I just had a long meeting with an MK of long standing on the right who told me a little of what was going on.
Apparently, Netanyahu came away from his meeting with Obama, a changed man, a shell of his former self.
Imagine if you will being ordered by the Mob at a Casino to come into the back room due to your “independence”. You see on entering some heavy set men around a table on which there is a hammer, a saw, a blowtorch, razor blades, a vise, acid and a number of other persuaders. Well you get the idea of what Netanyahu’s meeting was like.
The gloves came off and the Obama administration put their tools on the table.
1. withdrawal of support at the UN.
2. preventing Israel from using their GPS which is needed to guide Israeli missals, planes and tanks.
3. cancellation of 3 billion in annual grants.
4. barring Israel from using American ammunition stored on Israeli soil,
5. avoiding resupply should Israel run out of munitions.
6. initiating sanctions and other drastic measures at the UN.
7. withdrawal of guarantees
8. full US support of the Saudi Plan
9. Israel to give up Jerusalem and the “illegal settlements” around it.
I can’t even imagine all the tools that were put on the table.
Bottom line was, you better cave or else. Obama was ready to declare diplomatic war on Israel. In fact he had already started the war. He had his team make outrageous demands on Israel such as stopping construction on the large suburbs around Israel and even had a think tank recommend Israel give up Jerusalem. He would not have done that if he didn’t mean to take Israel to the mat.
Obama means business. Every other arena in foreign affairs is getting more and more problematic with no good result in sight. Only by crunching little Israel could Obama hoped to have a foreign affairs success. He set a goal of solving the Palestinian conflict with two years. Just when his campaign for re-election would be beginning. beginning.
Netanyahu left the meeting thoroughly chastened. He rushed over to his old friends in Congress only to find out they backed Obama. He careened over to his friends at AIPAC and other Jewish organizations only to find that they still supported Obama. It was surprising that Netanyahu could make it back to Israel on his own.
Netanyahu is doing his best to salvage the situation and buy for time. That’s why he is agreeing to a six month freeze in exchange for US approval of subsequent building within the construction line and that ain’t much. Maybe he will get the permission to build the 2500 units mentioned above.
Israeli governments over the years have been very short-sighted in not developing a domestic arms building industry, fighter jets, tanks, helicopters and so forth. Israel has rendered itself powerless through its over dependence on American military hardware. Why weren't its leaders able to anticipate that there would come a day when they would face a hostile US administration, especially after Carter? As for obama, he is the greatest danger to not only Israel, but America itself and the entire free world. And he is the best thing to come along for the world’s dictators, tyrants and islamic jihadi terrorists. We have foolishly placed the most left wing radicals in the highest positions of power. And these people are drunk with power, believing that finally they can bring Israel to its knees, not to mention conservatives in America. They must be fought and we must recify our grave mistake and remove this scoundrel from office.
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The only thing that might save Israel from disaster is the State Department's stubborn-mindedness in enforcing Israel's humiliation.
how? how do you fight them? you get more readers than i do, but they are still too few in number. i hope israelis place their trust in themselves rather than the US. obama looks at the world through jew hating muslim eyes-he believes that israel is nothing without the US and that the US is the "Great Satan" He is trying to systematicaly destroy both. Israelis did fine for themselves during their 1st war and it was done largely without american aid. arabs can't accept that reality and neither can obama. israel needs to believe in herself and work harder for economic and military independence.
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