[04.25.2009]
The following is from today's edition of One Jerusalem:
During the past two weeks, senior members of the Obama Administration, including the President himself, have publicly sought to bully Israel into adopting policies that would be harmful and dangerous to the people of Israel.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had the temerity to suggest that if Israel does not embrace the failed two-state Palestinian policy it will suffer when it comes to Iran. Clinton should be reprimanded for three reasons.
For setting American policy that is central to the existence of the State of Israel before Israel's new Prime Minister has the opportunity to discuss these matters with President Obama. Clinton and the rest of the Obama Administration is treating Israel as a vassal state that should be dictated to. They are showing disrespect for the people of Israel who have rejected the failed polices of the past.
Clinton and Obama are trying to make the Palestinian issue the central issue defining Israel's relationship with the United States. They have embraced this track even though they know that for Israel and America's Arab allies - stopping Iran is issue number ONE. And on the Iran issue, Israel and the Arab world are very concerned by the Obama Administration's kid gloves approach to the fanatic Islamic regime of Iran. The Obama Administration appears more interested in placating our Iranian enemies than in working with Israel and America's Arab allies.
Clinton has gone so far as to suggest that if Israel does not adopt the two-state platform it will pay a price on the Iran front. Clinton's words suggest that Israel and the United States have different goals when it comes to Iran. On this issue there should be no daylight between Israel and the United States but there appears to be. Is Obama, ready to accept a nuclear Iran? Something that Israel and its Arab neighbors can not accept. If so Obama is supporting a policy that is dangerous to America and the world.
A friend who has spoken to senior members of Obama's foreign and defense policy teams firmly believes that the Obama Administration is prepared to accept the fiction that if given peaceful nuclear power Iran will not use the technology to take the step to develop weapons grade nuclear power. The Obama team has publicly floated this idea and if they are serious we could see the United States helping the mullahs of Iran attain the weaponry they will use against us.
That this option is even seriously considered is stunning in light of the failure of this same policy with North Korea. Do they not remember that the Clinton Administration gave North Korea the gift of "peaceful"nuclear power which helped it develop nuclear weapons? How naive are the formulators of America's foreign policy?
Left to their own devices it seems certain Obama and company will follow a course that will weaken the security of the world. A nuclear Iran is a danger to every one of us. Even "peaceful" nuclear power can be used to develop dirty bombs that can be used by terrorists.
In about three weeks, Prime Minister Netanyahu will have his first meeting with President Obama. You can be certain Iran will be the number one agenda item for Netanyahu. Israel knows that there is no substitute for stopping Iran from attaining nuclear weapons. Lets pray that Netanyahu convinces Obama to join Israel in its quest to stop a nuclear Iran.
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