Obama tries to convince Arabs that appeasing Iran is "OK."

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What Israel's Arab neighbors grasp that the Obama administration won't By Caroline B. Glick
You can't help but get a funny feeling when you see the Arabs defending Israel from American criticism. But with the Obama administration's Middle East policy firmly grounded in La La Land, what choice do they have?
...strange...when Egypt and Jordan...defend Israel against American criticism.... Clinton told the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee that Arab support for Israel's bid to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons is contingent on its agreeing to support the rapid establishment of a Palestinian state. In her words, "For Israel to get the kind of strong support it's looking for vis-a-vis Iran, it can't stay on the sidelines with respect to the Palestinians and the peace efforts." As far as Clinton is concerned, the two, "go hand-in-hand."
But... Jordan's King Abdullah II was telling The Washington Post that he is satisfied with... Netanyahu...on the Palestinians.... Netanyahu has "sent a message that he's committed to peace with the Arabs. All the words I heard were the right words."
...last week's visit by Egypt's intelligence chief Omar Suleiman...demonstrated that Egypt wishes to work with the government on a whole host of issues. ... Suleiman's visit was a clear sign...Egypt ... keen ...to neutralize Iranian power... preventing it from acquiring nuclear weapons... not alone in supporting Israel's commitment... leaders of the Gulf states from Bahrain - which Iran refers to as its 14th province - to Saudi Arabia to Kuwait and, of course, to Iraq - are praying for Israel to strike Iran's nuclear facilities... "As far as the Gulf leaders are concerned, Israel cannot attack Iran fast enough. They understand what the stakes are."... nature of those stakes has clearly eluded the Obama administration. As the Arabs line up behind Israel, the Obama administration ...under the delusion .. Iranians will...give up ...nuclear program if Israel destroys its communities in Judea and Samaria....Obama's in-house post-Zionist...Rahm Emmanuel, told... that for Israel to receive...support for preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear... it must not only say that it supports...a Palestinian state in Judea, Samaria, Jerusalem and Gaza, it must begin expelling its citizens from their homes...in Judea and Samaria to prove its good faith....the Obama administration's...obsession with Judea and Samaria tells us...its Middle East policies are based on a willful denial of reality.
...the Middle East will be a very different place if Iran becomes a nuclear power... opponents of using military force to prevent Iran from building nuclear weapons compare ... current...to what the region could look like... after... an Israeli campaign against Iran's nuclear installations....warn that Hizbullah and Hamas may launch massive retaliatory missile attacks against Israel, Egypt, Jordan ... US military personnel ...likely be...attacked by Iranian and Syrian proxies.... deployment of terror proxies from Beirut to Bolivia, from Managua to Marseilles, and from Gaza to Giza ... things could get very ugly worldwide ...
But...ugliness, all of that instability and death will look like a walk in the park compared to ... the world - will look if Iran becomes a nuclear power. This is something that the Arabs understand.. why they support... an Israeli strike against Iran's nuclear installations.... Iran's current control over Palestinian terror groups suffices to expose the Obama administration's plan to force Israel...as misguided...Iran calling the shots for the Palestinians,...any land Israel vacates will fall under Iranian control. ...every concession the US forces Israel ...redound directly to Iran's benefit. ...Netanyahu's claim ...impossible to resolve the conflict with the Palestinians without first neutralizing Iran....... nuclear-armed Iran means that any chance of marginalizing these Iranian-controlled forces in Palestinian society will disappear. ... best case...continuous war with Iranian proxies ...little option for victory... terror armies would fight under Iran's nuclear umbrella...nuclear-armed Iran would...compel both Egypt and Jordan to abrogate their peace treaties with Israel. ...exposure... Iranian sabotage ring in Egypt last week... Iran seeks to ...overthrow or dominate the Arab world...Iran becomes a nuclear..., roundups of Iranian agents... inconceivable. Iranian agents...given free reign...regionally and worldwide.
For Israel, abrogation of ...treaties with Egypt and Jordan ... raise the danger of regional war...all-time high. Goaded by Iran, ... Egypt and Jordan may well be made to decide that the time has come to invade Israel again...
scenarios, ... likely...compare favorably to the worst case scenarios...nuclear-armed Iran ... detonate its nuclear bombs over Israel,... an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack or ...a direct nuclear strike. An EMP attack...rendering the population defenseless...a direct nuclear strike... likely kill between 50,000 and several million Israelis...
...a nuclear-armed Iran would ... take over the world's oil markets....Saudi Arabia's main oil ... in ... Shi'ite eastern provinces,...threaten to destroy Saudi oil installations... Iran's strategic alliance with Venezuela,... controls Saudi oil fields... would...become the undisputed ruler of the oil economy.
...Europe would put up no resistance... much of Europe already within range of Iran's ballistic missiles, with Iranian-controlled terror cells...dependent on Persian Gulf oil, ... little doubt of ...its foreign policy would take in the event that Iran becomes... nuclear.... economic sanctions would disappear as European energy giants lined up to develop Iranian gas fields, and European banks clamored to finance the projects...
Israel...destroyed, ... Arab world and Europe bowing before the mullahs,... much of Central and South America fully integrated into the Iranian axis, America would ... find itself at greater risk of economic destruction and catastrophic attack than at any time in its history since the War of 1812. An EMP attack ...could... send the US back to the pre-industrial age... Iranian controlled oil economy, financed by euros, would...displace the dollar and the US ...as the backbone of the global economy. ...US's military options - particularly given Obama's stated intention to all but end US missile defense programs and scrap much of its already aging nuclear arsenal - would be more apparent than real.
... Clinton's statements before Congress, Emanuel's statements... Obama's unremitting pandering... make clear...none ... has made a dent in the administration's thinking. ... Obama White House ... Iran will be talked out of its plans for regional and global domination the minute that Israel agrees to give its land to the Palestinians. ...no evidence... support this assertion...
... Washington Post...claimed...Obama will not publish...policy on Iran until after he meets with Netanyahu...during that meeting...Obama will... convince Netanyahu that there is no reason to attack Iran...
that Obama could even raise such...shows that his arguments are based on a denial of the danger a nuclear Iran...
... funny feeling when you see the Arabs defending Israel from American criticism. ...Obama administration's Middle East policy firmly grounded in La La Land, what choice do they have? They understand that today all that stands between them and enslavement to the mullahs is the Israel Air Force and Binyamin Netanyahu's courage.
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A likely Obama speech on the destruction of Israel:
Appeasement: Déjà vu All Over Again By Elliot Chodoff
Some thoughts as Israel commemorates her fallen today on Memorial Day and prepares to celebrate her 61st Independence Day that begins tonight at sundown.It remains clear that after six decades of independence, the Jewish State still exists in a world with many who would deny its right to be. Iran and friends, terrorist organizations worldwide, and NGOs from the “enlightened” West join local Palestinians in the hope that Israel can be eradicated by means of a strategy of weakening, undermining, and ultimately eliminating the Jewish People’s homeland in the Land of Israel.

In a bit of macabre fantasy, we have composed a hypothetical address to Congress by a hypothetical American president sometime in the future. He has just imposed an agreement on Israel, for her own good (of course), to guarantee the future of peace in the Middle East and the world:

“Before I come to describe the Agreement which was signed at Tehran in the small hours of Friday morning last, I would like to comment on two things which I think it very essential not to forget when those terms are being considered. The first is this: We did not go there to decide whether the predominantly Palestinian areas in the West Bank should be passed over to the Palestinian Authority. That had been decided already. Israel had accepted the American proposals. What we had to consider was the method, the conditions and the time of the transfer of the territory. The second point to remember is that time was one of the essential factors. All the elements were present on the spot for the outbreak of a conflict which might have precipitated the catastrophe. We had populations inflamed to a high degree; we had extremists on both sides ready to work up and provoke incidents; we had considerable quantities of arms which were by no means confined to regularly organized forces. Therefore, it was essential that we should quickly reach a conclusion, so that this painful and difficult operation of transfer might be carried out at the earliest possible moment and concluded as soon as was consistent, with orderly procedure, in order that we might avoid the possibility of something that might have rendered all our attempts at peaceful solution useless.

To those who dislike an ultimatum, but who were anxious for a reasonable and orderly procedure, every one of [the] modifications [of the Oslo Accords by the Tehran Agreement] is a step in the right direction. It is no longer an ultimatum, but is a method which is carried out largely under the supervision of an international body.

Before giving a verdict upon this arrangement, we should do well to avoid describing it as a personal or a national triumph for anyone. The real triumph is that it has shown that representatives of great nations can find it possible to agree on a way of carrying out a difficult and delicate operation by discussion instead of by force of arms, and thereby they have averted a catastrophe which would have ended civilization as we have known it.

The relief that our escape from this great peril of war has, I think, everywhere been mingled in this country with a profound feeling of sympathy. We must feel profound sympathy for a small and gallant nation in the hour of their national grief and loss. I say in the name of the people of this country that Israel has earned our admiration and respect for her restraint, for her dignity, for her magnificent discipline in face of such a trial as few nations have ever been called upon to meet.

The Israei Army, whose courage no man has ever questioned, has obeyed the order of their prime minister, as they would equally have obeyed him if he had told them to march into battle. It is my hope and my belief, that under the new system of guarantees, the new Israel will find a greater security than she has ever enjoyed in the past.

I pass from that subject, and I would like to say a few words in respect of the various other participants, besides ourselves, in the Tehran Agreement. After everything that has been said about the Iranian president today and in the past, I do feel that we ought to recognize the difficulty for a man in that position to take back such emphatic declarations as he had already made amidst the enthusiastic cheers of his supporters, and to recognize that in consenting, even though it were only at the last moment, to discuss with the representatives of other states those things which he had declared he had already decided once for all, was a real and a substantial contribution on his part. With regard to Mr. Abbas, I think that United States and the world have reason to be grateful to the head of the Palestinian government for his work in contributing to a peaceful solution.

In my view the strongest force of all, one which grew and took fresh shapes and forms every day was, the force not of any one individual, but was that unmistakable sense of unanimity among the peoples of the world that war must somehow be averted. The peoples of the United States were at one with those of Iran and others in the Middle East, and their anxiety, their intense desire for peace, pervaded the whole atmosphere of the conference, and I believe that that, and not threats, made possible the concessions that were made. I know you all will want to hear that throughout these discussions the governments of our allies have been kept in the closest touch with the march of events, and I would like to say how greatly I was encouraged on each of the journeys I made to Iran by the knowledge that I went with the good wishes of our allies. They shared all our anxieties and all our hopes. They rejoiced with us that peace was preserved, and with us they look forward to further efforts to consolidate what has been done.

Ever since I assumed my present office my main purpose has been to work for the pacification of the Middle East, for the removal of those suspicions and those animosities which have so long poisoned the air. The path which leads to appeasement is long and bristles with obstacles. The question of Israel is the latest and perhaps the most dangerous. Now that we have got past it, I feel that it may be possible to make further progress along the road to sanity.”
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Impossible? For those who do not recognize the speech, it was the one given by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to the British Parliament on October 3, 1938, upon his return from Munich, having signed an agreement with Adolf Hitler to cede Czech Sudetenland to Germany. (The Czech leadership was not invited to participate in the negotiations.) Names have been changed to bring it up to date, and some sentences deleted, but otherwise it is presented verbatim. (Partial key: Germany = Iran; Czechoslovakia = Israel; Dominions = Allies; British Empire = United States).
Historical postscript: Germany overran the rest of Czechoslovakia five months later, in March 1939, and invaded Poland, triggering WWII, on September 1, 1939. The agreement that was meant to bring “Peace for our time,” as Chamberlain declared, ushered in the most destructive war in history in less than a year.
Israel is certainly not Czechoslovakia, but there are those who seem to be intent on having the Jewish State play that role in modern history. It can only be hoped that world and local leaders have learned the lessons of history – since as George Santayana so aptly put it over a century ago “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”