Biden, Administration Blind to the Islamic Threat Facing Israel.


Gary Bauer has the top story at Human Events.

I’ve spent the last week traveling across Israel as part of a delegation from Christians United for Israel (CUFI). I’ve had individual meetings with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Foreign Minister Ehud Barak, President Shimon Peres, Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon and others. As always, it has been an eye opening experience.

Vice President Joe Biden also spent the past few days in Israel, consorting with many of the same leaders I met with, visiting some of the same historic sites and perhaps walking many of the same streets in Jerusalem and elsewhere. But what he seems to have missed on his trip is at the heart of the troubles that the Obama administration is having in the Middle East.

Despite having similar itineraries, Biden and I come to strikingly different conclusions about America’s relationship with Israel, and what it will take to resolve the world’s most intractable conflict. The vice president (and the administration he works for) treats Israel as the primary obstacle to peace in the Middle East. They seem blind to the Islamic fundamentalist who want Israel and the U.S. wiped off the map. But I regard the Jewish state as a lonely outpost of Western Civilization deserving and in dire need of our unwavering support.  

Biden’s trip has been dominated by controversy over new settlements. The Israeli government this week revealed plans to build 1,600 new housing units in response to a housing shortage in an Orthodox community of East Jerusalem.


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I think the problem is that people have different opinions...

NeoKong (Diary) Friday, March 12th at 7:32AM EST (link)

of what peace in the Middle East should be.
Some people think it could mean a fair and equitable sharing of the land in the West Bank and Gaza and eventually the Palestinians become a responsible self governing peaceful people.
Other people think it means a few million dead Israelis and a smoldering Tel Aviv.
When you have Iran building nukes and cruise missiles it isn’t out of a desire for peace.
They don’t want peace with Israel and they make no secret of it.

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Biden and this administration do not seem to be paying....

penguin2 (Diary) Friday, March 12th at 7:55AM EST (link)

much attention or is it really that the attention they are paying is for a different outcome than we have previously sought? America has supported and maintained defending Israel. If we do not continue to do so, the 2nd outcome you noted will happen. Our current administration seems to be soft on Islamic extremism and minimizing the threat (in their minds) I am afraid they will turn out to be wrong.

Those that do not think defending Israel is important will pay a heavy price, IF the Islamic extremists defeat Israel, it will embolden them…People are not paying attention to the attacks on Christians throughout the world, the same goals are there – destroying Judaism and Christianity.

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. – Benjamin Franklin
When Good stands up to Evil, Evil blinks. – Vassar Bushmills

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The left is entirely blind to Islamofascism and is

renny (Diary) Friday, March 12th at 7:42AM EST (link)

anti-Semitic at its core.

Many years ago at Yale, right after the 1973 war, all the talk was about how aggressive and war-like Israel was, without any remark on how Israel had been attacked by several nations and was always place in a position of defending itself.

So, this leftist penchant for blaming Israel is not new. It has festered for years, but didn’t break out into the blatant support for Muslims over Israelis until the Palestinians had enough time to portray themselves as poor, homeless waifs, driven from their homes by the beastly uber-Jew, and set adrift in the world in the world conscience. The left has turned around the Nazis Holocaust into the ultimate reversal with the Jews as Hitler and the Palestinians as ultimate victim.

Interestingly, the “biggest” Palestinians in renown have not been Palestinians but Egyptians, like Said of Columbia and Arafat of Nobel Peace prize fame. And as to the Palestinians’ Arab brothers, a Palestinian family could now have lived in Egypt or Saudi Arabia since 1948, but it cannot become an Egyptian citizen or Saudi citizens. The Middle East wants nothing to ameliorate the hatred and grievance-stricken Palestinians from their relentless (and fruitless) drive to push Israel into the sea.

 

Iran's bomb is the issue, not settlements.

barrypopik (Diary) Friday, March 12th at 7:59AM EST (link)

The issue Biden should be concerned about is that Iran is building a nuclear weapon and has stated, many times, of its genocidal intention to eliminate the Jewish people.

The “settlements” issue is just a crock. It doesn’t mean anything to Iran.

Obama and Biden are not blind. Are they blind to the American people on health care? No.

They’re ideologues.

With horrible, dangerous ideas.

 

Israel can´t trust Obama

Castor (Diary) Friday, March 12th at 8:05AM EST (link)

There is very little sand left in the hour glass.
It must be perfectly clear that the anointed one and his clique are paper tigers when it comes to Iran They are not to be trusted to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.
Unfortunately, Israel must act alone to stop the jihadist maniac Achmadinejad.
When and not if they act, it will be for all of us.
May God help them.

 

Biden showed some real class while over there

bk (Diary) Friday, March 12th at 8:15AM EST (link)

If you call being 90 minutes late for dinner with Bibi class.

 

The administration's goals with Israel through Nov 2nd are very clear

civil truth (Diary) Friday, March 12th at 10:11AM EST (link)

(1) Coerce Israel into a suicidal agreement with the Palestinians so that Obama can trumpet his “peace-making” skills to the American public and rescue the Democrats from electoral disaster (and perhaps even produce Democratic gains).

This may be one of the “October” surprises that Obama is counting on.

(2) Failing (1), at all costs prevent Israel from doing anything (such as striking IRan) to create an international crisis that suggests his policies have failed and/or creating an economic crisis.

Starting Nov 3rd, once Obama has a clear field for two years – God knows!

The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis

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Are you sure they're simply blind to the threat ?

Kenny Solomon (Diary) Friday, March 12th at 10:21AM EST (link)

Or are they puropsely blind to the threat ?

Worse to consider……. Are they assisting the threat ?

This MY OPINION and nothing more.

With the currently known and documented record of speeches, bowing, apologies and that insane speech in Turkey about ‘mutual understanding’, it’s a wonder Israel hasn’t threatened the current administration with cutting off all support FROM Israel on things like medical R&D, microtechnology and other things.

Maybe I’m a tad jaded and ego-centric about this eentsy-weentsy to do with my people and ancestral homeland, but I don’t give a tinker’s cuss anymore.

Kick is, you wouldn’t believe the amount of and power weilded by the appeaser and the peace-at-any-price crowd in Israel. They’re suicidal at best, genocidally ignorant in reality.

I’m gonna stop now, because……… Well…….. I’m gonna stop now.

Talk at y’all later.

President Obama and his quisling Jewish advisors

mikerazar (Diary) Friday, March 12th at 10:58AM EST (link)

and his J street buddies should take a few minutes to google the Samson option. The antisemitic leaders of Europe should contemplate a world with no middle eastern oil for centuries. Who will pay for their generous old age benefits if that happens? The Muslims should contemplate a world with no Mecca, no Medina, no mosques in Jerusalem. Without the oil, who will give the Arabs the time of day?

So go ahead and play chicken with madmen over Israel’s existence. Just don’t expect to escape the fate of the philistines when Samson is faced with martyrdom.

We have a nation to save, people.

 
 

Still waiting for the end of '09 actions

johnt Friday, March 12th at 11:01AM EST (link)

against Iran.
At this point it isn’t hard to figure out just who Hussien Obama is rooting for, the charade continues to crumble.
But at least we can now use his middle name without amazingly being called racist.

“a man’s admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him”. Tocqueville

 

If the United States had competent leadership they would support Israel unconditionally

avgamerican (Diary) Saturday, March 13th at 8:24PM EST (link)

The problem isn’t the Jews denying Palestinians statehood, the problem is the Palestinians hate Jews. The Jews can build and live where ever they want to. Since when do Palestinians have the right to claim a Jewish free state? Go back to the 1967 war when Israel captured Jerusalem and gained their current territory after an unprovoked attack by Syria and Egypt. Not one time did the UN step in to stop Egypt and Syria from invading. No, it wasn’t until Israel was pushing Egypt and Syria back into their borders, that the UN demanded that Israel make peace. This is a one sided debate and is all to obvious to those who have eyes to see the racial hatred agianst Israel. Biden and Obama are both against Israel. Neither has the courage to tell the world to leave Israel alone. As for the Palestinians, they need to choose peaceful existence within Israel’s borders or invoke judgement on themselves.

Well said! nt

mikerazar (Diary) Monday, March 15th at 9:14AM EST (link)

We have a nation to save, people.