Obama Wants Israel to Pay for UN Veto
By Jonathan S. Tobin, AMERICAN THINKER
Obama administration officials are in Israel this week for more talks with Israel and the Palestinians. Their goal isn’t simply to try and get Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to bend to the president’s demand Israel accept the 1967 lines as the starting point for future negotiations, though that is certainly on the top of their agenda. It is to force Israel to make concessions that will somehow convince the Palestinians to abandon their effort to have the United Nations recognize an independent Palestinian state inside those same 1967 borders.
The Americans are pretending the purpose of the president’s controversial Middle East policy speech and the subsequent diplomatic hammering of Israel by Secretary of State Clinton and envoy Dennis Ross is to revive the long stalled peace talks with the Palestinians. But no one seriously believes the Palestinians are interested in negotiations. They have had several opportunities during the two and a half years of the Obama administration but have consistently refused.
Now the Palestinians have decided the Third World anti-Israel majority in the United Nations will eliminate the need for them to even go through the charade of negotiations. UN recognition will mean they can have their state without recognizing Israel’s legitimacy or agreeing to end the conflict. (This is not correct) This is a recipe for more bloodshed and an end of American influence in the region. Which is why any U.S. administration, even one as unfriendly to Israel as that of Obama, must veto such a resolution. But the president, who pines for the love of the Arab world in vain, doesn’t want to do it. So he is putting all of his effort into making Israel bribe the Palestinians into dropping the UN initiative.
This is madness for a number of reasons.
First, there is no reason for the U.S. to fold when in all likelihood, the Palestinians will have to give up anyway. Their plan has no chance of success.
Second, any Israeli concessions at this point will not lead to real peace talks. Had PA leader Mahmoud Abbas been willing to accept a Palestinian state in peace alongside Israel in borders that largely resemble what Obama is demanding, he could have said yes to such an offer in 2008 when Ehud Olmert put it on the table. But he said no then just as his predecessor Yasir Arafat said no to previous Israeli offers in 2000 and 2001. Given that he is now part of a coalition with the Islamists of Hamas, there is literally no chance Abbas can make peace now–no matter what gifts he is handed by Obama.
Netanyahu and Israel’s supporters in the United States are being told the Jewish state must give in on the borders to help Obama in the UN. But whether Netanyahu caves or not, there will be no peace talks and no UN recognition of a Palestinian state. All that would be accomplished by an Israeli surrender would be giving up its only bargaining chips — territory — in exchange for nothing. Even worse, doing so now would be an implicit recognition of Hamas’ legitimacy, which would mark yet another departure by the Obama administration from the pro-Israel policies of its predecessors.
I don’t expect Obama to veto, either. I’ve got a standing bet on this with a friend of mine who sits on the local UJC board.
He thinks because of the coming election, Obama can’t afford not to veto. Sounds reasonable enough, but I say Obama’s hatred of Israel in general and Bibi in particular is so intense, that he will be blinded to elemental politcal realities of this sort, or won’t even care. For Obama, this is his version of “principled” leadership, even putting at risk his re-election because he just HAS to stand up to those darned Zionists!
Bibi will stand firm. He’s painted himself into quite the rhetorical corner that way of late, and I just can’t see him backing down.
Obama will turn on him in the UN. Of course, in doing this, he’ll be going back on his recent pledges to stand in the way of the PA’s gambit at the UN, but Obama has told bigger lies before. And this time, he’ll just say, “I tried to help Israel, but they were just too stubborn and greedy to see what was in their own interest, so I’m not going to veto after all, and it is all their fault.”
And yes, there is going to be violence. I’m sure the IDF is prepared for this. It may get very bad, but it will be a lot worse for Israel’s enemies. Since Israel knows going it that they won’t have U.S. support under Obama, they know they have to win hard and fast. The gloves are off. No “leash” this time.
Hang on, everybody. Going to be a rough ride. But in the end, I agree with Dr. Sanford: Israel will come out ahead in the end.
To you BiBi.STAND TALL .Israel has outlived bigger fishes than Obama…….
Throw into the mix, that Obama’s nanny was a transvestite, and it explains his ‘feminine’ side.
Israel had better prepare for violence. The Palestinians might very well succeed at the UN. Obama will probably not veto.
You Jest?
Do obvious answers need to be stated?
We need to convince the Arabs of the need to establish a state within the 1967 borders. Maybe Obama will be able to help. Once they make this need clear, then automatically all previous agreements are null and void. This gives Israel the right to occupy the West Bank and Gaza, and use military force to arrest schoolteachers who teach kids to murder and kill. We see that US support of the Arabs will make Israel stronger and more secure.
Every day Obama is exposed for the low-life antisemitic Muslim he really is. He is only President because of the insanity of many whites in the US who feel “guilty” about the allegedly discrimination blacks suffer. Of course, the opposite is true as blacks in the US have enjoyed elevated status in the US for the last 45 years and having a totally incompetent fool such as Obongo as President is proof. He demonstrates daily he is not smart enough to be President and actually hates the country he governs.
Will the ultimate wimp actually find his backbone, at long last? Does the tail wag its dog, or does that Obamanation still wag its Bibi?
Fixed it for you.
Obama wants Bibi to save his ass, and I hope Bibi tell him to go to hell!
What does Obama want Bibi to pay with? Real money, or US dollars?
It would be fun to walk around a college campus carrying around a sign with that slogan.
FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA, PALESTINE WILL NEVER BE, ONLY ISRAEL YESSIREE!!!