The Obama administration launches a kiss and make up offensive to win back the American supporters of Israel after the last months of POTUS abuse and arrogance toward Israel. Too late. Spoke Ed Koch Thursday 22, and the mayor said, "Trust is broken. Humpty-dumpty." There is only one issue that moves the White House, and that is the issue of money. When the White House political Rasputin Axelrod saw that Jewish checks not only are not flowing to the Democrats but also are flowing to the Republicans, the White House started cooing. Will it continue? Nah. Abbas is invited to the White House in reward for his trite obtuseness and non-performance since last spring. POTUS is convinced that he can bully the Jews and embrace the Arabs. Delusional? Nah. Simplistic. Yep. Impatient? Sure. The staged -for-the-camera event in Jerusalem, featuring so-called right-wing Jews marching and so-called left-handed and right-handed Arabs throwing stones, is a theater piece to restate the themes without much effort in the excellent spring weather in Jerusalem.


>”There is only one issue that moves the White House, and that is the issue of money.”
I actually don’t think so. I think this White House runs primarily on ideology. Granted, there are some – Axelrod, perhaps – who look to polls and ‘Jewish checks’ in order to gage how the Administration is doing relative to previous administrations. This is their job. But the president does not listen to them. He may respond reluctantly to repeated harangues from such people, but ultimately more money or less money means nothing to Obama.
No doubt, Obama is preoccupied – perhaps even obsessed – with Israel as previous administrations have been. He knows that if he were able to facilitate a solution during his terms in office, he would be lauded until the end of history. The question is by whom? The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a hard nut to crack. O a scale of challenge it ranks with Mt. Everest – or, better yet, K2. The reason there has been no solution is because there are too many opportunists – especially on the Arab side - who do not want it solved. It is their bread and butter. It represents their access to the trough.
Obama and America in general are seen as the trough. Previous administrations all have accepted their role as that trough. They married themselves first and foremost to the task of keeping the trough filled. Not so Obama. He appears to be prepared to hand over an empty trough to all those feeding from it and inviting this hungry brood to partake of the main meal: Israel.
He knows it will erupt in conflagration. But, as one trained in community organizing, this is his ultimate aim. His bias tends clearly toward the Arab side of the equation. Note: Obama has not demanded that Arab nations recognize Israel’s right to exist. To be fair, neither have previous administrations. However, Obama’s motives are markedly different.
Whereas previous administrations were primarily troubled by the possible disruption of Middle Eastern oil flowing to the free world, Obama would welcome such a development as it would likely plunge the Western democracies into chaos. I still say that Obama’s ultimate aim is chaos.
Expect him to agitate; expect him to do all he can to bolster the chances of America’s enemies to emerge unscathed. This is how he aims to enhance his global street cred to the point of where he can no longer be ignored. He ultimately hopes to be embraced as the one responsible for having slain not only the Little Satan, but the Great Satan as well. What better resume for a man who is consumed by his own self-importance – to have been the one to have crafted a solution to what was widely seen as an impossible project!
Naturally, the world – including the Arabs – will shun him. Even they know that there is nothing on this earth lower than a traitor.
http://peterkoelliker.blogspot.com/
Reagan White house was as idealistic, but wildly more successful. GOP has always been an ally of Israel, yet Jews rarely vote Republican. Mike Deaver had some choice words for the US Jews. His animosity based on the lack of electoral support.
Before 9/11 GOP was toying with the idea of ignoring Israel and going after the Islamic-American vote. Iraq and 9/11 changed that.
The Middle East is a tar-pit, few who fall in get out alive. You think Obama would have learned from Bush43.
tis a sad thing that US jewish community is so locked to democrats that they begin the anit-israel trope themselves.
if pakistan is a legitimate nation state, so must israel be.
why does pakistan need to strike against india? or need strategic depth?
obsession with the 'last war'?
does india have any real desire for depth in pakistan?
should they?
if I owned india and was given pakistan, I'd give it back.
is paki/hindi peace less central than israeli/palestinian conflict?
I agree with Peter's analysis of Obama's ideological motives.
Moreover, Obama's willingness to use chaos as a political tool is literally out of the Alinsky-ian handbooks and field techniques on which Obama was schooled and raised.
Aaron Klein's forthcoming "The Manchurian President" provides much greater detail.
Keep up the fine work. - Benyamin Korn
"Before 9/11 GOP was toying with the idea of ignoring Israel and going after the Islamic-American vote. Iraq and 9/11 changed that. "
Quite right. During a Presidential debate with Al Gore, Bush spoke out against airport profiling of Muslims, and once he became Decider-in-Chief took steps to end it. How that worked out I leave as an exercise for the reader.