Netanyahu and Obama on settlements

July 8, 8:39 AMNY Israel Conflict ExaminerRichard Shulman

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Was PM Netanyahu’s speech a surprise?  “It is not shocking that Netanyahu would set out the conditions under which he would agree to the establishment of a Palestinian [Arab] state. The Obama administration's obsession with creating one in Israel's heartland as quickly as possible regardless of the character of Palestinian society, Palestinian support for the destruction of Israel, and the close ties the U.S.-sponsored Palestinian Authority shares with global terror groups and state sponsors of terror…made it necessary for Israel's premier to make it very clear what must happen before Israel will agree to proceed on this path.”

The speech exposed “…just how radical the Palestinian and Arab position on Israel is.  The Palestinians reacted to Netanyahu's speech with calls to war in retaliation for his demand that they recognize Israel's right to exist.  This is not the sort of behavior one might expect from supposedly ‘moderate Palestinian

political leaders.”

“Obama and his advisers have made clear that their view on the settlements is not based on facts.  It is based on their acceptance of the false Arab narrative of the Middle East conflict.  They accept Arab historical revisionism that places the cart before the horse by claiming that Israel's presence in the disputed territories is the cause of the conflict, when in fact Israel's presence in the disputed territories is a consequence of their continuous attempts to invade and destroy Israel.  Since the Obama administration's view is based on a false assertion, it is

impermeable to fact and rational argument and therefore it is unlikely to change.”

 “It was absolutely necessary for Netanyahu to respond to Obama's false and hideous assertion that Israel owes its creation to the Holocaust.  And in explaining that the Holocaust could only happen because Israel didn't exist at the time and by setting out the true 3,500-year-old Jewish connection to the land Netanyahu provided a necessary corrective to Obama's move to write the Jewish people out of the history of the Middle East.  Here too, Obama's position is based on an Arab myth - most enthusiastically propounded today by the likes of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - that the Jews are interlopers in the region.”

If the Palestinian Arabs start another war with Israel, the Obama administration, which already is curbing sales of arms to Israel, may side with the Arabs [even though the Arabs start the war].  If Iran is allowed to get nuclear weapons, it may blackmail the Arab states or threaten to have its proxies overthrow their regimes unless they end their treaties with Israel and reopen hostilities.

How did Iran’s election affect Israel?  Having an America-hating fanatic steal the election makes it easier for Israel to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities without much opposition from the Iranian people or the Obama regime  (http://www.imra.org.il/ -- Independent Media Research & Analysis, 6/15 from Caroline Glick).  Pity that the media lets Obama get away with his misrepresentation.

Israel had better realize that appeasement never works.  There is no end to U.S. demands upon Israel, as you can get an inkling of, if you click here:

The U.S. has over-extended itself.  It needs to learn humility before it is too late.