The Arabs are pressuring Obama to force concessions from Israel. It is working seeing Obama’s recent actions of kissing up to Muslims and cold attitude to Israel. This is Arab Imperialism at work.
BLANKLEY: Arabs pressure Obama
The Times of London on Sunday published an interview with King Abdullah II of Jordan in which the maturing king demonstrated a deft touch in putting pressure on both the new prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, and our president.
The king’s comments – coming two weeks after his Washington visit with President Obama, one day after his visit with the pope and one week before Mr. Netanyahu’s Washington visit with Mr. Obama – put heavy geopolitical pressure on Israel while simultaneously maximizing Mr. Obama’s personal stakes in success or failure of this newest Israeli-Palestinian peace initiative:
“[President Obama] feels the urgency of the need to move today. So this is a critical moment.
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Note how shrewdly the king has tried to weight the scales for Mr. Obama. Our president is in the middle of what he has described as one of his important personal policy objectives as president: to reach out to the Muslim world and rectify relations between it and the United States. To that end, he already has spoken on an international Arab television network, spoken before the Turkish Parliament and next month will go to Egypt for a major address to the Arab and Muslim people.
And now, the king of Jordan, in surprisingly blunt language, warns our president that if there is not a peace deal in 2009, “all the tremendous credibility that Obama has worldwide and in this region will evaporate overnight [and] then there will be a feeling that this is just another American government that is going to let us all down.”
Tags: Arabs, Islamists, Israel, Jordan, King Abdullah, obama
