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Menu There is no diplomatic solutionIsrael should declare three nos;
no to nuclear Iran, no to two-state solution, no to bi-national state
no to nuclear Iran, no to two-state solution, no to bi-national state
Thre are lots of people on welfare in the USA. Do you think that these people will vote Republican? If you do, then I have a bridge to sell you. Can you imagine all of the scandals in the USA with Obama? Birth Certificate, no release of college transcripts, Bengazi situation, one company after another that received bailouts have gone bankrupt, yet with all of these negativities, Obama gets elected. I feel this is the end of America and certainly the end of Israel…Mark my words.
Looks like Obama is going to win.
Oddly, Romney may have the popular vote. This could be a mirror reverse of the 2000 election, yet.
Believe it or not, I do NOT see this election as critical.
Most large governments run on inertia, not policy.
Romney, had he tried to help Israel against Iran, would have run into pentagon, congressional, and STATE DEPARTMENT opposition. That would have stopped him or slowed him down considerably.
Obama cannot turn the USA into a Marxist dump in 2 terms, neither could Romney correct it.
Only two (2) things will arise.
1) Democrats consistently pack the courts with pro-Gay and pro-Abortion judges while Republicans do the opposite. This is the ONLY consistency in the courts – AND THE CHIEF REASON EVANGELICALS VOTE REPUBLICAN
2) Netanyahu, feeling hopeless, may attack Iran without US help, which will force the USA to help in some capacity or another. The end result will not change for Israel.
Israel’s circumstance is not going to change whether the war is started by Netanyahu or by a Romney-Netanyahu alliance; either way the USA is going to get involved, like it or not.
THE ONLY REAL CHANGE IS THAT THE COURT WILL SWING LEFT in the USA.
An update. As at 10:45 EST, the vote count is crucially close. California, a major electoral state has not reported any results to this point in time. If however the state should go democratic (as expected), Obama will be reelected, but with a thin majority. So it all comes down to how my uncle George and cousin Judy, from Beverly Hill, CA, casts their vote.
As a sidebar note, Israel will not be affected not matter who wins. So please no cheering, nor wailing.
A black kid asks his mom, “Mama, what’s a democracy?”
“Well, son, that’s when whites work every day so we can get all our benefits!”
“But mama, don’t the white people get pissed off about that?”
“Sure they do, but that’s called RACISM”
I mispelled the name of the Muslim sect of the 11-th-13th centuries that historians refer to as the “Assassins” (hashishin), who referred to themselves as Nizaris.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
@ Mladen Andrijasevic:
Mladen, your perspective, compared with that of most Americans, differs as to what the US presidential elections ought to be about. As for the liberal American Jews who always vote for Democratic Party candidates, they no more can help that than any other socially or culturally conditioned group of people. In any case, the Jews of this country, while still influential in certain states, constitute a number that is relatively small. In addition, increasing numbers of Jews here are now supporting Republican candidates. Finally, I would remind you that foreign policy rarely is what American elections are about, especially when the economy here is as dismal as in present times. Irrespective of whether Romney or Obama wins this election, their policies regarding Israel and the Middle East will differ mainly by degree.
I have in fact read extensive materials about the histories of the Islamic cults, including the Nizsris of 11th-13th centuries, who were more or less destroyed by the Mongols who conquered Iraq, destroyed Baghdad and slaughtered the last Abbasid Kalif in 1265. I am not certain how much of that bears upon the present Iranian threats against the West in general, and the USA and Israel in particular.
But the facts suggest of history suggest that large and powerful countries do not generally initiate wars to save smaller and less powerful countries, regardless of perceived threats. The USA will only go to war if their own immediate interests — as this country and its governments define those interests — are threatened, or in response to overt and significant acts of war against us.
Analysis of such facts suggests that the State of Israel should make hard plans to destroy the Iranian nuclear facilities before you all become victims of the handiwork being created there. Nobody outside Israel will ever give you any green light to make war. You either marshal sufficient strength, make your move, and destroy the threat. Otherwise, this whole situation leads to just another infinitely sad footnote of history.
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On a separate note, my wife, who was born and raised in Zagreb, tells me that from your name, you and/or your family probably are from Serbia, Bosna-Hercegovina, or Crna Gora. If so, what lessons of the history of the Balkans teach you that could be useful in planning a strategy for Israel under the circumstances that apply now and in the likely near future? Actually, I am interested in your opinion in this matter.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
@ Arnold Harris:
The elections are not about Israel and they are not about Iran but about the economy. But they should be about Iran as well. Because in order to have all other concerns you must first have a country not devastated in a nuclear war.
I am ashamed of American Jews because of their utter ignorance about the Middle East. They are willing to vote for a president who supports the most anti-Semitic and anti-American organization – the Muslim Brotherhood. They are prepared to vote for a president whose appeasement of Iran may well permit Iran to start a nuclear war in which millions will die. I am ashamed of American Jews because they refuse to educate themselves about Shia eschatology and the Twelvers and in their ignorance and irresponsibility they make our lives here in Israel much more dangerous.
How many American Jews have read Matthias Kuntzel and Bernard Lewis?
Matthias Kuntzel – Antisemitism, Messianism and the Cult of Sacrifice:The Iranian Holy War
http://www.madisdead.blogspot.co.il/2012/09/matthias-kuntzel-antisemitism_8.html
Why are Bernard Lewis’s views on MAD ignored?
http://www.madisdead.blogspot.co.il/2012/05/why-are-bernard-lewiss-views-on-mad.html
Reports I have picked up online show a lot more people voting today than in 2008. Many of them probably are Evangelical Christians, who are voting massively against Obama and for Romney. In addition, all polls indicate that Romney has captured the lion’s share of the independent voters. Romney’s trendlines as of yesterday were picking up, while Obama’s were stock at 48-49%. That people in Israel voting in the American national election are strongly pro-Romney while much of the rest of the world is pro-Obama is a pair of factoids that most Americans could not care less about. The election for most Americans is the economy, the economy, and the economy. In that order.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
Of course Obama would win an international vote because most of the world wants to see the destruction of America. They don’t want America to be exceptional.
In today’s National Post there is an article titled: “World supports an Obama win: were the world to vote, incumbent would win by far.” I consider that an anti-endorsement for Obama, or yet another reason to vote against Obama.