Posted by
Patrick Henry on Wednesday, March 17, 2010 8:43:14 PM
Why would an entire administration, as if on cue, howl in outrage at something that
has been going on since 1948? And why now? That's the sixty-four dollar question
hovering over the recent anti-Israeli rhetoric from Barak Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary
Clinton and others connected to the current White House mafia.
Jerusalem -- all of it -- is sovereign Israeli terrirory. They have been building housing
there for their citizens for years. When they recently greenlighted the construction of
1600 more apartment units in East Jerusalem, they simply acted on a plan that has
been publicly known for a long time, and that stands within a precedent that is well
established. Never mind the fact that it is their country and they can do what they want
with it. But the administration immediately began braying about an "insult to America,"
and a "betrayal of trust," giving virtual permission to Palestinian Arabs to riot,
causing civil damage, bodily harm and death to Israeli security forces.
Is this administration just incredibly stupid, or is there something larger in play? The
ostensible gripe is that Palestinians contest Israeli ownership of East Jerusalem and
covet it as the capitol of a future Palestinian state. It is therefore in the eyes of Obama
and his pro-Palestinian cronies on the table as something to be bargained over. Yet
Israel has made it crystal clear from time immemorial that they will never, never
abandon Jerusalem or any part thereof to Palestinian sovereignty, that it's non-
negotiable and that it isn't going to happen. What part of "shove it" doesn't Obama
understand?
But understanding isn't the real problem here, is it? The real problem is that the
Chosen One needed a distraction from his attempt to nationalize healthcare and
the odious tactics being used to do it. How better to create one than to utilize his
vice-president, secretary of state and his own bully pulpit to ream Israel and plunge
U.S.-Israeli relations to its most dismal state since 1956? How better to do it than
to set the Palestinians to rioting, creating an international crisis while Pelosi works
her "deeming" scheme and Reid plans his "reconciliation" gambit to jam through
a ruinous healthcare boondoggle Americans hate? By putting his own ego and
agenda above international relations with an historic ally, not to speak of the
lives and safety of both Palestinians and Israelis goes well beyond cynical. It's
flatly immoral!
Barak Obama will not go down in history as a great president. He will not be
well remembered by those who elected him. His betrayals dwarf those of Nixon and
Clinton, and he has already publicly spouted more lies than Nixon, Bush and Clinton
combined. Maybe next time voters will stop and think before they cast ballots for
one who has nothing to show for life but being a career politician, and whose character
references come from the Chicago political sewer. What a shame that there are four
more years before we can make him crawl back into it.