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Saturday, March 27, 2010

WHY HAS BARACK OBAMA TREATED NETANYAHU SO RUDELY?

Glenn Reynold ask the question that I have been asking myself (but should have blogged about).

“Obama would never treat the president of Equatorial Guinea that way.”

Possibly Obama just hates Israel and hates Jews. That’s plausible — certainly nothing in his actions suggests otherwise, really.

But it’s also possible — I’d say likely — that there’s something else going on. I think Obama expects Israel to strike Iran, and wants to put distance between the United States and Israel in advance of that happening. (Perhaps he even thinks that treating Israel rudely will provoke such a response, saving him the trouble of doing anything about Iran himself, and avoiding the risk that things might go wrong if he does). On the most optimistic level, maybe this whole thing is a sham, and the U.S. is really helping Israel strike Iran, with this as distraction. The question for readers is which of these — not necessarily mutually exclusive — explanations is most plausible.


I believe that Obama thinks that Israel may strike Iran. He knows that his administration will not stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Effective international sanctions are going nowhere, stalled in the UN. US military intervention is off Obama's table. Israel sees a nuclear Iran as a mortal threat to a country the size of Israel. So Iran's nuclear weapons program must be stopped or Israel will cease to exist ... the only question is when the end would come. If Israel strikes, Obama will be able to say that he had nothing to do with it.


If Israel does not strike ...


As a man who blames white people for the condition of black people, seeks to transform America into a replica of Europe (with it's rabid embrace of anti-semitism) was raised in early childhood in an Islamic culture, has a spiritual mentor who has expressed his hatred of Jews and whites, hatred of Jews is certainly a possibility. We certainly know that his administration's support of Israel is less than any administration since that country's founding. The elimination of Israel would solve a number of problems for him in the Arab world.


I don't think that he's egging Israel on. In the case of Obama vs. Israel, what you see is what you get.



Anyone have any other ideas?


1 comment:

thisishabitforming said...

Obama has been consistent with one thing, disdain for America's traditional allies and an affinity for dictators.
Remember Rashid Khalidi, friend of Barack, along with Rev Wright, Bill Ayers, etc, etc, Israel haters all.
Many in Israel think Obama is trying to undermine Netanyahu and replace him with someone like Tzipi Livni, the Kadima party leader, supposedly more friendly to caving in on American demands and committing national suicide in the quest for peace.