What Do We Do About Israel? Part II
The signs have been frequent and definitive: The Obama administration is no Bush administration when it comes to American-Israeli relations or, for that matter, the survival of the Jewish state of Israel.
Despite assurances by Obama that he would stand by Israel, many Jews who stood by their liberal man last November 4th are coming to realize his promises represented a bait and switch game, as prominent attorney Alan Dershowitz put it.
Still vainly attempting to find some positive affirmations in Obama’s public positions since the election, Dershowitz concludes his essay, “Has Obama Turned on Israel,” with the understatement that, “There may be coming changes in the Obama administration’s policies that do weaken the security of the Jewish state:” http://bit.ly/103KNc.
Alan, you ain’t seen nothing yet! The “settlements” issue may come to seem an irrelevancy compared to what lies ahead.
A Jewish news service even sees dangers for Israel in the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded Obama since it could lead to a reticence in opposing the most imminent threat against Israel, Iranian nuclear ambitions: http://bit.ly/2nfJUs.
But what do Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian lands or the Iranian threat to Israel mean to us in the long term?
Precious little.
The simplest solution to determine what Americans truly feel about Israel and how far they are prepared to go to risk a major war between the United States and the Muslim world, including possible enormous casualties and a probable, crippling oil embargo, is to ask the American people what they think. . .
(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1266)
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