Administration Not Lessening its Hostility Towards Israel

Caroline Glick on the latest disturbing revelation from a leaked CENTCOM memo showing military officers taking on an increasingly anti-Israel and pro-hamas and hezbollah outlook. I've previously posted information revealing how Israel is an asset to our military and intelligence.

The leaked memo reportedly reflects the views of a significant number of senior and mid-level officers in Centcom, including large numbers of intelligence officers, as well as a significant number of area analysts stationed in the Middle East. It argues that it is wrong for the US to lump jihadist movements like Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, al Qaida and Hizbullah in one group.

Dismissing the significance of the identical religious dogma that stands at the root of these movements, the memo asserts that Hamas and Hizbullah are pragmatic and important social forces with which the US must foster good relations. The memo calls for the US to support the integration of Hizbullah forces into the Lebanese military. It also calls for the US to encourage and permit the integration of Hamas forces into the US-trained Palestinian security forces.

As far as Israel is concerned, the memo blames the Jewish state for the US’s failure to date to adopt these recommended policies. Moreover, the memo’s authors condemn Israel’s maritime blockade of Gaza as keeping “the area on the verge of a perpetual humanitarian collapse.”

The Centcom memo also condemns Israel’s July 2006 decision to respond to Hizbullah’s unprovoked bombardment of northern Israel and its unprovoked cross-border attack against an IDF patrol in which five soldiers were killed and two were kidnapped and subsequently murdered. Denying Hizbullah’s subservient relationship with the Iranian regime, the report claimed that Israel’s decision to use force to defend itself against Hizbullah’s acts of war served to strengthen Hizbullah’s ties to Teheran.

How is it that after all this time we’ve been fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Pentagon heirarchy who are supposed to be safeguarding America, are STILL completely ignorant and clueless of the fact that what motivates these various islamic terrorist groups comes from islamic doctrine?

It is also this very attitude of trying to win the trust of muslims that is endangering our soldiers in Afghanistan and why the war there is failing. The rules of engagement, put in place in order to win the hearts and minds of muslims, instead of win the war, make it impossible to achieve victory and also put our troops in greater peril. It doesn’t seem like we have warriors in the Pentagon any longer, but academics instead.