Israel, Iran, & Obama - Jim Fletcher - http://www.raptureready.com/rap15.html
In a fascinating piece in Mosaic this week, we learned of the inner workings of the Obama negotiation team, regarding Iran.
It's pretty scary stuff.
Let me repeat what I've said many times (and it isn't new with me; the Israelis and their supporters have been consistent with the message): Benjamin Netanyahu will not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon.
We stand at a crossroads. For the first time, an American president is overtly hostile to the Jewish state. Obama is mainstreaming Islam, forging ties with sworn enemies, and baring his fangs at Israel.
Still, the Iranians continue to dupe the West. According to the Jerusalem Post:
"Iran's foreign minister has warned the United States that failure to agree a nuclear deal would likely herald the political demise of pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani, Iranian officials said, raising the stakes as the decade-old stand-off nears its end-game.
"Mohammad Javad Zarif pressed the concern with US Secretary of State John Kerry at several meetings in recent weeks, according to three senior Iranian officials, who said Iran had also raised the issue with other Western powers. Zarif's warning has not been previously reported."
This is mind-numbing, since Rouhani is no pragmatist or "moderate." He is in league with the mullahs, who are the biggest state sponsors of terrorism in the world. Iran's reach extends literally around the globe, when one considers the horrific attacks from the Middle East all the way to Argentina. They are also busy infiltrating our southern border with Mexico.
Into all this we have a seemingly bumbling president. The Mosaic piece was instructive, for many reasons. Here are two:
*Obama believes, along with former Bush advisors James Baker and Lee Hamilton, that terrorist dictators can be dealt with through dialogue. This is a fundamental worldview: that each person has some basic goodness that precludes him or her from being a monster.
*Team Obama continues to cling to the belief (mainstreamed two decades ago by Bush 41's core group of advisors) that the Arab-Israeli conflict is the core grievance among Arab states.
These two fundamental errors in thinking endanger people. It has given rise to the worst forms of Islamist terror, chiefly, ISIS. Had the United States shown strength in recent years, none of this would have been happening. And make not mistake, Obama's June 2009 speech in Cairo gave the green light to the Muslim Brotherhood, signaling that either a dupe or a friend was finally in the White House.
The essay in Mosaic, by Michael Doran, pulls back the curtain on secret talks between the White House and Tehran, and spotlight a president either in league with the enemy, or profoundly undiscerning.
"Obama based his policy of outreach to Tehran on two key assumptions of the grand-bargain myth: that Tehran and Washington were natural allies, and that Washington itself was the primary cause of the enmity between the two. If only the United States were to adopt a less belligerent posture, so the thinking went, Iran would reciprocate. In his very first television interview from the White House, Obama announced his desire to talk to the Iranians, to see 'where there are potential avenues for progress." Echoing his inaugural address, he said, "[I]f countries like Iran are willing to unclench their fist, they will find an extended hand from us.'"
It was then that Team Obama sounded eerily similar to the bungling Jimmy Carter a generation before:
"If this show of deference was calculated to warm the dictator's heart, it failed. 'What we intended as caution,' one of Obama's aides would later tell a reporter, 'the Iranians saw as weakness.' Indeed, the president's studied 'caution' may even have emboldened Tehran to push forward, in yet another in the long series of blatant violations of its obligations under the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), with its construction of a secret uranium enrichment facility in an underground bunker at Fordow, near Qom."
These acute problems caused directly by Obama are problematic not for Israel, but for the rest of us. As Netanyahu warned recently (and will no doubt hammer home when he addresses Congress next month), Iran is developing ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles) not for Israel - they can already reach with conventional missiles - but for...wait for it...the United States.
What is Obama thinking? He is risking the lives of the very citizens he claims to defend. What is his game?
He is either a person who tragically misreads his enemies - a la Carter - or his motives are much darker.
In the most recent talks with Iran, Obama has already capitulated on the most critical issues, giving Iran 80 percent of what the regime publicly wants. The Israelis realized long ago that Obama was worse than weak when dealing with the Iranians, and they will act accordingly.
The truth is, no one knows what Israel is capable of. Yet Netanyahu said recently too that his job is "never again."
Never again will the Jews be threatened with mass extinction. No Israeli prime minister will ever allow that.
And Doren's essay gives us insight into just how seriously Team Obama miscalculates Iran's intentions. Failing Diplomacy 101, U.S. negotiators give away the bank before negotiations even begin!
"In April 2013, the Americans and their P5+1 partners met with Iranian negotiators in Almaty, Kazakhstan, where they offered to relieve the sanctions regime in exchange for the elimination of Iran's stockpiles of uranium that had already been enriched to 20 percent. This was concession number one, bowing to the longstanding Iranian demand for economic compensation immediately, before a final agreement could be reached. Even more important was concession number two, which permitted the Iranians to continue enriching uranium to levels of 5 percent-this, despite the fact that six United Nations Security Council resolutions had ordered Iran to cease all enrichment and reprocessing activities.
"Iranian negotiators rejected these two gifts-or, rather, they pocketed them and demanded a third, the one they coveted the most. Hailing the proposals by their counterparts as a step in the right direction, they criticized them for failing to stipulate the Iranian 'right to enrich.' There was a difference, they argued, between temporarily permitting Iran to enrich uranium to 5 percent and recognizing its inalienable right to do so. If Obama wanted a deal, he would have to agree to shred the Security Council resolutions by offering, up front, an arrangement that would end the economic sanctions on Iran entirely and that would allow the Iranians to enrich uranium in perpetuity."
A dear friend of mine took exception this week when I said that the State Department has been infested with Arabists for decades. No, he said, there are many good people at State.
Where are they? From where I sit, they are giving away our future. And Arabists have most assuredly dominated the State Department, going all the way back to our beginnings with the Arab oil sheiks.
After World War I, the State Department was indifferent to Arabia. Ironically, it was American missionaries to the region that made an impression of King Saud, and when oil was discovered, his natural reaction was to cultivate ties with the U.S. The British and the Soviet Union controlled the oil fields of Iran/Persia, but the U.S. looked southward, to Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
The first American survey of Saudi Arabia was in 1929, with American engineers on the verge of securing vast oil fields. In short order, the issue also became political and, from a human standpoint, it seemed a natural course of events for the Americans and their diplomatic corps to assign more importance to the Arabs than to the fledgling state of Israel.
So here we are, all these years later, with an American president virtually offering up the Jewish state as a sacrifice to his Muslim friends.
At the same time, precious few in the world consider that God has promised survival to the Jewish people. He said as much in Isaiah 54:17.
As the train of Western diplomacy hurtles faster and faster toward the blown-out bridge supplied by the Iranians, we can know with certainty that Israel will survive.
Never again.
In a fascinating piece in Mosaic this week, we learned of the inner workings of the Obama negotiation team, regarding Iran.
It's pretty scary stuff.
Let me repeat what I've said many times (and it isn't new with me; the Israelis and their supporters have been consistent with the message): Benjamin Netanyahu will not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon.
We stand at a crossroads. For the first time, an American president is overtly hostile to the Jewish state. Obama is mainstreaming Islam, forging ties with sworn enemies, and baring his fangs at Israel.
Still, the Iranians continue to dupe the West. According to the Jerusalem Post:
"Iran's foreign minister has warned the United States that failure to agree a nuclear deal would likely herald the political demise of pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani, Iranian officials said, raising the stakes as the decade-old stand-off nears its end-game.
"Mohammad Javad Zarif pressed the concern with US Secretary of State John Kerry at several meetings in recent weeks, according to three senior Iranian officials, who said Iran had also raised the issue with other Western powers. Zarif's warning has not been previously reported."
This is mind-numbing, since Rouhani is no pragmatist or "moderate." He is in league with the mullahs, who are the biggest state sponsors of terrorism in the world. Iran's reach extends literally around the globe, when one considers the horrific attacks from the Middle East all the way to Argentina. They are also busy infiltrating our southern border with Mexico.
Into all this we have a seemingly bumbling president. The Mosaic piece was instructive, for many reasons. Here are two:
*Obama believes, along with former Bush advisors James Baker and Lee Hamilton, that terrorist dictators can be dealt with through dialogue. This is a fundamental worldview: that each person has some basic goodness that precludes him or her from being a monster.
*Team Obama continues to cling to the belief (mainstreamed two decades ago by Bush 41's core group of advisors) that the Arab-Israeli conflict is the core grievance among Arab states.
These two fundamental errors in thinking endanger people. It has given rise to the worst forms of Islamist terror, chiefly, ISIS. Had the United States shown strength in recent years, none of this would have been happening. And make not mistake, Obama's June 2009 speech in Cairo gave the green light to the Muslim Brotherhood, signaling that either a dupe or a friend was finally in the White House.
The essay in Mosaic, by Michael Doran, pulls back the curtain on secret talks between the White House and Tehran, and spotlight a president either in league with the enemy, or profoundly undiscerning.
"Obama based his policy of outreach to Tehran on two key assumptions of the grand-bargain myth: that Tehran and Washington were natural allies, and that Washington itself was the primary cause of the enmity between the two. If only the United States were to adopt a less belligerent posture, so the thinking went, Iran would reciprocate. In his very first television interview from the White House, Obama announced his desire to talk to the Iranians, to see 'where there are potential avenues for progress." Echoing his inaugural address, he said, "[I]f countries like Iran are willing to unclench their fist, they will find an extended hand from us.'"
It was then that Team Obama sounded eerily similar to the bungling Jimmy Carter a generation before:
"If this show of deference was calculated to warm the dictator's heart, it failed. 'What we intended as caution,' one of Obama's aides would later tell a reporter, 'the Iranians saw as weakness.' Indeed, the president's studied 'caution' may even have emboldened Tehran to push forward, in yet another in the long series of blatant violations of its obligations under the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), with its construction of a secret uranium enrichment facility in an underground bunker at Fordow, near Qom."
These acute problems caused directly by Obama are problematic not for Israel, but for the rest of us. As Netanyahu warned recently (and will no doubt hammer home when he addresses Congress next month), Iran is developing ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles) not for Israel - they can already reach with conventional missiles - but for...wait for it...the United States.
What is Obama thinking? He is risking the lives of the very citizens he claims to defend. What is his game?
He is either a person who tragically misreads his enemies - a la Carter - or his motives are much darker.
In the most recent talks with Iran, Obama has already capitulated on the most critical issues, giving Iran 80 percent of what the regime publicly wants. The Israelis realized long ago that Obama was worse than weak when dealing with the Iranians, and they will act accordingly.
The truth is, no one knows what Israel is capable of. Yet Netanyahu said recently too that his job is "never again."
Never again will the Jews be threatened with mass extinction. No Israeli prime minister will ever allow that.
And Doren's essay gives us insight into just how seriously Team Obama miscalculates Iran's intentions. Failing Diplomacy 101, U.S. negotiators give away the bank before negotiations even begin!
"In April 2013, the Americans and their P5+1 partners met with Iranian negotiators in Almaty, Kazakhstan, where they offered to relieve the sanctions regime in exchange for the elimination of Iran's stockpiles of uranium that had already been enriched to 20 percent. This was concession number one, bowing to the longstanding Iranian demand for economic compensation immediately, before a final agreement could be reached. Even more important was concession number two, which permitted the Iranians to continue enriching uranium to levels of 5 percent-this, despite the fact that six United Nations Security Council resolutions had ordered Iran to cease all enrichment and reprocessing activities.
"Iranian negotiators rejected these two gifts-or, rather, they pocketed them and demanded a third, the one they coveted the most. Hailing the proposals by their counterparts as a step in the right direction, they criticized them for failing to stipulate the Iranian 'right to enrich.' There was a difference, they argued, between temporarily permitting Iran to enrich uranium to 5 percent and recognizing its inalienable right to do so. If Obama wanted a deal, he would have to agree to shred the Security Council resolutions by offering, up front, an arrangement that would end the economic sanctions on Iran entirely and that would allow the Iranians to enrich uranium in perpetuity."
A dear friend of mine took exception this week when I said that the State Department has been infested with Arabists for decades. No, he said, there are many good people at State.
Where are they? From where I sit, they are giving away our future. And Arabists have most assuredly dominated the State Department, going all the way back to our beginnings with the Arab oil sheiks.
After World War I, the State Department was indifferent to Arabia. Ironically, it was American missionaries to the region that made an impression of King Saud, and when oil was discovered, his natural reaction was to cultivate ties with the U.S. The British and the Soviet Union controlled the oil fields of Iran/Persia, but the U.S. looked southward, to Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
The first American survey of Saudi Arabia was in 1929, with American engineers on the verge of securing vast oil fields. In short order, the issue also became political and, from a human standpoint, it seemed a natural course of events for the Americans and their diplomatic corps to assign more importance to the Arabs than to the fledgling state of Israel.
So here we are, all these years later, with an American president virtually offering up the Jewish state as a sacrifice to his Muslim friends.
At the same time, precious few in the world consider that God has promised survival to the Jewish people. He said as much in Isaiah 54:17.
As the train of Western diplomacy hurtles faster and faster toward the blown-out bridge supplied by the Iranians, we can know with certainty that Israel will survive.
Never again.
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