{"id":23458,"date":"2014-08-03T21:56:54","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T01:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=23458"},"modified":"2014-08-03T21:57:49","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T01:57:49","slug":"a-reality-check-for-israels-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=23458","title":{"rendered":"A Reality Check For Israel’s Left"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, Caroline Glick<\/a> posted an article in the Jerusalem Post<\/a> about the war between Israel and Hamas<\/a>. She relates the story of a phone call from President Obama<\/a> to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu<\/a> on Sunday night during an Israeli<\/a> security cabinet meeting.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

But then the telephone rang. And Obama told Netanyahu that Israel must lose. He wants an unconditional \u201chumanitarian\u201d cease-fire that will lead to a permanent one.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And he wants it now.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And by the way, the eventual terms of that cease-fire must include opening Hamas-controlled Gaza<\/a>\u2019s borders with Egypt and Israel and ending Israel\u2019s maritime blockade of the Gaza coast. That is, the cease-fire must allow Hamas to rebuild its arsenal of death and destruction quickly, with US<\/a> political and financial support.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Until Obama made the call, there was lingering doubt among some Israelis regarding his intentions. Some thought that US Secretary of State John Kerry<\/a> might have been acting of his own accord last Friday night when he tried to force Israel to accept Hamas\u2019s cease-fire terms.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But then Obama made his phone call. And all doubts were dispelled.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The request from President Obama did not take into account what would happen if that cease-fire went into effect–Israel would again be defending itself against never ending rocket attacks on civilians and a rebuilding of tunnels that were destroyed. A cease-fire without the destruction of Hamas is an invitation to another war a few years down the road.<\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

Obama is as involved in the Middle East<\/a> as all of his immediate predecessors were. He is personally leading US policy on every front. Kerry is not an independent actor.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The problem is that in every war, in every conflict and in every contest of wills that has occurred in the Middle East since Obama took office, he has sided with Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood, against America\u2019s allies.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Under Obama, America has switched sides.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It will be amazing if we have any allies left by the end of the Obama Administration.<\/p>\n

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