During the presidential campaign the American people were divided between those who argued that the real Barack Obama is the one revealed in his autobiography and those who maintained that the real Obama was the man who gave centrist sounding campaign speeches. Those angry with George W. Bush and those perceiving themselves as non whites were the most anxious to believe the latter. Jews and Indians proved particularly vulnerable to this appeal. Leftists and Muslims knew a good thing when they saw one though Arab and Iranian opponents of the current Iranian regime have since changed their mind.
The political elite may continue to subscribe and to try to sell Americans a centrist Obama but most Americans now know better. Obama’s total disinterest in the fate of the unemployed and his fanatical focus on Health care has opened their eyes. The Obama administration’s treatment of India is doing the same for Indians and that of Israel for American Jews.
Ultimately, the fate of independent states is in their own hands. Russia is waiting for India with open arms but Israel must stand alone. Still, as Efraim Inbar argues that Netanyahu Can Say “No:”
The Obama administration’s attempt to force Israel to accept the division of Jerusalem as a prerequisite for peace talks is astonishing. Despite the obvious reluctance to confront an American president, Prime Minister Netanyahu can effectively resist such American pressure on Jerusalem. In fact, Jerusalem is the issue on which Netanyahu can best make a stand against Obama.
I would add “No” is all Obama understands. America’s enemies know it and its allies cannot learn it too soon as they must saved themselves and thereby limiting the damage on America itself. These United States are in the hand of a president seeking to weaken it and with it the Western world. Steadfast democracies, like Israel, must learn to say NO or they will suffer the fate of Czechoslovakia.
Have you noticed the recent silence on Iran? This fracas is partially designed to cover up for Obama’s failed Iranian policy. It is partially an effort to compensate Sunni Arab states for forcing to live with a nuclear Shia Islamist regional hegemon. Hillary Clinton is right. Israel’s survival is a stake if it fails to say no. Israel is not alone. Britain, Eastern Europe, India, Colombia not to mention democratic hopefuls world over are in the same boat.
For the Obama confrontation with Israel is also part of the acceleration of the Obama agenda. Obama and his minions understand that their power would be curtailed in November. They may also doubt his chances to be reelected. So, they have set politics aside and are hastening to ram through as much of their radical foreign and domestic agenda as they can.
The passage of Health care and student loan has whetted their appetite and they off to the races. November cannot come too soon. In the meantime, we all must hunker down, say no as loud as we can and pray that war will not follow the current depression.
