The View From Israel

Posted on December 21, 2009
Filed Under American President, Avigdor Lieberman, Barak Hussein Obama, Barak Obama, Bibi, Bibi Netanyahu, Ehud Barak, History, IDF, Mahmoud Abbas, PA, Palestine, West Bank, Zionism, Zionist Entity, construction freeze | 4 Comments

The peace negotiations between Israel and the PA have not been moving any closer to a signed agreement for quite some time. Actually, the sudden intransigence of the PA has driven them further apart than ever. In fact, with Obama’s witting or unwitting encouragement, the PA has painted itself into a corner. It had ample reason to believe that the American President would exert extra heavy pressure on Israel to present the PA with further and further gestures that would whittle away the structure and the resolve of the Jewish State. Obama, and Mahmoud Abbas, miscalculated! Netanyahu is not so ready to commit national suicide to please an American President who is regarded as a laughingstock throughout most of the world.

Obama extended his hand to Iran and was thoroughly rebuffed! He refused to meet with the Dalai Lama in order to please Communist China but it bore no fruit. He went to Copenhagen, fancying himself as the most powerful leader in the world, yet not only was most of his agenda rebuffed, but he often had to barge in to various meetings he was purposely not invited to. Chavez, that Venezuelan piece of malodorous Devil’s excreta, even started referring to Obama as the Devil. Same name he had used for… G.W. Bush! What has happened that an American President has become so irrelevant, so fast? The answer, to borrow a Bob Dylan phrase, is blowing in the wind. Obama and his closest advisors have shown not only a total lack of experience, but a total lack of understanding of both international as well as their national realities.

But… while President Obama continues to make himself more irrelevant every time he opens his mouth, not all’s well with Bibi in Israel either. His government agreed to a 10 months construction freeze in the west Bank, as if that would bring peace closer. The fact remains that Mahmoud Abbas had no problem negotiating with earlier governments without any freeze. And after the 10 months are up, what then? Will he extend the freeze? Will he allow construction again? How will either option advance peace? How will either option make him look better in the eyes of the hypocritical West?

Defense Minister Ehud Barak has given orders, according to leaked documents, to apply paralyzing force against those who continue to build in spite of the freeze as well as against those who will be evacuated. One must ask, what moral imperative, what twisted logic would compel a Jewish Defense Minister, to use use a Jewish Army against Jewish civilians in a Jewish democratic state?!?!? If there are those who are defying the government that is a police matter, not something that an army whose purpose is to defend the Jewish State against its enemies, against terrorist infrastructures, should deal with. To send an army against Jewish civilians is far too reminiscent of horrendous events, the world witnessed 60+ years ago.

A soldier must serve the army unhesitatingly, or chaos ensues. An army must serve its government, or chaos ensues. Yet, to use the IDF to apply “paralyzing force” against one’s own civilians – instead of against the real enemy – is not only illogical but merely a first step into the country’s disintegration while it encourages further terror, further bloodshed.

What happened to Ehud Barak, once Israel’s highest decorated soldier? What happened to both Prime Minister Netanyahu and, supposed right winger, Foreign Minister Lieberman that they have never called Defense Minister Barak to task over such an outrageous order?!?

Will Israeli politicians acquiesce so readily to the whim of the West’s newest village idiot, when everyone else so pointedly laughs or ignores him?!?!?

David Waldman

[David Waldman is a good friend living in Israel, who is currently a consultant to Gelco Woodcraft, a manufacturer of unfinished furniture.]

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4 Responses to “The View From Israel”

The View From Israel | Freedom | Holy lands tours - holyland from Texas, United States on December 22nd, 2009 3:33 am

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Angel from New York, United States on January 7th, 2010 2:37 pm

Israel needs to develop a backbone and tell Hussein O where to go!
yaniv@israel from Tel Aviv, Israel on January 30th, 2010 8:15 am

i dont really unerstand role of obama in life of israel. usa is not international world-controlling organization. it seems obama forgets it from time to time.
jonas@ Israeli Uncensored News from HaMerkaz, Israel on March 4th, 2010 7:36 am

it is very hard to reach any kind of agreement while one of the sides prefers war…and what about obama he demonstrates nothing but real lack of understanding of the processes on middle east…