the midst of the administration’s temper tantrum, we find yet another reason for George W. Bush nostalgia: we used to get along so much better with Israel. Bush’s deputy national security adviser Elliott Abrams (who had the curious notion that a relationship of mutual respect and affection could encourage Israel to take risks for peace) writes:
The current friction in U.S.-Israel relations has one source: the mishandling of those relations by the Obama administration. Poll data show that Israel is as popular as ever among Americans. Strategically we face the same enemies — such as terrorism and the Iranian regime — a fact that is not lost on Americans who know we have one single reliable, democratic ally in the Middle East. … the Obama administration continues to drift away from traditional U.S. support for Israel. But time and elections will correct that problem; Israel has a higher approval rating these days than does President Obama.
Very true, but alas, both American voters and the Israelis must endure at least another few years of this. When the Obami talked of restoring our standing in the world and repairing frayed relations with allies, they plainly didn’t have Israel in mind. They have, through petulance and complete misunderstanding of the real barrier to peace, made hash out of the U.S.-Israeli relationship. Those who imagined we’d be getting smart diplomacy must now be chagrined to know how ham-handedly one can conduct foreign policy.
Even a smart girl like Jennifer Rubin fails to get it.
There are no naive illusions of peace by Obama.
There is a real vision of a world without Israel.
C’mon people…cross the Rubicon.
Obama is not “screwing up”.
He is not “wearing rose-colored glasses”.
He is not a “clueless innocent”.
He is a hard core Marxist dedicated to the destruction of Israel.
Once you gain the courage to swallow that bitter pill, the fog will lift and all of his “seemingly inexplicable” actions will make perfect sense.
Comment by ayn reagan — March 13, 2010 @ 8:26 pm
Right you are Ayn.
Comment by Laura — March 13, 2010 @ 9:03 pm
Embarrassment suffered by biden? This is a guy who repeatedly embarrasses himself every time he opens his mouth, so what’s one more supposed embarrassment?
And what more can be said about that kapo mutt, rahm emanuel.
Comment by Laura — March 13, 2010 @ 9:08 pm
Right on the money Ayn. It’s not just that Rubin doesn’t get it…….I have no faith that any of our leaders (and I use that term advisedly) “get it”, which is much more problematic.
Comment by sabashimon — March 13, 2010 @ 9:34 pm
And what’s even worse is that half of the israeli population doesn’t get it either.
Not until a Jewish leader exudes Jewishness, Obama and his cronies will continue to piss on Israel.
Comment by drjb — March 14, 2010 @ 1:00 am
The God of Israel says but one COMMMAND for all the nations:
THE LAND AND STATE OF ISRAEL IS DEFINED BY TORAH LAW and any man that tries to move Jerusalem from its places or any nation will be uprooted and destroyed.
The Obama administration’s days are numbered and my hope is that as surely JFK, an evil man was properly disposed of, this administration will be gone with Dr. Evil’s pinky finger on voting day when masses of Americans vote him out of office and he will be nothing more than a bad nightmare to be forgotten.
My prayer for the State of Israel is that the whole world just shut up and leave them alone to their own land and property as assigned by Torah Law borders.
I’ve had enough of this Obama monkey business and its time for PLANET OF THE APES to experience the wrath of Charlton Heston’s cold dead hands as he lifts a rifle and stares upon the buried statue of liberty………no, it’s not GOD DAMN AMERICA Mr. Reverend Wright and Louise Fairykhan - it’s GOD DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL for what you have done to torment the Israeli people and take away the only land they’ve ever historically owned and had a right to.
THE NATIONS ARE DESTINED TO BE DESTROYED and Rahm Emanuel is soon to also become a dead memory, forgotten as just another rotten corpse in the pages of the dead Obama administration.
Comment by Michael Sunstar — March 14, 2010 @ 10:51 am
Obama is a corpse and I call upon the Israeli Mossad to protect Israel and send Obama where he belongs!
Comment by Michael Sunstar — March 14, 2010 @ 10:52 am
HARDBALL? Obama needs to understand that in a game of pool, the black ball is the last one to get hit to either loose or win the game - and in his case it’s an easy score in the corner pocket, but the bump in the GREEN CARPET will bounce him out of the hole as a rejected loser and bounce up into Joe Biden’s tiny balls to make him vomit all the poo poo he has digested!
Comment by Michael Sunstar — March 14, 2010 @ 11:02 am
No, I’m not angry, just sick and tired of Israel being pushed around.
We’re MAD AS HEAVEN and WE’RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!
THE AGE OF SHITLER IS OVER! TIME TO FIGHT BACK AND SAY: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH OF YOU EVIL TERRORISTS!
Comment by Michael Sunstar — March 14, 2010 @ 11:03 am
Ask Rham and Hussein:
few basic questions about that country of “Palestine”:
1. When was it founded and by whom?
2. What were its historic borders?
3. What was its capital?
4. What were its major cities?
5. What constituted the basis of its economy?
6. What was its form of government?
7. Can you name at least one Palestinian leader before Arafat?
8. Was Palestine ever recognized by a country whose existence, at that time or now, leaves no room for interpretation?
9. What was the language of the country of Palestine?
10. What was the prevalent religion of the country of Palestine?
11. What was the name of its currency? Choose any date in history and try and find the approximate exchange rate of the Palestinian monetary unit against the US dollar, German mark, British pound, Japanese yen, or Chinese yuan on that date.
12. Have the Palestinians left any artifacts behind?
13. Do you know of a library where one could find a work of Palestinian literature produced before 1967?
14. And, finally, since there is no such country today, what caused its demise and when did it occur?
If you are lamenting the “low sinking” of “once proud” nation, then please tell me, when exactly was that “nation” proud and what was it so proud of?
Comment by yamit82 — March 14, 2010 @ 11:55 am
Ann Rubin is clearly not sympathetic with any of Obama’s actions concerning Israel, and rightly calls Clintons’s ravings a “temper tantrum”. Netanyahu, meanwhile, is telling the Knesset to keep kool; and he seems to have solid backing in Israel. cf:
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=170936
I read the first eight comments coming through, and there isn’t a hint that Bibi should apologize for anything. This is on the Jerusalem Post, which does not impress me as being lock=step with the Nationalist camp. If Obama thinks he can undermine Netanyahu politically, he seems to be on the wrong track.
Meanwhile, back in the USA, Clinton’s lunatic ravings make me wonder if the BO Administration isn’t coming completely unhinged. For being in what seems to be their weakest political situation in my lifetime, the Republicans seem to be requitting themselves very well: The Democrats are making one desperate move after anothe, and the GOP seems like the calm captain that keeping out ship of state from running into the rocks. This could simply be the hand of God, bringing confusion to Israel’s enemies and turning their counsel into foolishness.
Meanwhile, Iran is very seriously preparing a nuclear attack against Israel; and with Clinton’s announcement that the US can no longer be depended upon, the Israelis will do well to pursue their other options: Russia, China, India and other countries. If the Iranians were not so completely crazy, even they could take advantage of the latest American imbecility. Israel has a lot to offer the world militarily, especially in truly 21st Century technology.
I wonder if there will be much left of American foreign policy, once the lunatics have been done away with — hopefully soon.
Comment by BlandOatmeal — March 14, 2010 @ 1:22 pm
The Israelis will do well to pursue their other options:
Russia, China, India and other countriesstop relying on(the nations)weak reeds…RELY ON GOD!!! If there are some nations that stand with you they will be blessed by God. The nations that oppose you will be cursed by God. But Israel - RELY ONLY ON GODComment by ken.mathews — March 14, 2010 @ 1:58 pm
YAMIT 82! RIGHT ON MAN!
Dumb democrats can’t answer it, except through the Iranians and terror groups they funded from the times of Carter to now.
Comment by Michael Sunstar — March 14, 2010 @ 2:09 pm
few basic questions about that country of “Palestine”:
1. When was it founded and by whom?
PHILISTINES BY GOLIATH BEFORE DAVID SANK HIS HEAD WITH A SLINGSHOT! and a terrorist on the other side of time
2. What were its historic borders?
HELL
3. What was its capital?
HELL
4. What were its major cities?
HELL
5. What constituted the basis of its economy?
HELL
6. What was its form of government?
HELL
7. Can you name at least one Palestinian leader before Arafat?
SATAN/HITLER
8. Was Palestine ever recognized by a country whose existence, at that time or now, leaves no room for interpretation?
NEVER…….ZERO………ZILCH……..ZIPPO!
9. What was the language of the country of Palestine?
SPECIAL SCHOOL FOR RETARDS
10. What was the prevalent religion of the country of Palestine?
THE god OF DUMB ASSES
11. What was the name of its currency? Choose any date in history and try and find the approximate exchange rate of the Palestinian monetary unit against the US dollar, German mark, British pound, Japanese yen, or Chinese yuan on that date.
666 FOUNDED AFTER 600 +_ 60 + 6 RELATIVE TO THE RISE OF MUHAMMAD who lied, cheated, and stole from innocent merchants to get rich quick and got laid by a woman two times his senior, which made Muhammad a sick whore.
12. Have the Palestinians left any artifacts behind?
JUST A BUNCH OF SHIT
13. Do you know of a library where one could find a work of Palestinian literature produced before 1967?
YES, A CHARTER CALLING FOR ISRAEL’S DESTRUCTION, STRAIGHT FROM MEIN KAMPF
14. And, finally, since there is no such country today, what caused its demise and when did it occur?
WHEN THEY WEREN’T SENT BACK HOME TO MECCA IN ARABIA
If you are lamenting the “low sinking” of “once proud” nation, then please tell me, when exactly was that “nation” proud and what was it so proud of?
PROUD OF HATING JEWS; PROUD OF FULFILLING SATAN’S AGENDA
This was a really great post!
Comment by Michael Sunstar — March 14, 2010 @ 2:14 pm
We could wipe Palestine off the face of the earth, if we had a place on the map to begin with.
At least the Iranian has a map of Israel, but nobody has a map for “Palestine”
Comment by Michael Sunstar — March 14, 2010 @ 2:15 pm