By Alan Caruba
If Barack Obama told me “I have your
back”, I would spend a lot of time looking over my shoulder. His promises to
Israel are dirt, worthless, and duplicitous in the extreme. Taken together, they
have ensured that Israel will attack some of Iran’s facilities that are striving
to make it a nuclear power with nuclear weapons.
An article in the October 31 edition
of The Jerusalem Post, “White House
official confirms Israeli attack on Syrian missile site” is just one example
of the steps the Obama administration is taken to serious undermine Israel’s
security and hasten Iran’s ability to make good on its promise to “wipe it from
the map.”
According to the article, an
“anonymous US administration official” responded to a CNN inquiry that Israel
had conducted air raids against a Syrian missile base near the port city of
Latakia where “missiles and related equipment” were stored “out of concern that
they would be transferred to Hezbollah.”
Tellingly, the reporter noted that “It is unclear why the U.S. would leak
such information as it could increase the pressure on Syria to retaliate against
Israel.”
Monday, November 4th, marks the 34th anniversary of Iran’s seizure of U.S.
diplomats in 1979. To this day Iran’s slogan has been “Death to America” and
“Death to Israel.”
Little noted by most Americans, the
Obama administration is feverishly trying to establish diplomatic relations with
Iran despite the fact that it has technically been at war with us ever since our
diplomats were seized from the U.S. embassy in Tehran, holding them for 444 days
until their release the day Ronald Reagan was inaugurated.
One of the best, most reliable sources
of news from and about Israel is the Debka File and the same day the US blew the
whistle on the Syrian attacks, they posted an article, “Braced
for imminent nuclear accord with Iran, US pulls away from military option, IDF
stays on the ready.”
The article bluntly stated that Israel
“plans to keep in place advanced preparations for a unilateral military strike
on Iran’s nuclear program in 2014.” On November 1st, Debka File reported on a “Mystery
explosion at Iran’s Arak heavy water reactor” that has been under construction.
It is the second time the facility has had an explosion.
The Obama administration has taken a
very hard line against Israel’s warnings regarding the decades-long efforts of
Iran to become a nuclear power. Flitting around the Middle East these days,
Secretary of State, John Kerry, said “Some of suggested that somehow there’s
something wrong with giving diplomacy a chance. We will not succumb to those
fear tactics and forces that suggest otherwise.”
Kerry seems oblivious to the fact that
the administration’s diplomatic efforts in the Middle East has managed to
seriously harm U.S. relations with virtually all the nations in the region, not
the least of which is Saudi Arabia that has as much to fear from a nuclear Iran
as Israel. The Gulf States are all fearful of Iranian progress toward nuclear
power.
Observers have concluded that Kerry’s
efforts are aimed at “lifting decision-making on sanctions out of the hands of
Congress and transferring it to this secret negotiation mechanism. By this
means, President Obama hopes not only to thwart Congressional calls for tighter
sanctions against Iran, but also to forestall Netanyahu’s efforts to this
end.”
Indeed, all of Obama’s Middle East
policies have come to a bad end at this point. The withdrawal of U.S. troops
from Iraq has resulted in that nation becoming a bloodbath as al Qaeda, the
Sunnis, and the Shiites wage a war of subversion against the present government
there, in which the casualties are mounting weekly. The U.S. is also in the
process of withdrawing from Afghanistan.
The tilt toward the Muslim Brotherhood
that took over Egypt after an election, resulted in the then-president Muhammad
Morsi’s efforts to impose harsh sharia law on the nation. Egyptians rallied
against him and the military arrested him and has cracked down on the
Brotherhood. There are reports that Egypt, a longtime U.S. ally, is now
discussing the purchase of weapons from Russia. U.S. aid to Egypt has apparently
ended.
One cannot overlook the disastrous
decisions that followed the overthrow of Muamar Gaddafi, Libya’s former dictator
that resulted in the December 11, 2012 attack in Benghazi that cost the life of
the U.S. ambassador and three security personnel.
Israel knows that Obama is no friend
and, therefore, the protection and support of every previous administration
since the days of Truman are at an end until the current administration is
replaced.
It will, as it has in the past, do
what it must to defend itself against Iran and the threats posed by Hezbollah
and Hamas. It has no other option.
Obama is increasing the threat of war
and he knows it.
© Alan Caruba, 2013
1 comment:
Iran should have been an "Ocean of Glass" long ago... They are technically still at war with us, all we need a President with balls who will order the nuclear strike and we can put a fork in it and call it done.
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