It’s been obvious to most of us for a long time, but retired Lt. Colonel Ralph Peters is speaking truth to abuse of anti-Israel power:
US Mil. Analyst: Obama is the First Anti-Israeli President
by Hillel Fendel
Israel National News(IsraelNN.com) Lt.-Col. (ret.) Ralph Peters, military analyst and author of a book on Middle East politics, says Obama apparently has a chip on his shoulder against Israel – and it’s not “helpful to our civilization.”
Peters, who wrote “Endless War: Middle Eastern Islam vs. Western Civilization,” was asked to explain why he felt American-Israeli friendship appears to have been derailed so dramatically. “The answer is two words,” he said. “President Obama.”
“Obama’s treatment of [Prime Minister Binyamin] Netanyahu [during their recent meeting in Washington] was disgraceful and shameful,” Peters told FoxNews. “We treat our enemies with greater courtesy! In addition, it was counter-productive – because this vendetta on the part of the White House against Israel – all it does is encourage the Palestinians and their Arab backers to make ever wilder demands that Israel cannot possibly fulfill. This is not a peace process; this is something about a chip on the President’s shoulder.”
Peters says that Obama’s approach is “absolutely” a departure from past American policy. “It all started with Obama’s Cairo speech,” he said, “where Obama attempted to appease radical Muslims in the Middle East, cold-shouldered Israel, and raised Palestinian expectations that he’d take care of Israel and that the Palestinians would get their revenge. Secondly, in the past, under Presidents Clinton and Bush, there were face-to-face negotiations; the Palestinians were offered one deal after another, and it was always – always! – the Palestinians who walked away.”
Obama Refuses to Recognize the Basic Equation
The American animosity towards Israel “is not about housing in Jerusalem or anything else,” Peters emphasized. “We need to back up and get a little wide-angle picture and recognize the fundamental issue in play here: Israel wants to live in peace with its neighbors, and its neighbors want Israel destroyed. The President refuses to understand that.”
“It’s become a credo of the left-wing that Israel is always the oppressor,” Peters continued, “and that the Palestinian terrorists are freedom fighters, etc. … Obama’s mother is extremely left, his university chums are on the left, he spent 20 years with the Rev. Wright – all of their doctrines say that the Palestinians are wonderful and that the Israelis are basically Nazis… I think that the President has gotten that by osmosis… This is our first anti-Israeli President; it’s bewildering and astonishing.”
Peters said that Israel is not perfect: “This is not a question of giving in to everything that Israel wants; Israel screws up too. But [American policy must] be a balanced approach that takes into account that Israel, for all its many faults is the only rule of law, democracy and respecter of human rights in the entire Middle East; they are part of our civilization. To turn away from Israel as we are doing is not going to help our diplomacy; it is going to hurt our civilization.”
US Mil. Analyst: Obama is the First Anti-Israeli President
When Israel agrees to meet for peace talks and the “Palestinians” refuse, Obama goes into a rage against Israel. Obama and Hillary demand that Israel find a way to bring the “Palestinians” to the table. Of course, the “Palestinians” hear this and they catch on right away that they can get Israel in trouble with Obama by repeatedly refusing to attend peace talks (even indirect peace talks).
What fun for Mahmoud Abbas. He can be as belligerent as he wants and Israel is blamed for it.
In a recent demand, Obama told Israel that if they make a major concession about Jerusalem, he will START to pressure the “Palestinians” about sitting down to peace talks. The “Palestinians” could still say no (and why not when every “NO!” gets Israel in trouble with Obama).
Even if the two sides DO sit down for peace talks, Obama is planning to railroad Israel. Negotiators for Israel would be sitting across the table from two enemies (Obama’s policies and Mahmoud Abbas) who would refuse to give a single inch in their demands of Israel.
If Israel does give up parts of Jerusalem, it will be a bloodbath (G-d forbid). The city would be destroyed and many Israelis (and Arabs) would die. Terrorists would own parts of the city (first Fatah would own it and then Hamas would take over) with no city division fences for protection. There would be no way to stop terrorists from flooding into the entire nation of Israel.
Here is a full analysis of the dangers of dividing Jerusalem (PDF file):
Obama, Biden and Hillary keep asking Israel to take “risks” and to make “bold moves” (both of which can be translated as: “Let your people die”). Over 1500 Jews have already been slaughtered since the Oslo Accords were signed (with over 1000 Jews slaughtered after Clinton tried to rush a peace deal at Camp David for the sake of his legacy).
What Obama is trying to do for his own legacy is worse and it would cost far more in Jewish lives.
Obama is Israel’s enemy.
Fortunately for Israel, the clear majority of Netanyahu’s inner cabinet of 7 Ministers knows this beyond a shadow of a doubt.
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