US President
Barack Obama is digging a hole for himself of Biblical proportion. His animus
for Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seems to know no limit—especially
now that Netanyahu has confounded all US efforts to use the Israeli ballot box
to remove him for office.
The US
administration has done everything it could to get rid of Netanyahu. Everything
has failed.
Even
defamation hasn’t worked.
First, the
US spied on Israel and misrepresented what it discovered to demonize Israel (Armin
Rosen, “The most striking aspect of the Israeli spying leak”, Business
Insider, March 24, 2015). Then, it sent men and money to Israel to create
an “Anyone but Bibi” election campaign against Netanyahu (Roy Arad, “The Obama
campaign strategist who could break the Israeli elections wide open”, Haaretz,
January 26, 2015). Then, it brought Arab leaders to the US to train them how to
get out the Arab vote (Ari Yashar, “Bibi's Strategist: Obama Meddled More Than
You Know”, Arutz Sheva, March 23, 2015). Then, it hired buses to cruise
through Arab neighbourhoods on Israel’s election day in order to gather up
Arabs to deliver that vote (ibid).
It all
failed.
Like a virus
that spreads an infection at light-speed through the body, Obama’s poisonous
anti-Israel hostility spread through his administration. His fury enflamed, he
sent his servants to attack Israel. Susan Rice, Obama National Security
Advisor, went on the US interview program, Charlie Rose. She accused Netanyahu of having created US-Israel
problems because of his ‘partisanship’ (Morton A Klein and Daniel Mandel, “Cause
of strained US-Israel relations: Obama’s hostile policies”, Jerusalem Post,
March 18, 2015).
US Secretary
of State John Kerry did the same thing with the same words. First, he criticized
Netanyahu’s “outspoken condemnation” of US efforts to secure an Iranian nuclear
deal (Arshad Mohammed and Allyn Fisher-Ilan, “Kerry questions Netanyahu's
judgment as U.S.-Israel row deepens”, Reuters, February 25, 2015). Then
he echoed Rice’s accusation. He said Netanyahu had injected destructive
partisanship into U.S.-Israeli relations (ibid).
Just weeks after
Kerry’s and Rice’s accusations--which the Jerusalem Post (above) found
to be baseless--Obama appointed known anti-Israel advocate Robert Malley to lead
the powerful National Security Council.
Caroline Glick called Malley a ‘serial Israel-basher’ (“Israel’s next 22
months”, Caroline Glick. Com, March 13, 2015). The man hopes to help
Obama. His record suggests he’s eager to install a Hamas-friendly peace in the
Middle East (ibid).
Obama is frustrated.
His hostility splashes back into his face. In a stinging essay, Armin Rosen (Business
Insider, above) pointed out that the US accusation that Israel had spied on
the US looks suspicious: the accusation comes from anonymous sources, with no
proof cited (ibid). Instead, the only confirmed spying revealed by the ‘leak’
was that the US had spied on Israel.
Rosen’s
comment on all this was: “So US officials disclosed a confidential
counter-intelligence operation against an ally in order to float a factually
vague accusation that that ally was in fact spying on them” (ibid).
Charles
Krauthammer wrote that what’s shocking here is not Israel spying [if it did].
What’s shocking is Obama’s behaviour. Krauthammer put it this way: “So what's
the big charge against the Israelis, that they shared [information] with
Congress? Isn't it the obligation of a White House administration negotiating
the most important deal in a generation that it should share information? This
is secret information? So the White House is withholding it from the Congress
of the United States? That in and of itself is rather shocking” (“Krauthammer:
"Shocking" That Obama Admin Is Bothered By Israeli Spying When It
Withholds Information From Congress”, RealClearPolitics, March 24, 2015).
Israeli
officials, meanwhile, including Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon , Strategic
Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz and Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman have all
adamantly denied that Israel had spied on the US during the Iran talks (Stuart
Winer and Lazar Berman, “Israel denies it spied on US for info on Iran talks”, Times
of Israel, March 24, 2015).
Could the US
accusation of Israeli spying be bogus? Krauthammer thinks so. He suggested that
Israel didn’t need to spy on the US to get ‘secret’ information about the Iran
talks. Instead, Israel could easily have gotten it from eavesdropping on the
Iranians. They could also have gotten it openly from the French. The French
participate in these talks. They’re dismayed by how much Obama and the White
House have given away. They’re largely opposed to what the US is doing (ibid).
Regarding US
hypocrisy towards Israel, at least one reporter has asked State Department
spokesperson, Jan Psaki, “When the Supreme Leader of Iran is continuing – in
the middle of these negotiations--…to make statements like “death to America,”
how is that not problematic for you?” He also asked how the State Department
could allow such language to slide without comment while at the same time hold the
Prime Minister of Israel to comments he made and has since changed (“AP
Reporter to Psaki: You Let Iran Slide For "Death to America" Chants
But Hold Netanyahu To Different Standard”, RealClearPolitics, march 24,
2015).
Obama and
his minions are digging a Biblical hole for themselves. Virtually everyone can
see it. The Obama administration ups the ante in their gamble to demonize
Jewish Israel by giving a free pass to Hamas terror, a free pass to the Fatah goal
of erasing Israel (see their logo) and a free pass to viciously anti-America/anti-Israel
Iran--while they demonize the Jewish leader of the Jewish state.
The people
who write the news awaken. They see Obama’s fury (Video: “Romney on Netanyahu:
"Hell Hath No Fury Like An Obama Scorned", RealClearPolitics,
March 24, 2015). They see how a legitimate election victory by Benjamin
Netanyahu becomes for Obama an insufferable “act of insolence” (Rush Limbaugh,
“Obama Plots Revenge Against Israel”, The Rush Limbaugh Show—transcript,
March 19, 2015).
The press sees
how Obama hardens his heart against Israel. They see Obama as driven by fury,
rage and revenge. They now suggest that his behaviour becomes reckless and
shameful (Jay Sekulow, “Obama’s revenge against Israel”, Fox News, March
19, 2015).
They see the
emotional violence of Obama’s rage (“Obama’s Israel Tantrum”, Wall Street
Journal, March 24, 2015). They see a Pharaoh-like Obama intent upon destroying
Netanyahu “at all cost” (Sara Noble, “Obama’s Plan to Destroy Netanyahu”, Independent
Sentinel, March 24, 2015).
To Jews,
this Obama looks familiar. Jews have seen such men before, most notably in
Egypt, in the Exodus Redemption story.
Will Barack Obama
play a role in the Story of the Final Jewish Redemption? That Story requires a
powerful world leader to plot to destroy Israel. Is Obama that leader?
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